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Snap Judgment

The Belgian Beaver Bandit

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Snap, Glynn, Storytelling, Wnyc, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Performing Arts, Washington, Society & Culture/documentary, Arts/performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.811.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Sacré bleu! The damn beavers are on the loose! Belgium authorities are hot on the tail of Oliver Rubbers. A renegade with a wild mission... bring the beaver back. 

Thank you, Olivier Rubbers, for sharing your story with us! Olivier now lives with his wife and kids in Belgium and is still engaging in nature advocacy work.  

Produced by David Exumé, original score by Renzo Gorrio, special thanks to Isobel Cockerell, artwork by Teo Ducot.

Season 15 - Episode 56

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0:00.0

Snap Studios.

0:02.0

Harvard is the oldest and richest university in America.

0:11.0

But when a social media-fueled fight over Harvard and its new president broke out last fall, that was no protection.

0:20.0

Claudine Gaye is now gone. We've exposed the DEI regime, and there's much more to come.

0:25.6

This is the Harvard Plan, a special series from the Boston Globe and WNYC's On the Media.

0:30.7

To listen, subscribe to On the Media, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:38.6

I know a guy who wanted to build a deck on the back of his house, just a deck.

0:46.0

And to get the homeowner association's approval, to get the zoning approval, the building

0:51.4

permit, the environmental review, the septic review, the department of whatever it is that day.

0:57.3

It took four years before anyone raised a hammer.

1:02.0

Four years for a deck.

1:05.2

Well, today, we're going to meet a guy who doesn't have four years to do what he has to do.

1:13.0

Today, Snap proudly presents the Belgian Beaver Bandit.

1:18.4

My name is from Washington, and here at Snap headquarters, we never cut corners because we're listening.

1:31.2

The Snap judge.

1:42.7

Today's true crime snap story crosses not just state jurisdictional lines, but international borders.

1:46.6

In some ways, I call this a story about a heist,

1:50.6

except the cargo isn't what you'd expect.

1:51.9

Snap judgment.

1:56.8

The year was 1998.

2:01.2

Olivier Rubbers was 29 years old living in Belgium.

2:04.2

And one day, he visited a friend.

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