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Crazy how simple and efficient these heists are in their execution. All the heist movies are way too complex and clever. It‘s just smash and run. Compare also
by leipert 1y ago
Crazy how simple and efficient these heists are in their execution. All the heist movies are way too complex and clever. It‘s just smash and run.
Compare also this robbery from 2019 in Dresden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Green_Vault_burglary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Green_Vault_burglary
- hvb2 1y agoThey apparently used an angle grinder to open one of the glass boxes that the items were on display in. So not exactly smash and run...
- drittel 1y ago[flagged]
- lukan 1y agoIf they would be efficient, they would not have been caught. (But maybe they were caught because they were careless afterwards? Selling stolen art is not risk free either)
- pdabbadabba 1y agoThey weren’t caught. (Yet.)
- lukan 1y agoI meant the Dresden Heist thieves and they were caught.
- 1718627440 1y agoOnly the henchmen.
- mmooss 1y agoGenerally speaking: The simpler something appears on the surface, the more work it requires behind the scenes. Think of designing 'simple' software, from the user perspective.
- dieortin 1y agoI disagree. Many times things that appear simple are really just simple.
- 1718627440 1y agoThey are indeed simple, they are not necessary easy.
- dreis_sw 1y agoHow do you break the window glass, how do you get into the display cases, how and when do you do it so that you're not stopped by the security, how do you carry the items away, how do you get away from the crime scene without being caught... And I'm sure I am forgetting other details. So I can see how it would take some work to make everything look so simple.
- dieortin 1y agoYeah, I’m not saying this robbery was simple at all. Just disagreeing with it being a general rule that things that appear simple are usually hard.
- sorenjan 1y agoSwedish has a word for heists where the thieves go in through the ceiling, it's called a "rififikupp", named after the french novel "Du rififi chez les hommes". The latest one became a Netflix mini series (The Helicopter Heist), the most famous one before that was at the modern museum where some Picassos where stolen.
- Aaargh20318 1y agoEven if it was relatively simple and security was lax you have to question why they targeted the Louvre. You can’t fence these items because of how high-profile they are. You can melt them down and sell the gold, but you’d destroy a lot of the value by doing that. Because it’s such a high-profile target you know a lot of resources will be allocated to track you down. You’d think that there be much safer targets to rob that wouldn’t draw as much attention and would provide similar returns.
- harambae 1y ago1) It’s always possible a rich person hired them ahead of time to steal specific items (that’s why you sometimes see way more “expensive” in theory items that are completely ignored in these heists — without a buyer ahead of time they’re worthless) Though in this particular case I think it was a crime of opportunity, but idk 2) You could potentially sell it to someone overseas who doesn’t care. There are rumors of a Gardner Heist (Boston) painting hung up on MBS’ yacht
- PleasureBot 1y agoUsually these items are used as bargaining chips by organized crime. The state agrees to drop the multiple homicides and RICO charges (or whatever the French equivalent of that is), they return the Crown Jewels.
- IAmBroom 1y agoCitation needed: "usually".
- mna_ 1y agoThe Hatton Garden heist was fairly elaborate.
- 1718627440 1y agoThey were also movie-level clever, in that they set exact the right power junction on fire, got in at the exact right time, at exact the right place. Then they also set their own car on fire. I don't think it was too different, than what you would see in a movie.