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Foreign travellers sleeping in their car in a Reykjavík park get a rude awakening from burglar 6046

13. mar 2023 20:46

Foreign travellers got a rude awakening last night when they were woken up by a burglar.  The couple had decided to spend the night sleeping in their car which was parked in the parking lot of the glass dome Perlan on Öskjuhlíð hill, a wooded park just south of downtown Reykjavík. At two in the morning they were awoken by someone smashing in one of the passenger windows. The burglar then reaches in and snatches a camera bag which was in the back seat.

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According to the local newspaper Morgunblaðið the burglar ran to a nearby car after he had snatched the camera and drove off. The camera was lying in the passenger seat on the driver side of the vehicle. The camera was worth 600,000 ISK, and (5,560 USD/5,250 EUR) was uninsured, according to Morgunblaðið, and the travellers will most likely have to pay for the damages to their rental car as well. 

The travellers are scheduled to fly back home on Saturday after a 11 day trip around Iceland. While the financial damages were quite significant the couple felt the loss of all the photographs they had taken while in Iceland was far more significant. All the photographs were still stored on a memory card in the camera.

Foreign travellers got a rude awakening last night when they were woken up by a burglar.  The couple had decided to spend the night sleeping in their car which was parked in the parking lot of the glass dome Perlan on Öskjuhlíð hill, a wooded park just south of downtown Reykjavík. At two in the morning they were awoken by someone smashing in one of the passenger windows. The burglar then reaches in and snatches a camera bag which was in the back seat.

Read more: Crime rate in capital region dropped significantly in 2016: Burglaries down by 22%

According to the local newspaper Morgunblaðið the burglar ran to a nearby car after he had snatched the camera and drove off. The camera was lying in the passenger seat on the driver side of the vehicle. The camera was worth 600,000 ISK, and (5,560 USD/5,250 EUR) was uninsured, according to Morgunblaðið, and the travellers will most likely have to pay for the damages to their rental car as well. 

The travellers are scheduled to fly back home on Saturday after a 11 day trip around Iceland. While the financial damages were quite significant the couple felt the loss of all the photographs they had taken while in Iceland was far more significant. All the photographs were still stored on a memory card in the camera.