Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Local television sportscaster Bob Lobel recently wound up on the short end of the score, as money was stolen from his car in two separate incidents at the Soldiers Field parking lot last month...
...carrying some boxes with my name on them," says Stacey D. Anderson, "When I bumped into some of (the other Stacey's roommates), carrying boxes with my name on them. They wondered why I had stolen them...
Tying this together was lead guitarist Brad Shepherd, who managed to out-Hoodoo his fellow Gurus by sporting large circular earrings, a necklace of some unidentifiable carnivore's teeth and, most evocative of all, a cockney chimneysweep's top hat that could have been stolen from Charles Nelson Riley's Hoodoo himself. Shepherd dominated the stage, bounding forth to let the kids up front tousle his hair and producing a series of guitar sounds clever enough to overcome many of the Gurus dumber lyrics...
...thieves will not be able to ransom the pictures to an insurance company, the frequent fate of stolen art treasures, because the Marmottan could not afford the enormous insurance premiums on its permanent collection. Police doubt that the intention is to sell the purloined paintings to a collector, because their fame makes them, as a French journalist put it, "about as negotiable as the Eiffel Tower." One possibility is that the robbers are terrorists who hope to exchange the pictures for a captured colleague. Said Police Superintendent Thierry Boulogne, who is involved in the case: "No one hypothesis is being...
Other thefts in the past week included four stolen bikes worth between $150 and $250 each a batch of stolen wallets and purses, including one that contained $850, and $450 worth of clothing stolen from a Holworthy Hall clothes dryer...