Burqa-wearing man steals nearly $1 million in jewelry from Piaget in Hudson Yards

New York Post ^ | February 24, 2020 | Larry Celona and Olivia Bensimon

[karpov]

A thief wearing a burqa and armed with a spray bottle made off with nearly $1 million worth of necklaces and watches from a Hudson Yards jeweler on Sunday, police sources said.

The bling bandit, a man dressed in a “burqa” covering most of his face, walked into the luxury Piaget jewelry store at around 3:55 p.m. and asked to look at a necklace, sources and police officials said.

As the clerk pulled out the necklace, priced at about $21,000, he noticed the man was holding onto one of the store’s watches, according to sources.

When the employee questioned the soon-to-be thief, he whipped out the spray bottle and squirted it in the clerk’s direction before running out of the store, with the necklace and two watches — one priced at $64,000, and the other $715,000 — in tow, police sources said.

Piaget, where some watches are so expensive the price is not even displayed online, valued the loss at around $800,600, sources added.

[karpov]

For security, businesses should be allowed (but of course not required) to ban people wearing burqas and other masks.

[marktwain]

And how is he going to fence those?

They have serial numbers.

They are easily identifiable.

[woodbutcher1963]

I am surprised a jewelry store like this did not have a door that you have to be buzzed in and then unlocked to walk out of.

Maybe it is against fire code to keep you locked in.

[golux]

[gibsonguy]

“A thief wearing a burqa and armed with a spray bottle“

So what is the rest of the joke?

[GreenHornet]

Police are looking for a Muslim transvestite.

[Tell It Right]

IMHO the spray bottle was intended to implement an acid attack.

[EinNYC]

So throw a lighted match at the guy. Poof!