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@@DrusinianX thats basically like saying:" in combination with a suitable heatsource the tank in your car is a deadly bomb" Pack those boxes right for transport (which they probably allready were) and you should be fine.
The bees aren't that impressive. they stay in boxes overnight, and are pretty docile. just close them up and put them in a truck, you're not catching every single one. So in my opinion it's more impressive to steal a vineyard.
Beekeeper here. I live in Germany and bee hives being stolen is an actual problem. I've heard from severel other beekeepers how like 5 hives have been stolen in a single night and they didnt notice a thing. The main Problem is that they are as you said really easy to steal, duckt tape over the entrance, secure the segments with two ropes and you're ready to go. They are even light enough to be carryed by one or two persons (depends on size, season and strengh) but also give a fair amount of money. A mature hive can be selled for about 80-250€ and beekeepers are often looking for good mature hives. So, to prevent them being stolen we just put a "lock" on it, which doesn't really lock it up but makes a 100 db noise when opened so we'll defenately notice it (their standing in my own garden). Nothing has been stolen so far, fingers crossed!
Imagine living in a house with a vineyard and you decide to go on a vacation. During that vacation, you went to a famous church and found its roof stolen. Then on the way back home, you tuned in to the radio to hear someone stole millions of bees. Then as your listening you noticed that the road to your home is gone. And so was your vineyard. And your house.
Ok just a little story to add on that little joke at 2:27 so around 1696 the people in my town were arguing where to build the church. So the settled on Kirkvolden but there some mother f'ers didnt agree to this, so they stole the church parts and moved the whole thing in one night to Aune which is 8Km, with nothing but horses.
I'm a teacher and have been in Egypt for about a decade now but during the Revolution (2011/12), one of my students stole a road and they used it to pave their whole neighborhood. Honestly, I've never been more proud.
Stealing bees isn't that crazy, my family does beekeeping, and when we buy a new hive of bees they are in a special cardboard box, they don't escape from it very easily. And honey bees aren't very aggressive, especially if they aren't in a hive of their own Thanks for the video!
Things that were commonly stolen in Romania about 10 years ago: -train tracks, thousands of kilometers -bricks from abandoned buildings 'till there was no more building -pipes and wires from the walls of abandoned buildings where you couldn't steal the brick -cobblestone from roads, again -roofs all at once, even if they were rusty -fences -a 100kg forged steel outdoor table from my neighbour -about 50% or more of the country's wealth That's what communism and a shitty power transfer does, kids! Now we are fine though ;)
If anyone wonders about train tracks , they take allready damaged tracks that aren't in use and the finish the job with anything they got on hand.Some make due with just an axe. True story.
My favourite is the theft of a beach in Jamacia - 500 tones of sand were stolen overnight from a beach, and never recovered (been a while since I heard this and might be internet bullshit but still a good story)
@@mememe4050 Just 500 tons makes a beach? Bet it made a nice concrete patio at the resort next door. 😂 edit: bonus points if they used it to make a private beach for their patrons.
@@ShitBoi And when they got their wrist comprehensively slapped they stopped trying to steal it by force and resorted to trying to steal it by stealth. Starting with the Treaty Of Rome in 1957. They have been at it ever since.
As a security guard I was occasionally called in to make sure lead wasn't stolen from golf clubhouse roofs whenever certain travelling communities set up camp next door
Surprised the "Dollhouses" of St. Louis wasn't discussed when you talked about house stealing. In St. Louis a ton of the older houses are made of a very specific special brick. IIRC this kind of brick isn't made anymore so the secondary market for them is really high. This means that thieves will remove the brickwork from these houses, taking everything they can without being seen from the street. Often this means that that the whole rear sections of houses will be taken brick by brick leaving them looking like a giant dollhouse.
I love y’all content so much I have to go back and rewatch episodes to get my fill and I ain’t even mad it’s rare a vid on RUclips has this much rewatch value.
I live in England and surprisingly church roofs get stolen all the time for the lead just a couple of months ago 2 of my local church roofs got hit. I never even realised just how strange it is. edit: 3 of my local churches rooves were stolen within 2 weeks, it really is common
i think the best thing about this channel is how the two get along and there's never actual hatred between the two. it's just two dudes, hanging out, doing random stuff and always having a blast.
We had guests recently who told us about the restoration of the copper church roof in their town. They had to hire 24 hour security during the build to stop people stealing the copper.
The lead was stolen from the roof of my school when I was growing up. After a storm, the main building was several inches deep in water and we had all of our lessons in a newer building nearby. All of the floorboards were warped as well so people kept tripping up.
but yall dont know about kyrgyzstan i saw a man build a church and the next day his church was blown up in a us military air strike by accident, poor man had to start all of over again.
Former beekeeper here. Bees are surprisingly expensive. A little half-sized hive (called a nuc) can cost over $200. A 2 pound package of bees can cost a good $100-$150. Queen bees can cost $20-$30 each. (or up to $100 each for special breeder queens.) But a trailer load of hives, especially in California, is worth tens of thousands of dollars. Especially when you consider the cost of the bees, wooden hive boxes and frames, beeswax, and any honey. All of those are very valuable.
