He got off because they had no evidence of his direct involvement in perpetrating the crime and no paintings. His involvement was after the fact. This is Swedish law. Had either been true, he'd have gone to jail. The others did not have that luxury. They were connected by evidence to the actual theft. Had this occurred in the US the lawyer would have been convicted and seen 5 to 10...because he cannot do that. He could represent a client who wanted to return the paintings without payment. He cannot act as a broker for their return upon payment. Here's the stupid part. They should have gone to the insurer of the paintings. Rather than payout for their loss... 30 million...they give the person who "recovered" them 10 to 20 percent. Here, 3 to 6 million. Not bad. And the insurer will never tell the police anything because they rely on stolen items being returned. If the insurer always rats, then no thief would ever trust them...they'd be stuck making the full payout...for every theft. Very bad for business.
200,000 Krona is about 25,000 USD in 2005. Imagine going through the trouble of setting up a heist involving 30+ people, stealing art worth over $30million, sitting on it for 5 years while it all goes tits up because someone used their actual phone number, then finally finding a buyer, then selling it for less than Toyota.
That's actually pretty common from what I've heard. Stolen goods that are easy to sell often sell for 50% to a fence but if something is hard to sell like artwork then even if you can find a buyer they'll want a low price
@Raja Ritonga Unfortunately no but you just reminded me to try downloading the pic and uploading to an image host so I can try to image search it and see if any higher quality versions pop up
My favorite character in this heist is the Swedish justice system. Jails you can leave on weekends and overturning the sentence of 3 of the culprits in the end.
@Erika McQueen Yeah, people sometimes assume ALL Scandinavian prisons are like that but it's mainly just their minimum security that's like this. They have maximum security prisons like anywhere else too, they're more secure even if they are still much nicer than the average maximum security prison. In articles and shows about Scandinavian prisons they usually share photos of minimum security even when they're talking about maximum security. People also tend to forget that there are minimum security prisons in the US that are the same way. When my dad was in prison on a petty drug offense he was on work release so he left prison all day, got to go wherever he wanted (construction worker), and then return before curfew but due to traffic and such he could arrive a bit late so long as someone let the prison know where he was and when he'd arrive. There are also prisons in the US that have the same security as the average school yard: a couple of guards, an average fence, and a simple gate but few escape since they dont want to be transfered to a higher security place, lose privileges, and have time added to their sentence.
One of the cars that were used to distract the police were stolen from my step-father, whom I finally got to show this video for as he's been locked in Portugal due to Corona. He claimed they only set it on fire, but he loved the presentation and has become a fan on the channel! Due to how long it took to solve the case proper, he forgot all about it until I brought it up to him now... so it took almost 20 years but now he's laughing over the idiocy of the guys that stole his car
You guys should check out the Munch museum theft. Some people walked in. They took the paintings off the wall. They walked out. If not big brain, it certainly was big dick energy.
@Lady of Darkness im pretty sure if you try to pull the old “whoopsie i forgot it at home” they just get security and boot your ass out the store, better safe than sorry especially if its gonna be that common of an excuse for underaged buying.
I remember reading about this, if I'm not mistaken, it was attempted to be stolen like 3 times, at least once successfully, it's like buying alcohol when you're underage, you just look really confident as if you own the goddamn place, glance around as if bored, barely check out people with no eye contact, and just be 100% swag and 0% nervous. Then, nobody asks any questions. Only difference is, if someone asks for an ID you can just say "oh I left it at home, nevermind" and no biggie, while if they catch you stealing a painting, I think that takes a bit more of steel balls.
I'm a big fan of the Antwerp diamond heist. After months of reconnaissance, a group of 5 thieves performed a genuine Ocean's Eleven-style heist and stole $100 million USD worth of jewelry from the vault of a diamond trading house, using tricks like duplicating keys based on pen-camera footage and disabling thermal sensors with clear hairspray. They left virtually no evidence behind. So how were they caught? They gathered all of the evidence into trash bags, and the guy who was supposed to burn them just chucked them into the forest instead. The landowner gave the trash to the police and they found receipts with the real name of one of the men on it. He refused to give up the names of the rest of the gang and served a total of 8 years in prison. Most of the jewels were never recovered.
So Basically It was Confidence Kinda like Going into an Marriage ceremony Going around Normally like you belonged there Eat some food and Get the Fuck out ASAP like that?
I don’t understand why anyone steals priceless paintings, like who would buy stolen goods that hot? It’s literally just a game of hot potato and the last person holding the paintings when they turn up is going to be in a whole lot of trouble.
@Fox Buns The vast majority of stolen art ends up in the hands of private collectors who aren't shy about showing it off to their social circles. You're falsely assuming a group of amoral art snobs have any reason to report their friends and associates to the police, let alone when they themselves are statistically likely to also be involved in the same kind of illegal activity and use the same criminal networks and contacts. They'd be burning bridges and incriminating themselves for literally no reason or gain.
@R looked like a metal boat though as long as that fisherman was watching nothing they could have done other than take it with them maybe they should have used a box truck as the getaway vehicle at the place they got off on and took it with them
They figured all the parts that i would never have the idea, gut or material to do, but the most obvious parts of the heist that i untill today tought were the norm they forgot Holy shit Honestly sometimes i just want to make a perfect heist just because i am frustrated with those criminals
Europe's weakness on crime is not always a good thing. Look up the man who forcefully raped 2 different women in the same week and only got 2 years. That would not fly in the US.
