The sport up here, it seems, is to stage late-night "raids" on neighboring huts and steal these odd relics, which in turn are stolen by another hut.

A crew will periodically set out on a late-night raid to ambush buses, climb roofs and buildings or enter tunnels.

But beginning on Dec. 4, they said, late-night raids by the police - who threatened to arrest anyone who did not leave - frightened many of the homeless away.

The technology of global capitalism flickered back into life, and the late-night raid at 140 West became part of the back-office lore of how it all happened.

The announcement was made after a late-night raid on a house where weapons and bomb-making materials were found.

The national police force, Garda Síochána, dismantled their camp during a late-night raid on 8 March 2012, though the protesters vowed to fight on.

Colonel Hickey, speaking after a late-night raid, said he had twice received intelligence placing Mr. Hussein near Tikrit.

According to Amanullah he was captured during a late-night raid of his home in early 2004.

To date, the Italian police haven't staged any late-night raids on American athletes that would risk the renaming of every pasta dish in the Congressional cafeteria.

In a late-night raid last Friday, the army gunned down three men it said were members of Jaish-e-Muhammad, another group based across the border.