Did you hear about the Van Gogh painting that was stolen from an Egyptian museum, whose security cameras were mostly on the fritz? http://gawker.com/5619010/van-gogh-painting-still-missing-from-alarm+free-museum What I want to know is, where do these thieves think they’re going to get the $55 million the painting is worth? ~Jenn
Thanks to fb stage combat friends Crossed Swords for posting this amusing article about a man who drew a wooden sword when threatened by robbers. ~Jenn
Actually I guess they can! Had a chuckle over this thief story about a robber who called the Wendy’s he had just robbed and warned them there had better be more money for him to steal next time. You tell ‘em, robber! (thanks, mental_floss!) ~Jenn
I know this is already old news, lovely lurkers, as I’ve seen this reported on everything from stellar blog Boing-Boing to our local morning news. BUT…since yesterday was blog-less, and this story is about a thief and Star Wars, I feel it would be remiss if we didn’t share this story. ~Jenn
If you’ve been reading Daily Cross-Swords for a while, lovely lurkers, you know I can never resist an interesting thief story (no, not that Colton kid…). Found this little gem (ahem) on Jezebel: apparently the diamond thief stole it by claiming it lost, then turned around and tried to sell it. How on earth this person thought it would work to sell this thing, I have no idea. I mean, look at its size!!! ~Jenn
Whatever you think about Ubisoft, the head of the ACII creative team leaving, the pre-order ad, or whether you should get this game or wait for ACIII, that’s not the point here.
The point here is: Mmm, gorgeous Renaissance fighting graphics. Thanks, Kotaku! ~Jenn
If you’re new to Daily Cross-Swords, just click on the Thief tag to get sort-of an explanation or at least a history of why I sometimes post thief stories here. Thanks to stellar blog mental_floss for this story today.
I thought this was…interesting. Minimum security indeed. ~Jenn
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/3615291/Burglars-break-into-prison-steal-TVs
Since I’ve been teaching about Renaissance Art the past couple weeks in my DU Art & Interp class, I appreciated coming across this story from stellar zine mental_floss about the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa. ~Jenn
Dang, stellar blog Boing-Boing really brought it today! So many cool things I’m interested in. I have to share these three with you, lovely lurkers, just in case you’re still not subscribed to them. ~Jenn
1) How To Spot a Handgun: This is a fascinating graphic for we stage combatants and martial artists–how people move differently when they have a hidden weapon. I noticed in MSCD’s recent 12th Night production that most of the men either were too careless or too conscious of their weapons. It’d be an interesting ninja trick to attempt to move more naturally and evenly with a hidden weapon. Could you do it?
2) Ghost Stories in London: an intriguing theatre review by the esteemed Cory Doctorow.
3) A Real Life Master Thief: Wired, via Boing-Boing. A real life master thief. Like, real life crazy stuff. Parachuting to the roof of a castle to steal jewels. Esacping from prison three times. An emaciated hottie rolling around in his cash. How’d he get caught? Like any fictional master thief, he made one little mistake.
