FARK.com: (6934096) More than $500,000 rare jewels stolen in a jewelry store heist. It involved burrowing through a wall, disabling alarms, and breaking into a safe. Sort of like Ocean's Eleven but without Julia Roberts

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		More than $500,000 rare jewels stolen in a jewelry store heist. It involved burrowing through a wall, disabling alarms, and breaking into a safe. Sort of like Ocean's Eleven but without Julia Roberts (chicagotribune.com)		34
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Leeds

2012-02-10 11:06:58 AM

Silly Subby.

Julia Roberts wasn't in the Rat Pack.

LowbrowDeluxe

2012-02-10 11:07:50 AM

Is there a joke to this headline I'm not aware of? "It's like a movie heist, but without the actors"?

Langdon Alger

2012-02-10 11:09:31 AM

Johnny Five unavailable for comment.

Bruxellensis

2012-02-10 11:15:19 AM

So, better?

MaudlinMutantMollusk

2012-02-10 11:21:56 AM

As there are currently no suspects, Ms. Roberts may still have been involved

mpfjr

2012-02-10 11:23:00 AM

Ain't No Party Like A Tea Party

2012-02-10 11:25:12 AM

Because nothing says

like grand theft.

potato_chip_eating_geek

2012-02-10 11:27:42 AM

Oh that Johnny Five!

Bill_Wick's_Friend

2012-02-10 11:29:36 AM

He was standing in the corner
Looking like the jack of hearts.

NightOwl2255

2012-02-10 11:31:25 AM

Smelly Pirate Hooker

2012-02-10 11:33:57 AM

Has submitter seen the movie? Because it's really not like that, except for the disabling alarms part. Everything else, not so much.

lucksi

2012-02-10 11:36:24 AM

I was once robbed a store by breaking into it from the next store, then drilled the safe and stole everything.

Game was called "The Clou!" on the Amiga 500

/I miss those games

kop316

2012-02-10 11:38:43 AM

Did the guy stash it in his Chinese take out?

FeFiFoFark

2012-02-10 11:41:01 AM

you're doing it right!

Quinzy

2012-02-10 11:42:33 AM

What is cool about a theft of half of a million dollars from a store? What if you were the owner of said store. I doubt you would think it "cool".

Eugoogoolizer

2012-02-10 11:42:41 AM

"Easiest thing in the world"

Doctor_TeethMD

2012-02-10 11:42:43 AM

FTFA: "Where the burglars came in is the only spot in the entire store, not covered by the motion detectors, or the surveillance cameras," Quick said.

And much like every heist movie, here comes the convenient flaw that never happens in real life.

WaltzingMathilda

2012-02-10 11:46:51 AM

Smelly Pirate Hooker: Has submitter seen the movie? Because it's really not like that, except for the disabling alarms part. Everything else, not so much.

has submitter read his own article? they didn't disable any alarms.

kemosabe

2012-02-10 11:48:12 AM

All that for just $500k. Weak.

missiv

2012-02-10 11:48:51 AM

A bit of Chicago history concerning jewelry heists.

justanotherfarkinfarker

2012-02-10 11:49:22 AM

Inside knowledge from the alarm co... or the business needed to get rid of some inventory.

Jingo Ate Your Baby

2012-02-10 11:56:49 AM

Ain't No Party Like A Tea Party: Because nothing says [img1.fark.net image 54x11] like grand theft.

Apparently not. What's the "attractive and successful" equivalent euphemism for this type of criminal activity? I guess our crime disgusts people because we don't do it big enough.

Your 401k gonna get raped.

Spanky3woods

2012-02-10 11:57:42 AM

I've never understood the whole Julia Roberts thing. She aint that pretty and her knees are way to sharp.

The wax figure of her at Madame Tussauds in Vegas was interesting because she was shorter than I would have thought. Still butt ugly, though

TheCharmerUnderMe

2012-02-10 12:25:42 PM

Or did the owner STAGE the robbery and sell the inventory on the black market, thus netting a tidy sum for the jewels AND the insurance money?

/Law and Order *DUN DUN*

bmfderek

2012-02-10 12:36:49 PM

Smelly Pirate Hooker: Has submitter seen the movie? Because it's really not like that, except for the disabling alarms part. Everything else, not so much.

I was thinking it sounded more like "Sexy Beast" to me.

Gig103

2012-02-10 12:41:46 PM

Ocean's Eleven and Thirteen are awesome, I can watch those over and over again.

ltdanman44

2012-02-10 12:56:33 PM

Savage Bacon

2012-02-10 01:08:53 PM

What, no Vincent Cassel doing capoeira through a bunch of lasers?

Weak.

Shirley Ujest

2012-02-10 01:36:33 PM

Gig103: Ocean's Eleven and Thirteen are awesome, I can watch those over and over again.

Me, too.

Polly Ester

2012-02-10 01:43:19 PM

but without Julia Roberts

What makes you so sure?
Does she have an alibi?

oldfarthenry

2012-02-10 02:23:01 PM

groppet

2012-02-10 03:24:29 PM

Something like this happend at a gun store in the neighborhood I grew up in the outside of the store was a fort. Bars, Strong solid doors, alarms, the whole 9 yards. Well the crooks broke in to the restaurant next door and just broke through the wall and cleaned the place out.

Mouser

2012-02-10 05:36:33 PM

Steve Quick, who has owned the business for 25 years, says there's a good chance this was some kind of inside job.

...

Fortunately, Quick says, they are fully insured and nothing belonging to any customers was stolen.

About that "inside job" theory of yours, Mister Quick...

Breygon

2012-02-10 08:26:23 PM