Thieves steal $6M in jewels while ball drops on New Year’s Eve

NY Post ^ | 2 Jan 2017 | Jamie Schram

[DUMBGRUNT]

The three hooded and masked men broke into a West 36th Street jewelry wholesaler at 12:01 a.m. Sunday in what appears to be an inside job — while 7,000 cops were distracted protecting Times Square revelers just a few blocks away.

The source said the thieves “100 percent” planned the heist to coincide with the ball drop.

They made off with around $6 million in gems and are still at large, police sources said.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Good high paying jobs are hard to find!

[Blue Jays]

Very big crowds of people into which they could easily blend, too.
Not to mention $6M of quality jewels could be carried in a coat pocket!

[Paleo Conservative]

I thought I saw that movie before.

[proxy_user]

WPIX is reporting that one of the safes wasn’t locked. I suppose the next thing we’ll hear is that one of the employees didn’t show up for work today....

[Carriage Hill]

More profitable than stealing ATMs.

[DUMBGRUNT]

And no heavy lifting!
Also no need of the rental truck!

[rarestia]

Was just thinking about “Die Hard With A Vengence” where Bruce Willis’ character stops two kids stealing from a bodega, and the kid says, “It’s Christmas! You could steal city hall!”

[Vendome]

[Carriage Hill]

And no need for the “blue wrench” (cutting torch).

[DUMBGRUNT]

A GOOD safe is torch resistant.

Now a plasma cutter should get you a hole?
But they throw some mighty slag!

Might diminish the value of your haul?

[Carriage Hill]

ATMs aren’t in the “good safe” category. But unless you know where to cut with a torch, the cash stacks might be carbonized by the time it’s fully opened. Diamond cutter wheel might work cleaner.

[stylin19a]

Ocean’s 14 ?

[DUMBGRUNT]

Urban legend has it that, anything combustible inside a safe, can cause an explosion with a torch?

Diamond cutting steel is S L O W!!!

If you happen to remember the Beagle Boys,’Paul Bunyan’ Machine, that might be the ticket? About the fifth photo down.

http://www.cbarks.dk/thebeagleboysstoriesa.htm

[Carriage Hill]

That might work.
Here’s 10 ways NOT to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLaSFGn8np9Sevb4svwlddtj0sZ0qwAbC4&v=usFgj3cd0MI

[bgill]

They’ll get considerably less than $6 on the black market especially if the diamonds are coded. That’s also assuming the owner didn’t fudge the amount, cough. Their take may only be around 1 million.

The cops should look closely at upcoming employee deaths/suicides.

[Noumenon]

Was that The New York Job?

[JimRed]

They’ll end up fencing them for about $500k...

[DUMBGRUNT]

Nice find!
Thanks