Isn’t there something wickedly delicious and old-fashioned about that heist at the Louvre?
The Napoleonic jewellery crime has captivated the world and with reason. I am smitten with the details.
The hooded thieves smashed a Seine-adjacent gallery window and made off into the Parisian streets with eight pieces of historically priceless jewellery.
Well, maybe not priceless – the precious jewels (including a 1300-diamond tiara) have a combined price tag of a whopping $154 million.
Not bad, hey? Who needs to watch action movies?
Reading about this daredevil act, carried out in broad daylight, made my heart race a little faster.
I am in awe. The audacity. Such brazen acts to bag the bling. The foursome arrived in a lift and left on scooters. They even stopped at a red light on their way home. That is pure class.
You know, I feel it is okay to be a little happy for the culprits because no one lost their life savings and no one’s grandma got tricked by cyber scamsters.
In a world of fast-paced technology, it feels almost old-fashioned. George Clooney should play the lead robber when art mimics real life and a movie is made.
I was once a victim of jewellery swindling. A former boyfriend proposed to me in a hot air balloon with a big stupid grin on his face and a huge, round diamond ring in his hand. It was a magnificent chunk of ice that made me weak at the knees.
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I guessed it must have been two carats. But when that boyfriend and I broke up a few weeks after the proposal (I was not ready to settle down), I reluctantly gave the ring back. Old mate told me it was a fake diamond and it had cost him less than $100. How insulting!
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend – not cubic zirconias!
Back to the Louvre heist.
It took that clever group of cat burglars the same time to pull off the crime of the decade as it does for my coffee gal to make my regular-sized latte when the café is busy. I mean, seven minutes. The album version of Champagne Super Nova by Oasis runs longer.
Sami Muirhead is a (now retired) radio announcer, blogger and commentator, wife and mum of three.
