When was the last time you watched a movie about a $120 Million diamond heist? Thirty years ago diamond robbers were bad guys who would eventually get arrested, diamonds in hand. Today perhaps we're a little bit more honest, or maybe just more experienced due to global media, so sometimes our diamond robbers are cast by beloved celebrities and sometimes they're not really caught, although the dubious nature of crime remains.
But one way or another - the sophistication, shrewdness and resourcefulness of the robbers is a mere teaser to the scene where hundreds of mind-blowing, sparkling, coveted diamonds are poured into bags. More diamonds than we can ever imagine laying our hands on… Well, one Italian dude went for the diamond dream. He had been practicing robbery since he was 6 years old, honing his robbery skills through the years, attaining mastery.
Last week police caught Leonardo Notabartolo, the mastermind of the world largest diamond bank robbery performed six years ago. He was caught with some of the diamonds he had gotten away with. Notabartolo was able to cut through ten different layers of bank security systems, one by one. He was then able to open the vaults and collect $120 Million worth of Diamonds. Why was a mastermind robber such as Notabartolo caught? That is another movie-perfect question. Apparently one of Notabartolo's four team members for the heist was a man who began experiencing anxiety attacks. Other team members thought he should not be counted on anymore. However, Notabartolo called the shots and he said "the dude goes".
Driving away from the scene of the crime that one anxiety-ridden team member hysterically threw a bag of trash, so carefully collected fingerprints and all, out of the car. Notabartolo, expectedly, had a plan to drive the trash to France and burn it there. This could have been the perfect, unsolved crime. But so it was that a forester detected a bag of unusual trash the next day and summoned the police.
So is this the end of our diamond-perfect movie? No, wait – there is another one coming! Notabartolo hired a lawyer called Basilio Foti and was actually able to walk out of incarceration with diamonds in hand. Basilio Foti's defense rested on the fact that unlike polished, cut diamonds, rough diamonds are hard to trace as they have no special marks on them.
The Italian legal system was unable to incarcerate the shrewd diamond robber, who claimed he had bought the diamonds fair and square. So how about weaving diamond dreams? I think, for me, I'd rather buy me one good carat sized diamond, maybe have a few other gemstones around it, and then go materialize some more positive dreams.
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