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Biggest Things Ever Stolen - Part 2 · Be Amazed

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[SPEAKER_01]: Be honest, have you ever stolen something?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe yes, not your siblings found to play games without the knowing or maybe a swipe to pack of cookies from the store.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These might be small indiscretions but compared to some things that have been stolen throughout history, they're downright pathetic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, what's a pack of cookies compared to an entire house, a giant ship, or even a skyscraper?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, get ready to be schooled in the art of stealing as we take a look at even more of the biggest things that have ever been stolen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If I could drive any vehicle honors, it'd be a tank.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're huge, they're intimidating, and they've got great big cannons on the front.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're the perfect vehicle in my opinion.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, I'd need the right credentials, not just anyone can drive these war machines, though try telling that to Sean Nelson.
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[SPEAKER_01]: On the evening of May 17, 1995, the citizens of San Diego who were commuting through the city witnessed the terrifying site of a tank rolling down the streets.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Former U.S. Marine Sean Nelson had swiped an M683 patent tank from the California National Guard Armory and was rampaging through the neighborhood.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now an M683 tank is some 31-feet
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[SPEAKER_01]: Luckily, this tank wasn't loaded but still, not even the biggest fire truck of the time would have been weighty enough to stop this rolling monster.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As Nelson plowed through the streets he destroyed vehicles, crushed lamp posts and rolled through barricades.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Luckily, no one was seriously injured.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Pursued by police, Nelson's joy ride came to a halt after he drove on to a road barrier, getting stuck in the process.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Please open the hatch and ordered the thief to surrender, but Nelson refused and then, well, let's just say he didn't survive their removal process.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The danger was over, but how did he steal a tank from the national guard armory?
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[SPEAKER_01]: A facility surrounded by eight-foot chainlink fences, dumped with three runs of barbed wire to stop trespassers from entering.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not to mention all the military personnel on site?
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[SPEAKER_01]: While that evening, the armory skates were unssecured because the personnel were working late.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At 630pm, Nelson simply drove into the compound completely uncontested before breaking the locks on 911, not two, but three different tanks before starting the M683.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At 645 he crashed through the gates and rolled on to his rampage.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes, just sometimes, I wonder what my tax money is actually doing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We always hear about robbers making off with phones, jewelry and cash, but DESTRIAN.
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[SPEAKER_01]: about a building, and not just any building.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Back in 2008, the New York Daily News pulled off one of the biggest highs in U.S. history by stealing the most iconic skyscraper in America, the Empire State Building.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Before you ask no, the reporters didn't leave the 1400 feet tall tower away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Instead, they stole it through the magic of?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Paperwork.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Journalists from the news submitted fake documents to the city's clerk's office seeking to transfer the Empire State Building into their hands.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The deed had the name Nellett's properties LLC, which as some of you may have noticed is stolen spelled backwards.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If that wasn't cheeky enough, they listed King Kong, Star, Faye, Ray, and infamous bank rubber Willie Sutton as witness and notary.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just 90 minutes later, the Empire State Building was legally transferred from Empire State Land Associates to the Fictitious Nellets Company owned by the newspaper.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Don worry, the reporters didn't turn the building into their own personal penthouse.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The very next day, they returned the $2 billion building to its rightful owners.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What was the reason for this elaborate stunt?
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[SPEAKER_01]: The best kind of reason, to prove a point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The newspaper aimed to expose a glaring flaw in the city's register office.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Claire didn't need to cross check information, leading to all sorts of chaos in the way the city document it deeds mortgages and other transactions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The daily news uncovered cases where criminals pretending to be long-dead homeowners snacked fake property deeds and walked away with thousands in mortgage cash.
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[SPEAKER_01]: interesting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you'll excuse me, I need to send some forms off to New York City's registry office regarding a new BMA's New York office.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing I like better than a trip to the coast, swimming in the sea, munching on a ice cream, swapping an entire beach for the illegal sand trade.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wait what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, back in 2008, Entrylwani Jamaica, a whole beach was stolen overnight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They must have been trying to build one big sand castle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The sandy-fangered thieves made a clean getaway with an estimated 500 truckloads full of sand from coral springs beach.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Rather suspiciously, no-eye witnesses have come forward, so how it was stolen is a mystery.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The thieves may have done it by hand like these sandwriters in Ghana, or it could have been pinched by giant excavators, an excavator can dig up to 1,000 cubic yards per day, and that's the equivalent of 1,000 hottubs worth of sand.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Since the highest there have been no signs of the suspects or sand.
