Archive for Robbery
I’m a Total Sucker for a Good Diamond Heist Story
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From the LA Times:
Maybe it’s because I spent so much time as child watching movies, but I just love a good heist story. I loved Ocean’s 11 (12 and 13 as well). I loved Reservoir Dogs. I loved Inside Man. The stories are great when their perfect planning is matched with perfect execution, and the stories are great when everything blows up in failure.
So when a story comes along like the one in yesterday’s LA Times about real-life professional thieving gang the Pink Panthers, it’s particularly fun. Mash the link above and have a look for yourself. Enjoy.
Well Executed Robbery in Grand Central Station in NY City
Posted by: | CommentsFrom NY Channel 1 News:
A dealer from 47th street was sitting down to eat with a coworker when the dealer asked his friend to keep an eye on the bag when he went to throw away some garbage. When he was away, a team of three theives went work distracting him for a split second and then swiping the bag for an exact replica with the same weight. Police believe due to nature of the bag in the switch that the heist was an inside job.
The “World’s Biggest Diamond Heist”
Posted by: | CommentsFrom Wired:
The main convict connected to the “Biggest Diamond Heist” in history was recently caught with 2.2 pounds of rough uncut diamonds in his car. The theif, Leonardo Notarbartolo, has already served out his prison sentence for the crime, but the loot still has never been discovered. Ntoarbartolo claims that he purchased these diamonds legally, and that there is no connection to the original heist. See the video below. The story is fascinating.
Now THIS is a Robbery
Posted by: | CommentsFrom National Jeweler:
As opposed to these geniuses who decided to rob a Kay Jewelers mall store for a few thousand dollars worth of merchandise, or this guy who stole a ring from the JC Penny jewelry department, we finally hear about some professionals. These guys, in just two minutes, made out with over $21 million dollars worth of merchandise from the Cartier store in Cannes, France. Apparently, a tan fellow wearing a Hawaiian shirt (I bet he looked like George Clooney) entered the store and pulled a gun while two accomplices wearing helmets cleaned up the display cases. They then made a quick getaway on scooters.
I bet you Terry Benedict was behind this somehow…
Update: Thief Shot by Armed Traveling Jewelry Salesman Dies from his Wound
Posted by: | CommentsFrom the ABC Affiliate Network in Memphis:
What a badass. I would love to meet this guy who took these SOBs down. Because everything’s insured, traveling salespeople are always taught to be completely cooperative if robbed. Even so, this guy didn’t want to let the bad buys win. Two of the thieves are still at large — I hope their accomplices death is a strong enough deterrent to try something like this again.
Another Brilliant Robbery Attempt
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From The Local ABC Affiliate in Bradenton, FL:
As long as these idiots keep trying to pull off these rediculous hair-brain schemes, I’m going to keep commenting on how stupid they are!
Apparently a Kay Jewelers employee was involved in an “inside job” with his moron buddies to steal some goods. What I find so funny about this is what these fools look like. Here’s what I mean:
This is the employee. I won’t bother copying pictures of his sophisticated and aristocratic accomplices. You can click on the link above to see them yourself. What shocks me is that Sterling Inc, the parent company of Kay Jewelers, would actually hire somebody who looks like this. Think about those cutesy holiday “Every Kiss Begins with Kay” commercials? Cute middle class American bowls of comforting mush. Can you imagine that waspy couple in the commercial walking into a store and being serviced by this goon? What were they thinking hiring someone like this?
Some People Just Deserve to be Ripped-off
Posted by: | CommentsFrom Fox News Atlanta:
This piece describes a con job whereby a man greets a woman in a Target parking lot holding a bag of diamonds. He tells her he found it, and he’s going to go into the Target to the jewelry department to find out if they’re real diamonds. She waits for him. He goes in and comes out after a few minutes and tells her they’re real. He tells her they’re “really worth” $10,000, but he’ll part from it for only $6000. They drive together to the bank where she withdraws the money and pays for the Bag-O-Diamonds.
Yes, it’s a true story. Yes, the woman is that stupid.
In the beginning of the piece, the anchor says brilliantly, “If you buy a diamond in a parking lot from a complete stranger, you’re bound to get ripped off.”
Perhaps that’s true, but I prefer the Jeff Foxworthy version, “If you buy a diamond in a parking lot from a complete stranger, YOU MIGHT BE A REDNECK.”
I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that this woman trusted this complete stranger, or that she trusted Target’s “fine jewelry” department!
