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Chas Allen was one of four 19-year-old college students who carried out one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. history.
Their target: The Transylvania University Private Collections Museum -- home to a collection of some of the most valuable rare books and paintings in the world, including Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species. If successful, the theft would make each of the students a fortune.
As part of the plan (inspired by heist movies) each of the four students took on separate responsibilities: One created aliases and backstories to contact the library and auction houses. Another created false documents and disguises to make the group look like old men.
With Allen as a get-away driver, the students managed to get away with a number of items... But a series of stupid mistakes would lead to their downfall.
In a series of candid interviews, Fakes, Frauds & Scammers relives some of the most audacious scams and fraudulent stunts of our time from the mouths of the perpetrators themselves. Whether it’s money, fame or simply an addiction to lying, we find out what motivated these tricksters and whether the highs, lows and ramifications were worth it in the end.
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@mrmo8174 2 года назад

They’re free now to tell their story on TV shows and have audiences laughing at them like it’s cute. Privilege at its finest.

@adlifiruz808 2 года назад

@O.A.F_B.A.S.E 2 года назад

Fr...who points a gun at a cop and gets to tell the story about???

@holeefuk413 2 года назад

It's great isn't it

@rashad123us 2 года назад

He pointed a god damn gun at an FBI agent’s face, nuts.

@kellym.6777 2 года назад

My thought exactly.

@jmars 2 года назад

Meanwhile my cousin did 5 years at the the age of 22 for weed. Sick of these type of crimes being highlighted.

@Saia_xx 2 года назад

This video made me so mad

@patrick1992 2 года назад

With 21 you are a adult so it's a difference to 19... How much weed and in the us or where?

@thrasher3236 2 года назад

@@patrick1992 ?? You are an adult at the age of 18 and yeah smoking weed vs stealing 12 million dollars of property and pointing a gun at an FBI agent

@simontan5295 2 года назад

@@thrasher3236 priors and background is taken into account as well. If you have a strong family background to facilitate your rehabilitation is another factor too and how good your lawyers are too. Just having a stun gun is not intent to kill vs burglary with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, in court they would of argued he didn't know it was the fbi and dropped the weapon as soon as he knew.

@abdulrahmanyoussef5820 2 года назад

@@simontan5295 my friend got 3 years for carrying an un registered gun. He had a clean record before he got arrested. Stop making excuses only reason why his charge was cause he’s white. If he was black he would’ve served at least 25 years in prison minimum

@ToastyAnalog896 Год назад

I love the part where he says "we were each going through tumultuous times" while a slideshow of the four of them in a limousine plays.

@nadiradutt8470 Год назад

PROBABLY HIGH READY TO PARTY THIS IS HILARIOUS THOUGH

@TombRaider666 Год назад

Right 😂😂😂

@AtheniaMaria Год назад

Not even I mean they even had the money to go to college when a lot of people don’t even get that opportunity

@kwonn1366 Год назад

@@AtheniaMaria exactly. Like wth was yall going through

@snooganslestat2030 Год назад

@@kwonn1366 Maybe daddy cut their allowance from $15k to $10k?!

@thatguy5801 2 года назад

"We were kids, we were 19 years old" Meanwhile some 13 year old's get charged as adults and sent to prison for life for much less.

@LaurenOpara101 2 года назад

Didn’t you know white men are allowed to be kids until 40 give or take 10 years

@Saia_xx 2 года назад

@@thatguy5801 cause it’s all about race here in America

@blicce9597 2 года назад

That’s completely untrue. You act as if 13 year olds are being tried as adults at the masses, and sent to prison for having a dime sack on them. They stole books, and did 7 years no real violence ever occurred. It is what it is.

