I'll go you one stranger than that: In 1974, during the production of a weird comedy sequel to "" The Maltese Falcon, "" called "" The Black Bird, "" starring George Segal, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art had a plaster original of the Maltese Falcon — one of the original six plasters, I think, made for the movie — stolen out of the museum. A lot of people thought it was a publicity stunt for the movie.