Middle-aged women steal front lawn in morning raid

Two middle-aged women have managed to steal an entire front lawn from outside a house in Britain by carrying pieces of turf back and forth several times over 40 minutes — including stopping for a cigarette break.

The entire episode was caught by a neigbhour's CCTV cameras, the MailOnline reports.

"It was shamefully funny, I couldn't stop laughing," said neighbour Bobby Stacey, who set up the cameras after a recent robbery.

Mr Stacey said he took a call from the victim asking to check his CCTV because the turf had been stolen sometime in the morning of July 24 at their residential street in Lancashire.

"It was about 5am in the morning, it was dark when they started but when they finished it had got light," Mr Stacey said.

Police are investigating the incident but so far have been unable to identify the women and are appealing to the public for information.