Word: thief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sean Penn) is searching for something worth spending his teenage energy on: maybe his lay-about friends, maybe that cute 16-year-old he's just met (Mary Stuart Masterson), maybe the toxic dream of emulating his old man. You've got to act, Brad. So be a thief and impress your friends. Join your dad's gang; make him proud. Buy your girlfriend a necklace and watch her eyes pop. Be a man and try not to look back at that trail of blood on the landscape...
...business. One customer, cutting his seventh deal with Johnny, paused and said: "You might be the Man." Replied Johnny: "You never know." But in time, the shop won the confidence of its clientele, with word spreading even to other states. On the advice of a cousin in Birmingham, one thief drove a stolen 1986 Buick Skylark / from a dealer's lot in Atlanta to Johnny's. He got $700, and Johnny got his name and telephone number. Says Charles Jordan, the Birmingham police sergeant who helped direct the operation: "After a while, greed takes over wisdom...
...shop in Birmingham's West End was able to rake in goods valued at some $2 million. On the list: 113 automobiles, four motorcycles, firearms, musical instruments, vacuum cleaners, window fans, chain saws, space heaters, clocks, credit cards, shoes, boots, digital weighing scales and an American flag a thief used to wrap booty...
...cameras, three lenses and a motor drive belonging to the Yearbook, as well as jewelry belonging to one of the residents of the F-Entry triple were taken from the room between 10:30 p.m. and midnight, according to the room's residents. "The thief didn't take much of value except the cameras. He was looking for little stuff," said Victoria J. Wohl '88, who lives in the room...
...point, a small amount of bomb-grade fuel was stolen from the facility and then discovered a few weeks later on a graduate student's desk, Hirsch said. The thief was never found...