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Sentinel - Aug 18 - Art Thieves Caught
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Mosestrotsky
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 		Sentinel - Aug 18 - Art Thieves Caught
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Art Thieves Caught
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Seven former museum security staff who are suspected of stealing PCL122.8 million in irreplaceable art from the Restructure Gallery last weekend have been captured at the end of their three-thousand-mile flight to Allerdun. Police chief Eoin Morgan indicated that the thieves have already been released into Perplex City custody.

Morgan added that a cursory inventory has shown nearly all of the missing artworks in the possession of the suspects. He said that as soon as the police make a complete inventory, the goods will be returned to the hands of Restructure Gallery owner Vianne Powell.

Powell expressed tremendous relief at the news. "I would like to thank our law enforcement agents, who have tirelessly worked to resolve this matter. ... This has been the longest week of my life," she said. Powell said that the gallery would be remaining closed for business indefinitely, until she could personally review the security systems and make significant staffing changes. "Sadly, there is no electronic system in the world that could have prevented this kind of treachery," Powell said.

Details of the heist are still sketchy, but it appears that former gallery security chief Julian Guthries had, over the course of several months, infiltrated the existing security team with a hand-selected crew in on his plan. Police say that the night of the theft, only Guthries' henchmen were at work, and their combination of clearances allowed them access to every piece on the gallery. "It was a perfectly designed and executed plan," said Morgan. "Quite sharp, really."

John Ha, the owner of the Ha Gallery, said that Guthries had a reputation for being the very best in the art world. "I would have hired him myself," he said.

The captured suspects include Julian Guthries and Laurie Hobarton, but the identities of the other five in the gang have not yet been confirmed by police.


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 		Who wants to bet that one of the people caught also participated in the Cube heist? I have the feeling that the best of the best in the security world also wanted the best of the best in the theft world, and might have recruited one of the people who participated in the Cube heist (who hasn't died yet). Then again, this could just be more useless spec...
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three-thousand-mile flight to Allerdun


so, we finally have info about a place outside PPC, I was begining to think they were completely isolated from the rest of their world. Here's something to think about, If there's no commercial air transport, how did they fly there?(assuming, of course that it is "flight" in the literal sense and not synonymous with 'flee'.) Secret charter jet? (where's the airport?) Helicopter?(when was the last time you saw a helicopter travel 3000 miles?) Some sort of ultra futuristic VTOL aircraft?

The spec could go on for days.... Smile
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 		I interpreted it as synonymous to flee.

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 		3000 miles is a heck of a long way to walk!! Saying that, if they had all of the stolen art with them then they wouldn't be able to just check it all in as luggage at their local airport?? We may be missing some of the facts but from what we know about Perplex City and from what was said in the Talksport interview, something about this just doesn't ring true...
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 		To put the distance in perspective, London to New York is approx. 3500 miles.
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 		Which, by flight, you can do in a day or so. I gathered from the report that they were fleeing for all the time the art was missing. I reckon they would have used car or the automated cars they have. If these things have a set speed then could make it in the three or so days.

I am not saying they could have used a private jet as they do have planes just not the sort of airports we have

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 		They may have a global high speed rail system, or there could be highways in which automated cars are allowed to travel at very high speeds.

However, my impression seems to be that PPC is too isolated to have much international transportation and commerce.
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 		Re: Sentinel - Aug 18 - Art Thieves Caught
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"It was a perfectly designed and executed plan," said Morgan. "Quite sharp, really."


Sharp Red, perhaps....hmmmmm

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation works by pulsing strong magnetic fields over selected regions of the brain. The first attempts at using TMS to facilitate cognition nearly two decades ago were imprecise and difficult to reproduce. Today, by combining fTNI (functional terahertz nanoscale imaging), cortex-keyed labelled effector molecules and highly powerful superconducting magnets, we are investigating how we can stimulate or inhibit multiple regions of the brain simultaneously and in real time.


Could someone be using this technology to control some or all of these people? For instance, Aiko may have, in fact, unkowingly or perhaps knowingly used some of this technology in her sculptures to control others. These unknowing culprits could already have been under the influence of Sharp Red or Ceretin containing these cortex-keyed labelled effector molecules. As the Cognivia website states, Ceretin has been under going changes continuously for years....

More useless spec I suppose....

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erekose wrote:
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three-thousand-mile flight to Allerdun


so, we finally have info about a place outside PPC, I was begining to think they were completely isolated from the rest of their world. Here's something to think about, If there's no commercial air transport, how did they fly there?


Well, there's a perplexcityairport.com parked at Go Daddy so I wouldn't say they're completely isolated or lacking in transportation.

No, the real question here is how they were apprehended so fast. You'd think a mastermind behind such a theft would put as much planning into the escape route as he had the actual heist. I mean, all seven were caught at once? Maybe there was a tip-off or double agent, otherwise it all seems too... clean.[/i]
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 		Re: Sentinel - Aug 18 - Art Thieves Caught
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John Ha, the owner of the Ha Gallery, said that Guthries had a reputation for being the very best in the art world. "I would have hired him myself," he said.


Maybe im just being dim but how does a security man become the best in the art world?

If your the best in the security business your not just limited to art?

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 		Anyone else find it kinda weird that the lead story on the Sentinel is still (at time of writing) the theft and appeal for information, though they're also now reporting that they've apprehended the thieves? Are we supposed to infer something, or have they just not got around to upadating their site?

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sorry I haven't navigated to the Sentinel site in a while. The possible overlap of this story with the Heist story made me curious. But I couldn't find this article. The lead story I see is " Study Shows Games Year Aids Careers"

I searched but didn't see that article mentioned here. I am aware, however, that search is not and has never been my friend, so any assistance in linking me to the right page would be great. Thanks.
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 		H'm. It looks to me like two places where Aiko Entrescore's artwork have been housed have also been subject to theft.

The first was the Academy, if I remember correctly.

The second, the Restructure Gallery.

I am reminded of an old saying:

Once is an accident.
Twice, coincidence.
Three times, enemy action.

So . . . let's see where Aiko's work turns up next.
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 		Heh the thing that I worry about is the smug grin that Macavity is going to get if he ever gets proved right that Aiko is behind it all Wink
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Anyway - this is totally unrelated and just because I've been staying at the screen for too long but you know when you start seeing patterns in things when they are not really there.

I was looking at the old Receda Cube/Sentinel articles.

In the very first one (or one of them) the Cube stolen article - each initial of the first word of each paragraph is TAPSPAT - TAPS.

Just spent at least 5 minutes trying to think if this is relevant at all and the easy solution is no and that I have totally flipped.

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