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[SPEAKER_01]: With 1300 feet of missing earth the sheer scale of the highest has led some
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some suggest that these companies took the sand to refurbish their own private beaches or to thwart the competition by preventing rival resorts from opening on their turf.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The level of corruption may reach the highest law on the land, even police and politicians have been accused of colluding with the beach burglars.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You see, sand thieves are nasty customers, activists, journalists, and government officials who dare to stand against them often end up vanishing just as mysteriously as the sand.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This great stuff isn't just for digging in, it's the main ingredient in cement, concrete, and glass.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A global sand shortage has unleashed violent black market gangs who have cleared away rivers, beaches, and even small islands, destroying habitats and wildlife in the process.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sadly, the problem is expected to worsen as the world's population grows along with the demand for infrastructure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All of this over, sand?
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's going to take me a while to process.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The old saying goes, the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's certainly true for a cruise liner that was once stolen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, it wasn't one of those fancy modern cruise ships, it was the Achilles Lona, which was technically stolen way back in 1985.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This Italian cruise ship was 82 feet in width at the beam, that's the ship's widest point for us landlovers, and stretched a colossal 642 feet in length.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's longer than the Washington Monument is tall.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How do you steal something like that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Surely you can't just hijack a ship that large by curing it away, that'd be far too obvious and it'd require hundreds of helicopters to achieve.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Even steering it off course would draw attention, it's way too big to steal or, so you'd think.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not October 7 shortly after setting sail from Alexandria, Egypt, a steward found four men trying to clean petrol off their machine guns with a hairdryer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These guys had been masquerading as passengers, but were, in fact, hijackers there to seize the boat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Upon being found out, they spring into action, charging into the dining hall, claiming there were 20 armed men on board their ship.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There were only 97 passengers on board, most of whom were elderly or disabled.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The other 651 tours on board the ship had stayed behind in Egypt to sightseeing Alexandria, so there wasn't much the rest could do against the four militants.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The hijackers radioed Syrian authorities demanding the release of their imprisoned pals and permission to dock in a Syrian port.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Syria never replied.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Things were beginning to turn ugly when on October 9th the terrorist commander arranged for the lorododokin Egypt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: After trying and failing to escape the terrorist were taken into custody with the help of U.S. and Italian authorities and convicted.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The lorodok didn't improve after resuming service, and 1994 she co-fire off the coast of Somalia and Sank.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, that boat just hit a wave of bad luck.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We all have that fear that a thief is going to break into our home and make off with our belongings, but what if the thief made off with your home?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Back in 2021 in Looton, UK, this exact scenario happened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My call was a vicar who had been working away from his Looton home for filling his holy duties in North Wales.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In August out of the blue, his neighbors called telling him that they'd seen an intruder in his home.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Understandably worried, Hall rushed back to Luden only to find that the keys to his friend door no longer fit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A stranger opened the door and Hall forced his way in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Once inside the vicar found his Luden house looted, the plaster on his wall stripped bare, it turned out the stranger was a builder who was renovating his home.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He demanded an explanation because he had no ordered any building works, that's when someone else appeared until the confounded clergyman that the house they were all standing in was his.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that it was the vicar who was trespassing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It turned out while Hall was away, thieves had broken into his home through a window and changed the locks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Then these cunning fraudsters used a fake driving license to impersonate the Reverend, created a bogus bank account in his name and found up solicitors claiming to be Hall.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They instructed them to sell the house for $131,000, a little over $150,000, way below the house's real market value, so that it's so quickly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: God's Aquently, the new owners now legally possess the home and there was nothing the police could do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It sounds stranger than fiction, the case is still ongoing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No arrest have been made in the new owners are still refusing to hand the house back to its rightful owners.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Geez, that poor priest must be living a hellish nightmare.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's be honest, some days we all wish our school would just vanish, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, for students it, you'd sing secondary school in Cape Town, South Africa, that wish came true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The story starts back in 2019 when the secondary school, that's the equivalent of an American high school, had to close its doors.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The neighborhood was taken over by violent criminal gangs, people were being threatened
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[SPEAKER_01]: Utsik even tried him blowing security guards, but the crooks chased them off, turning the area into a war zone, with staff and students off and getting caught in the crossfire.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Following this, the finances set aside for the school's repairs dried up fast, leading it to deteriorate until it shut down completely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Back in the day, the school used to show off an auditorium cafeteria and five classroom blocks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Since then, the use of pillage the building brick by brick leaving only a carcass of what was
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[SPEAKER_01]: Take a peek at Google Earth and you'll see how the school disappeared in just six months.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everything from windows, electric, plumbing, and blackboards were scavenged.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Rumor has it that they sold the bricks for 31 cents each and $6.23 for every window.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So next time you find yourself complaining about school just be glad it didn't vanish out the face of Google Earth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's head over to Vancouver Island Canada where the trees are as nice as the people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Back in May of that fateful year park rangers from Carmanau Walburn, provincial parks stumbled across an 800-year-old red cedar tree with a rather suspicious cut.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The tree had 80% of its 9-foot wide trunk severed and park officials decided that it was unsafe to leave the tree upright, so they cut it down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Then they left the tree to naturally decompose and become a home for wildlife.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Little did they know that this was all part of a devious plan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Once the officials had felt the tree, the illegal loggers who would slice the tree through in the first place returned and dragged it away piece by piece.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Police were stomped as to who the Cedar Steelers were, and it's unlikely that they'll catch them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And last one of them started selling some jumbo-sized wood garmanks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That thieves managed to obscure the tire tracks left on the forest floor, leaving little evidence to work with.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A Western Red Seater can grow over 230 feet tall, so those boaters wouldn't have been your run of the mill lumberjacks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They would have needed heavy-duty equipment and giant trucks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A firewood savager in a pickup truck just wouldn't have had the capacity to carry off an entire tree that size.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, this type of tree poaching is becoming more popular.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Since 1853 about 90% of Vancouver Island's low elevation forest, where the largest
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's the root of all this tree swindling?
