A Little Macabre, Yes Maybe, But As Serious A Crime As This?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/24/uk-schoolboy-arrested-auschwitz-mortified-say-parents

/// Visitors have tried to steal artefacts as souvenirs from the museum in the past. In 2010, a Swedish man was jailed for orchestrating the theft of the notorious “Arbeit macht frei” sign over the entry gate. ///

Not quite on the same scale, one would think.

[anotheoldgit]

/// It was only meant to be light-hearted ! ///

Some self opinionated pedantics don't do ''light-hearted' YMB.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - //Question Author


/// It was only meant to be light-hearted ! ///

Some self opinionated pedantics don't do ''light-hearted' YMB.//

That's true AOG, but we don't hold it against you, don't worry.

And it's 'pedant' by the way - to be pedantic!!

[THECORBYLOON]

Surely it's obvious the Swede's crime was more serious than that of the two lads since he was gaoled and they were only fined and given a year's probation suspended for three years.

[granny grump]

Apparently one of the boys dis work experience at University of Cambridge museums. He wrote 'It gave me the chance to think like a curator and appreciate the objects far more than I would do as a visitor, understanding their history, their meaning and what we can learn from them'.

This lesson obviously didn't last long

[granny grump]

not dis but did