YT: Turf wars: Cheeky thieves caught on camera stealing GRASS from front garden at 5am
Audacious thieves were caught by CCTV stealing freshly laid turf from a front garden in the early hours of the morning.
Two middle age-looking women are seen creeping along a footpath and tearing off bundles of grass.
The clip was filmed by a newly installed camera outside the home of neighbour Bobby Stacey.
The man, from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, told the Liverpool Echo : "I couldn't stop laughing, I was annoyed at the same time though.
"The reason I got the CCTV in the first place is because my shed had been broken into a few weeks earlier and a load of tools were stolen.
"So I put padlock on the shed. Then the thieves came back and used my own bolt cutters to cut the lock and steal a mountain bike.
Lancashire Police confirmed the incident was reported on July 24.
"Police have investigated this incident," a spokeswoman said.
"We're at the stage that there are no further lines of inquiry but would appeal to anyone with information to come forward."
Mr Stacey said the thieves moved in on the turf shortly after 5am and that the theft took around 40 minutes to complete
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