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I was talking about this with friends the other day.
Why the hell would they publicly display the actual jewels in a public display in a museum? You'd think that they would place a set that were indistinguishable replicas that the average person would never know ... hell, even a professional jeweller would need to pick them up and examine them up close with a magnifying lens to identify them properly.
Then take the actual real jewels and store them in a super secure vault underground where only two people are allowed access. Something like ... just place them under so much security and strong storage that no one or very people could have access them them.
It's hard to believe that they would place jewels that are worth hundreds of millions of dollars behind millions of dollars of security behind a glass case. I know the glass case was more secure than that but it was unsecure enough for some idiot to climb in through a window and break open things to get to the jewels.
The only other explanation we came up with is that the heist was organized by the museum or owners themselves as some kind of insurance scam. Everyone always suspects anonymous thieves but seldom suspect the actual owners or museum managers.
Some museum curators believe it is the right of their visitors to see the real historical objects. Showing them a fake, from this point of view, makes the museum pointless since anyone can look up a picture online or find a convincing copy nowadays.
That's also the opinion of visitors like me. What's the point of going to the Louvres to see a replica? Just send the replica to my home town library then.
I get that ... but to you and me and the average Joe ... if you showed us a professionally made fake set of the French crown jewels behind glass, four feet away, would we be able to tell the difference?
It is a matter of integrity and honor on the business side. It's not about us, it's about the owner and the honesty of the business services they want to provide. Their museum is a place to display artifacts, it is not a theatre for clones and copies.
Have you been to a french museum? I don't know much for jewellery but you can straight go up and poke at an invaluable painting. But people just don't.
Thats what the museum gift shop is for
The Louvre staff have been striking for years about the lack of staff and security and they have no private security as its not a private establishment.
According to reports its just average joes stealing it in an average Joe way.
A lot of stuff actually is replicated. Like the priest king which I've posted on this community is actually a replica while the original is in the museum vault.
And the vaults are massive. People havent even seen most of the stuff that exists there. Aren't even aware of the things we have.
"We?"
Humanity as a whole I meant lol. We don't even know the discoveries that have been made.
The Vatican liberry has a shit ton of forbidden stuff.
They say.
Probably have some manuscripts that's for sure.
Ah yes, indeed!
Maybe the thieves got the fakes. The real ones are secretly stored. The Museum helps the police "find" the stolen jewels by planting the real ones. The buyer finds out their loot is fake and takes it out on the thieves. Also, there's a car chase, some parkour, a little bit of shooting, a love triangle, a surprise betrayal, and retribution at the end.
Might want to mix it up a little bit and turn it into a motorcycle chase across foot paths and walkways, turn the love triangle into a gay love triangle, give it a surprise-surprise-surprise betrayal and skip the retribution.
That does sound even better. Is this a tragic ending?
A tragedy instead of a comedy
I would definitely watch that.