@thatguy5801 2 года назад

@@blicce9597 No, They broke and entered Trespassed Assaulted the librarian with a weapon (stun gun) kidnapped librarian (tied her up) Stole incredibly rare books And all of it was premeditated and planned. Not just "stole books" 13 year old do get charged as adults in America ALL THE TIME, that would never happen here in Canada. Only the USA is messed up like that. In Canada you would be sent to juveniles prison something you rarely see in the USA.

@blicce9597 2 года назад

@@thatguy5801There are only about 11 or so states in the U.S where a 13 year old in juvie could ever get transferred to adult court and tried as an adult and sent to prison. (And most of the time the only just cause to do this transfer and try them as an adult is for grape or murder). So to suggest that something happens “all the time”, when only 11 or so states would have a legal right to try them as adults is ludicrous and disingenuous. Only under extreme circumstances would a 13 year old get sent to prison.

@jamesong.a.7695 2 года назад

Sentenced to 7 years in a comfy minimum security federal prison, out after 5, now only 24 years old getting to capitalize on their notoriety by doing nationally televised interviews and signing a book deal, all for being dumb AF. I have a hard time believing it would be the same if they were 4 low income black kids, a very hard time. And I’m no liberal.

@AA-bn3pm 2 года назад

No just stupid

@johnlenz420 2 года назад

true but props to the boys for being clever about their theivery. so many stupid liquor store robberies where u walk out of there with 247 bucks, as much whiskey as u can carry (not enough) and a bullet in u

@cormoran_strike 2 года назад

At least it's legal.

@REVIVERAJA 2 года назад

ON GOD

@jamesong.a.7695 2 года назад

@@cormoran_strike my point wasn’t whether or not it’s legal, it’s that if it were 4 black kids they wouldn’t be out so soon and laughing about it on some nationally televised talk show..

@andyginterblues2961 2 года назад

Wait... they stole a copy of "Origin of the Species", and immediately attempted to fence it at Christie's? And thought that they could get away with it? And were immediately caught? If that isn't a sterling example of Darwinism in action, Idk what is. The sheer irony.

@xLazarusEnvy 2 года назад

Forreal hahah I lost it at the "Christies was the ticket home" like they wouldnt think a copy of a book by Darwin, after just being stolen is being sold? Ridiculously hilarious haha, like they dont have lists of stolen high priority things like literature or art.

@lucasbiaggini 2 года назад

Well, they're all still alive and able to reproduce, so not really an example of natural selection.

@schiros123 2 года назад

Best comment ever.

@jedimindtrix2142 2 года назад

Yea...I mean. It's an example of kids being extremely detached from reality and stupid. Honestly the dude talking seems pretty smart. He made a huge mistake and paid for it with 7 years of his life. I have spent about 115 days of my life either in jail or in a facility in which I could not leave if I wanted to. A meager amount compared to that. I have PTSD of sorts related to that experience. So don't think 7 years is a cake walk. He knew the moment it started it was a bad idea. He just was young and didn't want to let his friends down.

@djnato10 2 года назад

Of all places it's kept in Kentucky too. One of the most religious states in all of America has one of the most iconic pro evolution books. Double irony here.

@forbesxsab4468 2 года назад

They stole from a library, tried to sell the stolen items to a legitimate auction house, and then kept the books in their house. Reward for dumbest criminals goes to….

@oourdumb Год назад

He ended up on Megan Kelly and everyone loves them, they can easily make money just from public appearances and writing a bs book about the heist themselves, you sure about that dumb part?

@ATX512thatguy Год назад

Shocking these guys got such a light sentence they’re now profiting from it and being treated like celebrities on tv. What a joke.

@beatpeace879 Год назад

Well at least it paid off. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@beatpeace879 Год назад

They made a movie it was called American animals and I just literally finished watching it now, this is how I got to this channel wanting to find out what they’re doing now. You are right it is a joke that they’re making money out of this and the justice system is letting it happened

@beatpeace879 Год назад

I was dumb and stupid when I was young but not that dumb and stupid 😂😂😂😂

@bobbylawsen9638 4 месяца назад

My thoughts exactly.

