1.   Each thief has two choices, either to confess to the crime or not to confess to the crime.

2.   The thief had to be hunted down, taught a lesson, keys had to be thrown away.

3.   The thief must have had an attack of conscience, because he returned the wallet with nothing missing from it.

4.   Thieves have stolen toys from the graves of four young people killed by a car which went out of control and crashed into them.

5.   Also, postal thieves have to read each postcard by hand, while software can sift electronic messages electronically.

6.   Although technological advances have revolutionized the casino industry, thieves have also gone high tech, using methods that sometimes escape even the best surveillance teams.

7.   As a result, more thieves have had to get the key from the owner of the car to steal it, he said.

8.   A thief will have difficulty leaving without the ticket.

9.   Accused thieves had their hands and sometimes their feet hacked off.

10.   Alba described that area of Mulholland as a place where car thieves have a habit of pushing stolen cars over cliffs from time to time.