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British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artefacts

3 years ago by dantheclamman to c/nottheonion

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The museum gives more details of 2,000 artefacts from its collection that are missing or stolen.
givesomefucks 44 points 3 years ago

The museum has now said most are Greek and Roman gems and jewellery, and shared pictures of similar items.

Sooooo....

Help, someone stole a tiny fraction of the shit we stole!

What's the statue of limitations before the most recent thieves are the legal owners?

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Caligvla 25 points 3 years ago

Plot twist: the greeks and italians stole the artifacts back.

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givesomefucks 6 points 3 years ago

There was an episode of Archer about this same thing...

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Peaty 19 points 3 years ago

Isn't that just the stuff in the museum?

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ivanafterall 17 points 3 years ago

"We found them in your display cases." -The public and experts

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csolisr 15 points 3 years ago

In my native Latin America we have this saying, "ladrón que roba a ladrón tiene cien años de perdón" ("a thief that steals from a thief has a hundred years of forgiveness") and... yeah guess it may apply here

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DragonTypeWyvern 3 points 3 years ago

Ok but they're artifacts from the Greek and Roman empires, which means they might be stolen stolen stolen goods...

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vis4valentine 2 points 3 years ago

Me encanta lol

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Dra -4 points 3 years ago

Ever heard of "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind?"

Latin America as a whole has absolutely zero advice to offer the rest of the world regarding domestic moral principles, I'm afraid.

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Trigger2_2000 14 points 3 years ago

So . . . we need to alert the rest of the world how to get their stuff back from the British Museum. Got it.

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shermozle 14 points 3 years ago

These failed state countries can't be trusted to look after priceless artifacts. I propose they be moved to responsible countries like Nigeria and Greece for safekeeping.

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sik0fewl 12 points 3 years ago

Did you check in the back?

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lntl 8 points 3 years ago

lol mad humor here

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bradorsomething 5 points 3 years ago

Have they considered marching an army into weaker countries and just taking new artifacts?

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winterayars 3 points 3 years ago

It's the British Museum so you know they have.

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