Street robbery
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0 f you find yourself in the saloon bar of the Flute and Alligator one night and a shadowy figure sidles up beside you and whispers in your shelf-like: "Psst, you wanna buy a cobbled street?", you don't need to have your ears tested. Brecon Street in Liverpool was a modest little road that was layered with blue granite cobbles, until they were stolen. Bob Barlow, a mechanic who runs the MGM garage in the street, discovered the theft on arriving for work one Monday morning. "I thought the council must have been working on it—although I thought they'd been a bit enthusiastic," he said. 'Then the penny dropped and I realised someone had stolen them." It is thought the villains spent four hours on a Sunday morning digging up the cobbles: nearby residents who heard muffled drilling assumed the noise was coming from the garage. The cobbles are worth around £10,000; the question now keeping the Hawk awake at night is, how do you fence a stolen street?