Person: Ummmm... yes, someone stole my house Police: Uhhh did someone steal from your house or is someone inside your house? Person: uhhh no, they stole the entire house. It's gone. All of it. Police: ....... Person: They also stole the road that leads to the house
As a bee farmer I can tell you it's not actually that hard to take that many bees, if it's a larger bee operation it's even easier. You can literally just go to the yard where the bees are and load the boxes onto a truck and you can fit 500 or more boxes on a flat bed truck in a shipping container
6:50 "you don't post guards on your vineyard" I live in wine country (Sonoma County) and worked as a security guard for a while. Yes, yes you do post guards.
The problem with stealing a harvest is, where to sell it? It's not like the farmer who was robbed isn't going to call who ever he would normally sell his crop to and inform them that an entire harvest went missing and to be on the look out for new people trying to peddle there product.
As a UK dweller, I can confirm, roads get stolen all the time. Sometimes even as you're driving on them, one moment they're there, the next they're gone. The gods have betrayed us.
Just to add another one to the legacy of us thieving Brits. Recently, someone stole a solid gold toilet from Blenheim Palace!! How do you even carry a solid gold toilet without someone questioning what you are doing with it?
Dress up as a Polish plumber. House Staff: "I say, good sir, what are you doing with that commode!?" "Plumber": "Zit tolit is no makings ze flush.. I fix, I fix good! I come back.. nex' Mondey!" House Staff, Next Monday: "...now, where is that plumber..?"
Cobblestones are called Setts. They are shaped so that they line up neatly together without the need to grout or fill between the stones, just compacted down into a substrate on the roads. Because they are manufactured and shaped to fit neatly together, if you steal them you have to take the whole section of them and mark them so you know which ones to place next to the other. They're also shaped for the specific road, it's junctions etc. We have a huge number of cobbles and setts here in Edinburgh, along lots of Yorkstone flagstones, which are also worth a bloody fortune. Lots of gardeners will have stolen flagstones in their gardens after buying them from unscrupulous Architectural Salvage yards. My parents lost more than dozen slabs from their garden and yard, worth £80/$100 a sq yard.
My dad worked as a process server for awhile. Because of all the logistics of needing people to answer the door and positively identify themselves, it can sometimes be a challenge to get papers served. If a person is wise to you then they simply just don't have to answer the door and they will never get served. My dad had a simple solution, he would wear a hardhat and a hi-vis vest and carry a steel clipboard. People would answer every time, even people that had evaded other servers multiple times. Make somebody think you are from the water or gas company and they will talk to you and self identify.
Hugh St.Leger it is for the us because it’s just shingles and something like a 3k square foot roof would only cost you about 2k so like 700 dollars for a normal house
Lena Shanon Most roofs in the US are shingles, and some are metal and slate. But over in Europe and some parts of asia, most roofs are ceramic tile, or just tile.
As a beekeeper It would be super easy to steal bees because they are on palates and with the right beekeeping forklift you can load a whole semi in 220 minuets
Damn, thought i'd have an early night (midnight here) but no chance of that having a notifcation that the modern rogue have put out a new video.. :D Your next video needs to be about how to look like your working after no sleep :P
All I can think about is the time my parent's/ neighbors Logging area was stolen from. This was some time ago but it was fall time, and note this is a pretty wooded area neighbors where not close just really out in the country. So yearly the DOT / electric company would prep for winter and cut branches that were too close to the power lines and over hanging the road so if a serious snow storm happened it wouldnt be as difficult for getting the roads clear and power restored. What happened is one of the neighbors was getting some logs from their portion of the logging area cause we all shared it to store wood collected from the logging trails which met up at a 3 way property line and was close to the road. The neighbor discovered the chains blocking off the area from the main road were snapped or cut and around 20k worth of logs have been stolen from all our logging area. What we suspect is since the DOT use trucks and logging equipment to clear the branches and stuff so noise was loud from the road. So some thieves with a logging truck went in stole logs and drove off with them, and of course no one would suspect any thing suspicious or hear anything out of the ordinary due to knowing the DOT was doing their normal winter prep. Its impressive how smart thieves can be!
Bedfordshire is a county not a town, as are most places that end in shire in the UK. And the pronunciation depends on who you are and where your from, could be shire as in spire, but can equally be shir as in fir. Neither is wrong. When I really want to confuse Americans I ask them if they can pronounce the town of Loughborough....
@@jayzo Ahhhh that's difficult. There's some inconsistency. Never heard of Bicester, but I would pronounce it as Bi-chester, and Worcester is pronounced "Wuss-duh". Worcestershire is thus pronounced "Wuss-duh-shuh" (certified Brit here!)
the one thing that puts roads ahead of houses: houses can be down a long driveway and out of view, roads are literally meant to be used by a lot of people almost constantly. the threat of failure is higher on the road
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These 5 articles could be basically summed up to a "Steal a Mansion" set. * Steal the house; * Steal the vineyard; * Steal beehives used to pollinate the vineyard; * Steal the roof of the private chapel (some mansions have one); * Steal the road while you are leaving. The owner will return to a turned over, ruined turf with a roofless chapel amidst all the chaos.