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[SPEAKER_01]: While a large western red cedar confetched thousands of dollars through the production of shakes, shingles, and various other wood products.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The park is pretty uninhabited and only protected by a few rangers so the criminals could carry out their high-stone and erupted.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, there's plenty of other less environmentally damaging high-stime fraternities out there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Steve, should really branch out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Back in April 2021, over in Stilton, Worcestershire, UK, Rabbit Breeder and Net Edwards woke up to find that her beloved Pet Rabbit Darius had gone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now Darius wasn't any box-standard money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He held the Guinness World record for being the biggest rabbit on the planet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was a continental giant rabbit weighed in at a colossal 35 pounds and measured in at an unreal 4 foot 3 inches from pot of all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That makes this money two and a half times as heavy as a standard bowling ball and about as long as an average 8-year-old child is tall.
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[SPEAKER_01]: To support his huge size, he ate some 11 carrots a day, that's about 4,000 carrots a year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the same with me if you replace the carrots with burgers and a year with a month.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Anyways, Edward's who specializes in the continental giant breed was devastated.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She even offered over $1,200 as a reward for his safe return before doubling it to over $2,700 to no avail.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So who stole this giant rabbit?
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[SPEAKER_01]: A giant fox?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Probably not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Edwards believes the abduction of Darius was masterminded by human thieves, because to reach Darius's hutch, they would have had to navigate a neighboring field and bust open the bolts.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Visitors used to come and take pictures with Darius so many people knew the layout of Edwards's home, that these likely targeted him because his hutch was away from the other rabbits, which are guarded by dogs making him an easy catch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And his prime Darious was a sire rabbit used for breeding, although when he was stolen at the age of 12 he was too old for any of that nonsense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So what would someone even want with this giant rabbit?
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[SPEAKER_01]: While there is one unsettling internet theory.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At the peak of his record-breaking famed Darious was reportedly insured for an unreal $1.6 million at his own agent and traveled with a bodyguard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now Continental Giant Rabbits only tend to live until they're about five years old, so at twelve, Darius wasn't just an old man, he was an ancient man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like a lot of insurance clauses if a pet passes away from natural causes nothing can be claimed, but if it's stolen or looks like there's foul play, then there's usually something to be gained.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm, now I'm not hopping to any conclusions, but what do you guys think happen to this big old bunny?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've always got a few loose coins jingling in my pocket, but imagine looking around this behemoth, the Canadian Big Maple Leaf.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The prodigious penny was 1.2 inches thick and 20.8 inches in diameter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's twice as big as a dinner plate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was made from pure 24-carat gold and weight in and an incredible 22 pounds giving it a value of $4.3 million.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now that's a coin that could literally break the bag.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One side showcased Queen Elizabeth II, on the other was Canada's national symbol the Maple Leaf, hence its name.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Issued by the Royal Canadian Mountain 2007, it proudly held the Guinness World record for the largest gold coin.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Until 2011, when a one-ton Australian coin out did them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All was well in the world of oversized coins until 2017, when the big maple leaf coin was, you guessed it, stolen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was on display at the Boating Museum in Berlin when one night four audacious robbers pulled off their heist.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Three of the four climbed on to adjacent train tracks, using a ladder as a makeshift bridge, they broke into the museum through a third floor window with the help of a shady security guard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The thieves then smashed through a bulletproof glass case and made off with a coin using a wheelbarrow and a skateboard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Really?
