h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

At once sublimely daft and very entertaining. Great entry.

If anyone is interested, there is a prime candidate for Beer Theft in my local area of Manchester. Just down the road from Piccadily Gardens in the direction of the tram lines towards Piccadily Metro Station, the word 'Ministry' from the Ministry of Employment is sitting on a ledge, just waiting to be 'claimed' as someone's trophy .
There are wooden poles a handy distance from the door above which the sign is placed, but a balance must be struck. Thieves must be inebriated enough to have the courage (a.k.a. stupidity) to make an attempt for the prize but not so wasted so that they cannot wield the poles needed to remove the 'prize' from it's ledge well above arm's reach.
I await the removal of this object. The clock is ticking....

Just a reminder to our viewers that h2g2 in no way condones theft, I didn't want to sub this Entry (Sam made me), and 'Watch with Mother' is about to begin in a distant part of the galaxy.

JTG

Fair enough. We'll all just bear that in mind...

Only kidding about Sam making me do things [ouch, stop it!]. This was a fun entry to work on.

JTG

Dead serious about 'Watch with Mother', though.

JTG

Just finished watching 'Watch with Mother', weren't the flowerpot men good? On the related subject, I once woke up with a temporary bus stop in my bedroom, (bloody buses never stopped there!!) does that count as mascotry or beer theft? I do know how we got it there (with great difficulty) but I have never been entirely sure why.

Our fraternity house has a phone booth in our upstairs hallway.
Our mascotry is carried out by the "Act of God Commitee"

As such, things are given to us by Decree of God, and thus by God Himself, and, as God technically own everything, it cannot be "theft" per se, but rather the Incatnation of the Divine Will.

I also know of a particular instance where a 50-foot inflatable gorilla was stolen from the roof of a pet store, who was waving its grand opening at the time. Featured on CNN, no less.

I once heard of a particularly audacious case. Someone, supposedly, stole the 'New' from the entrance to New Scotland Yard police headquarters! The story is probably appocriphal (that correctly spelt?) but entertaining nonetheless. It sounds like beer theft but would easily pass for mascotry in any court of adjudication in such matters.

Hello Bob, the word is apocryphal, meaning from a doubtful authority, or spurious and fabulous. Origininated somewhere in Greece. I'm sorry, been studying the English language, cannot help correcting people

Just noticed, I can't spell originated. Apologies, seem to have got into a Homer Simpson loop where I can start to spell a word but not stop.

This is known on other threads as 'the law of pedantic reverberation', wherein anyone who corrects a previous poster will find at least one error in his/her own contribution.

The 'Naid Brigade' (primarily a free speech group) at my high school dissasembled the assistant principal's VW Bug and reassembled it on top of the gymnasium roof. This is not apocryphal, and is memorialized in the yearbook.

I know of a group of people (and I have to say that I was not one of them, surprisingly) that were arrested in Hameln, Germany for trying to steal a statue of the pied piper so that they could put it in their bar at home. Fortunately, once the German police realised that this group was a/ incredibly drunk and b/ not from Germany they were let out. I heard the story the next day.

Someone near where I live, along with some friends, no doubt, stole a barrier like the ones which lift to allow you into car parks. I can't see them having taken it anywhere, as it was 3 m long!