Artsy High Jinks
By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts
Thursday, May 17, 2007
"Do you have the money?" Tim Tate asked as we headed out on our mission under the cover of darkness Tuesday, and a little shiver went down our spine. Our first ransom drop!!!
We weren't sure what -- if anything -- was going to happen that night. All we knew was that Tate had to make the drop ($10,000 in Monopoly currency, unmarked bills) at exactly 11 p.m., in the lap of the Albert Einstein statue on Constitution Avenue. Those were the demands included in the eerie package we got last week.
What would happen? Would Tate, a D.C. artist, get his exquisite glass sculpture back? . . . Would we come face to face with the mysterious letter-writer known only as "The Collector"? . . . Should we have called police?
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