INTERESTING AND UNBELIEVABLE STORIES ABOUT STOLEN ITEMS
Added on: 28th Apr 2016
IF YOU BOUGHT OR RENTED A DVD RECENTLY
YOU HAD TO HAVE SAT THROUGH AN ANTI-PIRACY AD.
IT RECENTLY EMERGED THAT THE MUSIC ON THE
AD WAS ACTUALLY PIRATED (MELCHIOR REITVELDT
VS BUMA/STEMRA MUSIC)
WHILE ON A HUNTING EXPEDITION THEODORE
ROOSEVELT’S BOAT WAS STOLEN. IN SPITE OF
FREEZING TEMPERATURES, TEDDY AND HIS FRIENDS
BUILT A RAFT, SAILED DOWN THE RIVER, AND
CAPTURED THE THIEVES SEVERAL DAYS LATER
PICASSO’S THE WEEPING WOMAN WAS ONCE STOLEN
FROM A GALLERY IN AUSTRALIA WITH THE RANSOM
DEMANDING MORE FUNDING FOR THE ARTS. THE
PAINTING WAS LATER FOUND IN A TRAIN STATION
BUT THE THIEF WAS NEVER CAUGHT.
WHEN JULIAN ALTMAN DIED, HE TOLD HIS WIFE
THAT THE VIOLIN HE HAD BEEN PLAYING FOR
ALMOST HIS WHOLE LIFE WAS ACTUALLY A STOLEN
STRADIVARIUS VIOLIN THAT HAD BEEN MADE IN 1713
A .45 CALIBRE HANDGUN WAS STOLEN FROM
PRESIDENT TAFT BY CARL PANZRAM AND THEN
USED IN SEVERAL MURDERS
AFTER DRUGS AND WEAPONS, STOLEN ARTEFACTS ARE
THE MOST PROFITABLE SECTOR OF THE BLACK MARKET
THERE IS A GANG CALLED "THE PINK PANTHERS" THAT
IS KNOWN FOR THEIR HOLLYWOOD STYLE JEWELLERY
HEISTS AND ACCORDING TO INTERPOL THEY ARE
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MOST AUDACIOUS THEFTS IN
HISTORY. ONE CRIMINOLOGIST EVEN DESCRIBED THEM
AS "ARTISTS"
MALAYSIAN AUTHORITIES WERE CONFUSED BY A SPATE
OF PAYPHONE THEFTS UNTIL THEY FOUND OUT THAT
LOCAL FISHERMAN WERE USING THEM TO CATCH FISH
BY EMITTING AN ATTRACTIVE FREQUENCY THROUGH
THE PHONE
IN 2003, A 727 BELONGING TO FLORIDA-BASED AEROSPACE
SALES AND LEASING WAS STOLEN FROM AN AIRFIELD
IN ANGOLA AND NEVER SEEN AGAIN.
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