5/30/2023 0 Comments Eric borsuk american animalsInspired by a love of heist movies such as Ocean’s 11 and Guy Ritchie’s Snatch, and compelled to action less by the quest for cash than an urge to escape the suburban torpor of their privileged upbringings, the novice criminals - Spencer Reinhard, Warren Lipka, Eric Borsuk, and Chas Allen II - hatched an elaborate scheme to steal four double-sized folios of John James Audubon’s Birds of America, some of the world’s rarest and most valuable books, from the Special Collections Library at Transylvania University.Īmong the tools of their trade: old-man disguises (their reasoning: “When you’re old, you’re invisible”), a stun pen (to immobilize the librarian who served as the books’ only security), and a borrowed minivan belonging to Allen’s mother as the getaway car. Near semester’s end in December 2004, four Kentucky college students - and one dropout - staged perhaps the most stunningly inept art heist in the history of art heists.
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