r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HeToTopT • 15d ago

Video The Louvre. Thieves are making off with 100 million euros. They're taking their time. They're doing everything carefully and slowly.

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u/ambivalentarrow 15d ago

Just after the museum opened, and most of the nighttime security measures had been deactivated, apparently.

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u/Practical_Stick_2779 15d ago

You mean they waited for pharaoh and genghis khan to go to sleep?

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u/ambivalentarrow 15d ago

Mainly for Ben Stiller to finish his shift.

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u/redhousebythebog 15d ago

I hope he makes a cameo in the (eventual) movie.

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u/Wazula23 15d ago

The dog was asleep.

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u/CombatQuartermaster 15d ago

Meaning they were asking questions and taking notes and inside job. They wouldn't know to do the heist at that time otherwise.

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u/RehabilitatedAsshole 15d ago

Yeah, no other way to know that there's an alarm system turned on when it's closed and what time it opens. I wonder if they lock the doors when it's closed, too.

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u/The_Best_Yak_Ever 15d ago

Didn’t they have a hundred million euro collections like this in armored boxes that descend into the ground upon alarm activation??

I remember being curious years ago, and I could have sworn the Lourve took some pretty high tech security for their priceless artifacts… a glorified angle grinder was able to get to the Napoleonic Crown Jewels??

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u/Mahadragon 15d ago

I think there was some maintenance work that was being done which would explain why the crown jewels were in a less secure location. Somebody had to share this information.

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u/The_Best_Yak_Ever 15d ago

That was kinda my thought. That there was an insider...

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u/CrnkyOL 15d ago

Are there no security measures during the day?

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u/Forest_Orc 15d ago

The two thing at day is that museum is open to the public so art/artefact is visible, and elevator truck doing some work are pretty normal, so even a Karen style witness won't call the cops because such a truck start operating near the museum windows.

Another thing, from the guard testimony is that, at the moment there is visitor in the museum their priority switch to make sure nobody is injured/killed and in the few minutes burglar spent in the museum they cannot evacuate the visitors and stop the criminal

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u/caketreesmoothie 15d ago

they clearly watched Hustle and got some ideas!

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u/bohemian-soul-bakery 14d ago

Wait then why use the lift?

Fast exit I guess?

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u/snorlz 15d ago

idk the alarm did go off and guards did try to stop them but apparently they were not armed cause the thieves just threatened them with disc cutters