A German police officer stole around 180 kilograms of cheddar cheese from an overturned lorry after an accident and lost his job as a result. The Rhineland-Palatinate Higher Administrative Court rejected an appeal by the man on Tuesday, meaning his previous conviction stands. The police officer had worked for the motorway police and was supposed to secure the scene of an accident, the court said. He had driven a police bus to the vicinity of the damaged lorry container and asked the employee of a salvage company there to hand him several packages of cheese. He stole a total of nine cheese parc…