About theft, in about 1856 when the city of Omaha was in it's infancy, virtually everyone heated and cooked with firewood. A fellow in the Florence area of North Omaha had a firewood business where he would go into the hills north of Omaha, cut firewood, and haul it to his lot in Florence where he would retail it.
The fellow noticed a certain amount of pilferage from his lot. He took a couple dozen pieces of firewood, bored a 1" hole in the center, filled them with gunpowder, hammered a plug back into the end, and placed them where they would be easily swiped.
When stoves around the neighborhood began blowing up with regularity, the pilferage stopped.
This is taken from a book entitled, "A Dirty, Wicked Town", by David L. Bristow. I'm just the messenger.
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