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2 unusual facts about theft


Godsbane

This revealed the sword to be an aspect of Mask, the god of thievery and intrigue.

Steal

Theft, the illegal act of taking another person's property without that person's freely-given consent


1985 in organized crime

Gambino boss Paul Big Pauly" Castellano and nine others were accused of operating an international auto-theft ring that shipped stolen cars to Kuwait and Puerto Rico, among other destinations.

Appropriation

Cultural appropriation, the borrowing, or theft, of an element of cultural expression of one group by another

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.

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.

Burton baronets

The fourth and last Baronet was imprisoned for debt in 1710 and following conviction for theft in 1722 was transported.

Clayton Luckie

The felony charges included Engaging in a Pattern of Corrupt Activity, Theft in Office, Money Laundering and Forgery.

Crime in France

The Neuhof area of Strasbourg was selected because of a need to tackle violent crime, and the historic rural town of Chambly to the north of Paris is being focused on because of rising burglary rates and car theft.

Cyberethics

Companies such as LifeLock and JPMorgan Chase have begun to capitalize on selling identity theft protection insurance.

David Jevans

Jevans is the founder, and currently Chairman, of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, and is also a member of the Department of Homeland Security ID Theft Technology Consortium, where he is a featured speaker.

Gerard Gohou

Mohammed V International came to Morocco by air to leave the airport, "theft" were accused of Gohou incapacitate.

Highwaymen Motorcycle Club

The investigation by the Monroe County Auto Theft Enforcement began in October 2006 and served several search warrants on properties owned by McDaniel.

Hormuud Telecom

This service replaces scratch-off cards, which are more costly to keep and may be more vulnerable to theft, thereby necessitating greater security precautions on the retailer's part.

Jamie Raeburn

Jamie Raeburn is reputed to have been a baker in Glasgow before being sentenced for petty theft, although he was allegedly innocent, and then sent out to the colonies as punishment.

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.

Kathleen Scott

She also produced a small bronze of the Indian actor Sabu which is now missing, after a theft.

Kristine Miller

In the last episode of the series, Miller joined Davis as Matt Clark in investigating horse theft by the outlaw L.H. Musgrove.

Mama Campisi's

Its success was apparently not sufficient, perhaps in part due to a switch to prefab/frozen food, as well as employee theft, and it eventually became the center of an episode of Restaurant: Impossible.

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.

Out of Touch

Another song from the duo, Family Man, is featured on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, another one, Maneater, is featured in Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City and Adult Education is featured in GTA V

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.

Peter Webster

Peter Webster is an English artist and sculptor, best known for his sculpture of the British athlete Steve Ovett, which was exhibited in Preston Park, Brighton, before its theft.

Poppy Flowers

Egyptian officials erroneously believed they had recovered the painting only hours after its theft when two Italian suspects attempted to board a plane to Italy at Cairo International Airport.

Punkreas

The first about a singular and unlucky theft in a store, the second with high references, like Dr. Strangelove, the third entirely made of the cartoons by Davide Toffolo.

Q Train

A special train with British Transport Police on board used to combat trespass, vandalism and infrastructure (often cable) theft or Route Crime as it is known.

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.

Rob Haigh

Many Omni Trio tracks feature on popular video games: "Renegade Snares" appears in the game Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, "First Contact" (from Even Angels Cast Shadows) is featured in Grand Theft Auto 3 and "Secret Life" is featured in the futuristic racing video game Rollcage Stage II.

Roy Whiting

When Whiting began his jail term for the car theft, detectives were able to carry out forensic tests on his Fiat Ducato van.

Somerset Holmes

Both Jones and Campbell feel strongly that the 1996 Geena Davis movie The Long Kiss Goodnight was an unauthorized, and unpaid for, theft of the Somerset Holmes idea.

Studies on intercessory prayer

Daniel Wirth, a.k.a. John Wayne Truelove, is not an M.D. but an M.S. in parapsychology who has since been indicted on felony charges for mail fraud and theft, committed apparently at the time the study was claimed to be conducted, and he pled guilty.

Sucker pole

Bicycle theft is fed mainly from the fact that it generates about $350 million annually and that the risk to criminals is relatively low even compared with stealing an IPhone, a television, or a car in cities such as San Francisco and Chicago which are considered "bike friendly" cities.

Tenant screening

Valid government issued photo identification is typically required to confirm the identity of applicants and in compliance with the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) identity theft Red Flags Rule.

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.

The Hermit of Eyton Forest

He never reached nearby Wallingford Castle, but his horse was found along the way, with evidence of theft and violence.

The Johnson Gang

On 1 February 2006 the gang perpetrated their biggest theft when they burgled Ramsbury Manor, the home of Harry Hyams, near Marlborough in Wiltshire.

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".

Theodor Dannecker

Owing to misuse of his position, partially due to his theft of German confiscated property, he was ordered back to Berlin in August 1942.

Traffic sign

Bands such as The Beatles and Lynyrd Skynyrd have exacerbated street sign theft as their songs and albums include real place names including Penny Lane, Blue Jay Way, Abbey Road, and Brickyard Road.

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.

Vincenzo Peruggia

In an April 1956 episode of the TV-show You Are There, called "The Recovery of the Mona Lisa (December 10, 1913)", Peruggia is played by Vito Scotti, who reprised the role in yet another TV-reconstruction of the famous theft, this time for the TV-show G.E. True.

When Games Attack

Each puppet would pick one of two video games that were similar such as Tekken vs Virtua Fighter or Grand Theft Auto vs True Crime: Streets of LA.

Wild Boys of the Road

They live in "Sewer Pipe City" for a while, until the city authorities decide to shut it down, in part due to Eddie's theft of a prosthetic leg for Tommy.

World Open

World Wide Open, the debut album of the American country music band Love and Theft

Yom-Tov Lipmann-Muhlhausen

The Nizzahon was long inaccessible to Christian Hebraists, and a copy was only obtained in 1644 by a deceitful ruse, involving outright theft, by the professor of Hebrew aat the University of Altdorf, Theodor Hackspan who learning that a rabbi in Schnattach possessed a copy, obtained an interview with him for a debate, and when the rabbi took down his copy to consult, had it snatched from his hands, to be then copied and printed.


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