The World's most Ingenious Thief
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#22If you liked this story, you might also enjoy the Silver Thief. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1020547
Thanks, it was also a good story, nothing like our geek criminal mastermind (because he is evidently a geek) :) but an enjoyable story nonetheless . . . can you fellows tell I enjoy true crime stories? Both entertaining and informative, it's the only topic I read besides tech . . .
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
> How ridiculous, one states something, and here comes someone with deficient reading skills and whips up a slew of crap that has no bearing on what I stated. So, I'm not going to waste any time getting into an argument with someone with deficient argumentation skills, except to clarify one bit: > Framing the brinks guy? Was the man charged or convicted? No. Therefore, no frame. So the police bust into his home, haul…
> So, I'm not going to waste any time getting into an argument with someone with deficient argumentation skills Right, coming from someone whose debating skills amount to putting words into another person's mouth (or writing) Now, just where did you read about "the police bust into his home, hauled him into custody, scaring the crap out of his wife and children, and searched everything. He was likely suspended from w…
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So, I'm not going to waste any time getting into an argument with someone with deficient argumentation skills Right, coming from someone whose debating skills amount to putting words into another person's mouth (or writing) Now, just where did you read about "the police bust into his home, hauled him into custody, scaring the crap out of his wife and children, and searched everything. He was likely suspended from w…
> Right, coming from someone whose debating skills amount to putting words into another person's mouth (or writing) I called it as I read it. You pointed it out as something commendable that he preyed on the strong rather than the weak. I responded that preying is never commendable, and that he prayed on plenty of weak people. So far you've done nothing to explain your position to me, except to throw profanities. > N…
I used profanity?
What?
Serious question: are you drinking right now?
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#25Somehow, I can't stop thinking of him as the guy from Ocean's 12 Francois toulour http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2973145088/ch0002220
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Right, coming from someone whose debating skills amount to putting words into another person's mouth (or writing) I called it as I read it. You pointed it out as something commendable that he preyed on the strong rather than the weak. I responded that preying is never commendable, and that he prayed on plenty of weak people. So far you've done nothing to explain your position to me, except to throw profanities. > N…
I used profanity? What? Serious question: are you drinking right now?
> I used profanity? What?
You called my post "a slew of crap". If that doesn't qualify as profanity, you still did nothing to rectify my apparent misrepresentation of your original post.
> Serious question: are you drinking right now?
No.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's an interesting dilemma. One one side what he does is obviously wrong. On the other side what fantastic skills. With regards to the people of Austria I am pretty sure that the star wasn't made without exploiting other people. Things like these are not so black and white. That story is a film worthy.
Not really. Your skills and what you apply said skills to don't overlap. What's a dilemma is that we only hear about these people when they apply their skills to evil. If he'd done a career in bank security, it's very likely we'd never have heard a word about what he did. > I am pretty sure that the star wasn't made without exploiting other people Sure, that's why it belongs to, and should belong to, the austrian peo…
The dilemma is that on one side I am fascinated by a guy like that on the other what he is doing is obviously wrong from at a legal point of view.
He is not just a criminal who do what he do because he have no choice. He could have been doing "good" and still be highly successful.
It's not just the skills it's the guts to do what he do. To live a life that is almost crazier than any story you can think off.
In some ways he is an artist.
With regards to the Austrian people you are missing the point. That star is not just made through hard work from the Austrian people. I am pretty sure that diamond didn't come from Austria although I could be wrong of course.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used profanity? What? Serious question: are you drinking right now?
> I used profanity? What? You called my post "a slew of crap". If that doesn't qualify as profanity, you still did nothing to rectify my apparent misrepresentation of your original post. > Serious question: are you drinking right now? No.
crap is a slang word, not profanity. There is a difference.
My initial post is clear, and I elaborated upon it once already. If you can't understand it, that is your problem.
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#29I wonder how much of the story is true and how much is fabricated by the ego of this guy. It would be all the more believable to the cops interviewing him, they want to believe that they caught the ultimate criminal mastermind.
Of course bits of it must be true, the bits with solid corroborating evidence, but I wonder if the truth is quite so cool and impressive?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You know what I like about this guy? that he did not prey on the weak. He preyed on those bigger and stronger than him. Oh please with the righteous Robin Hood ethics. First, they were not stronger than him, that how he got in. Second, just because you're a bank, it doesn't mean having hundreds of thousands stolen doesn't impact anyone, or is somehow just, for that matter. Third, what do you call framing the Brink-…
It's an interesting dilemma. One one side what he does is obviously wrong. On the other side what fantastic skills. With regards to the people of Austria I am pretty sure that the star wasn't made without exploiting other people. Things like these are not so black and white. That story is a film worthy.
Fantastic skills? He kept documentation of his false identities and jobs. He filmed his heists. He carelessly used names on the phone. He was sloppy, and he paid for it.