The difference between stealing diamonds and fooling around
January 20th, 2010
The Panthers
have choreographed some
spectacular jobs: In 2007, a group
of men drove two cars through windows
and into the forecourt of a mall in Dubai, racing
out to rob a jewelry store of $3.4 million worth of jewels;
in 2004 two men and two women raided a jewelry store in Tokyo,
smashing a display cabinet and escaping into the bustling crowds with
$30 million in jewels, in what was the biggest grossing robbery in Japan’s
history; in 2003 two men stole £37 million in jewels from a diamond store
in London. Only a fraction of those jewels have been recovered but police
did find a 2.32 carat blue diamond ring hidden in a jar of face cream
belonging to the girlfriend of one of the thieves, echoing a scene
from the first Pink Panther movie starring Peter
Sellers. A name — and something
of a legend —
was born.
