The men, all Romanians, raided trucks driving down motorways by climbing into the back from the bonnet of a car driven to within inches of the vehicles, at night, with their headlights off, and at speeds of 80 to 90 kilometers (50 to 60 miles) an hour.
“One of them climbed out of the side window of the car onto the bonnet, climbed onto the truck, broke the lock, stole goods such as laptops and mobile phones out of the back and got back in the car, all while they were driving,” Manfred Radecke, spokesman for the police in the western city of Dortmund, told SPIEGEL ONLINE.
For those that don’t know, the bonnet is what we in America call the hood of the car.