Excuse me, what?

Allow me to translate. I speak Jive. (ahem) "Her behavior is incredible! I refuse to believe that someone would act in such nonsensical fashion. It is therefore prudent that the local constabulary be notified of the theft." Did that help? :)

You're picture looks like michael jackson after he got pwnd by his Dr.

Thank you kind sir.

I don't know about the US but in the UK terms of a contract have to be "reasonable" and the less reasonable and predictable the more careful someone has to be to ensure that the term is understood before it can be enforced. There is no way that your landlord stealing your TV is "reasonable" and so could not be enforced even if it was in the fine print. Get the cops and get your TV back. Your landlord is deranged.

It happens in the US. In a country where there are loan sharks, gang store fronts, and fraudulence; there is illegitimacy everywhere. Have you seen southpark? About the human centipede mosh iPad? Though highly exaggerated, people do sign things without reading the terms of agreement which leads to them being screwed over sometime later.

And it doesn't have to be "stolen", the clause does not have to expressly state that, but it can go along the lines of, "by agreeing to the terms of agreement, signified by your signatures, the landlord, Scumbag Owner Derpington, is given the right to repossess any item of the renter's belongings. The requirements that allows for said repossession are as follows: 1. The renter has missed a previous payment for renting the apartment, # OP's house. 2. The renter is under observation for suspicious behavior as defined by the landowner, scumbag owner Derpington. 3. Yadda yards yadda

It doesn't matter what the contract says. If a judge believes it to be unreasonable and a violation of that persons rights they will declare it null and void. I'm sure a judge wouldn't believe the land lords logic for taking the OP's stuff, (I own the building so everything in your apartment is mine) regardless if it is in the contract.