We "stole" a guys house in Cambodia. We put it up on stilts and had it carried down the road. Most of the village was involved. The guy had refused to move but the army wanted to include his land in their new weapons testing range, so they moved it while he was away and they told him that it had been destroyed. After much of the village had laughed at his reaction, they showed him the new location. It all worked out well.
There are so many stories of thefts in the UK that sound ridiculous but desperate people do desperate things. My old boss told me that back in the 90s you couldnt leave the slates youd stripped off a roof on the job site over night or they'd be gone in the morning, people would trade them in to reclamation yards. If you want a weird story on the UK check out the tax man in Stockton (not actually about tax).
I know a guy, that will not be named, that claims to be the man behind a stolen church and stolen school. Both disused for many years and made with Yorkshire stone. There’s some money in Yorkshire stone I tell thee.
My great Aunt/Uncle had 10 acres of lumber stolen. They didn't live on the property and contacted a lumber company to harvest it. When the company went out to quote it, they found it had been clear cut a couple of years before. So they lost the lumber and of course, the thieves didn't plant a new crop, so a couple of years growing time was lost on top of that.
That church roof thing isn't isolated and happens fairly frequently, even now. The lead is just long sheets that goes over corners or other seams (e.g. where a roof meets a chimney) to waterproof it. Its actually pretty trivial to nick the lead off of a roof. Also, pro tip: shires are pretty popular in the UK, so we've tended to speed up the pronunciation, so say "shire" as a quick "sher" or "shuh". (That doesn't apply to horses or any time the word "shire" is on its own, though.)
I've loaded "Roadbase" Gravel from a Rural road in my old home town to use in my driveway to fill a hole. Granted the hole I filled was created by the city when they dug up my driveway to repair a City water line. This was after complaining for a month to get them to fix it. but still never thought of it as theft of road LOL
Stealing lead of church roofs (or any roof for that matter) is fairly common In the UK, usually about a 3 man job, finished In a couple hours and sometimes not even at night, just stroll up and look like you are supposed to be there! often you will see the same roof stolen again a matter of weeks after it is repaired or replaced!
Hey guys, someone from England here, lead church roofs still get stolen, and lead roofing on houses and flashing quite commonly, and it isn’t even little bits, they steal the whole roof at once in a night regularly. I used to be an electrical engineer and we had 2 miles of cable stolen in one night once. The cable was around 4.5 inch dia power supply cable, all laid out and installed, just unused. They stripped the lot too, and left all the insulation there for us to collect 😂 We have some good ass thieves.
I agree with Jason, the house is more impressive than stealing a road. Also, could you guys do a series of videos where you learn the basics of riding a motorcycle? As a rider I think that would be cool. Plus I noticed Brian is always wearing a Triumph Motorcycles tshirt.
Back in college, one of my good friends figured out that all he had to do was make it look like he was, supposed to be doing what he was doing, and he got away with "borrowing" a lot of things... He grabbed a HUGE framed movie poster from a local theater by just walking out with it. He also walked out the front door of a restaurant with a fairly nice chair... right in front of the hosts and workers. They didn't even question it... because of course he must've gotten permission from someone else to do it.... :D
*The millionaire renting a house next to his vineyard and beekeeping, which is connected with a cobblestone road to a nearby church he is the priest at. (*Chuckles "I'm in danger.)
And there I was, impressed by the boldness of some dude stealing an inch from the top of England's tallest mountain and displaying it in an art gallery.
For future reference, whenever you say the name of a county in England (e.g. Bedfordshire) the "shire" part is normally pronounced "sh-ear" rather than "sh-ire". Don't ask me why, we're just weird like that.
There's a famous mystery story about an invisible perpetrator. There were footprints found, clearly _someone_ was there to commit the crime, but people reported that nobody approached the building. Turns out it was the postman. The witnesses "saw" him but paid no attention.
Here in Sweden we have a kind of huge problem with people stealing church roofs and selling the scrap metal (copper). We just had a roof stolen here in the city close by where I live. They left the ends of the roof so it looked like nothing had happened and it took 2 months for the people working there to notice that it was stolen.
Having had to dispose of demolition material from remodeling a home, the road is most impressive because all that stone is just really damn heavy. Like, deconstructing a house (when it's a cabin of some sort) is itself pretty impressive given how heavy the materials are, even if you break them down, but depending how much road was stolen, you need heavy vehicles with suspensions strong enough to carry it, AND picking it all up is either labor or equipment intensive. (That should've also made the thieves easier to hunt down since heavy machinery equipment doesn't tend to just be everywhere for anyone to use..
Stealing lead from roofs is a pretty common crime in the UK. Scrap metal is worth money and security systems aren't exactly common on the roofs of old churches, and its not just churches that get stolen from. Anywhere with lead roofs, copper piping, or other valuable metals and poor security are a target. If you've got some tools and no one will be there all night and you don't care how much damage you do getting to the metal then you'd be surprised how much metal can just vanish overnight.
