A man has owned up to a strange theft which was reported to the Civil Guard by the Town Hall in Miengo, Cantabria

A man has owned up to a strange theft which was reported to the Civil Guard by the Town Hall in Miengo, Cantabria, on Monday: a missing section of new road which disappeared from the Mogro area of the town.

A 50 metre section of the road had only recently been repaired, at a cost to the Town Hall of almost 15,000 €, but the 150 square metres of new tarmac mysteriously disappeared last week.

It appears that none of the people who live nearby saw what happened, and the puzzled Mayor, Avelino Cuartas, said the thief would have needed heavy machinery to remove the tarmac.

The Civil Guard have now identified the man responsible, who said he dug up the tarmac as the road crosses his private property.
The case has now been passed onto a court in Torrelavega as a civil dispute between the land owner and the Town Hall.