Moon rock stolen from Malta museum: H. Lester Gang Implicated - Tofutti Wrappers Found at Scene

"John Steinberg" wrote in message
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Friday, May 21, 2004 Posted: 1:19 PM EDT (1719 GMT)

VALLETTA, Malta (AP) -- A tiny moon rock believed to be worth about $5
million was stolen from a museum in Malta, 30 years after President
Richard Nixon donated it to the Mediterranean island nation.

There are no surveillance cameras and no custodians at the Museum of
Natural History because of insufficient funding. The only attendant is
the ticket-seller.

In an unrelated story, a seller on eBay, going by the name of
maltaticketseller, listed a moon rock for sale on Friday, May 21, 2004
2245 GMT.

Malta police are stymied by the theft and have no leads or suspects at
this time. Malta police superintendent and part-time Malta Museum of
Natural History ticket-seller, Vincenza Attardi, was quoted as saying,
"The rat ******* will probably never be caught!"


Anyone that leaves a 5 million dollar moon rock unattended deserves to get
dinged!

John Steinberg:
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) -- A tiny moon rock believed to be worth about $5
million was stolen from a museum in Malta, 30 years after President
Richard Nixon donated it to the Mediterranean island nation.

There are no surveillance cameras and no custodians at the Museum of
Natural History because of insufficient funding. The only attendant is
the ticket-seller...

Thomas:
Anyone that leaves a 5 million dollar moon rock unattended deserves to get
dinged!

This is a very popular form of immoral thinking. We're now in our
second generation of people who were raised to think that it's OK to
steal things that are easy to steal, whether it's moon rocks, software,
or music. This reprehnsible notion seems to have trickled down from the
wealthy classes, who have always maintained that it's OK to steal from
the poor because it's easy to do so. I'm not buying it, and Thomas and
his ilk need not forward their resumés to my company.

Davoud

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"Davoud" wrote in message
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John Steinberg:
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) -- A tiny moon rock believed to be worth about $5
million was stolen from a museum in Malta, 30 years after President
Richard Nixon donated it to the Mediterranean island nation.

There are no surveillance cameras and no custodians at the Museum of
Natural History because of insufficient funding. The only attendant is
the ticket-seller...

Thomas:
Anyone that leaves a 5 million dollar moon rock unattended deserves to
get
dinged!

This is a very popular form of immoral thinking. We're now in our
second generation of people who were raised to think that it's OK to
steal things that are easy to steal, whether it's moon rocks, software,
or music. This reprehnsible notion seems to have trickled down from the
wealthy classes, who have always maintained that it's OK to steal from
the poor because it's easy to do so. I'm not buying it, and Thomas and
his ilk need not forward their resumés to my company.

Davoud

LOL. Good one!

On Sat, 22 May 2004 13:12:10 -0400, Davoud wrote:

Thomas:
Anyone that leaves a 5 million dollar moon rock unattended deserves to get
dinged!

This is a very popular form of immoral thinking. We're now in our
second generation of people who were raised to think that it's OK to
steal things that are easy to steal, whether it's moon rocks, software,
or music...

I don't disagree with you, Davoud, but I do recognize a distinction between "it
is OK to steal things that are easy to steal" and "anyone that leaves a 5
million dollar moon rock unattended deserves to get dinged". The first _is_
immoral thinking; the last is probably just a different way of saying that the
victims were pretty stupid, a sentiment it is hard to argue with.

_________________________________________________

Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

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"John Steinberg" wrote in message
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/05/21/malta.moon.rock.ap/index.html

Friday, May 21, 2004 Posted: 1:19 PM EDT (1719 GMT)

VALLETTA, Malta (AP) -- A tiny moon rock believed to be worth about $5
million was stolen from a museum in Malta, 30 years after President
Richard Nixon donated it to the Mediterranean island nation.

There are no surveillance cameras and no custodians at the Museum of
Natural History because of insufficient funding. The only attendant is
the ticket-seller.

In an unrelated story, a seller on eBay, going by the name of
maltaticketseller, listed a moon rock for sale on Friday, May 21, 2004
2245 GMT.

