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2 unusual facts about The Theft


The Theft

The song's lyrics are about the theft of the band's lead singer, Alex Varkatzas' "freedom", when he was an alcoholic, or in his words, "stolen shit".

Released as a promo single, it was the third overall single, out of four total, released by Atreyu that year, as the song "Her Portrait In Black", from the Underworld: Evolution soundtrack, was also released in addition to A Death-Grip On Yesterday's three singles.



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2007 Formula One espionage controversy

The original case involved allegations made by the Ferrari Formula One team against a former employee (Nigel Stepney), a senior McLaren engineer, Mike Coughlan, and his wife Trudy Coughlan concerning the theft of technical information.

A Rebel in Time

The theft of an antique Sten gun and the plans for such also add to the mystery about what McCulloch is up to.

Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland

The most pivotal departure from Carroll's original text comes in the 7th verse, The Tea Party Resumes, where it is first hinted at (by a sleep-talking Dormouse) that the Knave of Hearts may not in fact be responsible for the theft of the Queen's tarts.

Anthony Corallo

On August 15, 1959, Corallo testified before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management The senators wanted Corallo to explain the theft of $70,000 US dollars from Teamsters Union local 239 by using names of dead mob members.

Asterix and the Banquet

The phrase: "Je vous promets qu'on n'a pas fini d'en parler de l'affaire du courrier de Lugdunum !" is a reference to the trial "le courrier de Lyon", where an innocent one was sentenced for the murder of postmen and the theft of their mail in 1796.

Augustin Přeučil

Among his activities was the theft of a Hawker Hurricane Mk IIa serial number W9147 of 55 OTU based at RAF Usworth, near Sunderland, in which he flew to Flushing in the Netherlands on 19 September 1941.

Bank of Ireland

The thefts were initially reported to the Garda Síochána, however the Banks senior management did not know about the problem until February 2008 after an internal audit uncovered the theft and the Bank did not advise the Data Protection Commissioner and the Central Bank of Ireland until mid-April 2008.

Basil Zaharoff

Rayt Marius in Knight Templar and The Misfortunes of Mr. Teal, featuring Leslie Charteris' the Saint, appears to be based on Zaharoff, with the last referring specifically to the theft of his explosive memoirs.

Bounty jumper

Adam Worth became an international thief, with the theft of Thomas Gainsborough's painting Duchess being his most famous crime.

Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett

Two runaway orphans, Pat and Sean, witness the theft of Saint Oliver Plunketts head from St. Peter's Church where it was on display for a forthcoming papal visit.

Burrell affair

The theft trial of Paul Burrell, the butler of Diana, Princess of Wales, collapsed after evidence was given that Queen Elizabeth II had spoken with Burrell regarding the items he was accused of stealing.

Eduardo de Valfierno

In the 1985 television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett, the episode called "The Final Problem" begins with the theft of the Mona Lisa, masterminded by Moriarty in order to sell prepared fakes to collectors.

Gibson Stradivarius

The first time the violin was returned shortly after the theft; the second theft, by musician Julian Altman, occurred on the evening of 28 February 1936, backstage at Carnegie Hall, while Huberman performed with his Guarnerius of 1731.

Hellboy: The Crooked Man and Others

A month later the BPRD are staking out North Carolina's Ocracoke Island, the antique dealer's ghost (communicating via medium) having tipped them off to the theft of what they realize is the skull of the legendary pirate.

Ivan Lexa

On April 9, 1999, the Slovak parliament elected to take away Lexa's immunity as a member of parliament, and handed him over to the police for suspicion of abduction, robbery, not announcing the theft of a vehicle, feigned buying of a painting, helping in placing an explosive system and for the unlawful holding of a spying device.

Jehovah's Witnesses Association of Romania

Tom Gallagher, Modern Romania: The End of Communism, the Failure of Democratic Reform, and the Theft of a Nation, NYU Press, 2005.

Joe Machine

In 1988 he was sent to Alston House Approved School, Rochester, for the theft of scrap material, and the following year to Dover Borstal for young offenders, after burgling a greengrocers in Leysdown (Isle of Sheppey).

Maryland Historical Society

On July 9, 2011, Barry Landau and Jason Savedoff were arrested and later indicted for the theft of 60 society documents.

Mickey Munday

Following a meeting with drug lord Pablo Escobar in 1981, Munday and Mermelstein put an end to the theft of tools and spare parts left behind at the Colombian air strips by Mickey and his fellow pilots.

Mona Lisa

A later account suggested Eduardo de Valfierno had been the mastermind of the theft and had commissioned forger Yves Chaudron to create six copies of the painting to be sold in the United States while the location of the original was unclear.

Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence

The local Sicilian Mafia are generally considered to be the prime culprits in the theft although nobody actually knows who committed the crime.

Outsourcing

In April 2005, a high-profile case involving the theft of $350,000 from four Citibank customers occurred when call-center workers acquired the passwords to customer accounts and transferred the money to their own accounts opened under fictitious names.

Postal orders of the United Kingdom

The 1946 play The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan, and the two subsequent films based on it, features the story of a schoolboy trying to clear his name over the theft of a five shilling postal order.

Raptio

In Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock, the title means "the theft of a lock of hair", exaggerating a trivial violation against a person.

Rhys ap Gruffydd

Rhys died excommunicate, having quarreled with the Bishop of St. David's, Peter de Leia, over the theft of some of the bishop's horses some years previously.

Stolen and missing moon rocks

The theft was the subject of Ben Mezrich's book Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History.

The Brothers Bloom

The exterior scenes involving the theft of the book were shot in Prague, both in and around Prague Castle and on the Charles Bridge.

Todd Landers

forces his way in and threatens to hurt Katie if Todd does not comply with the theft of the VCR.

Underworld Unleashed

Soon after, Neron kills a priest who administers to the prisoners of Belle Reve Penitentiary and, disguised as him, offers a deal for the soul of one of the inmates (who is in search of revenge for the theft of a treasured possession) in exchange for a gun.