Who says criminal pranksters aren’t foreign film fans? The folks who stole a $10,000 copper statue from the Florida estate of super-scamming douchebag extraordinaire Bernard Madoff were seemingly inspired by a 2005 German movie, it turns out. The Edukators focused on three leftist radicals who break into homes of the wealthy, not to steal but to rearrange furniture as an anti-capitalist statement and leave behind menacing notes; Madoff’s objet d’art was found in bushes Wednesday
behind the Palm Beach Country Club with a note signed by “the
educators,” and warning Madoff to “return stolen property to rightful
owners.” Err, as they did?