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    to boost your net worth in difficult times...
    Thieves in drag carry out £70m jewel theft

    Armed robbers dressed as women have stolen £70 million of jewellery from a top Paris boutique in one of the biggest gem robberies in history.

    By Henry Samuel in Paris
    Last Updated: 2:58PM GMT 05 Dec 2008
    Disguised as two couples, four men – two wearing wigs – stepped into the exclusive Harry Winston jewellers in the chic 8th arrondissement, produced handguns and ordered staff and 15 customers into a corner.

    While two ordered terrified staff to fill sacks with precious gems and watches from the window display cases, another ordered the manager to open the store's hidden strong box containing its most expensive items.

    Police said the thieves were "terrifyingly efficient" and had meticulously prepared their heist on the upmarket Avenue Montaigne – even addressing some of the shop employees by their first names and going straight for the store's secret safe...

    ...The Paris raid at 5.30pm on Thursday was the largest ever gems theft in French history and worth almost three times as much as France's previous "theft of the century" – a bank robbery in Nice in 1992.

    It is one of the most lucrative armed holds-ups ever in the world, although the world record is still held by a Belgian heist in which up to £90 million in diamonds and cash were taken from more than 120 vaults at a heavily guarded diamond exchange in Antwerp...


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    I seem to recall there are a few women here... if they weren't to put off by the Toxic Wives thread we might be able to field a team (I can't see Ash in drag somehow.) Or Outback. I've got the legs though.

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      My first requirement would be a wig!!! Why do you think I wear this damned hat inside here all the time!!!
      Last edited by The Outback Oracle; December 07, 2008, 10:31 AM. Reason: Just an afterthought

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