{"id":26930,"date":"2017-07-06T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=26930"},"modified":"2022-06-17T11:27:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T15:27:40","slug":"how-stupid-can-people-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/07\/how-stupid-can-people-be\/","title":{"rendered":"How Stupid Can People Be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/hobby-lobby-to-return-smuggled-iraqi-artifacts-pay-3-million-fine-2017-07-05\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MW-FP714_hobbyl_20170705183805_ZH.jpg\" alt=\"MW-FP714_hobbyl_20170705183805_ZH\" width=\"257\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hobby Lobby<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These stories always amaze me and this one is even more shocking since they were warned, back in 2010, by an attorney that \u201cthe acquisition of cultural property likely from Iraq, including cuneiform tablets and cylinder seals, carries a risk that such objects may have been looted from archaeological sites in Iraq.&#8221; \u00a0You would think that any intelligent individual would heed that warning, but no!\u00a0 A short time later, the Arts-and-crafts chain\u00a0&#8220;&#8230;agreed to buy over 5,500 ancient artifacts, including cuneiform tablets, clay bullae and cylinder seals, for $1.6 million \u2014 even though the purchase was fraught with red flags.\u201d \u00a0They even went as far as smuggling the items into the country. What?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the long arm of the law finally caught up with them and Hobby Lobby now must forfeit all the artifacts and cough up an additional $3 million in fines. That is a great lesson on how to turn a $1.6M purchase into a $4.6M loss!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/07\/05\/hobby-lobby-to-pay-3m-fine-hand-over-illicit-ancient-artifacts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hobby Lobby to return smuggled Iraqi artifacts, pay $3 million fine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; These stories always amaze me and this one is even more shocking since they were warned, back in 2010, by an attorney that \u201cthe acquisition of cultural property likely from Iraq, including cuneiform tablets and cylinder seals, carries a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/07\/how-stupid-can-people-be\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[111,32],"class_list":["post-26930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-antiquities","tag-the-dark-side"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Stupid Can People Be? 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