The entire house thing actually happened to one of my moms clients she is an insurance broker and this guy had this house built in this town can’t remember its name here in SA and the guy had left the country for 2 months on holiday after it had been built and when he got back he found that his lovely new house was just a foundation and a few cut water pipes sticking out of the ground I have seen photos of it
some years back, a group stole the cobblestones from some roads in Philadelphia and then sold the stones to tourists. Sorry, wish I remembered more about it.
A few guys stole an entire old beat up metal fence around some council property in one night. Within a week the council came out and put a new one up. The next night the same guys came back and took the new one down and put the old one back! Genius!
3:40 my dad accidentally helped our neighbor get robbed once. They pulled up with a Uhaul and said they were the owners cousin (the owner who was NEVER HOME and they were black just like the owner we had only seen a small handful of times. He loaned them tools and they even brought them back but they took the pictures and everything. Then the owner came and knocked on our door and asked if we had seen anything. Either my dad legitimately helped them rob him or it was insurance fraud.
Order of heist 1. - The roofs were stolen to finance the heist 2.- The house was stolen to keep all the stolen goods 3.- The vineyard was stolen 4.- The bees were stolen 5.- The road was stolen to make sure no one follows them
Imagine getting a 911 call about the road being gone. 911: Yes. What is your emergency? Lady: Umm. The road is gone? 911: I'm sorry what Ma'am? Lady: ...
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The house being stolen actually happened to someone in South Africa that I knew but it was an actual brick house
I live in east Tennessee and I heard of the ex sheriff recovering a stolen bridge.
what was the blurred square on the right side of the screen at 10:05 going on
CBD is still illegal in Florida. Sorry Florida man!
"so, why did you get in prison?"
"I stole some house"
" You mean robbed"
"Nope, stole an entire house"
“What you in for?”
“Highway robbery.”
“Nice,what car did you get?”
“I got the whole road.”
Hey man why dont you guys bring back the old modern rogue intro I love Brian screaming "cause i am a modern rogue"
Totally agree
We need that intro back!!!
Please!
agree
On the Pateron discord Bryce said it won’t be coming back
They don't know you can just close a bee hive for transport so no bees get out. It's just steeling a bunch of boxes
schenkov just breakable boxes with a deadly amount of bees in them
@@DrusinianX thats basically like saying:" in combination with a suitable heatsource the tank in your car is a deadly bomb"
Pack those boxes right for transport (which they probably allready were) and you should be fine.
No, obviously you have to carry each bee by hand, plucked from a giant swarm.
@@DrusinianX They make bee suits that will pretty much protect you from stings. And they're only like $120 or so..
(+ehrichweiss) And if you’re stealing bees, my guess is that you already would have a beekeeper suit.
The bees aren't that impressive. they stay in boxes overnight, and are pretty docile. just close them up and put them in a truck, you're not catching every single one.
So in my opinion it's more impressive to steal a vineyard.
Yeah, I think the modern rogues only understand bees as stinging bugs that like flowers
@Benjamin Joshua Beggs haha yeah, but it takes way more effort to strip an entire vineyard from its grapes :P
Beekeeper here. I live in Germany and bee hives being stolen is an actual problem. I've heard from severel other beekeepers how like 5 hives have been stolen in a single night and they didnt notice a thing. The main Problem is that they are as you said really easy to steal, duckt tape over the entrance, secure the segments with two ropes and you're ready to go. They are even light enough to be carryed by one or two persons (depends on size, season and strengh) but also give a fair amount of money. A mature hive can be selled for about 80-250€ and beekeepers are often looking for good mature hives.
So, to prevent them being stolen we just put a "lock" on it, which doesn't really lock it up but makes a 100 db noise when opened so we'll defenately notice it (their standing in my own garden). Nothing has been stolen so far, fingers crossed!
Yes.
People try take mine often. I have now gotten three geese to help alert the dogs.
Imagine living in a house with a vineyard and you decide to go on a vacation. During that vacation, you went to a famous church and found its roof stolen. Then on the way back home, you tuned in to the radio to hear someone stole millions of bees. Then as your listening you noticed that the road to your home is gone. And so was your vineyard. And your house.
Great comment, but it spoiled the road part for me.
INTJourney then don’t read the comments while watching a video.
INTJourney it’s in the thumbnail
Meanwhile your neighbour has a new driveway, new house with a new roof, and is throwing a party with lots of wine and honey
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Awesome video. Now if you will excuse me I will go home to my bee and wine filled house with a church roof. Also there's a road somewhere around here.
Ok just a little story to add on that little joke at 2:27 so around 1696 the people in my town were arguing where to build the church. So the settled on Kirkvolden but there some mother f'ers didnt agree to this, so they stole the church parts and moved the whole thing in one night to Aune which is 8Km, with nothing but horses.
That's the most beautiful and petty thing I've ever heard of. I can only aspire to have that much dedication to my beliefs
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I'm a teacher and have been in Egypt for about a decade now but during the Revolution (2011/12), one of my students stole a road and they used it to pave their whole neighborhood. Honestly, I've never been more proud.
