
Obituary Bandits & Grave Robbers
30 Morbid Minutes
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Do You Call Me Buty?
Grave robbing is still a big problem in china, and thieves targets ancient temples and shrines. In 20 20 the government tracked down 24 hundred thieves and retrieved over 31 sand lost or stolen items. Even though its taboo in china to rob graves, there have been these series of novels and movies that have kind of glamorized this practice. And so it's actually like, spurred on teen agers and stuff. They think it's like romantic todo this. But, hey, there's i'm naiven a lot of ways, i've come to realize. Sometimes it doesn't even require opening a tomb. Thieves steel statues, columns, benches and fountains,
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