5,000 Real Estate Deeds Missing
The Kuwait Times website seems to be down so I can’t link directly to them, but this is at the top of the crime news on yesterday’s page 5:
5,000 Real Estate Deeds Missing
Kuwait: An owner of a real estate office registered a complaint with the Khaitan police claiming that 5,000 real estate deeds were stolen from his office’s locked-up drawers. However, both the owner and the police were baffled because the thieves could have carried off furniture and other valuable items, but preferred to steal the deeds instead. The case was handed over to special detectives who immediately launched an investigation.
This seems to me like the deeds were the target of the break-in. Aren’t deeds registered somewhere? So like even if these paper copies are stolen, can’t they be replaced? What would somebody gain by stealing these deeds? Can they claim the properties? Can they claim the properties were transferred to them? Can they hid transfers that someone doesn’t want disclosed? This sounds like a great mystery to me!
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That would make a good mystery. Have you tried writing? I have a curse for thinking of brilliant scenarios for a book, getting ten pages into it, and discovering that I can’t think of a plot at all!
Errr. . . cozy sister, I write every day of my life, just about. I love reading mysteries, but I don’t think I would be very good at writing them. The daily newspapers are full of these kinds of mysteries, aren’t they? We rarely get to know the rest of the story.