A special ladder

Today I'm going to describe something that happened during October 2004 in the storehouse of a big retail company in Lima (they have some 10 large retail stores by now in Lima); the storehouse is located in the outskirts southbound of Lima; it was, supposedly, a very secure place to keep thousands of home appliances, clothing, shoes, rugs, and so on. The place has a large square estructure of about 600 feet long each side and some 24 feet high, with a large front entrance and 3 watch towers on each side, each one to be covered by an armed guard; but, as many organizations here, when their economy is not as solid as the management board expect, they start to cut down costs and the security ones are one of the first to be cut, so the board decided to cover only the corner watchtower of each side (leaving the center one of each side unattended).

It happened then that a group of 20 burglars who "worked nearby" took notice of this new "opportunity" (the center watchtower unattended) and, after some days of rigurous "surveillance", they decide to break through one night when there was a strong fog surrounding the place; but they did this in a very imaginative way (take a lok at the ad-hoc- ladder they made up for this case); Please note that though the words in the graphic are in spanish I think it's easy to understand:

The ladder was located over the side of a lonely road aside of the storehouse and its form let one pass over the electric fence over the peripheral wall and locks over the concrete watch tower side!

The fog helped them to be inadverted (of course those "guards" weren't even a little aware at all!); some 4-5 burglars gained entrance this way, caught in surprise the guards one by one, put their own uniforms and took control of the storehouse; then they let in a big truck and left with some 80 thousand dollars values inside. Incredible!

I know it happens anywhere, but is no less acceptable because of it!

Juan