Swedish Law: "You're looking at six and half years, tell us where the paintings are. Pretty please." American Law: "Yeah we're going to give you 3 consecutive life sentances without parole, but here's a plea deal. Give us the names, addresses, and social security numbers of everyone involved. And we won't send your mother to guantanimo bay for possessing a single ounce of mamajuana."
@Nathan Lennox If we look at the Swedish crime rate and US crime rate. Seems like you are wrong. The us has the most people locked up in prison and the highest rates of people re offending after prison time.
Something similar happened recently. A bank was clearing all it's valuables and hauling it to an offshore bank. Every employee, and guard left the bank but kept the security systems up and the front of the bank was locked down tighter than the Seirre Madre of absolute pain. Someone that following night broke into the bank quite easily: for you see while they locked down the main entrance, there was a maintenance tunnel connecting the garage to the rest of the bank. Person broke in via the now unguarded maintenance tunnel and into the bank armed to the teeth... he... was pissed... Why was he pissed? He thought there would be valuables there. So he did something radicicolous and sundance reject worthy. He shot out every possible window, bashed open every ventilation cover with a baseball bat, smashed the keypads on the vaults, broke every window, shot out every TV, cut cable lines, broke the hinges off every door, bashed executives worthless yet pretty paintings off their walls: anything he could access he destroyed, and to end it? He shot all the cameras watching him until that point. The next day the bank agents came back to see the place in tatters, the bank had to get $5.7M spent to fix or replace everything. Guess where this all took place? Somewhere very special and known for insane hijinks like this... florida... florida man gets arrested for mass destruction of bank property
@MegaNightmare4 Idk man, if someone destroys my personal property, assaults me, hurts a family member... Whatever... I wouldn't want them to be treated better by the government than me.
@A Professional Gamer you win both imprisoned total and imprisoned by capita so don't worry about that and as for rape capital that's categorically false as most statistics account for all sexual crimes from being sexually harassed to rape
@impyrobot well the most imprisoned and the most imprisoned per capita are two very different things. After all, the usa does have the 3rd highest population, it makes sense that we have more prisoners. Also isn't the crime rate in Sweden incredibly high right now? And also the rape capital of the world? Yeah those light prison sentences are a bit much.
@A Professional Gamer If you don't like it then don't come to Sweden. No one was hurt the judge ruled 6 years in prison. In the US you cross the street wrong and get 6 years. Why do you think the US has the most people imprisoned in the world.
@RobertEPS12 it could be vandalism, but more likely than not, the museum might ban them and not press charges. But the publicity would be worth it if the artwork is dope
Personally, if I had been curator, I would have let it stay while simultaneously releasing a public statement that any further similar acts will not be tolerated and will be removed. Why let that one remain? Because the act itself was a work of art, haha.
Oh, hey. I remember this heist, it was pretty famous in Sweden for a while. Didn't know we actually solved it, though. Good to know. Kudos for pronouncing "Mälar" and "Nordström"... um, more or less right.
@Fallback account considering the mixed Swedish-American theme of this video, he could just as well be American. I know he's Australian, but he's hiding it behind Americanism. (I'm referring to the parts before they actually went to USA; that part should obviously be American-themed)
@PannierLaw If you consider the longterm it really didn't matter much, the break in the case was the FBI overhearing the sale setup by sheer coincidence because they were already observing one of the involved parties for drug activity. The initial group and their incriminating book led to a dead-end in the case, and the paintings were already handed off by the time they got arrested.
True story: My family was there. This is how it went down: 15 min before closing time my mom and my little brother went to the toilet close to the entry. My little sister, 19 at the time, waited at the lobby. In comes a guy without mask, like normal dude. Except the guy went straight to the stairs leading to 2nd floor and stopped in the middle of the stairs and STARED at my sister before he went up. Then, 2 guys with ski masks and AK-47s came in started yelling get down etc. At this moment my mom and my brother came out of the toilet and were held at gunpoint. My dad and my youngest brother were at this moment at the other end of the museum getting coats or smthn. My brother told my dad that there were men with guns. My dad just said ”Naah, it’s nothing” and didn’t do anything. 😀 Then the dude who went upstairs at the beginning came down with the paintings and all of them went out and to the boat. My family was kept secret from the media since they were witnesses. And yeah, they had blown the two car bombs to distract cops. Funny thing is that I didn’t want to go with them to Stockholm because I thought it was going to be boring. I stayed at my parents drinking with my friends. 😀 I live in Finland and have visited Stockholm multiple times. They called me after it happened and little brother said that ”We saw a robbery” and I thought they saw some kiosk robbed or smthn. 😀 But next day when I saw the headlines I kinda panicked, since I thought they were mafia or pros anyway and they had escaped. AND my sister had seen the face of one of them. I don’t know exactly why they did not have to go to the court to testify, but they gave statements. I remember later seeing the papers at my moms house when they sentenced one of the guys, Vladimir Petrov, for 6 years if I remember right. Kids, moral of the story is: Do stuff with your family, it might be more exciting than you think!
