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Even in old age, some people can’t shake off their crime aspirations.
According to NBC News, police in Toronto are frantically looking for an old woman who is suspected of stealing a pricey rock from the Gardiner Museum. Why is that rock worth CAD $17,500 (USD $13,700)? Because Yoko Ono herself wrote an inscription in the rock that reads “love yourself.”
“People can actually go up and interact with it, pick up the rock, say a prayer, meditate, that sort of thing, and then put the rock back. I guess this is something that Yoko Ono believes in, the interactive part of it. So, it’s an unusual circumstance.”
The most bizarre aspect of this, aside from the fact that a rock costs so much, is that the thief is about 60-years-old, about 5ft 4in and is dressed like an older version of Mary Poppins.
Female sought in Theft Over $5000 investigation. Mon. Mar. 12, at 5:35 p.m., at the Gardiner Museum located at 111 Queen’s Park. She allegedly stole a rock on display of an art exhibit. Last seen walking south on Queen’s Park. #GO601628 if seen pls call 416-808-5200 ^gl pic.twitter.com/uzoQ38AZ9S
— Toronto Police OPS (@TPSOperations) April 7, 2018
And Twitter was loving this bold old lady:
Haha, it was, she used it to smash into a jewelers window and steal half a mill worth of rings pic.twitter.com/7oiESY7dsh
— sica (@Winterishere974) April 7, 2018
I’m gonna go outside and find a rock like that and write that on the side of it with a sharpie and go collect my reward money
— shane (@shanecenters) April 7, 2018
One second she’s just a lady grabbing a rock, the next second she’s an international art thief on the run from the law and Yoko Ono
— Josh (@JoshMLabelle) April 7, 2018
Replacement available if needed. pic.twitter.com/W6b9B0iicm
— Good Art Guide (@goodartguide) April 7, 2018
Another badass lady: 73-Year-Old Woman Caught With 8 Grams Of Cocaine Because You’ve Never Too Old To Party
Just let her have it, its a round rock with “love yourself” written in marker on it. I mean, seriously, she’s done us all a favour.
Keep the rock, lady. Enjoy it. Love yourself stupid. https://t.co/Hu2ujiaOTB
— ister Bumface (@misterbumface) April 7, 2018
Sharpie pen $2.99
Pebble rock with one of the most banal sayings popular among millennials inscribed with the said sharpie – priceless— TFG (@The_Fit_Gourmet) April 7, 2018
Yoko’s gonna beat her ass.
— Joe Remi (@JosephRemiB) April 7, 2018
OK, I’ll say it: karma for breaking up the Beatles?
