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the only crime where the victim and the thief both insist they earned it.
means The act of taking someone else's property without permission and with no intention of giving it back.
from From Old English þíefth (also þeofth), built on þeof, "thief" — the same Germanic root that gives us "thief" and "thievery," and a cousin of the Dutch "dief" and German "Dieb." The word has carried its meaning, intact and unstolen, for over a thousand years.
- oldest law
- Code of Hammurabi prescribed death for stealing
- art heist
- Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911 by a handyman
- wage theft
- Steals more annually than all robberies combined
- piracy myth
- Pirates voted on captains and split loot democratically
- identity theft
- Reported every 22 seconds in America
for instance
great train robbery — 1963 british heist where £2.3 million in banknotes were stolen from a royal mail train
mona lisa theft — 1911 paris louvre theft by vincenzo peruggia, recovered 2 years later