Stealing bees isn't that crazy, my family does beekeeping, and when we buy a new hive of bees they are in a special cardboard box, they don't escape from it very easily. And honey bees aren't very aggressive, especially if they aren't in a hive of their own
Thanks for the video!
Road work ahead:
"I sure hope it does"
Things that were commonly stolen in Romania about 10 years ago:
-train tracks, thousands of kilometers
-bricks from abandoned buildings 'till there was no more building
-pipes and wires from the walls of abandoned buildings where you couldn't steal the brick
-cobblestone from roads, again
-roofs all at once, even if they were rusty
-fences
-a 100kg forged steel outdoor table from my neighbour
-about 50% or more of the country's wealth
That's what communism and a shitty power transfer does, kids! Now we are fine though ;)
If anyone wonders about train tracks , they take allready damaged tracks that aren't in use and the finish the job with anything they got on hand.Some make due with just an axe.
True story.
Blame the gypsies hahahahaha
What about the bridge in russia? 56 tonnes and 23 meter long bridge was stolen
That's Russia - it wasn't stolen, the Commisar sold it under the table. 😋
My favourite is the theft of a beach in Jamacia - 500 tones of sand were stolen overnight from a beach, and never recovered (been a while since I heard this and might be internet bullshit but still a good story)
@@mememe4050 Just 500 tons makes a beach? Bet it made a nice concrete patio at the resort next door. 😂
edit: bonus points if they used it to make a private beach for their patrons.
Railroad metal bridge, stolen, cut and sold for scrap.
Poland, late 1990s.
@@interstellarsurfer Underrated comment :)
Someone stole a chunk of the resolution towards the end of the video... That's impressive :p
9:59 - 10:30
I saw that too
im amazed that the incident of a whole beach being stolen in jamaica wasnt on this list XD
I'm incredibly late to this but WHAT?!
Bro germany stole the entirely of Europe in the 1940’s (except Switzerland)
@@ShitBoi And when they got their wrist comprehensively slapped they stopped trying to steal it by force and resorted to trying to steal it by stealth. Starting with the Treaty Of Rome in 1957. They have been at it ever since.
a fucking WHAT
@@ShitBoi The land was legally obtained.
As a security guard I was occasionally called in to make sure lead wasn't stolen from golf clubhouse roofs whenever certain travelling communities set up camp next door
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KAREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's kidnapping. Not theft.
This is semantics.
Damn it Karen.
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I'm just trying to figure out if this is a Wilbur reference.
Hearing Brian describe a gravel road like some mysterious variations of dirt roads made me smile a bit
"What are you in for?"
"I robbed a house."
"Oh, what did you steal?"
"...A house"
Thats how people become homesless. 😔
Surprised the "Dollhouses" of St. Louis wasn't discussed when you talked about house stealing. In St. Louis a ton of the older houses are made of a very specific special brick. IIRC this kind of brick isn't made anymore so the secondary market for them is really high. This means that thieves will remove the brickwork from these houses, taking everything they can without being seen from the street. Often this means that that the whole rear sections of houses will be taken brick by brick leaving them looking like a giant dollhouse.
MR is the best channel solely for unit conversions. Everything else is a bonus!
I love y’all content so much I have to go back and rewatch episodes to get my fill and I ain’t even mad it’s rare a vid on RUclips has this much rewatch value.
I live in England and surprisingly church roofs get stolen all the time for the lead just a couple of months ago 2 of my local church roofs got hit. I never even realised just how strange it is.
edit: 3 of my local churches rooves were stolen within 2 weeks, it really is common
i think the best thing about this channel is how the two get along and there's never actual hatred between the two. it's just two dudes, hanging out, doing random stuff and always having a blast.
"What are you in for"
"I stole a house"
Can't go to prison when someone steals it.
@@Mromfgtrololol that is very true
Well I didn't steal their stuff I just moved the house around it.
We had guests recently who told us about the restoration of the copper church roof in their town. They had to hire 24 hour security during the build to stop people stealing the copper.
The lead was stolen from the roof of my school when I was growing up. After a storm, the main building was several inches deep in water and we had all of our lessons in a newer building nearby. All of the floorboards were warped as well so people kept tripping up.
Jason's alternate name should be Mason Jurphy
Wait, do church roofs not get stolen outside of the UK?
I know, I feel like the states are missing out, the lads and I steal roofs every Sunday and it’s the high point of my week.
Huh, it's common here (UK) All the churches I've seen recently have "smart water" protection stuff to make it all traceable.
@@als_pals I've heard of that, although out here in the country its hard enough to find regular water.
but yall dont know about kyrgyzstan i saw a man build a church and the next day his church was blown up in a us military air strike by accident, poor man had to start all of over again.
What doesn't get stolen in the UK, fucking tea leafs everywhere.
Former beekeeper here. Bees are surprisingly expensive. A little half-sized hive (called a nuc) can cost over $200. A 2 pound package of bees can cost a good $100-$150. Queen bees can cost $20-$30 each. (or up to $100 each for special breeder queens.)
