Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 12, 2014
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Where'd it go?!! Thieves stole 6 miles of working railway track between Johannesburg and Nigel, South Africa, in July 2014. This guy is good!! In 1510, all rats in the French town of Autun were put on trial for damaging crops, but their lawyer, a future politician, argued that it was unreasonable to expect rats to appear at court because of the danger presented by local cats. In 1901, news tycoon James Gordon Bennett built Lysistrata, a 300 FT long steam yacht featuring Turkish baths and a padded stall for dairy cows to supply fresh milk and cream at sea!
Bronze markers are stolen out of cemeteries here in south west Pa. The problem is the scrap dealers who pay for this stuff knowing that it is questionable.