Exactly this fate befalls our young Saxon protagonist Uhtred when he is nicked from his home by the rampant Ragnar.
It's riven with absurdities, of course, both large and small: the leather blouson that Hunt wears for a disguise is nicked from a washing-line.
The centre console is nicked from the Vanquish, and there's Alcantara all over the top of the dash.
*The worst thing about this joke is that it's nicked from Jools Holland.
The chair was nicked from an office I used to rent for 20 quid a week in a building that resembled a public lavatory.
Vince Cable did his after-dinner speaking comedy act (I met William Hague afterwards, who swears that some of Cable's lines were nicked from his repertoire) and the studio audience loved him for it.
One night, artistically arranged starters of "beet, apple, granola, foie gras" and "tartare, sunchoke, flax soil, crème fraîche" looked ultra-modern, on large, flat plates, as if they had been nicked from a haute-cuisine kitchen.
Names, addresses and Social Security numbers can be nicked from doctor's surgeries, nursing homes and hospitals, either by insiders (a medical assistant was indicted in June for allegedly selling hundreds of names to feed his crack habit) or outsiders (who may distract secretaries and grab patient logs).
As there are no banks, nor cheques, nor credit cards, all transactions are made in cash and, given the plunge of the dinar (the rate was approximately 1,500 dinars to the dollar on my last day there), buyers, in order to make a purchase, must bring bundles of notes with them, at times suitcases full, which can be nicked from them at any moment by the scourge of the day: the omnipresent Ali Babas.
All seven are believed to have been nicked from the Kuwaiti royal family by Iraqi troops during their invasion of the emirate in 1990, and smuggled into Turkey by Iraqi Kurds.Nicknamed "Mustafa the Lame" after being wounded in a 1991 shoot-out in which he allegedly killed two men, Mr Bayram now faces trial on two more recent charges of heroin trafficking, not to mention a murder case.
Additionally, Soto dismissed the track's synth line as being "nicked" from StarGate's production on American singer-songwriter Ne-Yo's Libra Scale (2010).