But a trailer load of hives, especially in California, is worth tens of thousands of dollars. Especially when you consider the cost of the bees, wooden hive boxes and frames, beeswax, and any honey. All of those are very valuable.
Wow. That really puts it into perspective.
Person: Ummmm... yes, someone stole my house
Police: Uhhh did someone steal from your house or is someone inside your house?
Person: uhhh no, they stole the entire house. It's gone. All of it.
Police: .......
Person: They also stole the road that leads to the house
Someone stole a solid gold toilet from the blenheim palace worth $5,000,000
Yup - www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-49732289
Why do you think they are doing this top 5? 😋
1,250,000 but still impressive
Well who do you would think to have guards watch it
@@snakex555 like Saddam Hussein perhaps?
God i am obsessed with this channel .watched so many videos so many times .Keep it up. Love you both 💙
As a bee farmer I can tell you it's not actually that hard to take that many bees, if it's a larger bee operation it's even easier. You can literally just go to the yard where the bees are and load the boxes onto a truck and you can fit 500 or more boxes on a flat bed truck in a shipping container
6:50 "you don't post guards on your vineyard" I live in wine country (Sonoma County) and worked as a security guard for a while. Yes, yes you do post guards.
The problem with stealing a harvest is, where to sell it? It's not like the farmer who was robbed isn't going to call who ever he would normally sell his crop to and inform them that an entire harvest went missing and to be on the look out for new people trying to peddle there product.
I'm a British person and I'll admit we'll steal anything even if its nailed down, actually it it's nailed down its a challenge so....
As a UK dweller, I can confirm, roads get stolen all the time. Sometimes even as you're driving on them, one moment they're there, the next they're gone. The gods have betrayed us.
I swear I'm on some kind of watch list because of this channel.
No you are not citizen TTR3466623.
- Signed Not The FBI
I want to walk into that bar of thieves and hopefully hear the brick thief say, 'A drink for me, and one for the road."
7:15 how he said “it’s less impressive then bees” has me dead
Just to add another one to the legacy of us thieving Brits. Recently, someone stole a solid gold toilet from Blenheim Palace!! How do you even carry a solid gold toilet without someone questioning what you are doing with it?
Dress up as a Polish plumber.
House Staff: "I say, good sir, what are you doing with that commode!?"
"Plumber": "Zit tolit is no makings ze flush.. I fix, I fix good! I come back.. nex' Mondey!"
House Staff, Next Monday: "...now, where is that plumber..?"
Are we gonna ignore that trump is the president of US, and that the toilet was called america and trump loves gold. we all know who stole it.
The head teacher of my primary school got sent to prison because he was helping people steal the copper roffing of our school
Cobblestones are called Setts. They are shaped so that they line up neatly together without the need to grout or fill between the stones, just compacted down into a substrate on the roads. Because they are manufactured and shaped to fit neatly together, if you steal them you have to take the whole section of them and mark them so you know which ones to place next to the other. They're also shaped for the specific road, it's junctions etc.
We have a huge number of cobbles and setts here in Edinburgh, along lots of Yorkstone flagstones, which are also worth a bloody fortune. Lots of gardeners will have stolen flagstones in their gardens after buying them from unscrupulous Architectural Salvage yards. My parents lost more than dozen slabs from their garden and yard, worth £80/$100 a sq yard.
I once helped steal a lawn. We just rolled it up and put it on a truck, didn't find out where they took it to.
My dad worked as a process server for awhile. Because of all the logistics of needing people to answer the door and positively identify themselves, it can sometimes be a challenge to get papers served. If a person is wise to you then they simply just don't have to answer the door and they will never get served. My dad had a simple solution, he would wear a hardhat and a hi-vis vest and carry a steel clipboard. People would answer every time, even people that had evaded other servers multiple times. Make somebody think you are from the water or gas company and they will talk to you and self identify.
Roofs are not that uncommon to be stolen happened often in Ireland
Hugh St.Leger it is for the us because it’s just shingles and something like a 3k square foot roof would only cost you about 2k so like 700 dollars for a normal house
@@aarons2613 so what do other countries use?
Honey, someone's gone and stolen our roof again
Lena Shanon Most roofs in the US are shingles, and some are metal and slate. But over in Europe and some parts of asia, most roofs are ceramic tile, or just tile.
It's said bedforshear, roofs are stolen all over the UK for the lead. Church's are generally off the beaten track round where i live.
As a beekeeper It would be super easy to steal bees because they are on palates and with the right beekeeping forklift you can load a whole semi in 220 minuets
Man I love these obscure videos. Pub trivia useless knowledge/10
Damn, thought i'd have an early night (midnight here) but no chance of that having a notifcation that the modern rogue have put out a new video.. :D Your next video needs to be about how to look like your working after no sleep :P
All I can think about is the time my parent's/ neighbors Logging area was stolen from. This was some time ago but it was fall time, and note this is a pretty wooded area neighbors where not close just really out in the country. So yearly the DOT / electric company would prep for winter and cut branches that were too close to the power lines and over hanging the road so if a serious snow storm happened it wouldnt be as difficult for getting the roads clear and power restored. What happened is one of the neighbors was getting some logs from their portion of the logging area cause we all shared it to store wood collected from the logging trails which met up at a 3 way property line and was close to the road. The neighbor discovered the chains blocking off the area from the main road were snapped or cut and around 20k worth of logs have been stolen from all our logging area. What we suspect is since the DOT use trucks and logging equipment to clear the branches and stuff so noise was loud from the road. So some thieves with a logging truck went in stole logs and drove off with them, and of course no one would suspect any thing suspicious or hear anything out of the ordinary due to knowing the DOT was doing their normal winter prep. Its impressive how smart thieves can be!
