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[adaeze]

When Wellinghall remarked earlier, while listening to the radio news, that "the Corsican Mafia are involved now", naturally I assumed he was talking about this story:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25717643

But he wasn't, the news had moved on to a completely different report.

On reflection, though, how likely was it that the Corsican Mafia would risk getting involved in any such caper? I mean it's clearly the kind of story that involves at least a maverick scientist whose warnings were ignored, a fearless explorer recently returned from the Antarctic, and probably a plucky young journalist. If tomorrow's news involves Eldritch Horrors we'll know they're on the case.

ETA:

See, what did I tell you? The flower was probably the last ingredient needed to bring the pharaoh back to life.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/08/king-sobekhotep-i-identified-tomb-egpyt_n_4557150.html

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

They took the lily, but inexplicably they left the pound coin...

[adaese.livejournal.com]

They probably deal in guineas, not pounds.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

I'm cheering for the plucky young journalist.
Though there's a strong possibility, too, that the case will involve someone from the St Mary Mead Garden Club, whose furtive, guilty exhilaration will be noted for future reference by a local, keenly observant neighbour.

(Seriously, though, it stinks that the lily's been stolen, and I hope justice is literally restorative.)

[adaese.livejournal.com]

Well quite. I just can't get my head round why, in RL, anyone would want to steal a plant that rare. Even if they thought they could keep it alive, who do you show it off too?

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

I guess it could be analogous to people who steal recognisable works of art, where I suppose the thrill lies in in the sense of possessing what no-one else can now have.
Or is that too gloomy a view? I have a vague memory of a short story about the theft of a Chinese bowl, carried out because the collector/thief wanted to spend a lifetime in contemplating its beauty. People can do that - convince themselves that something 'really' belongs to them, because in their minds they would treasure it so much more than the owner.