MANNING, S.C. – It wasn’t exactly “Mission Impossible,” but three burglars managed to break into a grocery store by lowering themselves through a hole in the roof, then eluded the alarm system for two hours by crawling on their stomachs.

The thieves used a pickax to break open the hole in the roof of the Bi-Lo around 3 a.m. Friday, and climbed down a garden hose to the store’s floor, authorities said. The men then crawled around to avoid tripping the motion detectors, Manning Police Chief Randy Garrett said.

An alarm eventually went off, and they ran away with cartons of cigarettes and fistfuls of lottery tickets, police said.

Cemetary removes unpaid headstone; friends raise money to reinstall it

SPRINGVILLE, Utah – The cemetery headstone for a teenager who died in a car wreck was repossessed after a $750 bill went unpaid.

“That’s just business,” said Linda Anderson of Memorial Art Monument. “If we give every stone to everybody, we’d be out of business. They’d repossess your car if you didn’t make payments.”

Brady Conger, 17, died in a car accident a year ago Thursday.

Memorial Art said bills sent to one address were returned, and couldn’t reach Brady’s mother, who apparently had agreed last year to pay the balance.

“The end result was that there was absolutely no one who I could talk to about this,” owner Mike Anderson said.

Brady’s classmates eventually paid the bill, and the headstone will be installed again this week.

From Associated Press reports