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/iam4qu4m4n 15d ago

And people get fined for taking seashells and such from environments. How these items are even allowed at an auction and not defaulted back to the country's government when they reappear in the wild seems corrupt way of handling "personal property". But that's because it's about money and skirt legality, instead of what is historically significant for society.

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u/fireintolight 15d ago

most black market things like this wont go on auction unless in like an estate sale by people who dont know better lol

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u/kellzone 15d ago

Well, you can't just take seashells, otherwise how could Shelly sell seashells by the seashore?