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There was a Russian guy recently that did exactly that [1], and then swat showed up at his home not long after. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0V8APbxMqM

• gnulinux 8y ago
  Wait WTF how does that even work? The guy picked up the painting while an entire crowd was looking at it, and proceeded to walk away... That's Borat level absurdity.
  • pjc50 8y ago
    "Act like you belong". Might want to accesorise with a fake staff badge or high viz jacket. Now, I wonder what success rate you'd have if you asked a bystander to carry the other end ... probably quite high.
  • jacquesm 8y ago
    Many years ago at a car trade show in Amsterdam a high end luxury car was stolen under the noses of 10's of thousands of visitors and attendants. Thief #1 put a scratch in the paint of the car, thieves #2, #3 and #4 calmly drove a flatbed truck backwards through the crowded tradeshow to the stand of the brand whose car was stolen and pushed it on to remove the 'damaged car' from the trade show floor at the instructions of unseen higher ups. Their major high tech tools to get away with all this was blue overalls with the brand logo on their backs and breast pockets.
    • slap 8y ago
      Got a link about that theft?
      • jacquesm 8y ago
        It was well before the days of the internet, and it happened at Amsterdam Auto RAI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoRAI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoRAI Possibly some newspaper morgue has an article about it, it caused quite a few giggles at the time. The funny thing is that nobody could describe the perps but everybody could describe their overalls.