SNOOKER FRENZY

Police in the fishing town of Grimsby in the north of England were puzzled by the number of car thefts reported on one single day. While there is nothing unusual about car theft, the number of cars involved -especially the number of red cars involved - gave them cause for concern. The police decided to set a trap in order to catch the thieves and, to this end, left a red car apparently unlocked and unattended in a car park known to be popular with car thieves. They went off to lie in wait and hadn't been waiting long before someone took the bait and attempted to drive the car away. The police grabbed the villain and tried to find out from him what had been going on. It emerged that the reason so many cars, and especially red cars, were being stolen that day was that rival gangs were indulging in a game of "snooker". This involved them stealing a red car, then picking a colour from the set of snooker balls before stealing another red car - and so on until they finished off 'potting' a black car.

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