Have you ever been robbed? Someone broke into your home or business or car or locker at school and took something? I have. A few years ago, someone broke into my car while it was parked on the street and took some things from the back seat. They were not expensive or irreplaceable, but it was a rotten feeling none the less...not so much that something I owned was stolen, but the feeling that part of ME had been violated. Has that ever happened to you? There is a tie between us and our property that has nothing to do with the worth of a particular object, and the thought that someone would just STEAL part of US gives us the chills.

Jack Benny's New York hotel suite was once robbed and one of the things taken was his wife Mary's most treasured piece, a magnificent diamond ring. Jack was in …