Klaus, criminal, thief, or misunderstood?

Well, I don't rightly know what to say. It appears Klaus might not be an illusionist after all. It has been unearthed that he's been stealing stuff at meetings before.
Here's the sordid story:
There ain't no quote feature, so the text I'm quoting will be in eyetalics. I don't want to be called a klaustomaniac!

According to Marquand, an Irish correspondent said that she had previously attended a dinner with Klaus and put her dinner gloves on the table. She saw Klaus reaching his hand out, and then noticed the gloves were gone. “Why Mr. Klaus, you have taken my gloves!” she said, according to Marquand. The gloves were returned after some explanation that apparently involved Klaus’ wife and her fashion taste. While it is not clear exactly when the glove incident took place, Klaus was finance minister of Czechoslovakia from December 1989 to July 1992 — and “young” is a bit misleading, as he was born in 1941.

While taking clothing items from neighbors at ceremonial and diplomatic events seems a bit questionable, Klaus maintains it is normal to take items like pens — and says he does it all the time.

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Klaus a wanted man

It seems the Chile police came to Prague to arrest the pen stealing Mr. Klaus. He holed up in the castle, raised the drawbridge and refused to be taken prisoner. He then sent out some of his own guards and had the chile police women thrown in the dungeon!

Klaus, the pen thief

Our president, Vaclav Klaus, no relation to Santa, has been caught up in one of them hidden camera "stings" He has been caught red handed stealing a jeweled ink pen from the president of Chile.
Them Chilies live in South America, and I don't mean Alabama, it's a whole nother country. For our president to steal their ink pen is pretty embarrassing, but it explains a lot. At the school where I teach English, my pens is always disappearing! I reckon it just comes natural to czechs.
So, I will stop getting angry when my favorite blue pen vanishes, or when my red pen I needs to correct tests with ain't there no more.

Oops, it's just been explained to me by a fellow teacher that it ain't theivery, it's magic! The czech just like to do a little magic and make the pen dematerialize. That's why he's smiling so much. Later on when the Chilly president notices it's gone, slick ol' Klaus will say," What's that in your nose?"
Then he'll pull the pen out and everybody will have a good laugh. Now, that's what I call a statesman!

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