When the Mona Lisa was stolen, the guy just walked up to it and took it off the wall and hid it under a jacket. He tried to exit out of a side door but it was locked. By then an employee came by and saw a guy in a trench coat holding a framed painting trying to get out. The guard unlocked the door for him and let him out. Nobody noticed the Mona Lisa was stolen for something like 2 or 3 days, when an artist who wanted to paint a copy complained, and a bored guard went searching. Only then they realized it's gone. That's why it's behind inches of glass now.
I have to say, the criminals bringing a decoy painting to the sale was a 200 IQ 4D chess move but unfortunately for them, the police was playing 5D chess with their 300 IQ brains.
@Rohann van Rensburg Something something "Use Nord VPN and the feds can't hack your smart car to make you crash at 90 miles per hour while you try to escape with stolen art." How's that?
I think it's because it doesn't feel like an actual advertisement. I don't know how he gets away with it, but now I want Nord VPN to prevent car accidents.
This is byfar my favorite internet historian video. Somehow someway this guy was able to tell the amazing and interesting tale of an art theft in Europe, which ends up going international (which is some James Bond mission impossible type shit) in the way of a shitpost. And I still was able to obtain all of the information about the heist. You truly are a master of your craft mr. historian.
think about it, the police know they're going to be on high alert and they know that they are probably not trying to sit on this artwork forever, so it's a safe bet to let the deal play out then add an unnecessary risk by going off half-cocked.
The art heist sounds like a Payday 2 heist and they just ECM rushed it while on Normal difficulty. A mix of Art gallery (cuz of the art), Jewelery store, (take out the guards and suppress the civs), and car shop, (The escape.)
*Damn, Nick Valentine's past life was quite the bomb shell, let alone the fact that he had a twin brother and his wife had plastic surgery to look exactly like him*
I like how the swat have parrying shields so incase they encounter a suspect with a sword they can use their extensive knowledge in historical European martial Arts to subdue the opponents
18:05 - I guarantee you Historian knows that the engine lives there in that car and is having the biggest piss ever. I love these little satirical details.
This man truly knows his internet history. At 1:40 the winded lady gasping for air is the audio from the Grape Lady Falls video from years and years ago.
The Internet Historian ads are the best ads on the whole internet. How the hell do you manage to make an ad so damn entertaining, dude? I got Honey with one of your links. Don't need a VPN right now, but if I ever do this is the link I'll hit. Cheers!
Please make one of these for the helicopter heist against the G4S cash depot in Stockholm. It occurred on September 23rd in 2009. It was one of the most daring, spectacular and well-planned heists in the history of the world.
I love all your videos from both channels. I like your humor and the way you weave the stories. Thanks for the hard work. And also, I liked the way you portray the ads. Genius!!
So is this ad man trying to get back into the dating game after his wife's tragic passing? I'm happy for him man, hope he gets lucky soon and stops having everyone around him die in car crashes.
I just looked up Robert Wittman to see why he is so embellished in the articles and it turns out it was kinda true, he helped in recovering about 300 million dollars worth of art. From the Rembrandt Self Portrait to the copy of the Bill Of Rights stolen in 1865. Dude is actually pretty badass it seems.
I love that I learned about this in Art History and how factual this silliness is! You make wonderfully entertaining, factual, schlock and it is amazing
Well tbh museums have generally tight budgets and hundreds of valuable goods so imagine if you had to assign a guard for every one of those... I do think however it should have some GENERAL security that is strong
Don't talk to me or my son ever again
@Lisa Bowers Ancient Chinese Secret.
hahaha
Why edited
@Commander Gree is good 😌 he wqqrô
This was a beautiful tale. I wish Sweden was a real place.
@Green Rooster excuse me, pls refer to it by it's official title, the united Emirates of swedistan...
Wait till you hear about this
As a Swede I wish I was real.
Sweden is real its not Finland
I thought that lawyer who tried to blatantly extort the police was an absolute idiot, but when he got acquitted, I figured he must be a legal genius.
That's because he used..
NORD VPN!!!!
He got off because they had no evidence of his direct involvement in perpetrating the crime and no paintings. His involvement was after the fact. This is Swedish law. Had either been true, he'd have gone to jail. The others did not have that luxury. They were connected by evidence to the actual theft. Had this occurred in the US the lawyer would have been convicted and seen 5 to 10...because he cannot do that. He could represent a client who wanted to return the paintings without payment. He cannot act as a broker for their return upon payment.
Here's the stupid part. They should have gone to the insurer of the paintings. Rather than payout for their loss... 30 million...they give the person who "recovered" them 10 to 20 percent. Here, 3 to 6 million. Not bad. And the insurer will never tell the police anything because they rely on stolen items being returned. If the insurer always rats, then no thief would ever trust them...they'd be stuck making the full payout...for every theft. Very bad for business.
@PsyMar no they don't
@some idiot lawyers never ever represent themselves, it's a very bad idea
Better Call Saul!
200,000 Krona is about 25,000 USD in 2005. Imagine going through the trouble of setting up a heist involving 30+ people, stealing art worth over $30million, sitting on it for 5 years while it all goes tits up because someone used their actual phone number, then finally finding a buyer, then selling it for less than Toyota.
