How Not to Steal a Yacht

Even though one is never needed, here's a quick excuse for posting a Johnny Cash video. The Times posted a story today about James Light, a worker at Sunseeker, a British luxury yacht maker, who decided that he wanted a yacht of his very own. The problem? Sunseeker's boats cost around $2 million.

What's a dreamer to do? Why, take a cue from Cash's 1976 song "One Piece at a Time," in which a Detroit auto worker steals parts of a Cadillac by smuggling them out in his lunchbox. That's right, Light took around $100,000 work of parts, including a 4ft radar mast and, yes, a widescreen television. He was caught when a DVD player box was found in his toolbox.

Think about this for a minute. He took these things out in his toolbox. He took a widescreen television and no one noticed. David Copperfield is going to be knocking on this guy's door before long, quickly followed by the BBC made-for-TV-movie. But until then, enjoy Cash's take on this story more than 30 years ago: