Tag Archives: theft

LOOKING A LOT ALIKE by Peter Nolan Smith

January 5, 2015 – 10:59 pm

Three months ago I started a new job selling jewelry on the Upper East Side. I came highly recommended by diamond dealers on 47th Street. My boss Jeri trusted me with the store and her million-dollar merchandise. One September morning I spent an hour setting up the jewelry. Jeri liked the way I displayed her […]

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The Flight Of Thieves

May 3, 2013 – 8:29 pm

Back in 1976 I wrote a screenplay on my Olivetti typewriter. D. Descending was a tale of a reclusive hang-glider recruited by a mysterious female to rob a Manhattan skyscraper. I can’t remember what they were trying to steal, but the other day I stood on a billionaire’s 5th Avenue penthouse terrace installing bronze lockers […]

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Sorry is Not Enough

August 4, 2011 – 1:47 am

My sins are legion, but as George Carlin states in his famous monologue THE TEN COMMANDMENTS that the having ten was only a marketing device. The late comedian trimmed the commandments down to two along with Thou Shalt Keep Thy religion to Thyself. Thou shalt not steal is downsized to being honest, however honesty is […]

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