That's actually pretty common from what I've heard. Stolen goods that are easy to sell often sell for 50% to a fence but if something is hard to sell like artwork then even if you can find a buyer they'll want a low price
Considering there was no consequence for their actions, not that bad a deal
That wouldn't even cover the cost in the escape car they bought for the Heist.
Possibly not even the guns
Gains are gains
As a russian I can say that "Alexander Petrov" is the most generic russian name I ever heard
In Germany we have Max Mustermann
It's like the Russian's "John Smith"
It's like John Smith or Hans Muller
Stefan Nordstrom is a pretty aggressively Swedish name.
Vladimir petrov
It’s hard to believe this is only 28 minutes... it seriously feels like a full length documentary!
@Cybrisk Biggest cliffhanger ever
Cybrisk any update on this? Found it?
Meanwhile in The Gentleman Pirate...
@Raja Ritonga Unfortunately no but you just reminded me to try downloading the pic and uploading to an image host so I can try to image search it and see if any higher quality versions pop up
@Cybrisk been months, any luck yet?
My favorite character in this heist is the Swedish justice system. Jails you can leave on weekends and overturning the sentence of 3 of the culprits in the end.
@someguy most criminals in Sweden aren't scandinavians.
Same here in Portugal. Ironically the name of the leave is precária (precarious). Ngl
@Erika McQueen Yeah, people sometimes assume ALL Scandinavian prisons are like that but it's mainly just their minimum security that's like this. They have maximum security prisons like anywhere else too, they're more secure even if they are still much nicer than the average maximum security prison. In articles and shows about Scandinavian prisons they usually share photos of minimum security even when they're talking about maximum security.
People also tend to forget that there are minimum security prisons in the US that are the same way. When my dad was in prison on a petty drug offense he was on work release so he left prison all day, got to go wherever he wanted (construction worker), and then return before curfew but due to traffic and such he could arrive a bit late so long as someone let the prison know where he was and when he'd arrive. There are also prisons in the US that have the same security as the average school yard: a couple of guards, an average fence, and a simple gate but few escape since they dont want to be transfered to a higher security place, lose privileges, and have time added to their sentence.
Armin Meiwes also gets weekly furloughs
“Alexander Petrov” and “Stefan Nordstrom” are, respectively, the most Russian and Swedish names I’ve ever heard.
Alexander Petrov is a proud Bulgarian name, not r🤮ssian
@TFaceFalone Stefan Nordström
@Archeology of Chicago Oh I love Dron VPN. They're the best!
saying almost 600 people named Mahmud live in your country kind of proves his point. lol
One of the cars that were used to distract the police were stolen from my step-father, whom I finally got to show this video for as he's been locked in Portugal due to Corona. He claimed they only set it on fire, but he loved the presentation and has become a fan on the channel! Due to how long it took to solve the case proper, he forgot all about it until I brought it up to him now... so it took almost 20 years but now he's laughing over the idiocy of the guys that stole his car
What kind of car was it?
This world is a small place, wild stuff man
@Zephyr or somethinh You know cameras were a thing in 2000 right?
@Samurai Gaming me. I asked.
Preferably polaroid xD
You guys should check out the Munch museum theft.
Some people walked in.
They took the paintings off the wall.
They walked out.
If not big brain, it certainly was big dick energy.
@Lady of Darkness im pretty sure if you try to pull the old “whoopsie i forgot it at home” they just get security and boot your ass out the store, better safe than sorry especially if its gonna be that common of an excuse for underaged buying.
I remember reading about this, if I'm not mistaken, it was attempted to be stolen like 3 times, at least once successfully, it's like buying alcohol when you're underage, you just look really confident as if you own the goddamn place, glance around as if bored, barely check out people with no eye contact, and just be 100% swag and 0% nervous. Then, nobody asks any questions. Only difference is, if someone asks for an ID you can just say "oh I left it at home, nevermind" and no biggie, while if they catch you stealing a painting, I think that takes a bit more of steel balls.
I'm a big fan of the Antwerp diamond heist.
After months of reconnaissance, a group of 5 thieves performed a genuine Ocean's Eleven-style heist and stole $100 million USD worth of jewelry from the vault of a diamond trading house, using tricks like duplicating keys based on pen-camera footage and disabling thermal sensors with clear hairspray. They left virtually no evidence behind. So how were they caught?
They gathered all of the evidence into trash bags, and the guy who was supposed to burn them just chucked them into the forest instead. The landowner gave the trash to the police and they found receipts with the real name of one of the men on it. He refused to give up the names of the rest of the gang and served a total of 8 years in prison. Most of the jewels were never recovered.
@Einar Grude Logic: 50/50
So Basically It was Confidence Kinda like Going into an Marriage ceremony Going around Normally like you belonged there Eat some food and Get the Fuck out ASAP like that?
Jesus Christ just the fact they were even able to execute initial plan is mindblowing
@xzenitramx666 I'd say this was less luck and more them having laughable security
I don’t understand why anyone steals priceless paintings, like who would buy stolen goods that hot? It’s literally just a game of hot potato and the last person holding the paintings when they turn up is going to be in a whole lot of trouble.
You can make money from these heists, but you need a buyer beforehand.
