Hey, true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus

content and conversation.

Law enforcement doesn't have the greatest track record for cleared cases when it comes to thieves

in general and larceny in particular.

Larceny just means stealing the property of a person or a business.

Now, larceny is different from burglary, which always involves a legal entry, and larceny is different from robbery,

which involves the use or threat of force to get that property. Compared to burglary and robbery,

larceny seems like the politest and quietest of crimes.

And in the case of one genius from Ohio who went rogue, it was.

So, how did he mostly get away with stealing nearly a million dollars from one of the biggest

and most powerful industries in America?

Simple.

He did it.

A nickel.

A dime.

And a quarter at a time.

And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.

A real, one,, weird, stuff.

The very first was installed on a corner in Hartford, Connecticut in 1889, and the last was hauled off a corner in New York City on May 25, 1992.

For more than 100 years, the payphone was a fixture on the streets of American

towns and cities, a pop culture icon. The payphone has been immortalized. We're talking

novels like The Phone Box at the end of the world and the TV show The Wire. The phone booth was a staple

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