Sunday, September 2, 2018

Gassed & Robbed (Richard & Mindy Hammond)



Sunday Express [UK]
2 September 2018


A TEAM of burglars used knockout gas on Grand Tour star Richard Hammond and his family before pillaging their San Tropez villa, his wife Mindy fears. Sunday Express columnist Mindy told how the burglars searched the rooms of all 15 guests in the home – brazenly rifling bedside drawers for cash and jewellery. […]

“I’m pretty convinced we must have been gassed or something, because they were in all of the bedrooms – they went where they wanted, into each room, opening and closing the drawers, searching through handbags etc.

“You have got to have some kind of confidence to do that and to be quite satisfied that people aren’t going to wake up.” […]

Barber’s Customer Eats 3 Apples That Were in Previous Customers’ Mouths


Blum, “The Apples.” The Bridge, vol. 2, no. 6, June 1973, pp. 88-90. The Bridge was a newsletter published by American prisoners in Butzbach Prison, West Germany. Issues can be viewed at https://voices.revealdigital.com/


“Delete Jew” (Ahmet Ertegun anecdote)


Dorothy Carvello, Anything for a Hit: An A&R Woman’s Story of Surviving the Music Industry (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2018), 31.