@Fox Buns The vast majority of stolen art ends up in the hands of private collectors who aren't shy about showing it off to their social circles. You're falsely assuming a group of amoral art snobs have any reason to report their friends and associates to the police, let alone when they themselves are statistically likely to also be involved in the same kind of illegal activity and use the same criminal networks and contacts. They'd be burning bridges and incriminating themselves for literally no reason or gain.
Private galleries
@Mill Jack there is no swag. you cant tell/show anyone or youd be arrested. and anyone you tried to impress would assume its a fake
Have you seen NFTs? lol
These criminals who stole those paintings were almost perfect
If only they put a fake phone number down
@Plague Doctor James Painshe the perfect heist does probably exist, you just don't know about it, cause they have never been caught
@R looked like a metal boat though as long as that fisherman was watching nothing they could have done other than take it with them maybe they should have used a box truck as the getaway vehicle at the place they got off on and took it with them
@Metal Gear Zwei To be fair to the Lawyer, he was acquitted, so he clearly knew what he was doing on his end
Videoms they will feel the bucket, if i put it in my head, i won't see the victim, so the victim won't see me, ez af
They figured all the parts that i would never have the idea, gut or material to do, but the most obvious parts of the heist that i untill today tought were the norm they forgot
Holy shit
Honestly sometimes i just want to make a perfect heist just because i am frustrated with those criminals
Can we just admire the fact that Nord VPN still sponsor this man after his last ad. Impressive.
I bought a two year sub to nord VPN specifically because of his adds.
What was the last ad?
It's most likely because the quality of the ads keeps high average retention making youtubers that do this very sought after.
Just proves whoever is sponsoring him has a sense of humor. Which is good.
@Fucking Helen Like what the hell fucking brilliant lmao. this is what advertising should be.
Sweden: 8 year sentence for 30 million dollar art heist
US: 30 year sentence for routine drug bust
@Sm0khey Theft is victimless?
US: $1 Billion for talking smack about a school shooting
@Comrade_Qenten05 they will
Forgot to say I was talking about austria that happened.
Europe's weakness on crime is not always a good thing. Look up the man who forcefully raped 2 different women in the same week and only got 2 years.
That would not fly in the US.
Swedish Law: "You're looking at six and half years, tell us where the paintings are. Pretty please."
American Law: "Yeah we're going to give you 3 consecutive life sentances without parole, but here's a plea deal. Give us the names, addresses, and social security numbers of everyone involved. And we won't send your mother to guantanimo bay for possessing a single ounce of mamajuana."
@Nathan Lennox If we look at the Swedish crime rate and US crime rate. Seems like you are wrong. The us has the most people locked up in prison and the highest rates of people re offending after prison time.
Something similar happened recently.
A bank was clearing all it's valuables and hauling it to an offshore bank. Every employee, and guard left the bank but kept the security systems up and the front of the bank was locked down tighter than the Seirre Madre of absolute pain. Someone that following night broke into the bank quite easily: for you see while they locked down the main entrance, there was a maintenance tunnel connecting the garage to the rest of the bank. Person broke in via the now unguarded maintenance tunnel and into the bank armed to the teeth...
he...
was pissed...
Why was he pissed? He thought there would be valuables there. So he did something radicicolous and sundance reject worthy. He shot out every possible window, bashed open every ventilation cover with a baseball bat, smashed the keypads on the vaults, broke every window, shot out every TV, cut cable lines, broke the hinges off every door, bashed executives worthless yet pretty paintings off their walls: anything he could access he destroyed, and to end it? He shot all the cameras watching him until that point.
The next day the bank agents came back to see the place in tatters, the bank had to get $5.7M spent to fix or replace everything. Guess where this all took place?
Somewhere very special and known for insane hijinks like this...
florida...
florida man gets arrested for mass destruction of bank property
@Doot And yet it all happened. That's the actually good part about it.
This is some of the most madman thing ice read
Never befofe had I heard TRO’s voice with such emotion, not even when he rants about pineapple on pizza.
Me too
@Alfredo Salcedo thanks!
@Alfredo Salcedo oh right. I knew the part, I just didn't understand what TRO meant. I thought it was the real person or something. Stupid me.
@hoclok The Right Opinion, the guy who voiced the russian guy they were dealing with in the bathroom
What's or who's TRO?
Dang I gotta become a thief in Sweden. These guys got like, no jail time.
@MegaNightmare4 Idk man, if someone destroys my personal property, assaults me, hurts a family member... Whatever... I wouldn't want them to be treated better by the government than me.
@A Professional Gamer you win both imprisoned total and imprisoned by capita so don't worry about that and as for rape capital that's categorically false as most statistics account for all sexual crimes from being sexually harassed to rape
@impyrobot well the most imprisoned and the most imprisoned per capita are two very different things. After all, the usa does have the 3rd highest population, it makes sense that we have more prisoners. Also isn't the crime rate in Sweden incredibly high right now? And also the rape capital of the world? Yeah those light prison sentences are a bit much.
@A Professional Gamer If you don't like it then don't come to Sweden. No one was hurt the judge ruled 6 years in prison. In the US you cross the street wrong and get 6 years. Why do you think the US has the most people imprisoned in the world.
I work at an art museum and while we never had someone steal a piece, it once happened that somone hung up their own painting in one of the galleries
reverse art theft
tra tfeht ?
