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By JAMIE SCHRAM, KEVIN FASICK and M.L. NESTEL
Last Updated: 2:37 PM, February 17, 2013
Three slick thieves smashed and grabbed $2 million in bling from a Four Seasons display case just feet from the Midtown hotels front desk yesterday and made a clean getaway, The Post has learned.
The crooks snatched three watches, a necklace, earrings, rings, cuff links and pendants from the Jacob & Co. case at around 2 a.m. and fled in a waiting car on East 57th Street, sources said.
It was quick. They hit us, smash and grab, gone, a security worker said. We certainly didnt expect to get hit there.
With an accomplice waiting in the car, the other two men waltzed into the famed hotel and ascended two flights of stairs to get to the ornate lobby surrounded by a dozen windowed cases from an assortment of high-end retailers.
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Cirque du So-What
(25,965 posts)but ostentatious displays of wealth - coupled with management too cheap to keep security cameras operating - are an open invitation to events like this.
GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)High priced security like that gotta cost $10-15 an hr.
msongs
(67,433 posts)hunter
(38,325 posts)...like the plastic food in restaurant displays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_food
Jewelery stores I've seen always lock up the good stuff in a safe before everyone goes home for the day.
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)Walking thru the lobby, I turned to GF and mentioned something about having a length of pipe...