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Old March 2nd, 2014, 01:37 PM   #3253
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Further to this last post it lost a bit on the end - it should have read
When working as an organist Puccini stole and sold the pipes then changed the harmonies so no one noticed the missing notes.

The punishment for serving bad beer in Babylon was drowning!

Bush Market in Kabul, named after George W Bush, sells food and supplies stolen from US military bases. (Now that's what I call enterprise!)

Americans were so certain crime was caused by alcohol that, on the eve of Prohibition, some towns in Iowa sold their jails.

In Roman law, balnearii were criminals who stole clothes from public baths.
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