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I like this story, http://nytimes.com/2005/05/17/nyregion/17painting.html, about a guy who stole a $1.5 million dollar Basquiat painting from the cargo area at JFK. Problems being that the heist was recorded on video and that he had been required to give a copy of his driver's license to enter the area.

Mr. Porcelli had worked for Cace for seven or eight years, said the
company's president, George Cunningham. He added that Mr. Porcelli had
visited the airport on multiple occasions - presumably enough times to know
about its security procedures.
"To me he's a complete idiot," Mr. Cunningham said yesterday. "Why would you give someone your driver's license with all your information and then go and do something like this?"

Other news... I found some delicious irony in Donald Rumsfeld chastising Newsweek on the news last night. "People are dead," because of Newsweek's maybe-right-maybe-wrong report of desecration of the Koran in Guantanamo. If the report was untrue, shame on Newsweek for sure. But shouldn't the shame come from someone else who isn't responsible for an even greater and intentional loss of life? I mean, I am more qualified than Rummy to dole out shame for causing death in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Don't you think?

In related news, today's cover of the New York Post, referencing the same story reads "HOLY SHIITE!" Awesome.

Meanwhile, the future doesn't look bright as 253 more girl ages 7-15 were arrested in NYC in 2004 than in 2002. And apparently getting kicked out of preschool has become a real problem (http://nytimes.com/2005/05/17/education/17expel.html)