The investigators in Bad Windsheim were able to quickly narrow down the group of suspects. Six people were considered thieves. This tweet from the Mittelfranken police should provide further information: “Saturday evening, part of the table decoration was stolen from a table in a restaurant. It was a glass with an LED candle. There were 6 people at the table eating. Who by the guests is responsible for the #theft must now be determined.”
A glass. With an LED candle. Value: around 30 euros. An insolence! Or? At least not if you read the reactions of the Twitter community. They contain more mockery than relevant information. There is talk of “Soko Nippes”. “Is the clarification of this unbelievable crime of public interest?” someone wants to know and attaches a photo directly: four tea lights, 1.79 euros, “flickers like a real candle” – is that already stolen goods?
The investigators don’t care about the mockery, because: “The search pressure was probably too great,” says a cheerful police spokesman – the thief brought the light back, the innkeeper dropped his complaint. So then, candle thriller passé? For the officials, yes. Half of Twitter, on the other hand, continues to deal diligently with the question of what the police are actually busy doing.
The skeptics and rabble-rousers see themselves strengthened because the Middle Franconian police officers are, so to speak, repeat offenders when it comes to the crime of “strange manhunt”. Most recently, they triggered digital excitement in February. Then strangers dared to “throw porn magazines into the ditch of the connecting road from the Munasiedlung to #Ermetzhof”. Potz lightning, outrageous! The magazines, the police tweeted, were seized. It is better. The Bad Windsheim inspection determines “due to the distribution of porn. Writings and asks for #instructions”.
While some thought that the account had certainly been hijacked by a satirical magazine, one user found another question more exciting given the still-existence of the retro magazines: “Is there no internet in Middle Franconia?” Kind of a valid objection. If anyone knows more: information to the responsible office – to be on the safe side by fax.