• etherphon@piefed.world
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    2 days ago

    Really the first thing I thought of too, like decades of heist movies and shit like that, and none of it really happens.

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      23 hours ago

      There’s all kinds of amazing heists in modern history. Sadly, most end with them getting caught because they were stupid

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        23 hours ago

        Ah history sure, I guess I was talking about modern day stuff, high tech heists. I suppose with all the advances in surveillance technology and firepower the ante has been upped but there’s always been enterprising and/or crazy folks willing to give it a go.

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      2 days ago

      and none of it really happens.

      Have other museums been targeted lately?

      Yes. In September, thieves using a blowtorch and power tools stole nuggets of raw gold worth about $700,000 from the National Museum of Natural History, a few subway stops from the Louvre in Paris.

      That same month, two porcelain dishes and a vase worth about €9.5 million, or about $11 million, were stolen from the Adrien Dubouché National Museum in Limoges, France. And in 2024, thieves stole elaborate snuff boxes from the Cognacq-Jay Museum in Paris.