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The instigator of that affair, Austrian industrialist Friedrich Karl Flick, died in 2006. A year ago, his coffin was dug up by grave robbers and disappeared.

ncidentally, last week, the coffin turned up in Budapest and the perpetrators were arrested: an international group hired by a Budapest lawyer who asked for a ransom for the remains. (Part of the €6 million ransom was paid, but the family told police and hired two groups of private detectives, one of which was faster than police.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Sun Dec 6th, 2009 at 04:35:22 PM EST
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Who says innovation has slowed? Holding a corpse for ransom? No worries about escape, no worries about the hostage dying, just keep it cool--not a problem in the winter.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sat Dec 12th, 2009 at 12:50:34 PM EST
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