• What Not to Steal: Gavel.

• Who Not to Steal it From: Judge who will be sentencing you later for more serious crimes.

• Who Stole It: A 28-year-old Missouri woman, sometime after her arraignment on drug charges.

• The Compelling Evidence: She was the last one in the courtroom at the end of the day and so probably took it?

• Potentially Creepy Extra Details: Gavel previously belonged to judge’s deceased grandmother, who wielded it as “Grand Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star.”

(AP, Jan. 7, 2005; News of the Weird)