When Jay-Z was 12, he shot his older brother in the shoulder for stealing his jewellery. He later referenced it in a song titled “You Must Love Me.”
100 Mind-Blowing Stealing Facts
3 Students once installed keystroke loggers onto their teacher’s computers to hack and sell grades to students. According to reports, the student was later sent to prison for stealing test answers and selling them to other students on campus. The spyware that the student installed was found during a routine check-up of campus computers.
A Coca-Cola employee offered to sell Coca-Cola’s secrets to Pepsi. Snitches get stitches, yet it seems this Coca-Cola employee forgot when they tried to betray Coca-Cola. In 2006, a secretary at Coca-Cola HQ was arrested for stealing a sample of an unreleased product and attempting to sell it for $1.5m to Pepsi. However, the two soda companies instead got the FBI involved. In the end, the thief was arrested.
The word “ferret” is from the Latin “fur,” meaning “little thief.” Indeed, one of the ferret’s favourite activities is stealing and hiding things.