10 BIGGEST Things Ever Stolen

10 BIGGEST Things Ever Stolen

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10 Biggest Things Ever Stolen
Have you stolen anything in your life? Well, some of you might have taken 5 bucks from your mom’s
purse without her knowing at least once in your life, but that act of lawlessness pales in comparison for
what I have in store for you today. Today, we’ll be talking about 10 of the biggest things ever stolen.
Number 1 is probably the biggest heist of them all so make sure to stay tuned to find out.

Number 10. A Buddhist Temple Bell
Buddhists all over the world aim for one thing; enlightenment. Some Buddhists even go to such
extremes as living a very frugal life forsaking any and all material possessions. For Buddhists at a temple
in Tacoma, Washington, in 2015, enlightenment came– as usual – by letting go of material objects. Only,
this particular type of enlightenment was much more literal than usual, as it involved the loss of a three-
thousand-pound, twelve-foot-tall copper monastery bell.
Police were baffled as to how thieves managed the theft due to the bell’s enormous weight and size.
The temple abbot speculated that “the people who stole it wanted to make money” with no
consideration for “the significance of it and how important it is in the practice of Buddhism”. Indeed,
monks commonly use bells to signify the beginning of meditation, making them highly sacred to
Buddhist monks.
Some people speculate that the thieves melted the bell down and sold its weight in copper, but I highly
doubt that. Most people think that the bell ended up fetching a lot of money in the black market.

Number 9. An Entire Church
Keeping it in the religious theme, Christianity is a religion that has existed for more than a thousand
years. Now, with that kind of history, you’re going to be sure that it has amassed a great amount of
treasure, both with monetary and historical value. In fact, most religious artifact heists often involve one
or more Christian relic or treasure, however, these are fairly small items and can easily be hidden. But,
in 2008, someone, or more likely, a bunch of someones were able to pull off a heist so epic that they
made an entire building disappear.
The building in question was an old, unused church in a village called Komarovo. It has stood there since
18069, until thieves hauled it off brick by brick. Initially, the theft went unnoticed, as they weren’t using
the Church at the time. Moreover, it was located in a remote area of the town. Church officials had been
considering resuming use of the building, but that plan was dismantled before their very eyes. Of
course, they could still gather in the open-air foundations of the building every Sunday morning. In rural
Russia, churches are targeted more often than you’d think, as religious icons and building materials can
be sold off for a profit. I like to think it all comes down to foul play between rival churches, but you’ll
have to ask the Pope.

Number 8. An 800-Year-Old Tree

If there’s one thing that seems impossible to steal, it’s probably a tree, because, well, roots, and the fact
that they are so massive and so heavy that hauling one off isn’t really an easy task. But if there’s
something that this next entry on our list should tell us, is that nothing is impossible to steal for a
determined thief.
The tree that was stolen in this entry was an 800 year old red cedar tree which was happily spending its
days in the Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park in Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Although the
height of the tree wasn’t reported, its diameter was measured at 9 feet in diameter.
Funny thing though, park rangers already knew a year before the tree went missing that someone was
trying to steal it. They had come across the tree cut 80 percent of the way through with a chainsaw. Not
wanting to leave this safety hazard upright, they hired professionals to finish the job, but they just left
the trunk there, lyiong on the forest floor until, eventually, it was picked up, presumably by the same
people who initially cut it in the first place, an entire year later.

Number 7. An Entire Bridge
Yep, you heard me right; an entire bridge was successfully stolen in Russia. This happened fairly recently
as well, as the news only broke at around mid-May of 2019. Located in a desolate area near the border
of Finland in the Arctic region, the bridge was a crucial crossing for the Umba River and was formerly an
active railway crossing. Russian authorities launched a criminal investigation into the disappearance of
the nearly 62-ton, 75-foot-long span. Rumor has it that the bridge was dismantled by metal thieves for
scrap, which is an apparent issue throughout the region.