Blurry-eyed thieves make off with three tons of reading glas

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STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Thieves who broke into a delivery truck in a parking lot in southwestern Sweden made off with about 150,000 pairs, or about three tons, of low-cost reading glasses.

The truck, which was carrying about six tons of the glasses, mainly sold at gas stations and super markets, was parked in the large lot in Goetene when the thieves struck, according to Swedish daily Aftonbladet's Internet site.

"We don't really know how the theft happened, but the driver was off work and away from the truck for more than 12 hours ... It must have taken several hours to transfer the glasses to another truck," local police officer Kjell Bergius told the paper, pointing out the thieves had left about half of the glasses behind.

"The thieves may have been interrupted, or they may not have had a large enough truck," he said.