12 Crazy Things That Have Been Stolen Around the World (13 Photos)

In this post you will see large and very heavy items that would seem impossible to steal, but they were still stolen by quirky criminal minds.





The largest egg hat in the world



The hat had 1,000 eggs on it and was stolen in Germany from dancer Greg da Silva, who was hospitalized due to heatstroke. It was at this moment that the thieves took advantage of the opportunity.

World War II combat aircraft





In 1992, retired Israeli Air Force Major Ishmael Yitzhaki told museum officials that their World War II Mustang fighter plane needed a new paint job. After he received permission to "repaint" the plane, Yitzhaki took it out of the museum, refueled it and flew to Sweden, where he sold the plane for $300,000.

Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple



It was stolen in 2012 and subsequently taken to South Korea. Japan demanded the return of the statue, but a court ruled that it would remain in Korea, claiming that it had been taken from there centuries ago by Japanese pirates.

300 sewer manholes in Los Angeles



This happened in 1990. The lids weighed up to 150 kg each and were sold for scrap. The robbers were later caught and turned out to be Mexican illegals who couldn't find work and were desperate.

Beach



In Jamaica, 500 white sand trucks were stolen from Coral Spring Beach in 2008, police have no idea who is responsible and no one saw anything.

800 year old tree



A giant 800-year-old red cedar has been stolen from a national park on southern Vancouver Island, but the culprits who returned to the site repeatedly to cut it down have not been brought to justice. The wood cost thousands of dollars.

Mobile pharmacy with hundreds of wild plants



The mobile lab and greenhouse owner said her trailer was worth about $50,000, but luckily police recovered it weeks later.

75 cows and 25 sheep from the farm



It was the biggest theft of farm animals in Irish history, and surprisingly, no one saw anything.

The iron facade of the Bogardus Building in 1974



The building was designed by James Bogardus and built at 97 Murray Street in 1848. The structure was considered one of the best examples of cast iron structures in the world. The ancient facade weighed about 4 tons and was dismantled for safety, which is when the thieves tried to commit a robbery. They were caught at the last moment when they were loading the last fragment.

Dinosaur



In the Australian city of Newcastle, the remains of a rare dwarf dinosaur were stolen. The stolen specimen, Psittacosaurus sinensis, had the beak of a parrot, is 110 million years old, the size of an average dog (60 cm in height and about 90 cm in length), and is most similar in structure to a turkey. . There are only six specimens of this species in the world.

Dorothy's shoes



In 2005, a pair of Judy Garland's famous red sequined pumps from The Wizard of Oz was stolen. Criminals stole them from a museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The police did not have any fingerprints or CCTV footage. An unknown person entered through the back door and broke the plexiglass display case in which the shoes were stored. The shoes were valued at $3 million.

Bridge in Murmansk region



A 56-ton bridge across the Umba River, near Kirovsk, was dismantled and stolen overnight. Its length was 23 meters, the thieves sold the loot for scrap metal.