Not thieves and not recent but a BBC article on clocks going forward had a great little end story.
Quote:
The bombing that was stopped by daylight saving
In 1999 four would-be terrorists loaded two bombs into two cars. The bombs were set to go off at 6.30pm.
Their intention was to load the bombs onto the luggage racks of two intercity buses before hopping off and driving away.
They armed the bombs in Palestine. Their targets were in Israel.
Israel had turned the clocks back a day before but the bombers hadn't noticed the difference. The bombs blew up at 5.30pm local time while still in their cars, killing the bombers.
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