Six males have been arrested in Mumbai, India, after trying to steal 2,000 finisher medals at Sunday’s Tata Mumbai Marathon, beneath the mistaken perception that they’d (actually) struck gold.
The six males had been employed as labourers to help in putting in tents and banners alongside the race course. The deputy commissioner of police knowledgeable The Hindustan Occasions that the group believed the medals held substantial worth.
Their grand plan hit a velocity bump when just a few eagle-eyed native cops caught them hauling massive packing containers out of assorted tents. Upon confrontation, the officers discovered that the packing containers contained the Mumbai Marathon medals. The Hindustan Occasions reported that the boys had gathered 22 of the 160 packing containers, totalling 2,200 medals, which had been loaded into a close-by car. The police arrested the six people concerned on Sunday, charging them with theft.
Opposite to the thieves’ assumption that the medals had been manufactured from gold, most race-finisher medals are constructed from varied steel alloys, and have minimal worth. In accordance with race organizers, the stolen medals have a price of 138 rupees (round $2).
(It’s value noting that even Olympic gold medals, whereas priceless of their significance, are primarily composed of silver, then plated with a minimal of six grams of precise gold, however their market worth is just round $750, primarily based on present steel costs.)
No metropolis like Mumbai on the third Sunday of January. The Mumbai marathon is not only a sports activities occasion however a motion.. to have almost 60,000 folks operating.. elevating greater than 60 crores in charity. That is what REAL India is about (or must be) : placing the frequent citizen and… pic.twitter.com/AhIK0478NQ
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) January 21, 2024
The 2024 Tata Mumbai Marathon is among the largest races globally and holds the excellence of being the most important marathon in Asia, attracting greater than 50,000 members yearly. The race organizers confirmed that each participant who crossed the end line ended up receiving a medal.