Malta police are stymied by the theft and have no leads or suspects at
this time. Malta police superintendent and part-time Malta Museum of
Natural History ticket-seller, Vincenza Attardi, was quoted as saying,
"The rat ******* will probably never be caught!"


Anyone that leaves a 5 million dollar moon rock unattended deserves to get
dinged!



The Grey's wanted their egg back

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"John Steinberg" wrote in message
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/05/21/malta.moon.rock.ap/index.html

Friday, May 21, 2004 Posted: 1:19 PM EDT (1719 GMT)

VALLETTA, Malta (AP) -- A tiny moon rock believed to be worth about $5
million was stolen from a museum in Malta, 30 years after President
Richard Nixon donated it to the Mediterranean island nation.

There are no surveillance cameras and no custodians at the Museum of
Natural History because of insufficient funding. The only attendant is
the ticket-seller.

In an unrelated story, a seller on eBay, going by the name of
maltaticketseller, listed a moon rock for sale on Friday, May 21, 2004
2245 GMT.

Malta police are stymied by the theft and have no leads or suspects at
this time. Malta police superintendent and part-time Malta Museum of
Natural History ticket-seller, Vincenza Attardi, was quoted as saying,
"The rat ******* will probably never be caught!"


Anyone that leaves a 5 million dollar moon rock unattended deserves to get
dinged!



5 million dollars for a rock.

That's all it will take for me to get NASA to get me one?

This is a very popular form of immoral thinking. We're now in our
second generation of people who were raised to think that it's OK to
steal things that are easy to steal, whether it's moon rocks, software,
or music. This reprehnsible notion seems to have trickled down from the
wealthy classes, who have always maintained that it's OK to steal from
the poor because it's easy to do so. I'm not buying it, and Thomas and
his ilk need not forward their resumés to my company.

Davoud

Do you leave your car doors unlocked with the keys in the ignition? Do you
leave your home with the doors
and windows unlocked? Do you leave your wallet on the front porch?

If you do, you must live in Malta!

Thomas:
Anyone that leaves a 5 million dollar moon rock unattended deserves to get
dinged!

Davoud:
This is a very popular form of immoral thinking. We're now in our
second generation of people who were raised to think that it's OK to
steal things that are easy to steal, whether it's moon rocks, software,
or music...

Chris L Peterson:
I don't disagree with you, Davoud, but I do recognize a distinction between
"it
is OK to steal things that are easy to steal" and "anyone that leaves a 5
million dollar moon rock unattended deserves to get dinged". The first _is_
immoral thinking; the last is probably just a different way of saying that the
victims were pretty stupid, a sentiment it is hard to argue with.

This view represents a just a different shade of the same color. The
fact is, the people who left the moon rock unattended were too poor to
do otherwise. Surely you're not a member of that part of the
self-styled crème de la crème that equates poverty and stupidity!?

Davoud

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Thomas:
Do you leave your car doors unlocked with the keys in the ignition? Do you
leave your home with the doors
and windows unlocked? Do you leave your wallet on the front porch?

Not an analogy, because the Malta museum was too poor to hire a guard.
But If I did these things, would that make it morally acceptable for
someone to come along and steal these things? Is it your moral position
that I would "deserve" to have them stolen in such a case? I was
certainly raised in a little town where it would have been considered
rude to go away and lock your house, because what if you weren't at
home and your neighbour needed to borrow some eggs or flour or
something? But our and our neighbours' moral viewpoint differed
somewhat from yours, and, yes, it was a different era. Theft was wrong,
then.

If you do, you must live in Malta!

This ethnic slur means that "The people of Malta are stupid." I'd bet
my open unlocked doors and wallet that you haven't been in Malta quite
as many times as I have, so best you stick to slurring groups that you
know better.

Davoud

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usenet *at* davidillig dawt com

On Sat, 22 May 2004 16:46:23 -0400, Davoud wrote:

This view represents a just a different shade of the same color. The
fact is, the people who left the moon rock unattended were too poor to
do otherwise. Surely you're not a member of that part of the
self-styled crème de la crème that equates poverty and stupidity!?

Not at all. My observation is that stupidity is widespread and makes no
distinction between economic classes (although ignorance and poverty are perhaps
correlated).

_________________________________________________

Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com