Just when you thought you had heard it all...This is Totally Amazing... Holding the Dead For Ransom!
ROME The body of Mike Bongiorno, who was Italy's top quiz show host for more than 50 years and a close friend of the Prime Minister, was snatched from his grave, officials said Tuesday.
It is not the first time that the body of a famous personality has been snatched in Italy.
In 2001, in a cemetery near the one where Bongiorno was buried, the corpse of investment banker Enrico Cuccia was stolen and a ransom demanded. The thieves were identified and arrested.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41274399/ns/world_news-weird_news/?gt1=43001
ROME The body of Mike Bongiorno, who was Italy's top quiz show host for more than 50 years and a close friend of the Prime Minister, was snatched from his grave, officials said Tuesday.
It is not the first time that the body of a famous personality has been snatched in Italy.
In 2001, in a cemetery near the one where Bongiorno was buried, the corpse of investment banker Enrico Cuccia was stolen and a ransom demanded. The thieves were identified and arrested.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41274399/ns/world_news-weird_news/?gt1=43001