@pixpusha 2 года назад

Most of us just dismiss that one friend's crazy ideas.

@jamesbond4810 2 года назад

Well these four took it seriously.

@vikkorheel9966 2 года назад

Yeah man

@DoobieKeebler 2 года назад

"Broooo! You know all that rare and expensive art I keep learning about?" "Theres rare art, man?!" "Totally, man! And we could just, like, steal it and become millionaires and stick it to our dads!" "Bro, f%&# my dad!" "F*ck my dad too, man..."

@jamesmc4249 2 года назад

@@DoobieKeebler *hits blunt* bro let's go steal those books

@DoobieKeebler 2 года назад

@@jamesmc4249 *hits blunt* "Its gonna be so savage man. Just like 'Oceans 11!' But not like 'Oceans 8,' that one sucked."

@Lilc-hm2uv 2 года назад

"Life was tough" he said as they all were taking pictures in their wolf of wall street cashmere overcoat ... you can't make this up!

@nussnougat5462 2 года назад

I thought exactly that hahaha. His uncle probably decline him a job in his law firm or something

@WVURxMan Год назад

I feel like if me and my friends did this, we'd be in jail for 20 years, the one of us pointing a gun at the SWAT team would be dead, and nobody would give a single damn about it. Infuriating the privlidge some people inexplicably get.

@desihay22 Год назад

🎯

@timotheetessier1058 Год назад

For real this is gross to watch I can’t finish it , VICE needs to do better like 8-10 years ago

@paulfletcher3998 9 месяцев назад

@WVURxMan. Isn't that the truth.

@KingBanter 2 года назад

7 years for tasering and tying up an innocent female civilian, stealing millions of dollars worth of historical national treasures. Driving the wrong way up streets, at high speed through red lights and stop signs.. then pointing a gun a a swat cops face. While some dude gets 20 years for having a half ounce of coke. Seems about right. You know I’m no angel . I’ve no problem with any of it except for the librarian. If that was your mom or wife you’d want them in prison for 25

@RoyRagn Год назад

It makes no difference who the librarian was !! Relative or not - they deserved serious sentences

@Productions-uu1ut Год назад

I feel like they are Jewish thats why they got a slap on the wrist

@thealternative9580 Год назад

@@RoyRagn7 years is serious. If they had clean records before that helps as they were on the “right” path and made a stupid mistake after watching one too many heist flicks.

@rebeccacampbell8020 Месяц назад

7 years is a LONG time. I look back at my mindset when I was 19….what an idiot. They really were just getting out of kid stage, which is very clear by looking at how they studied for the heist. Movies! I feel that their punishment was perfect, and the guy they interviewed seems like he learned a lesson.

@princesstriceestar 2 года назад

The amount of privilege in the telling of this story is baffling. Like how is crime something to do randomly.

@loacc3672 2 года назад

How is that guy not dead? How are they not still in jail? Sentencing/outcome disparities in this country are fucking insane!

@laxx1559 2 года назад

@@loacc3672 They're white, which is why he is still alive

@loacc3672 2 года назад

@@laxx1559 - Not just white. Middle-class white. That's why they're not still in prison too.

@ConnorHolbrook419 2 года назад

@@loacc3672 7 years is a pretty stock amount of time to do on an aggravated robbery. Atleast here in Ohio, many times people get less. My question is did they do time in Kentucky state prison system or was it Federal being that the FBI was involved and they crossed state lines

@I-dont-reply 2 года назад

Sounds like a bunch of jealous darker skinned folk in this fine comment section

@kingchuks2586 2 года назад

It's really sad and unfair how people end up serving 10 years In prison for piece of blunt and these guys are walking around freely even attending TV shows to tell their dumbest heist crime SMH American justice ⚖ is not fair 😢 😔 🤯🤯🤯🤯

@Zxzoxopeneyes 2 года назад

No one does 20yrs for a piece of a blunt wtf.....what are you talking about. Link something

@kingchuks2586 2 года назад

@@Zxzoxopeneyes well check Wikipedia

@mclilzenthepoet2331 2 года назад

@@Zxzoxopeneyes you either European or privileged

@felixf4378 2 года назад

@@mclilzenthepoet2331 that's an oxymoron.

