Friday, December 05, 2008

Jewelry Heist of the Century in Paris

Definitely naughty, not at all nice.

Some thieves did some early holiday shop(lift)ing in Paris on Thursday.

To the tune of $100 million.

Dressed as women, the jewel-hungry villains robbed the Harry Winston boutique on avenue Montaigne at gunpoint in "the Heist of the Century," snatching diamonds, watches, and other jewelry.

Pere Noel will be depositing a lump of unrefined coal in their stockings this year. If he can find them, of course.

6 comments:

Autolycus said...

Oh Lord, I can see the Hollywood movie already......

Starman said...

Geez, Paris is becoming more and more like the US. How sad.

Anna said...

Are you back in the States now, Polly?

Maria said...

ohhh if there had been blogging when i lived in paris...the stories i could tell. i lived by the bastille from 1990 - 1993 and my appartment was broken into once and they left my passport, my money, but took my tony lama cowboy boots - ouch

Anonymous said...

This story has been like watching a great movie~~I, too, devoted a post to it on my blog.

Polly-Vous Francais said...

You're all spot-on -- I think Audrey Hepburn already starred in the movie versions -- perhaps a combo of Charade and... hmm, what was the movie about the great diamond heist?

Maybe the thieves had literary aspirations as they plied their theatrics for the job...

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