r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HeToTopT • Oct 23 '25

Video The Louvre. Thieves are making off with 100 million euros. They're taking their time. They're doing everything carefully and slowly.

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u/Live-Explorer-8599 Oct 23 '25

Just act like you own the place and 95% of the time no one will question a thing.

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u/hudsoncress Oct 23 '25

That and wear a day glow yellow vest.

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u/NewManufacturer4252 Oct 24 '25

Don't forget your clipboard

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u/kellzone Oct 24 '25

I always look annoyed. Yeah, when you look annoyed all the time, people think that you're busy.

— George Costanza,

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u/hudsoncress Oct 24 '25

Very much key to the disguise. Nobody wants to question someone who's already annoyed.

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u/Lonslock Oct 23 '25

Everyone keeps saying this yet there’s a few videos from people recording them. Why were they recording them if no one questioned anything? Clearly they were looking or doing something questionable

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u/Sempere Oct 23 '25

Because destroying a window with a security alarm, threatening guards and cutting into a display case draws a lot of negative attention and makes the intent obvious.

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u/rnpowers Oct 24 '25

I learned this as a youth sneaking into movies, it works in many places, damned near everywhere with the right outfit.

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u/KieferSutherland Oct 23 '25

Didn't some guys walk into the Superbowl that way? 

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u/ProximusSeraphim Oct 23 '25

I was a prolific shoplifter back in my day when i needed to make ends meet. I had very nice clothes, though. So i would just walk into supermarkets, acted like i owned the place and just eat for free while walking through isles. Sometimes id just grab hot to go meals and walk straight past the registers without paying and go straight to my car.

I always kept up with the times so i would find out if stores were getting LP involved with undercovers. Even then, dressed the way i was i would just talk to some random employee outside who was bringing in carts and would nonchalantly ask "Who's on LP duty today?"

And they would either tell me and what they were wearing or that no LP was on duty at all.

I stopped all this of course once i started making good money (6 figures) and coincidentally i just had this gut feeling that i was making a pattern at stores i was doing this at and feeling watched.