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Compared to this nonsense, the smash-and-grab guy I'd fallen prey to was a pillar of the community.

Stuart Connelly: Fighting Against Corporate Mentality Stuart Connelly 2011

Compared to this nonsense, the smash-and-grab guy I'd fallen prey to was a pillar of the community.

Stuart Connelly: Fighting Against Corporate Mentality Stuart Connelly 2011

Or that I would be a victim of a smash-and-grab robbery a couple of years after that, with a lead pipe shattering the windshield of my car when I stopped at a light, alone in Miami.

Lea Lane: A Life Lesson: The Man Who Demanded 'Bread' Lea Lane 2011

Compared to this nonsense, the smash-and-grab guy I'd fallen prey to was a pillar of the community.

Stuart Connelly: Fighting Against Corporate Mentality Stuart Connelly 2011

Dick Gephardt is symptomatic of the current smash-and-grab culture.

Wonk Room » Gephardt: Universal Coverage ‘Cannot Pass This Year’, Health Care Reform Should Be ‘Incremental’ 2009

Or that I would be a victim of a smash-and-grab robbery a couple of years after that, with a lead pipe shattering the windshield of my car when I stopped at a light, alone in Miami.

Lea Lane: A Life Lesson: The Man Who Demanded 'Bread' Lea Lane 2011

Between times Barcelona utilised the smash-and-grab style often used by Madrid last season, with David Villa and Lionel Messi scoring.

Barcelona 2-2 Real Madrid | Spanish Super Cup match report 2011

No need here to recount the sorry story of Referendum C. If Ref C was a drunk running a tab, pillaging Pinnacol would be a smash-and-grab from the plate glass of the liquor store.

Freeze It, Personalize It, Polarize It « View From a Height 2009

In the 19th century, as archaeology began to mature into a more rigorous, respectable endeavor, his smash-and-grab methods were abhorred; he was decried by the president of the Archaeological Association of America as "the greatest plunderer of them all" and by a writer for the National Geographic Society as "the most notorious tomb robber Egypt has ever known."

A Pre-Digital Tomb Raider Gerard Helferich 2011

Watch these smash-and-grab burglars clean out the Sagemore Apple store in Marlton, New Jersey in 31 seconds (skip to 0: 56 to see it).

Boing Boing 2009