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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 11mo 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
- drittel 11mo ago[flagged]
- lukan 11mo 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 11mo agoThey weren’t caught. (Yet.)
- lukan 11mo agoI meant the Dresden Heist thieves and they were caught.
- 1718627440 11mo agoOnly the henchmen.
- mmooss 11mo 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 11mo agoI disagree. Many times things that appear simple are really just simple.
- 1718627440 11mo agoThey are indeed simple, they are not necessary easy.
- dreis_sw 11mo 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 11mo 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.
- hvb2 11mo 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...
- sorenjan 11mo 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 11mo 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 11mo 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 11mo 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 11mo agoCitation needed: "usually".
- mna_ 11mo agoThe Hatton Garden heist was fairly elaborate.
- 1718627440 11mo 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.