Insurers at Royal Commission need a Good Witch
Outsider notes that a pair of Judy Garland’s iconic ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz that went missing from a museum were recovered by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The FBI told the Associated Press that the operation was possible after a man approached the shoes’ insurer and said he could help get them back.
The slippers were on loan to the Judy Garland Museum in the late actress’s hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, when they were taken in 2005 by someone who climbed through a window and broke into a small display case.
The shoes were insured for $US1 million.
With the current round of hearings of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry set to grill the Aussie insurance bosses, Outsider wonders whether they’ll be wishing that the US insurer that helped the Feds recover Dorothy’s famous footwear had held on to them instead.
Why? So that they could borrow them to wear while they’re in the box being grilled, allowing them to close their eyes, tap their heels together three times, and repeat, “There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home ...”
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