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[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 105 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe they're curators from the British museum

[–] dead@hexbear.net 61 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's been a while since we've seen a good heist.

[–] WilsonWilson@hexbear.net 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The old gang came back for one last job. Joey Bananas, Legs McGillicuddy, Five Finger Frank, Stinky and Mr. Black.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

Sorry this is Fr*nce so it's Julian d'banan, Pieds d'honhonhon, Francois de la cinq digits, pepe le peu and monsieur noir

[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

erm-this-you Heists will always kick ass

[–] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I hate the idea that the art will be sold to some rich asshole who will keep it in his house until he dies, but at the same time, heists are works of art.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

selling art that you have to "steal" from the gallery could be an escape-room style fad.

Delete this before someone steals it.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 39 points 2 days ago

Well, Napoleon's jewels would be low hanging fruit.

If you see this man, contact the gendarmerie!

I look forward to the film adaptation.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Armed with small chainsaws and box cutters, they smashed display cases before fleeing on Yamaha TMax scooters

Robbers used to do their getaways in Minis, but now the Minis are so damn big you can't drive them in stairwells anymore so robbers are forced to buy Japanese maxi scooters instead.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It could only be the notorious Arsène Lupin!

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago

Arsène Lupine is based on a real French anarchist gentleman master thief and folk hero, who left cards at the scene of the crime and gave the stolen money to the anarchist cause: Marius Jacob. He was very successful with over 150 burglaries and had a whole gang.

The Duolingo French podcast has a whole season about his live.

The right to live isn’t begged for, it’s taken.

I preferred to rob rather than be robbed!

Quotes from this text of him.

[–] UmmmCheckPlease@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] UmmmCheckPlease@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

Heists are so cool ahhhhh. In and out - quick getaway- and it was open at the time!? So cool

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 days ago

Some Welsh bronze age pieces were stolen recently as well :(

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Japanese animation called Lupin III, it is a very very long running master thief series that began in 1965. There's half a dozen seasons and a dozen movies. Pretty much everything is standalone so you can jump in anywhere. All of it is good. Steal shit from rich people for the thrill and kill nazis kind of stuff. Even the 3d movie is very good.

It's relevant here because Lupin III is based on Arsene Lupine, a french fictional master thief.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ohhh nooo not the precious jewelry! But but but the monarchy used to own those!!!

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 44 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm gonna back the French on this one since they did the right thing with the monarchy and made their possessions generate income for the people.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s pretty much the best option. The ill-gotten gains of kings often includes piles of trinkets and art that’s not really valuable to the rest of us sold off or melted down. There’s valuable history and artistic merit on display. Turn it into a museum. Charge a little to keep the place nice so the next generations can remember.

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago

Plus, dead monarchs make me happy ☺️

[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean yeah, but jewels are basically the least culturally valuable art in the Louvre so I'm not too broken up about this.

Any artifact is culturally relevant. Jewelry isn't the exception

[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

Yeah that sucks.

It'll just be sold to some bourgeois asshole to sit in some private collection out of view of the public for the next hundred years (probably some monarchist fan too...) and enrich some professional criminals whose acts are in no way revolutionary. These are not the type of people who are shoplifting a Walmart or robbing a small bank branch.

Say what you will about France and stolen stuff, this isn't a repatriation of stolen heritage or wealth, it's just shifting stuff from public view where anyone with a bit of money can enjoy it for an entry fee (not far from the socialist ideal where anyone can enjoy it free), to some private collection to enrich some professional criminals and add pleasure to the day to day of some rich asshole who probably jerks off over the idea of monarchy.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

wow the thieves used a ladder truck, that's amazing! (I guess it is called a "basket lift" but I don't see any basket)

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The basket is at the bottom of the arm, right besides the tree

[–] miz@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

ohhhhh yeah. neat

[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

Damn that's impressive

[–] OptimusSubprime@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

French police release footage of one of the robbers in action: https://inv.nadeko.net/mr834Cs9ncs?t=17

[–] dragongloss@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

awww, i was hoping for the actual surveillance video, would cool to see how they did it, I wanna see them chainsaw open the display cases like the article described.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago

Oh shit... did somebody get a hold of Paddington's "ladder in a briefcase"?

[–] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

as long as they only steal jewelry and not real art then thats pretty based tbh

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 43 points 2 days ago

Jewelry is real art. It's just one of the arts most wrapped up in human exploitation. But you can make jewelry out of anything and it is literally one of the oldest forms of art.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago
[–] sictransitgloria@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)