Maybe they're curators from the British museum
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It's been a while since we've seen a good heist.
The old gang came back for one last job. Joey Bananas, Legs McGillicuddy, Five Finger Frank, Stinky and Mr. Black.
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
Heists will always kick ass
It could only be the notorious Arsène Lupin!
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!
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.
selling art that you have to "steal" from the gallery could be an escape-room style fad.
Delete this before someone steals it.
Well, Napoleon's jewels would be low hanging fruit.
If you see this man, contact the gendarmerie!
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.
Some Welsh bronze age pieces were stolen recently as well :(
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)
The basket is at the bottom of the arm, right besides the tree
ohhhhh yeah. neat
Heists are so cool ahhhhh. In and out - quick getaway- and it was open at the time!? So cool
What is this from lol
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.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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Oh shit... did somebody get a hold of Paddington's "ladder in a briefcase"?
Damn that's impressive
French police release footage of one of the robbers in action: https://inv.nadeko.net/mr834Cs9ncs?t=17
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.
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.
as long as they only steal jewelry and not real art then thats pretty based tbh
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.
I look forward to the film adaptation.
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