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On July 14, 2013, at 12.51 p.m., a white band drove away from Toronto General Hospital.

Its cargo? A stolen Boston Steinway Baby Grand Piano, valued at $27,000, taken from the hospital's

Peter Monk Cardiac Center. Of the bold heist, Todd Milne, director of security operations for the

University Health Network, which Toronto

General is part of, told the Globe and Mail, quote,

I've been managing security since 1999 and have not experienced a theft as ballsy and as crazy

as this one.

He continued, quote, the reason they were probably successful in removing the piano is that nobody would have thought a crime like this would ever take place.

Welcome to Criminalia. I'm Maria Tremarky. And I'm Holly Fry. The easiest way to steal a piano, we imagine, would probably be to make off with the large trucks that transport them to dealers, right? But that's not the kind

of heist this was. Three accomplices were involved in the theft of the baby grand from Toronto General

Hospital. Two people maneuvered the piano onto a dolly, wheeled it out of the fourth floors

to Gasparis Conservatory, and into a service

elevator, and then into a loading area, where a third person helped them load it into a waiting

white Ford cargo van. That was it. That's all it took. Stated security director Milne, quote,

it was probably a bit of a drag for them to get the piano out.

It probably was.

Stealing a piano isn't like the quick theft of a guitar from backstage at a gig or the snatch-and-grab

theft of a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin taken from Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concert

master Frank Almond as he left a concert

hall and walked to his car. In this case, the stolen instrument was a piano and not just any piano,

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