Easter Island was recently raided. This volcanic island lies 2,237 miles west of Chile and is famous for it’s 900-plus statues (known as moai) of Polynesian ancestors.
One male tourist decided that they liked the legendary sculptures so much that he’d like an earlobe as a souvenir. An eyewitness said that he climbed the statue, tugged at the earlobe which subsequently fell off and broke into pieces. He still wasn’t done and tried squeezing one of the pieces into his bag.
The rangers promptly tracked him down. He couldn’t haven’t been too difficult to spot with a bag full of rock: the average moai weights 70 tons. A conspiracy theory must be brewing for the missing sphinx’s nose.