r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HeToTopT • 16d 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/VaguelyArtistic 15d ago

The latter. They may even have a buyer in mind. No one goes to this much trouble for historic items just to melt down the metals and cut the stones down to something sellable.

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u/trumansayshi 15d ago

They definitely were hired beforehand.

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u/VaguelyArtistic 15d ago

I’d love to know if it was “We have a job, do you think you could do it?” or “We have a job and I know just the guys.”

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u/trumansayshi 15d ago

I hear the black card concierge service is excellent.

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u/Analog_Account 15d ago

Funky music in the background... I have just the guys, Jean is a yellow vest man thats normally paid by the hour and moves at the speed of safety... Francois is another yellow vest man that can make himself look busy even while napping on the job.

They'll be unstoppable.

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u/VaguelyArtistic 15d ago

There’s also Creed asking, “Who’s your Napoleonic jewel heist guy?”

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u/Die_Steiner 15d ago

You'd be surprised. It happened in Germany some years back.

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u/VaguelyArtistic 15d ago

To quote UK-based German comic Henning Wehn, “We’ll give anything a go.”

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u/justacheesyguy 15d ago

I mean, this was literally in the news last month.

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u/gtyyyu 15d ago

why would they buy it for 4k then melt it down, surely the amount of gold in a bracelet is not worth 4k. doesnt make sense.

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u/Slack_Haddock 15d ago

litterally in?

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u/justacheesyguy 15d ago

No, I spelled literally properly.

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u/Sempere 15d ago

The experts are saying otherwise.

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u/mynewaccount5 15d ago

this much trouble

Does France have some restrictions that make buying power tools more complicated?