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POLICE nabbed a trio of thieves in southern Sweden after they used wheelchairs as getaway vehicles but literally forgot to cover their tracks.

Ttwo men and a woman allegedly cleaned out two basement storage areas of an apartment, Swedish news website The Local reported, citing the Kvallsposten newspaper.

Police caught up with them after they followed tracks in the snow left by two of the wheelchair-bound suspects.

"People had seen them at the spot, but they had managed to escape. However, since two of them were in wheelchairs, they did not get very far.

The tracks were not difficult to follow in the snow. We did not even need a dog," Leif Nilsson, a police officer, told Kvallsposten.

The suspects were all previously known to police, but none were known to have used wheelchairs before.

Something tells me these aren't top tier criminals. They might as well have run with weights tied to their feet. Do you think they tied chains to the wheels to get better traction at least?

Given that these three were all making their getaway in wheelchairs I don't think they could have "cleaned out" any storage areas. That is unless they were dragging the things with the wheelchairs... which actually sounds about right for these criminal masterminds.

Hopefully next time they try a stunt like this they will be smart enough to at least use scooters.

And I occasionally make a spelling error or Ttwo but I'm not paid to write. Everyone involved with this story did a great job.