Clooney's VaultIn 2003, George Clooney bought a home on lovely Lake Como in Italy. Among the contents left by the previous owner was an empty thousand-pound safe marked "Explosives." One day, Clooney arrived home and was astonished to find that burglars had attempted to move the safe. Incredibly, his computer, stereo, and big-screen TV had not been touched. More incredible still, the criminals - little deterred by the famously inept Italian police - returned three times over the next few days, soaping the floor and moving the safe progressively closer to the door.
Some time later, Clooney arrived home and was amused to find the safe in the driveway - attached to the broken rear bumper of the culprits' car. "We go inside and call the cops," he recalled. "But when we come back, the safe is sitting up. Which means they came back a fourth time. They were doing everything they could to steal this f---ing safe. So we put a giant red bow on it and left a note saying, 'Come and get it, you dumb f---s!'"
Clooney, George Timothy (1961- ) American actor [noted for his roles on "ER" and in such
films as One Fine Day (1996), Batman & Robin (1997), The Peacemaker (1997), Out of Sight (1998), The Thin Red Line (1998), Three Kings (1999), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Perfect Storm (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), Ocean's Eleven (2001), and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind]
[Sources: "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" - Oct. 1, 2003; Vanity Fair, Oct. 2003, p. 316]More George Clooney anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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