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>>Not to sound sarcastic, but why wasn't there a curator or some staff
>>member on duty? Surely this museum has staff. Why were rare artifacts
>>left unattended?
 
          IMHO, any museum should be allowed to run the operation any
          why that is lawful, and still keep all of its possessions
          without recrimination.
 
          This "blaming the victim" type of thinking while currently
          in vogue is misguided.  It focuses attention on the wrong
          parts of a social problem.  Anyone can applaud prevention if
          it works and ask why someone didn't have more if it doesn't.
          Still, the root cause of the problem is the rotten behavior
          of a self-centered thief who did not care a twit about
          what others believe in, or seek to improve, or preserve.
 
          The problem was, and remains, the thief.  It is not the
          museum staff.
 
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