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Liquidation Factor. In Milan, Italy, Giancarlo Monti confessed to police that he was forced to steal two cars a day in order to meet his daily drinking needs: 30 shots of brandy plus four liters of wine per meal...
Saying all this may seem very ill-advised, but we do it to steal the Innocent's thunder, so that others will not be misled...
Then Morrison fell in with a bad crowd. He accepted a commission to steal a set of golf clubs, and soon he was the advance man for a surprisingly successful bunch of burglars. The others eagerly planned the thefts, posted lookouts and lugged out the lion's share of the loot. It worked remarkably well, and it should have. Morrison's accomplices were ten Chicago cops...
Staggered. In London, Ont., convicted on three charges of car theft, William Johnson explained to the court: "I only steal cars when I become too loaded to walk home...
Dilworth rushed into the dining hall and was just catching the last button on his vest when the Chinese gong sounded, signalling the end of the food-serving period. He cleverly managed to steal a tray as the last stack was being carried away, and hurried along the serving line gathering unto himself everything that was still available. When he reached the end, he surveyed his fortune; and finding everything but the goat's milk unfamiliar, stood frozen near the jelly table in a state of stark amazement...