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The unsolved mystery of the Brinks jewelry heist
- helsinkiandrew 3y agohttps://archive.ph/INuNL https://archive.ph/INuNL
- garciasn 3y agoThis is the first time I’ve seen an article done as a poorly drawn comic strip. Basically: 1. Jewelers at a trade show undervalued their wares to reduce shipping costs. 2. Items were stolen in transit. 3. Security company doing the transit is willing to pay the amount that was declared by the jewelers. 4. Jewelers want closer to fair market value even though they disclosed a number 10x less. 5. Article was done as a graphic novel and would have taken 5 seconds to read instead of 5 minutes of scrolling.
- sleepytimetea 3y agoThank you for saving me from yet another overdone webpage.
- appleflaxen 3y agoThank you. That is the stupidest article I've ever seen.
- labster 3y ago> She said, "Dad, don't worry, I'm gonna have a lemonade stand." What an amazing panel of news.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoSeems in line with modern long form journalism.
- bcraven 3y agoI enjoyed it, it was entertaining. If you only want the facts then I'm sure Wikipedia could service you.
- gumby 3y agoThank you. This comic format is almost as bad as a video.
- roxgib 3y agoI should really start reading the HN comments before opening the article, it would save a lot of time
- peeters 3y agoI don't really understand how the jewelers think they have any case for damages above the declared value of the merchandise. You can't purchase an insurance contract for your belongings that values them at $10k and then expect the insurance company to pay you $200k for them when your house burns down.
- kelnos 3y agoThat was my reaction as well. I get that shipping and insuring expensive things is itself expensive, but that's life. You can't tell a shipper that your stuff is worth one amount, and then demand more if it's lost or damaged. I think the only case they might have is that security measures taken (regardless of declared value) were substandard. It does seem strange to me that it's considered ok to leave the truck essentially unattended; one driver sleeping inside while the other leaves to get food doesn't count as "attended" in my mind.
- setr 3y ago> I think the only case they might have is that security measures taken (regardless of declared value) were substandard I don’t see how it matters to the client though; the security measures could be entirely non-existent, but that’s why the insurance policy exists. The quality of security should only impact the rate at which insurance has to be paid out, so it’s already the insurance companies’ problem and really only impacts them
- roxgib 3y agoI don't think that makes a difference, because the shipping company has accepted liability for the stolen goods. The company looked at the value of the goods, and decided on these particular security measures, knowing they'd be on the hook if anything got stolen. Shit got stolen, and now they're paying up. You can't treat every shipment like it's the Mona Lisa, so if there's only $8.7 million of merchandise, you do the maths and optimise accordingly. Put another way, it was a business decision.
- qup 3y agoWe used the web to create this? WTF
- gmerc 3y agoSo … is it a test of AI comics?
- zoklet-enjoyer 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Gambrell https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Gambrell
- gmerc 3y agoIt’s not like you can’t train a lora on that.
- metaphor 3y agoContinuing to reserve hope that we won't have to retrain humans on the interpretation of attribution disclosed immediately beneath a prominent title.
- gmerc 3y agoContinuing to reserve hope not all sarcasm has to be markers /s :)
- metaphor 3y agoTouche. Alas, an inherent risk to the UX surrounding adoption of new technology is we tend to become so engrossed with realizing (P_success * Benefit) that we often dismiss the inevitable consequences of (P_failure * Cost).
- metaphor 3y agoWas there some sort of expressional intent behind the two upside down restaurant scene frames roughly midway in the story?
- setr 3y agoThe business was “upended”. I think that’s literally the only layer to it.
- petepete 3y agoIt's quite a coincidence how the name overlaps so much with a British gold robbery that also has plenty of mystery surrounding it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brink%27s-Mat_robbery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brink%27s-Mat_robbery
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoWell, the names just might overlap because they involve the self-same armoured car company.
- petepete 3y agoAh so that is the case. The company own the warehouse from which the gold was taken, in the case of the crime I linked to above.
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- roxgib 3y agoThe merchants are lucky no one got hurt. Imagine being a guard, thinking what you were guarding was worth x amount, and it was actually worth 10x that and you get killed or injured because the employer reasonably assumed there wasn't a big risk of getting jacked. This is totally on the merchants.