Man accused of taking thumb from 2,000-year-old terra-cotta warrior

[PatrickforO]

Source: CNN

A 2,000-year-old terra-cotta warrior valued at $4.5 million and considered a "priceless part of China's cultural heritage" is missing a thumb, but surveillance video helped lead the FBI to both the thumb and a suspect in the theft.

Michael Rohana of Delaware was arrested last week in the December theft.

Officials say Rohana went to Philadelphia's Franklin Institute on December 21 for an ugly sweater party hosted by the museum. During the evening, Rohana and a few of his friends entered the closed off terra-cotta warrior exhibit, and after his friends left, Rohana took a selfie with one of the statues, according to surveillance footage and court documents. He then put his hand on the left hand of one of the warriors and snapped something off, the documents said.

Rohana pocketed the warrior's thumb and took it home with him to Delaware that evening, officials said.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/19/us/terracotta-warrior-thumb/index.html

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To me, this is emblematic of the lack of common decency and lack of integrity that now permeates what was once a noble Republic.

[MLAA]

1. I say extradite him.

Saw the Terra Costa Soldiers in Xian, they are breath taking.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. He did it here in the US, to a borrowed statue in a Philadelphia museum.

So, no basis for extradition.

[MLAA]

5. Id say that is the last time China or any country should loan their priceless treasures to us.

He should be prosecuted in the US by the museum and be required to make restitution. What an ignorant asshole the man is.

[LisaL]

7. That's too bad.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Dumbass. WTF is wrong with people?

[benld74]

4. Why? Alcohol is not an excuse. This is juvenile

At best
Ignoramus!
Have him do time is a Xian jail

[democratisphere]

6. Just another example of the deplorable side of our disrespectful culture.

Off with his thumbs the jury said!

[Honeycombe8]

8. I don't believe for a second that it was an accident.

And how did he get it thru customs? (I shudder to think of the answer.)

[LisaL]

9. There are no customs involved. Statue is here in the US, borrowed from China.

[Honeycombe8]

12. +1. nt

[PatrickforO]

10. No, it was in America. This Terra Cotta soldier was on loan

to Philadelphia's Franklin Institute. He was a member of a private party who got to go in and see it.

I mean, what a douche. Here this warrior statue is thousands of years old, and the Chinese government was good enough to allow us to display it for a time here, and this idiot goes in there and...breaks off its thumb.

You know, I wish we could send the guy to China to face charges. He's darned lucky it was here, I'll tell you that.

[Honeycombe8]

11. Oh. I just skimmed the article. Yeah, what a douche. His parents must be proud. nt

[Kablooie]

13. Yes honor and decency are not valued in America anymore.

I was just discussing old fashioned milk delivery with my daughter last night. She thought someone should bring it back but I realized it could never be a success. Someone would streal the bottles if they were left outside today.

Honor is and old fashioned idea nowadays.

[Codeine]

37. Theyd steal the milk to make room

on the doorstep for the Amazon packages they’d be stealing later in the day.

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Horrible. Hope they max out his sentence or let China imprison him.

[blue-wave]

15. Just mind numbing!

"To me, this is emblematic of the lack of common decency and lack of integrity that now permeates what was once a noble Republic."

I wholeheartedly concur. From the corptocracy and politicians who want over 99% of Americans in dire poverty while they stuff their faces and lace their pockets, to school and other mass shootings, the theft of our elections and the divisions created with every group who think they deserve more than the rest of us and on and on. Oh, and let's not forget the nazis parading around as some legitimate "alt right" political group.

Then you get this brain dead twerp and other twerpettes across the country on an every day basis. I hope we can save what little noble is left and correct the course if this ship.

[OnDoutside]

16. He thought he got the thumbs up....

[PoliticAverse]

17. ...

[BumRushDaShow]

18. This was part of the traveling exhibit - "Terracotta Warriors of the First Emperor"

that is at the Franklin Institute until March 4th - https://www.fi.edu/exhibit/terracotta-warriors

(has been here in Philly since September 30, 2017)

[Lulu KC]

19. I'm having a knee jerk reaction

I bet he's a Trump supporter.

[tavernier]

20. Dunno, but I can totally see the trump boys doing this

Just like cutting the tail off of their slaughtered elephant.

[JI7]

21. I'm thinking more of a social media attention seeking douche

[Jedi Guy]

24. That's my reading of the situation as well.

He's sure getting a lot of attention now.

[Lulu KC]

31. Not mutually exclusive

But just quoting the voices in my head, not saying they're right. I never know.

[oasis]

35. Yup. Trump has ushered in an era of unbridled entitlement. Jerks who

were already inclined to acts of incivility, now believe they have a license to do as much as they can get away with.

[truthisfreedom]

22. The report kinda makes it sound like the thumb was loose.

I’m just wondering how it survived shipping.

Sorry.

[Bengus81]

23. It's simple,take a thumb from that guy to even it up.....

[KG]

26. Charlieeeee!

[Javaman]

25. this is why I hate people. nt

[Nitram]

27. "To me, this is emblematic of the lack of common decency and lack of integrity that now permeates

what was once a noble Republic." There has always been a strain of vandalism, disdain of culture, and anti-intellectualism in this "noble republic." It wasn't all Abe Lincoln and Henry David Thoreau.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

29. My first thought, too. This country was founded on taking things from other people. It's built into

our infrastructure and way of government.

[FSogol]

30. Except for the time Thoreau and his goofball buddy accidentally started a forest fire.

http://www.history.com/news/thoreau-started-a-forest-fire-a-year-before-writing-walden

[Nitram]

32. I think "accidentally is the operative word here. They alerted the townspeople.

I was amused that the townspeople termed Thoreau a “damned rascal” and “a flibbertigibbet” for having started the fire. Maybe also because he was the prototype for the "slacker."

[FSogol]

33. There is a book on early Thoreau's misadventures. He was a piss-poor outdoorsman. n/t

[underpants]

28. Saw an expo here on Saturday- quite incredible

Qin unified the language, currency, improved roads(started the wall) and,most incredible to me, established uniform weights and measures

The detail on the warriors included treads on their shoes. He also had civil servants created to take with him as they are needed for a functional government.

[MBS]

34. Shameful.

I hope that he gets a stiff punishment for this, and that the statue can be repaired.
What a low-life.

[Blue Owl]

36. He stuck the thumb up his ass

n/t