@RobertEPS12 it could be vandalism, but more likely than not, the museum might ban them and not press charges. But the publicity would be worth it if the artwork is dope
absolute mad lad
Personally, if I had been curator, I would have let it stay while simultaneously releasing a public statement that any further similar acts will not be tolerated and will be removed. Why let that one remain? Because the act itself was a work of art, haha.
I love how Whang doesn't need a copy-pasted mustache because he already looks like a Guy Incognito and suspicious as fuck.
Oh, hey. I remember this heist, it was pretty famous in Sweden for a while. Didn't know we actually solved it, though. Good to know.
Kudos for pronouncing "Mälar" and "Nordström"... um, more or less right.
He absolutely butchered "Par" though
@Fallback account considering the mixed Swedish-American theme of this video, he could just as well be American. I know he's Australian, but he's hiding it behind Americanism. (I'm referring to the parts before they actually went to USA; that part should obviously be American-themed)
We in the states have a clothing store called Nordstrom rack (high end place) so he's mostly pronounces it the way the store calls themselves
These videos feel like historian is playing with some action figures
He is actually
Sumito even said he looks forward to being his "plaything"
LOL Look at @16:51. IT literally DOES. and they are walking to the beat LOL
This was the most 500 IQ brain heist, but like how they dealt with it, was just, mind blowing.
Imagine being a stock image guy and ending up with one of your pictures in an Internet Historian video
This man deserves to retrieve the password of his main channel.
@Incognito Mode Please call anonymous, they can help!
@Incognito Mode Have you contacted the cyber police?
Yoooo dude sorru for the delay, I changed it to... Internet man or something my bad my drilla
maybe try nord vpn
@Incognito Mode bruh
Internet Historian has got to be one of the most entertaining and infinitely rewatchable content in all of KZclip
How amazing is it that you can take a bunch of blurry memes and make something 9000 times better than your average Sundance film
They could of become legends for robbing a museum with no traces, true legendary masterminds, if they used a fucking burner phone.
@Kaleidos Fair enough, but would’ve had less heat on them early on. Doubt they would’ve managed get those paintings sold anyway lol
@PannierLaw If you consider the longterm it really didn't matter much, the break in the case was the FBI overhearing the sale setup by sheer coincidence because they were already observing one of the involved parties for drug activity. The initial group and their incriminating book led to a dead-end in the case, and the paintings were already handed off by the time they got arrested.
Just that one damn mistake. And it all spiraled down.
Imagine the guys returning the paintings to the museum like: "hey guys, you dropped these"
True story: My family was there. This is how it went down:
15 min before closing time my mom and my little brother went to the toilet close to the entry. My little sister, 19 at the time, waited at the lobby. In comes a guy without mask, like normal dude. Except the guy went straight to the stairs leading to 2nd floor and stopped in the middle of the stairs and STARED at my sister before he went up.
Then, 2 guys with ski masks and AK-47s came in started yelling get down etc. At this moment my mom and my brother came out of the toilet and were held at gunpoint.
My dad and my youngest brother were at this moment at the other end of the museum getting coats or smthn. My brother told my dad that there were men with guns. My dad just said ”Naah, it’s nothing” and didn’t do anything. 😀
Then the dude who went upstairs at the beginning came down with the paintings and all of them went out and to the boat. My family was kept secret from the media since they were witnesses. And yeah, they had blown the two car bombs to distract cops.
Funny thing is that I didn’t want to go with them to Stockholm because I thought it was going to be boring. I stayed at my parents drinking with my friends. 😀 I live in Finland and have visited Stockholm multiple times.
They called me after it happened and little brother said that ”We saw a robbery” and I thought they saw some kiosk robbed or smthn. 😀 But next day when I saw the headlines I kinda panicked, since I thought they were mafia or pros anyway and they had escaped. AND my sister had seen the face of one of them.
I don’t know exactly why they did not have to go to the court to testify, but they gave statements. I remember later seeing the papers at my moms house when they sentenced one of the guys, Vladimir Petrov, for 6 years if I remember right.
Kids, moral of the story is: Do stuff with your family, it might be more exciting than you think!
So...your dad didn’t care? How very sweet.
@themac79 Yea I think movies have screwed us over to think that thieves are some masterminds...
@Sampsa Sipilä sure man, tried searching your full name and surname and nothing. how about a link?
@Monkey Dad He was a stubborn SOB. Rip.
@AT No. Take yo hat off.
When the Mona Lisa was stolen, the guy just walked up to it and took it off the wall and hid it under a jacket. He tried to exit out of a side door but it was locked.
By then an employee came by and saw a guy in a trench coat holding a framed painting trying to get out.
The guard unlocked the door for him and let him out.
Nobody noticed the Mona Lisa was stolen for something like 2 or 3 days, when an artist who wanted to paint a copy complained, and a bored guard went searching. Only then they realized it's gone.
That's why it's behind inches of glass now.
@cloudface von ruckus It's such a disappointing piece of art lol, though important ofc. La Belle Ferronnière is a far more impressive painting to me.
@JonatasAdoM rousing, not arousing
glass over paintings ruin the experience. Might as well be looking at a print.
@cloudface von ruckus NFT :))
@Frazix speak for yourself, us italians always knew the historical and artistic importance of the Mona Lisa.
