Thefts like this fascinate me. Biggest things ever stolen: a beach, a Boeing 727, a fully loaded oil tanker (and two more after that), a bridge, a church (Don't joke with Russians), a five-story mill (Kenya's entry), a tank, a WWII fighter jet, two luxury yachts...
...and once, a decade ago, @NYDailyNews temporarily stole the Empire State Building. In just 90 minutes. It was a stunt to show just how easy it was, and their fake company was called "Nelots" which, is "Stolen" spelled backwards. 😂😂😂
The Kenyan one was a five-story coffee mill, as reported by @johnKamau1 a few years ago. The entire structure was gutted down and disappeared, most likely as scrap metal. It was insured for 800m so it's also likely insurance fraud.
...and of the three fully loaded oil tankers stolen in history, only one has ever been recovered. All three were protected by the Nigerian Navy. 0_o
...and two dinosaurs. One a T-Rex and another whose species I can't quite remember. What can't human being steal?
Entire bridges have been stolen in Russia and China. 😂😂
Entire bridges have been stolen in Russia and China. 😂😂
"When it operated, the mill had an installed capacity of 130,000 tonnes." Then it was stolen. All of it.
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The story @NYDailyNews did after stealing The Empire State Building. nydailynews.com/news/money/90-…
The WWII fighter jet was stolen from a museum by an Israeli pilot, and flown to Sweden, where it was sold.
The church was stolen by an entire village in Russia. It started when someone offered to buy bricks, so villagers stole the structure brick by brick. 😂😂
In India, in a village called Humta, residents have been stealing a mountain for years. They started chipping it at the peak, such that the top of Humta Pahad now looks like the top of a badly done cake.
The main thief of Humta Pahad is one guy who claims to own the mountain (reminds me John Boyes stole Mount Kenya by ' buying' it for 4 goats), and the villagers have to pay him to chip away the mountain. Still, it's technically not classified as a theft yet.
To finish this unplanned thread, there is clearly nothing humans can't steal if they put their mind to it.
