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Published Date: 04 June 2007
THIEVES have stolen a batch of sex toys from a vending machine at a hostel in the city centre.
The Naughty Vend machine, at Belushi's bar on Market Street, was raided on Thursday night, with the thieves making off with hundreds of pounds worth of novelty items and the machine's money box.

Staff at the bar, which is part of the St Christopher's Inn hostel, believed the pub was specifically targeted.

Bar manager Michael Phillips said: "They'd obviously checked out the place beforehand and knew what they were after. The machine hasn't been ripped off the wall or anything like that - it's been attacked properly with tools and the thieves have taken everything.

"They must have been in and out of the place in just a few minutes. The first we knew about it was when one of our customers came and told us it had happened."



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  • Last Updated: 04 June 2007 12:00 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Super-Mario,

04/06/2007 11:11:38

Perverts.

2

KaiPie,

04/06/2007 11:13:58

Police are on the look out for a van seen vibrating away from the scene

3

MummyWease,

04/06/2007 11:16:43

Why would a hostel have a sex toy vending machine? What ever happened to sweets and crisps or juice ones?

4

foz,

04/06/2007 11:17:48

One for crimewatch.

5

elayne,

04/06/2007 11:43:56

#3 i was wondering the same thing myself,

6

Maverick,

04/06/2007 11:51:28

Police are searching for some hardened criminals...

7

Sarcasm,

04/06/2007 11:59:12

Expect a report on the ram raid attack on the battery display in Woolworths tomorrow.

8

Super-Mario,

04/06/2007 12:17:25

They probably just did it for the Buzz.

9

A Friend of Fernando Poo,

Newington 04/06/2007 12:56:42

I'm sure Tom Wood will put a crack team on the case.

10

Sarcasm,

04/06/2007 13:08:47

I assume the bar had a vibrant atmosphere.

11

Super-Mario,

missing the point completely 04/06/2007 13:16:35

Well I hope they are satisfied !

Jeezo. When will it stop.

12

Jakey Rowling,

04/06/2007 13:30:35

I suspect a tourist backpacker is behind this.

Forget Tony Blair and the peerages, we need our own cash, foreigner's probe now.

13

alex paterson,

embra 04/06/2007 13:49:22

Could it be a cock up in security.

14

JT fae Cardiff,

04/06/2007 13:53:24

13

I suspect they'll be probing themselves with thier new toys already.

Arf arf.

15

A Friend of Fernando Poo,

Newington 04/06/2007 14:52:42

Even if they catch them, they'll be let off with a suspendered sentence.

16

Seth Wriststrong,

Only lovely Ken kens that 04/06/2007 14:52:47

This 'hostel' is actually Gold Bros. off the Royal Mile.
I seen the shaky-dagger machine when I was browsing through the normal daggers...

17

Seth Wriststrong,

Only lovely Ken kens that 04/06/2007 14:55:52

Kid was recently seen at Belushis exclaiming 'Mum I want the big blue one with the studs and smiley face on the top'

18

AJ fi Fife,

Fife 04/06/2007 14:58:45

Do you think it this a new wave of orgasmised crime?

oops a've taken it too far!!!

19

AJ fi Fife,

Fife 04/06/2007 15:00:05

Apologies for bawsin' up post 22!

20

Mademe gogog,

04/06/2007 15:10:09

The thief was a Mary Ilf of Cock Burn Street, M. ILF has supposedly been involved in a turd burglary 2 years ago,

21

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04/06/2007 15:54:38
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22

JT fae Cardiff,

04/06/2007 16:17:08

25

Is that your opinion or Rosies?

23

Big Aggie,

Leith 04/06/2007 16:30:42

"In and out in just a few minutes". Hmmm, ah think ah ken whae it was......

24

JT fae Cardiff,

04/06/2007 16:33:01

27

You promised you wouldn't tell

25

groover t,

reekie reekie 04/06/2007 17:03:14

Is this worthy of a story in the EN, more like the Daily Sport?This can hardly be described as a major crime, in fact, these thieves were just fannying about.

26

A Friend of Fernando Poo,

Newington 04/06/2007 17:19:37

I'm really looking forward to the re-enactment on Crimewatch.

I suppose now there'll be a spate of dodgy neds selling off-the-back-of-a-lorry dildoes round the pubs.

27

Franck,

04/06/2007 17:20:21

I bet that the buggers who stole them were a bunch of fannies.

28

JT fae Cardiff,

04/06/2007 18:14:14

31

Maybe not the buggers who stole them, the buggers who'll be using them will be!

29

The Ghost of Sir William Arrol,

The Forthy Bridge 04/06/2007 19:18:51

I'm sure the police will get to the bottom of this story and are currently looking for satisfied criminals!

30

Mary Magdalene,

04/06/2007 19:34:27

Bloody hell its like a 'Carry on' film reading this, actually just heard on the radio that the police are looking for an emotionally distraught male, he was seen running in tears from the scene of the crime, having discarded a box containing a 12 inch dildo with the words 'average male size' on the back. Poor boy, wonder what upset him?

31

Artemis,

Embra 04/06/2007 20:30:05

#30 - let me know which pub

32

A Leither,

04/06/2007 22:25:12

"The first we knew about it was when one of our customers came and told us it had happened."

Fnaar fnaar. Not the kind of thing you'd go and tell a stranger in a bar normally, but each to their own !

33

City - Slicker .,

i'll have a lager please' 04/06/2007 22:54:50

hahaha.

34

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05/06/2007 00:05:21
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35

Douglas,

Bathgate 05/06/2007 08:26:29

The strawberry chewing gum's a bit rubbery.:o)

36

Super-Mario,

05/06/2007 09:48:37

Its like Sid James never died.

37

edinburgher,

05/06/2007 10:15:01

Update from LBpolice .
Suspect tall ,blonde,mid 20's answers to the name Ann Summers.

38

TimW1234,

Ottawa, Canada 05/06/2007 15:08:19

Some very funny plays on words in this forum and for your information, dour # 25 Rosie's Opinion, #22 AJ fi Fife's witticism WAS funny.

A case of pun-is envy?

There, I have fallen into the trap. Sorry

39

wee willy,

alias, Mary hinge 05/06/2007 19:28:05

Batteries not included...


 

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