Every officer and their wives being Cole Phelps just makes this 500% better
19:51 is absolute gold
"sorry sorry, reflex"
"thats okay."
20:11
You'd think that they'd have a plan on how to sell these things before going through the trouble of an elaborate heist. What a bunch of goobers.
"... and nothing has ever been stolen again".
what a heartwarming story this has been
"... it's a drug bust with some Bulgarians..."
As a Bulgarian, I am somehow not surprised.
I have to say, the criminals bringing a decoy painting to the sale was a 200 IQ 4D chess move but unfortunately for them, the police was playing 5D chess with their 300 IQ brains.
@Ragafraga Muffin no way that counts as entrapment
FOOLS ALL OF YOU, WHILE YOUVE BEEN PLAYING CHESS, IVE BEEN PLAYING DEATHNOTE!
-Technoblade, 1999-2022
and here i am playing normal chess with 50 iq
The police was playing checkers
imagine if they'd used a burner phone. Then they would've had all the time in the world to get the paintings to a buyer
"half scholar half daredevil and 100% men with alignment of chaotic good"what a man
laughing at the fact they pulled everything of perfectly but
- had no buyer or any idea how to get a buyer
- gave their lur
Love the stories of how a heist goes so perfectly but there was ONE SMALL MISTAKE that screws everything up. It's humorous.
I will always love how the entire police force is just Phelps in different poses.
i swear, internet historian is the only channel that actually makes me want to get the products that they advertise
The paintings?
@Rohann van Rensburg Something something "Use Nord VPN and the feds can't hack your smart car to make you crash at 90 miles per hour while you try to escape with stolen art."
How's that?
I agree. Except for raid: shadow legends. Fuck that game.
I think it's because it doesn't feel like an actual advertisement. I don't know how he gets away with it, but now I want Nord VPN to prevent car accidents.
This is byfar my favorite internet historian video. Somehow someway this guy was able to tell the amazing and interesting tale of an art theft in Europe, which ends up going international (which is some James Bond mission impossible type shit) in the way of a shitpost. And I still was able to obtain all of the information about the heist. You truly are a master of your craft mr. historian.
I actually look forward to his commercials like a series in a show.
Now this is what we in the business like to call a "Swedish win"
The police waiting as he leaves the room despite having no way of actually knowing it was a decoy is something out of anime
think about it, the police know they're going to be on high alert and they know that they are probably not trying to sit on this artwork forever, so it's a safe bet to let the deal play out then add an unnecessary risk by going off half-cocked.
I'm writing my thesis on art crime currently, I LOVE that you cited Anthony A. Amore's book, he does great writing on art crime!
I love how the "Ad Man" canonically now has an entire lore behind his character
ACACP
We would've known more about him earlier.... if he wasnt using nordvpn
@Camo qqing prety sire they are the same guy
Someone make internet historian fandom wiki
I need more Sundance Rejects. They are some of IH’s best works and that is difficult to top his FO76 video.
The art heist sounds like a Payday 2 heist and they just ECM rushed it while on Normal difficulty.
A mix of Art gallery (cuz of the art), Jewelery store, (take out the guards and suppress the civs), and car shop, (The escape.)
LMFAO this is way too accurate.
@Psytinker like I said...
*Normal difficulty.*
I was thinking about that the whole time,it does seem like it
*Damn, Nick Valentine's past life was quite the bomb shell, let alone the fact that he had a twin brother and his wife had plastic surgery to look exactly like him*
Wow, I really liked Whang and TRO’s voice acting! Very good job, boys!
It has only just dawned on me that each scene is meticulously handcrafted in photoshop. So much effort put in.
I love that it was an almost airtight crime due to pure luck, considering how many goofs they made after they found they found their phone number.
I like how the swat have parrying shields so incase they encounter a suspect with a sword they can use their extensive knowledge in historical European martial Arts to subdue the opponents
I’ve only ever heard TRO use his serious voice, so his cameo makes me fucking weep every time I rewatch this video.
I feel like this could get into Sundance festival for how well-crafted it is
9:47 Hearing a screaming voice juxtaposed to such a calm narrator is just hilarious.
As a museum guard, the security in that museum almost gave me a stroke.
I was just there today it’s way better now lol and the Rembrandt is now behind thick a glass/wall
Honestly though, the country is quite safe considering only a single heist in the museum happened despite the relaxed security
Is it a worthwhile job?
@solmoman they are always rock hard for him.
@solmoman bro.
I love how you left in the laugh at the end of Whang's crying part, lol, internet high art
honestly the fact they pulled off the job is pretty impressive.
“Art thief?”
“Yes, are you the buyer?”
Brilliant
I still find it baffling how videos that from the outside seem so low effort can be so high quality.
Seriously, your channels are fucking treasures.
I love how much effort is put into citing sources in these vids
But I thought it was illegal to commit crimes in Sweden?
You could be a professional dodgeball player judging by the way you missed the joke.
Rape is ok under certain pigmented circumstances
If anything you're rewarded unless it's an act against the state.
Yes,but they had an license.
Apparantly you can get away with it if you don't get caught smh!
I honestly love these nordvpn ads. They're the best advertisements I've ever seen. And they're unironically actually funny. Thank you for the laughs.
