14 WTF Things That Were Stolen.
Nathan Johnson
Published
02/08/2021
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Some people steal the strangest things.
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Bull Semen. Three tanks of bull semen was stolen out of a parked truck in California back in 2016. The semen was worth an estimated $50,000 as it was from the top 1% of bulls in the bull industry. -
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Nutella. Five tons of Nutella was stolen from a truck trailer in Germany back in 2017. The Nutella was worth nearly $18,000 and the thieves were never caught. -
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A Bridge. Metal scrappers in the Czech Republic managed to dismantle a 10-ton bridge and over 600 ft of a train track in 2012. One of the crooks even forged documents and lied to an entire town so they could take their time. The entire town was fooled and did not learn of the deception until after the thieves made off with their booty. The bridge was never recovered. -
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A Dead Man’s Toes. The Body Worlds exhibit was in Auckland, NZ in 2018 when a 28-year-old male stole two toes off of a cadaver. He was later caught and brought up on criminal charges. According to court documents, the toes were valued at $5,500. -
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Ice. 2012 was a weird year for thieves as one attempted to steal nearly five tons of ice off of a glacier in Patagonia. He planned to sell the ice as “designer” ice cubes to bars and rented a refrigerated van in order to sneak it out of the Bernardo O’Higgens National Park. -
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Cheese. If you have not heard of the Wisconsin-cheese heists, it is worth checking into. The heists took place in the 2010’s and tens of thousands of pounds of cheese were stolen. One driver pulled over to have his truck serviced during a 130-mile route when criminals lifted 20,000 pounds of cheese out of his semitrailer while it was at a storage facility. -
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A Human Brain. Thomas Stoltz Harvey was the pathologist that performed Albert Einstein’s autopsy. Harvey claimed that he wanted the brain for research and kept it in a mason jar in a cooler for years until his son found it and turned it over to the authorities. -
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Manholes. Detectives in Los Angeles were baffled when manholes disappeared all of the area in the 1990. Two men were busted when they tried to sell fractions of the manholes to a scrap yard. -
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A House. A couple in Washington State went to their cabin in Lake Loon just to find it had disappeared. Thieves not only stole the entire home, a 10’x20’ prefab structure, but all of the furniture and camping gear inside of it. -
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A Beach. The sand kept shrinking in Coral Spring beach in Jamaica and police took notice. It turns out that hotels were selling postcards with the sand to tourists in the area. When all the sand was recovered, it added up to nearly 500 truckloads. -
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Swedish Crown Jewels. Now jewels are an expected target for thieves but this one sounds like an action movie as they stole crown jewels from a cathedral in Sweden before escaping on a motorboat that was parked below the church. -
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E.T. Margaret Wells had her Portsmouth, England house broken into and robbed. Included on the list of items lifted from the home was a life-size E.T. model that her daughter had made her. The E.T. was found a year after the crime floating off the coast. -
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Napoleon Bonaparte’s Junk. Bonaparte’s bitts were taken during an autopsy and given to a Corsican priest. The last known ownership was in 2007 when a woman inherited the preserved penis that her father had purchased for *$3,000. -
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Avocados. New Zealand suffered an avocado shortage that caused prices to surge so people began sneaking onto the farms to steal and sell on the black market. Many farmers added razor-wire to their fences around their crop to deter the thieves.
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