Ludwigsburg (dpa / lsw) - Although construction workers had taken their own precautions, perpetrators managed to steal an expensive vibrating plate. When leaving the construction site in Ludwigsburg on Monday afternoon, an excavator driver weighed down the device, which costs several thousand euros and weighs 250 kilograms and is used to compact the subsoil, with the excavator shovel. "Presumably, the perpetrators managed to move the excavator," the police said on Tuesday. Then they would probably have loaded the stolen goods onto a larger getaway vehicle.