Burglary at USGA Museum - US Am Trophy Stolen

[PCCraig]

http://www.usga.org/news/2012/May/USGA-Statement-On-Recent-Museum-Theft/

Missing:

[Sean Leary]

Hmmm. Anyone heard from Steve Scott around here lately?

Hell, Steve had it stolen from him, he is just taking it back.

[Patrick_Mucci]

PCraig,

Have they looked in the barn at Happy Dale Farms ?

[Tim_Cronin]

So I'm on ebay early this morning and ... just kidding. Seriously, who would take this and think they could peddle it? (And something from the Hogan room was stolen as well.)

[Dan Herrmann]

The idiot will probably melt it down and sell it for scrap. 

That said, the USGA blew it - they have SOOOO much money and they can't afford a good alarm system with 24 hour per day guards?

[DMoriarty]

[Patrick_Mucci]

The idiot will probably melt it down and sell it for scrap. 

That said, the USGA blew it - they have SOOOO much money and they can't afford a good alarm system with 24 hour per day guards?
Dan,

How do you know that they didn't have an alarm system and guards ?

[David Harshbarger]

+1

[jeffwarne]

The idiot will probably melt it down and sell it for scrap. 

That said, the USGA blew it - they have SOOOO much money and they can't afford a good alarm system with 24 hour per day guards?

The guards are guarding the the 250 million

[Bob_Huntley]

Thank God these treasures were purloined from the USGA and not their British counter parts, Melvyn would be in high dudgeon.

Bob

[Tim_Cronin]

This would appear to be a major award!

[Mark Chaplin]

Pat - if they did have guards and an alarm they clearly weren't very good. How do I know? The burglary!

[JLahrman]

That said, the USGA blew it - they have SOOOO much money and they can't afford a good alarm system with 24 hour per day guards?

They have security guards, but apparently their pre-shot routine is very very slow.

[Patrick_Mucci]

Pat - if they did have guards and an alarm they clearly weren't very good. How do I know? The burglary!

Mark,

Are you sure it wasn't an inside job where someone with knowledge of the defenses or a vendor knew how and when to act ?

[BCrosby]

I am always dumb-founded by the theft of famous, easily recognizable art or artifiacts. Who do you fence it to? For what purpose would they use it? Show it off to friends in their basement?

Similarly, why navigate a sophisticated security system for its gold content when there are so many other ways to steal some gold?

Scratching my head,  Bob

[John McCarthy]

I am always dumb-founded by the theft of famous, easily recognizable art or artifiacts. Who do you fence it to? For what purpose would they use it? Show it off to friends in their basement?

Similarly, why navigate a sophisticated security system for its gold content when there are so many other ways to steal some gold?

Scratching my head,  Bob

A friend of mine's father stole the Stanley Cup in 1961.  There was liquor involved. 

[BCrosby]

John -

I understand the "too blotto to know what I was doing " thing. But that wasn't going on here. Someone planned this quite crefully. But for what purpose? The rewards don't match the risks that were run.

Bob

[Patrick_Mucci]

Bob,

You'd be surprised at the number of people who would want to be in possession of a famous artifact.

How many people would recognize the trophy from a distance of 10 feet ?

[John Kavanaugh]

Why did they retire this trophy in 92 just before it was obvious that Tiger Woods would soon have his name permanently inscribed? Was there a racist motivation?  I say good riddance.

[BCrosby]

Pat -

We would all like to own a USGA trophy. But we don't steal one because, among other reasons, possessing it broadcasts the fact that you stole it.

It's hard to make something like that work as a conversation piece in your den.

Bob

[John Kavanaugh]

It's hard to make something like that work as a conversation piece in your den.

Could there be anything more boring than someone who places an item in their den hoping to stimulate conversation from a house guest?

[Tim Martin]

We know for certain that the list of suspects has dwindled by one since Kavanaugh sent that poor unsuspecting squirrel to the big oak tree in the sky. Some times these types of seemingly unrelated events give the spark needed to jump start an investigation. John please don`t leave the country.

[Lester George]

The item stolen from the Ben Hogan Room was the his Hickok Belt which he won for "Athlete of the Year" in 1953.  Description below:

The S. Rae Hickok Professional Athlete of the Year award, known as the Hickok Belt, was a trophy awarded for 27 years to the top professional athlete of the year in the United States. It was created in honor of the founder of the Hickok Manufacturing Company of Rochester, New York, which made belts, hence the choice of a belt as a trophy.
 
The trophy was an alligator-skin belt with a solid gold buckle, an encrusted 4 carat (800 mg) diamond, and 26 gem chips. It was valued at over $10,000 in the currency of the time,[1] and its presentation was a major event in sporting news of the day.[2]
 
For the first 21 years, from 1950 to 1970, it was awarded in Rochester at the annual Rochester Press-Radio Club dinner (an event that continues today). After the Hickok company was taken over by the Tandy Corporation, the award was presented in larger cities such as Chicago or New York.

Lester

[BCrosby]

It's hard to make something like that work as a conversation piece in your den.

Could there be anything more boring than someone who places an item in their den hoping to stimulate conversation from a house guest?

Only one thing comes to mind. Someone who takes a facetious comment literally.

Bob

[archie_struthers]

 


With a $250 million net worth , can the ransom note be far behind?