Gendarme mauvaise. No butée torique.
Posted on 11/14/2004 2:43:41 PM PST by martin_fierro
The key to a successful burglary? Try the French police
Sat Nov 13, 3:06 PM ET
PARIS (AFP) - A swindler posing as the owner of a jewelery store outside Paris managed to steal a set of luxury pens and watches with the unwitting help of local police and a locksmith, police said on Saturday.
Claiming to be the owner of a jewelery store a few blocks away, a 30-year-old man called in at the police station in Enghien-les-Bains, a small town northwest of Paris, at around midnight on Saturday last week.
The man, identified only as Yves, told the officers he had lost his keys and needed their help to get into the shop. They kindly obliged, calling in a locksmith to pry open the door.
The locksmith became suspicious, however, after the man reached for the shop's display counters, grabbing a handful of fountain pens and watches -- among them a Rolex.
He asked him for an ID, but the burglar said he had left his papers at the police station. He then fled the scene, carrying with him booty worth some 10,OOO euros (13,000 dollars).
Police caught up with the thief the following day, and recovered part of the loot from his home in a nearby town.
Gendarme mauvaise. No butée torique.
LOL!!
(SARCASM: OFF)
I don't know which side to marvel at: the thief, with his brass 'nads...or the police, with their unparalleled stupidity.
Do you have a lisonze for your minkey?
Yah, where's the liczonse? (GMTA!)
Aren't they required to carry a white flag with them so they can unconditionally surreneder at the slightest provocation?
Do you have a lisonze for your minkey?
Frog Police: No, but we'll surrender to you anyway.
Man, this IS so funny !! And to think I am myself an avid collector of fountain pens ! Sacré Bleu, I had almost fooled them all !
I just love these stories. I bought a British book once, that was the records of the "Not Terribly Successful Society". The book was full of such stories : unsuccessful inventions, burglars with bizarre ideas supposed to give them a psychological edge over their victims. Some of them were downright fabulous.
,,, the world's full of opportunities but I won't be writing my own story in this regard. I'll just use the closest pen I can find each time.
Good Lord, this fountain pen is a real beauty ! I can't make up the brand, though. It sure doesn't look like a Parker or a Waterman, or a Cross. It's not a Shaeffer either, Omas is out of the question...what brand of pen could it be ?
,,, it's a Mont Blanc.
Ah, classy ! The Montblanc and Dupont are real beauties - too bad they're so damn expensive !
,,, yeah, it's the sort of thing you pass on to one of your grandchildren.
It's the sort of thing I'd be buried with, and my grandchildren could just be damned ! LOL
,,, ha! That's the spirit!!! Let 'em work for their own. Good one!
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