"You're just driving along and the road is just not there..."
Yeah, that's called potholes. :p
My villages church roof in Bedfordshire got nicked in the last year
Quick note on British town names: If it ends in "-shire", it's pronounced like "-sure".
Bedfordshire is a county not a town, as are most places that end in shire in the UK. And the pronunciation depends on who you are and where your from, could be shire as in spire, but can equally be shir as in fir. Neither is wrong.
When I really want to confuse Americans I ask them if they can pronounce the town of Loughborough....
@@arghjayem Swedish guess: Loffburu?
@@arghjayem How about Bicester, Worcester etc? I've heard the former pronounced Bi-chester.
@@jayzo Ahhhh that's difficult. There's some inconsistency. Never heard of Bicester, but I would pronounce it as Bi-chester, and Worcester is pronounced "Wuss-duh". Worcestershire is thus pronounced "Wuss-duh-shuh" (certified Brit here!)
I always say it more like shear
the one thing that puts roads ahead of houses:
houses can be down a long driveway and out of view, roads are literally meant to be used by a lot of people almost constantly. the threat of failure is higher on the road
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No mention of the guy that stole "America" (the solid gold toilet) last week? That impressed me. Lol
I woke up to this video. It’s gonna be a great day.
I fell asleep to this video.
Stealing lead from churches is very common in the UK. The church next to where I live had it's roofing stolen.
These 5 articles could be basically summed up to a "Steal a Mansion" set.
* Steal the house;
* Steal the vineyard;
* Steal beehives used to pollinate the vineyard;
* Steal the roof of the private chapel (some mansions have one);
* Steal the road while you are leaving.
The owner will return to a turned over, ruined turf with a roofless chapel amidst all the chaos.
In my country somebody stole 30 meters of bridge, 30 METERS...
Pfft I stole a police station bathroom once.
Cops had nothing to go on.
Nice
We "stole" a guys house in Cambodia. We put it up on stilts and had it carried down the road. Most of the village was involved. The guy had refused to move but the army wanted to include his land in their new weapons testing range, so they moved it while he was away and they told him that it had been destroyed. After much of the village had laughed at his reaction, they showed him the new location. It all worked out well.
Brian's job is to just be amazed by everything while jason explain even tho he knows everything and I love it
There are so many stories of thefts in the UK that sound ridiculous but desperate people do desperate things. My old boss told me that back in the 90s you couldnt leave the slates youd stripped off a roof on the job site over night or they'd be gone in the morning, people would trade them in to reclamation yards. If you want a weird story on the UK check out the tax man in Stockton (not actually about tax).
I know a guy, that will not be named, that claims to be the man behind a stolen church and stolen school. Both disused for many years and made with Yorkshire stone. There’s some money in Yorkshire stone I tell thee.
My great Aunt/Uncle had 10 acres of lumber stolen. They didn't live on the property and contacted a lumber company to harvest it. When the company went out to quote it, they found it had been clear cut a couple of years before. So they lost the lumber and of course, the thieves didn't plant a new crop, so a couple of years growing time was lost on top of that.
just casually steal the falcon from toys r us?
Yeah I'm trying to imagine how that went, must've been late as hell with employees who really didn't care
@@scientificbrony i mean did they just go through check out
@@Ullu19 most doors are by check out, so I'm sure someone must've seen.
'i aint gonna act like i saw that' last words of a toys r us employee
@@Ullu19 "this place is gonna go outta business in like 12 years anyways. Probably"
That church roof thing isn't isolated and happens fairly frequently, even now. The lead is just long sheets that goes over corners or other seams (e.g. where a roof meets a chimney) to waterproof it. Its actually pretty trivial to nick the lead off of a roof.
Also, pro tip: shires are pretty popular in the UK, so we've tended to speed up the pronunciation, so say "shire" as a quick "sher" or "shuh". (That doesn't apply to horses or any time the word "shire" is on its own, though.)
Can't believe you didn't mention the fact that Shakespeare literally stole the Globe Theatre and moved it across the Thames - over night.
I've loaded "Roadbase" Gravel from a Rural road in my old home town to use in my driveway to fill a hole. Granted the hole I filled was created by the city when they dug up my driveway to repair a City water line. This was after complaining for a month to get them to fix it. but still never thought of it as theft of road LOL
Stealing lead tiles of a a church roof is pretty common in the UK, stealing an entire roof full, let alone 2, really isn't.