18:05 - I guarantee you Historian knows that the engine lives there in that car and is having the biggest piss ever. I love these little satirical details.
17:16 as a bulgarian I am offended , but agree with this portrayal.
He put so much detail into this. Even the Detroit Become Human interrogation track is in there 1t 19:48
I'm not a music expert, but that saxophone music bits feels almost part of the Incognito Mode and Internet Historian brand. I love it.
this genuinely is the highest effort content out there and it shows, bravo.
and its on his second channel too lol
Except for every animator ever on yt
Rc-1309 Niner he’s not being sarcastic
@M’aiq the Liars son Sonny boi Setter, Terrier, Feist and Utonagan ? How did you know my favourite dog breeds ?????
I'd say his is the best, and if you want to watch someone else who's also great, try LEMMINO. He has tons of great videos
This man truly knows his internet history. At 1:40 the winded lady gasping for air is the audio from the Grape Lady Falls video from years and years ago.
The Internet Historian ads are the best ads on the whole internet. How the hell do you manage to make an ad so damn entertaining, dude? I got Honey with one of your links. Don't need a VPN right now, but if I ever do this is the link I'll hit.
Cheers!
@Bore Ragnarok I don't even skip the Raid Shadow Legends ads. They're that good
@Bore Ragnarok 🤣🤣🤣
The one on the corona virus video for nord VPN was singlehandedly the best ad I have ever seen In my entire time on KZclip.
I knew this story sounded familiar. I met Wittman once doing tech for one of his book events. I honestly wasn’t sure if I believed him at the time.
You are the ONLY producer of quality commercials I actually WANT to see and look forward to. And what an epic lineup
HOW MANY TIMES AM I GOING TO WATCH THIS!? ITS LIKE MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME OR SOMETHING.
and we would've gotten away with it, if it wasn't for that pesky boat seller.
Or the pirate
That old man who just randomly decides to stalk a bunch of strapping young lads on a boat deep into the Swedish rivers....
@AModerateChub luck I guess?
Marvin It’s amazing they didn’t pull out a burner/ trap phone.
I'm here watching this in 2022 for the 20th time pretending everything is OK. This is my comfort brain food.
Seeing old early 2000s style money just shows this guy does his research
These ‘Sundance Rejects’ are definitely one of the best and funniest things on KZclip. I just wish there was more of them.
Please make one of these for the helicopter heist against the G4S cash depot in Stockholm. It occurred on September 23rd in 2009. It was one of the most daring, spectacular and well-planned heists in the history of the world.
I love all your videos from both channels. I like your humor and the way you weave the stories. Thanks for the hard work. And also, I liked the way you portray the ads. Genius!!
I don't know, "nothing has ever been stolen again" seems like an overblown statement, since Whitman stole my heart.
And my axe
And my bow
@UnLImITeD ? No need. It's in good hands
How are you going to get it back?
God, this was fantastic. A collection of my favorite "explaining crazy shit on the internet" people doing a heist movie. Perfect.
16:13 I choose to believe that's just how TRO talks outside of his videos
holy crap this guy has SO MUCH content between his 3 channels ❤️❤️❤️🧟♂️🧟♂️🧟♂️🧟♂️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Well, when you’re so focused on planning out the big things, you sometimes overlook the small stuff
I love how he made Summito play the Russian and had that white guy play the Iraqis.
So is this ad man trying to get back into the dating game after his wife's tragic passing? I'm happy for him man, hope he gets lucky soon and stops having everyone around him die in car crashes.
NordVPN is ethernal, wives are not
He can't find love because he doesn't browse in incognito mode.
ad man:i like you, but i dont think that we should go to a relationship-
girl: i use nord vpn
ad man: we should marry rn and have 2 kids.
What an all encompassing lore.
Wrong guy, that was RAID Shadowman. This is NordVPN guy, a different character.
I just looked up Robert Wittman to see why he is so embellished in the articles and it turns out it was kinda true, he helped in recovering about 300 million dollars worth of art. From the Rembrandt Self Portrait to the copy of the Bill Of Rights stolen in 1865. Dude is actually pretty badass it seems.
@Not Patrick think of stolen as "considered to be stolen". Bill of Rights was considered to be stolen, but was at some point got reclaimed back.
Wait, what? I don't think the math adds up.
This has got to be one of the best KZclip channels. PERIOD. I can't get enough of this. 😂
What’s a Swedish minimum security prison like? A 4 star hotel? Just staying in your home
I love that I learned about this in Art History and how factual this silliness is! You make wonderfully entertaining, factual, schlock and it is amazing
The funny thing is that the first time I saw this I didn’t know who Sumito was so I legitimately thought he was one of the real robbers…
The Nord VPN ad is actually the story of how Internet Historian met Internet Herstorian.
Good god this is brilliant
@Kin - Who grew up to be the angry drunk Internet Comment Etiquette
this comment took me out lmfao
And one day had Internet Kidstorian
It's never a dull story with the Internet Historian.
This is one of the best videos this man has produced.
Change my mind
I don't know what's worse, them using their real phones or the Swedish museum using lackluster security on a Rembrandt painting.
Well tbh museums have generally tight budgets and hundreds of valuable goods so imagine if you had to assign a guard for every one of those... I do think however it should have some GENERAL security that is strong