@juliusstriker4465 2 года назад

no one does 10 years for a blunt

@miaares 2 года назад

It's so hard to watch this because you know that if these people weren't four white male middle class college students they would never be talking about what they did on a talk show like it's a funny anecdote.

@Daazeee 2 года назад

I hate to agree but Yeah lol I can’t see this happening for anyone else

@Martin16707 Год назад

It’s very true and very sad

@paxton_6569 Год назад

Always gotta pull the race card because you know nothing else 😂 all any of you ever have to say

@Martin16707 Год назад

@@paxton_6569y’all always gotta pull the “always gotta pull the race card” because y’all got nothing else to say and because y’all know it’s the truth, racism

@miaares Год назад

@@paxton_6569 alright edgelord settle down

@90najay 2 года назад

Is it not troubling that these adults reckless actions are being glorified and not denounced?! If this isn't the most concrete evidence of white privilege then I don't know what is.

@Nickname006 2 года назад

Completely agree as a white person from northern Europe. This video is embarrassing. They are treated as some celebrities with the "boys will be boys" attitude.

@syrea793 2 года назад

Absolutely! I was just wondering what would happen if they had been black?

@_Junkers 2 года назад

Who is Big Herc? Maybe you'd like to reflect on your own bias

@davidgalea6113 2 года назад

Your comment is woke garbage.

@paxton_6569 Год назад

Always the black people saying this kind of thing is white privilege😂 if you think someone should get more than 5 years in jail for stealing a book you don’t deserve to live

@jackk5878 2 года назад

*Steals millions of dollars worth of artifacts* "Classic Chaz!..."

@greasemonkey060 2 года назад

High school reunion is gonna be great or everyone is sick of the story

@kerry1022 2 года назад

I'm really surprised that no one had tried to steal the art before these guys. Doesn't seem like the stuff was really protected.

@PresidentialWinner 2 года назад

art theft is actually one of the easiest crimes, because of the fact that most art is mostly not protected very well. The theft is not hard, selling the goods is incredibly hard.

@organizedchaos4559 2 года назад

@@PresidentialWinner almost impossible, unless the buyer is just as crazy

@ChickenManiac 2 года назад

@@organizedchaos4559 You would be surprised, but your definitely not getting the full value of what you take.

@ConsensusX 2 года назад

Easily identifiable, everyone's looking for it, almost no one wants to buy it. Pretty much the worst thing a thief can steal. Unless they have a black market art broker lined up to buy it...

@ChickenManiac 2 года назад

@@ConsensusX People do buy stolen art, the thieves usually wait a long time before selling so there's less heat and wait to sell it.

@AwokenEntertainment 2 года назад

this is what happens when beginner criminals try to commit expert level crimes... 🤦‍♂️

@DiegoC58 2 года назад

“For whatever reason he didn’t that guy did not pull the trigger” How nice of them to be able to proudly talk about there crime

@exxxxcellent Год назад

The reason is "white" in your face

@apeshitclothing Год назад

Lol what? I'm not sure what your first sentence is saying. It's all jumbled

@mm6461 Год назад

White privilege

@PHOENIX1699 2 года назад

"For some reason, he didn't pull the trigger" Oh - we know why

@jmathews470 2 года назад

White.....right?

@jaybuza3794 2 года назад

@@jmathews470 you know, I hate to pull that card but…. White.

@turtlepopper 2 года назад

Shut up

@haydndouglas4111 2 года назад

We get it your a racist

@jamesmc4249 2 года назад

He put the gun down and gave himself up. That's good enough reason not to shoot.