Stealing lead of church roofs (or any roof for that matter) is fairly common In the UK, usually about a 3 man job, finished In a couple hours and sometimes not even at night, just stroll up and look like you are supposed to be there! often you will see the same roof stolen again a matter of weeks after it is repaired or replaced!
Hey guys, someone from England here, lead church roofs still get stolen, and lead roofing on houses and flashing quite commonly, and it isn’t even little bits, they steal the whole roof at once in a night regularly.
I used to be an electrical engineer and we had 2 miles of cable stolen in one night once. The cable was around 4.5 inch dia power supply cable, all laid out and installed, just unused. They stripped the lot too, and left all the insulation there for us to collect 😂
We have some good ass thieves.
I agree with Jason, the house is more impressive than stealing a road.
Also, could you guys do a series of videos where you learn the basics of riding a motorcycle? As a rider I think that would be cool. Plus I noticed Brian is always wearing a Triumph Motorcycles tshirt.
This channel is SOOO UNDERRATED
Back in college, one of my good friends figured out that all he had to do was make it look like he was, supposed to be doing what he was doing, and he got away with "borrowing" a lot of things... He grabbed a HUGE framed movie poster from a local theater by just walking out with it. He also walked out the front door of a restaurant with a fairly nice chair... right in front of the hosts and workers. They didn't even question it... because of course he must've gotten permission from someone else to do it.... :D
*The millionaire renting a house next to his vineyard and beekeeping, which is connected with a cobblestone road to a nearby church he is the priest at.
(*Chuckles "I'm in danger.)
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4:39 Brian- every year they import millions of bees
Nicholas Cage- not the bees!!!
Dreadful film 😁
And there I was, impressed by the boldness of some dude stealing an inch from the top of England's tallest mountain and displaying it in an art gallery.
That's kinda clever.
For future reference, whenever you say the name of a county in England (e.g. Bedfordshire) the "shire" part is normally pronounced "sh-ear" rather than "sh-ire". Don't ask me why, we're just weird like that.
@Jay Admittedly I do normally say "sh-ure" but it always sounds weird to me with an American accent
My favorites are railway bridges and beaches.... Now those are audacious thefts
There's a famous mystery story about an invisible perpetrator. There were footprints found, clearly _someone_ was there to commit the crime, but people reported that nobody approached the building.
Turns out it was the postman. The witnesses "saw" him but paid no attention.
Here in Sweden we have a kind of huge problem with people stealing church roofs and selling the scrap metal (copper). We just had a roof stolen here in the city close by where I live. They left the ends of the roof so it looked like nothing had happened and it took 2 months for the people working there to notice that it was stolen.
Having had to dispose of demolition material from remodeling a home, the road is most impressive because all that stone is just really damn heavy. Like, deconstructing a house (when it's a cabin of some sort) is itself pretty impressive given how heavy the materials are, even if you break them down, but depending how much road was stolen, you need heavy vehicles with suspensions strong enough to carry it, AND picking it all up is either labor or equipment intensive. (That should've also made the thieves easier to hunt down since heavy machinery equipment doesn't tend to just be everywhere for anyone to use..
Stealing lead from roofs is a pretty common crime in the UK. Scrap metal is worth money and security systems aren't exactly common on the roofs of old churches, and its not just churches that get stolen from. Anywhere with lead roofs, copper piping, or other valuable metals and poor security are a target. If you've got some tools and no one will be there all night and you don't care how much damage you do getting to the metal then you'd be surprised how much metal can just vanish overnight.
The entire house thing actually happened to one of my moms clients she is an insurance broker and this guy had this house built in this town can’t remember its name here in SA and the guy had left the country for 2 months on holiday after it had been built and when he got back he found that his lovely new house was just a foundation and a few cut water pipes sticking out of the ground I have seen photos of it
“It’s less impressive than bees” - Brian Brushwood 2019
some years back, a group stole the cobblestones from some roads in Philadelphia and then sold the stones to tourists. Sorry, wish I remembered more about it.
A few guys stole an entire old beat up metal fence around some council property in one night. Within a week the council came out and put a new one up. The next night the same guys came back and took the new one down and put the old one back! Genius!
I'm so happy they're making these types of vids again ❤
I'm glad you like them. :)
3:40 my dad accidentally helped our neighbor get robbed once. They pulled up with a Uhaul and said they were the owners cousin (the owner who was NEVER HOME and they were black just like the owner we had only seen a small handful of times. He loaned them tools and they even brought them back but they took the pictures and everything. Then the owner came and knocked on our door and asked if we had seen anything. Either my dad legitimately helped them rob him or it was insurance fraud.
Order of heist
1. - The roofs were stolen to finance the heist
2.- The house was stolen to keep all the stolen goods
3.- The vineyard was stolen
4.- The bees were stolen
5.- The road was stolen to make sure no one follows them
They steal asphalt here in Poland
Bee rustling is a legitimate problem. This has happened multiple times.
Imagine getting a 911 call about the road being gone.
911: Yes. What is your emergency?
Lady: Umm. The road is gone?
911: I'm sorry what Ma'am?
Lady: ...
5 unsinkable ships that sunk
Aahhhhaa, the French... grapes have been stolen. -Orson Wells.