Weirdest mainstream news headline this morning: "Grave Robbers
Steal Former Cyprus President's Corpse." Someone – probably
political activists, but no one's taken credit yet — robbed the
grave of Tassos Papadopoulous, a day before the first
anniversary of his death. President Papadopoulous had opposed
the UN-directed peace plan that would have reunited the Turkish
and Greek sections of the island, which the Turkish population
supported. It's not the first time a dead body's been stolen to
make a point (or some money), and it won't be the last. Here are
five other people who haven't been left to rest peacefully. 1.
Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin died in Vevey, Switzerland, in
1977, and was buried in Corsier-sur-Vevey Cemetery. In March
1978, two immigrant mechanics (one Polish, one Bulgarian)
kidnapped the body and demanded $600,000 in ransom, which
dropped to $250,000 when Chaplin's widow, Oona, refused to pay.
Swiss authorities eventually found the robbers by monitoring
every pay phone in Lausanne, and the