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[SPEAKER_01]: A skateboard?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, I just assumed that a heist of this magnitude would require advanced equipment rather than random stuff you'd find in just about anybody's garage.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, an investigation was open and the four men were eventually arrested.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was gold particles in their getaway car and on their clothes that led detectives to deduce that the coin was cut into pieces or melted down and sold.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Another clue came from one of the thieves' phones having an internet history full of searches on how to break down gold pieces.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Plus, in court three of the four men were found guilty and imprisoned while the fourth was acquitted.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I hope after this, those robbers start seeing sense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The great sphinx of Giza is an iconic Egyptian landmark, depicting a mythological creature with a lion's body and a human space.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's as majestic as it is mysterious.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Despite its fame, no one's entirely sure on who built the Sphinx, though most agreed was King Coffre of the Fourth Dynasty, which put its construction around 2,500 BCE.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But an even greater mystery is what happened to its nose.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At some point in history, the beast would have possessed a three-foot-wide sniffer until it was intentionally chiseled away and stolen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Talk about happening right under your, well, nose.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Over the years, people have come up with all sorts of theories as to what happened to it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A popular legend is that in 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte soldiers blew the thing off with Cannonfire.
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[SPEAKER_01]: However, most archaeologists turn their nose up at this myth as it contradicts drawings from 1737 by Danish explorer Frederick Louis Norton, who depicted the statue without its shnaz.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Another story tells of Sufi Muslim Bahamut's sim although.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In 1378, he supposedly saw local peasants make offerings to the springs for a good harvest.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Enraged Eldar cut away at the face as an active iconoclasm.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We can pull the plug on this theory too since research suggests that the hooter was pilvered between the 3rd and 10th centuries AD, making Eldar story too late.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All in all, we probably will never know what happened to the creature now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just surprised that in over 4,000 years without a nose, it hasn't as spring-seated.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so far we've heard about houses being absconded away, but what about a room?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not talking about any old room, either.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking about the Amber Room.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dev the eighth wonder of the world, it was a series of stunning gold-leaved panels adorned with mosaics, not surprisingly valuable modern estimates put its word somewhere between
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[SPEAKER_01]: Originally created by the German Burroke sculptor, Andrea Schluter, and 1701, he fashioned it for the Prussian Royal Court from 6.6 tons of amber.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Imagine all the dinosaurs he could have cloned from that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Eventually it went on to display at the Burlen City Palace owned by the Prussian Empire now modern day Germany.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In 1716, Frederick Wilhelm gifted the room to Peter the great as a sign of friendship between their two countries.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sure enough, by 1755, the room found its way to Katherine Palace and Lyndon Groud Russia.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Always going well until World War II came and ruined everything, as World War II has a tendency to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In 1941, German forces stormed through Russia making their way to Leningrad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Curators in the palace tried hiding the room by covering it in plain wallpaper, but their plan failed, and the invading soldiers ransacked the palace and in 36 hours the room was stripped bare.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The panels were loaded into crates and transported to Konnensburg Castle where the room was reassembled.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The German government believed that since the room was German-made, it belonged in Germany.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Things didn't get much better for the Amber Room, and 1944 RAF planes bombed Kona's bird and the room was considered destroyed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: While the original may be gone forever, the tale doesn't end there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In 1979, the Soviet government commissioned a replica of the room, including all the paints stakingly in late details.
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[SPEAKER_01]: After 24 years with partial funding from Germany, the project was completed at a cost of $11 million.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The reconstructed Amber Room was then installed in the Katherine Palace.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now there's a room that's worth its weight in gold, or Amber.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I rushed my ITs, for now we'll be sailing into scurvy shores of treachery.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, sorry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Pirate voices murder on the vocal cords.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was all because we're now taking a look at the most denserly pirate of them all, Edward Teach, or as he's better known, the lagbeard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In the late 1710's Blackbeard terrorized the Atlantic on his ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The boat measured 24.6 feet at the beam and a whopping 103 feet in length.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was armed to the teeth with 40 canns a crew of around 124 scalywa eggs and plenty of room for treasure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Truth be told, Blackbeard's fearsome reputation preceded M and most of his victims offered up their booty without a fight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But how in the hack did he obtain the ship?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Did he get it on, sail?
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[SPEAKER_01]: No.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A true blackbird stole the vessel near the island of Martinique in the Caribbean in November of 1717.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Before that, it was known as luck on court, a French slaving ship.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The French captain and crew outnumbered and weakened from a grueling journey across the Atlantic surrendered to the formidable pirate
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[SPEAKER_01]: Blackbeard kept ten members of the French crew and set the rest free including those who'd been enslaved.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe he wasn't all bad, I guess?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yet everything went pear-shaped for the Queen Anne in June 1718 when the ship ran a ground on a shoal off North Carolina.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Blackbeard abandoned the ship making off with all the loot and a few of his favorite crew.
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[SPEAKER_01]: While the captain met his end at the hands of pirate hunters in November that year, the fate of his stolen vessel was a mystery.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Until 1996, when a shipwreck was discovered around the same area.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For over 15 years it was excavated and studied, and in 2011 it was confirmed to be HEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE
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[SPEAKER_01]: With me inside, looks like I have no choice but to make a part 3 of this series.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for listening to the podcast, we'll see you again next time you'll want to be amazed.