@Mr--_--M 2 года назад

Wooooow....their lives were sooo tough growing up. They certainly....CERTAINLY had no other choice but to turn to a life of crime to make ends meet 🙄

@jaybuza3794 2 года назад

Gotta love people that haven’t actually gone through Anything horrible try something that most of us in the dirt are scared to try. Almost god damn ironic.

@jroc8790 2 года назад

You can only do crime if you come from malicious roots? Is that what your trying to say?

@Mr--_--M 2 года назад

@@jroc8790 Nope. Just my 1st thought after watching the video. Of course, why people do what they do is much more complex than that.

@idhsts 2 года назад

@@jroc8790 well if you have nothing you are definitely desperate.

@wholesofparodox 2 года назад

@@jroc8790 i think it's more the framing of his experience being so rough and the only thing he mentions was his parents divorce lol

@blackdynamite3911 2 года назад

This is a rub in the face fr.... how you aim a gun at the FBI and still live to talk about it And get out and laugh about it.... must be a great achievement 👏... fucking ridiculous 🙄

@mayario Год назад

*white privilege*

@joevelazquez1839 2 года назад

This is privilege at its finest.

@SgtCrypto Год назад

Wonder if they were anything other than white, would they get the same treatment/sentence?

@josepacman1 Год назад

@@SgtCrypto somehow I think you already know the answer to that

@mma1st105 2 года назад

Why would you do this at all but without a solid buyer? I'm sure these extremely rare books aren't the easiest things to get rid of. Especially Christi's auction. This is almost funny.

@cr0wsnest 2 года назад

That would require forethought beyond watching movies 😆

@rstidman 2 года назад

A lot of times a Gay heist like this is not subject to forethought

@arthurias7693 2 года назад

@@rstidman a Gay heist??

@saxo689 2 года назад

@@arthurias7693 probably meant day heist

@loacc3672 2 года назад

@@arthurias7693 - The library is named "J. Douglas Gay Jr. Library."

@AveiroDan 2 года назад

These guys are legends….. In their own minds. (Bunch of damn fools)

@SuMeK41 2 года назад

fools for getting caught

@sababajwa8835 2 года назад

@@SuMeK41 fools generally. Bad karma hellfire for them God sees all

@lv41anothr60 Год назад

let me get this right, these dudes were 19-20 years old, living in their houses already, plan and steal rare books for exchanging for more money. They used plans from TV shows to execute their plans. hmm...arrogant is right! They didn't realized they already had gifts given to them, and they wanted more w/o earning it, not even spending the proper time to become smart thieves.

@TheBrianFlanagan 2 года назад

“Gooch was stunned and tied up… …she realized that the library is being robbed!” I lol’d so hard. 🤣

@wallegg1499 2 года назад

I’m surprised you were able to squeeze 10 minutes out of this story

@Stormtrooper-oc4vn 2 года назад

Watch the movie it's very good

@Curegirl0023 2 года назад

They made a movie, and it was a really good one.

@joudalbaker5893 2 года назад

yeah its called American Animals (2018)

@joshualucas7690 2 года назад

7 years wasn't long enough... if they were black those same "Normal College Boys" would've been facing Life in Prison.. smh sad how watered down and white washed this is..

@johnpineapple1824 2 года назад

Specifically with the gun situation, definitely a different ending if that youngster was black

@se4949 2 года назад

Debatable. I think regardless, in a perfect world this crime is not worth spending your entire life in a penitentiary

@SebastianTinajero 2 года назад

I’m just glad the books are safe and did not end up being damaged,destroyed or lost by these idiots.

@TacoStacks 2 года назад

I better return that book I borrowed the other week...

@samanthab1923 2 года назад

Glad you’re reading

@mjohnson1741 2 года назад

If you're white you're fine.

@orangewarm1 2 года назад

With the right fence and the right organisation this would have been a great heist.

