Posted on 10/27/2018 5:38:26 AM PDT by C19fan
An American tourist who tackled a knife-wielding thief trying to steal a £20million Magna Carta from Salisbury Cathedral has spoken about his heroics. Matt Delacambre managed to hold onto the hooded man until security were able to arrive and apprehend the suspect. The 56-year-old said: 'I couldn't let him get away with it. The Magna Carta is one of the most important documents in the world.'
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Gotta wonder what he was planning to do with it. It’s not like he could put it on eBay ...
Ransom?
I am pretty sure there was a buyer. Apparently there are extremely wealthy people in the world who collect priceless objects like this. Notice they didn’t give any description of the man or his name or nationality.
Wondered about that. The lack of any description makes it a bit suspicious ... at least enough to assume it wasn’t a pasty-faced soccer hooligan who did the crime
The American citizenship was probably all that kept the Louisianan from getting arrested for a hate crime in England.
What, there were no Brits around to bag the perp? Or no Brits willing to do it?
Perp’s ID still not made public yet.
I’m betting some loony lefty or Islamist.
The thief should have been wary of the corndog smell that pervaded the area. :^)
Agreed. Four copies, this one is the highest quality. Somebody did their research and put in a buy order.
What a stupid plan.
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