The Silver Thief
The Story of a Burglar Who Was Too Good for His Own Good
http://www.stephenjdubner.com/journalism/silverthief.html
An article, by one of the authors of FREAKANOMICS, from the New Yorker magazine profiling a silver thief. Kinda in the vein of "Catch me if you can".
fly - I know the piece is a little long but read it, it's worth it.
"Mason learned to recognize the signs of Nordahl's presence. If someone climbed a telephone pole and snipped the alarm wires, that was Nordahl. (Later, when he got better at evading alarms, he abandoned this method.) If a burglar had somehow stolen the silver without disturbing the pair of Rottweilers inside, that was Nordahl. (It is the whiff of a person's sweat, triggered by adrenaline, that agitates a dog, but Nordahl-whose mother had bred Alaskan malamutes-was oddly affectless.) From soil samples taken outside victims' homes, Mason learned that Nordahl sometimes used a chemical solution to determine whether the stolen silver was sterling or plate."
The Story of a Burglar Who Was Too Good for His Own Good
http://www.stephenjdubner.com/journalism/silverthief.html
An article, by one of the authors of FREAKANOMICS, from the New Yorker magazine profiling a silver thief. Kinda in the vein of "Catch me if you can".
fly - I know the piece is a little long but read it, it's worth it.
"Mason learned to recognize the signs of Nordahl's presence. If someone climbed a telephone pole and snipped the alarm wires, that was Nordahl. (Later, when he got better at evading alarms, he abandoned this method.) If a burglar had somehow stolen the silver without disturbing the pair of Rottweilers inside, that was Nordahl. (It is the whiff of a person's sweat, triggered by adrenaline, that agitates a dog, but Nordahl-whose mother had bred Alaskan malamutes-was oddly affectless.) From soil samples taken outside victims' homes, Mason learned that Nordahl sometimes used a chemical solution to determine whether the stolen silver was sterling or plate."