@jmathews470 2 года назад

Drop the s and add a z..... (Edited) I stand corrected, didn't know it was a British thing.

@dengajing2015 2 года назад

@@jmathews470 realise that the S was always there longtime ago before americans adapted the Z into it..its a british thing

@jmathews470 2 года назад

I stand corrected.

@excusemymouth1832 2 года назад

@@jmathews470 I always love when Americans try to be a grammar (or spelling) nazi when it's just the regular English spelling of a word. It's called "American-English" for a reason.

@jmathews470 2 года назад

@@excusemymouth1832 nazi??? Guess you can never be sure!

@bigpeef5426 2 года назад

Looool how stupid are his friends. "Let's take one of a kind stolen property linked to an ongoing case to a high class auction house, I won't give them my real name but they can have my real phone number. did I ever set up a voice mail? Awww whatever."

@johnmcrosin1746 2 года назад

Meanwhile a black male in the US is given a custodial sentence for cannabis possession, or killed by the police for selling loose cigarettes.... Upper middle class white young men! Not kids as they were constantly referred to in this piece, steal millions of dollars of books, pulls a gun on a swat team member and gets 7 years, and was probably out in 2-3. That's justice all right!

@ATRTAP 2 года назад

Life’s not fair huh?

@sevendaysaweek2622 Год назад

Damn then why is my white cousin in jail for a weed charge 🤔

@hanshallo4468 Год назад

@@sevendaysaweek2622 Because he's not in College

@SurvivingAnotherDay Год назад

Cry liberal tears

@belletaunde102 Год назад

@@SurvivingAnotherDay and then you guys wonder why you don't have the black vote lmao.

@TA-ud5lf Год назад

the trauma the librarian probs has and the clips of them talking abt their crime like it was nothing is crazy

@rebeccacampbell8020 Месяц назад

After spending 7 years in prison, it probably was like nothing.

@Simte 2 года назад

*Looks around nervously while screenshoting NFTs.*

@TNG_22 2 года назад

😂

@ConsensusX 2 года назад

Delete those screenshots!! Do you know how much ETH I paid for those?!!!

@dondeigo9218 2 года назад

If it was 4 black folk the same age with no records, i wonder if the same 7 year sentence would be handed down as part of a plea deal

@rollysaibot2406 2 года назад

Right!?

@78firstclass 2 года назад

Nope 25 to life

@Jaedontplay720s 2 года назад

@@78firstclass and the one that pointed the gun at the swat officer would have been shot multiple times

@Balboa9191 Год назад

Chris said they got out with about 1 million worth. The agent said it was 7 million and the article said it was 12 million lol.

@TombRaider666 Год назад

Take a drink every time he says “19 years old”

@funtertainment2128 Год назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣 tipsy

@jeremiahgarrick8117 2 года назад

yes lets sell the millions in stollen books at a famous auction house

@desmond-hawkins 2 года назад

I don't think these were books about German Christmas cakes, I could be wrong though. Also these would have to be really great Stollen recipes to be worth millions.

@xLazarusEnvy 2 года назад

@@desmond-hawkins Died laughing at your reply hahaha

@Eskii_NZL 2 года назад

Dafaq a stollen? Looks like bro needs to steal some books 🤣

@JoshPitts530 2 года назад

If you feel underwater, that’s your conscience telling you to turn your life around.

@whataregoodpasswords 2 года назад

Exactly!....When the Holy Spirit says "Wake Up" and you decide to stay asleep!!

@THopkins44 2 года назад

Interesting how these guys are getting the “star treatment” but people are still serving life in federal prison for cannabis

@billybob4159 2 года назад

Lol no

@roni-oj4rr Год назад

tf u talking abt nobody is serving life for weed

@nik-at-nite 2 года назад

When the officer said “for whatever reason” his guy didn’t shoot…like sir, you could’ve been dead for a botched heist job smh

@muhammad1347 2 года назад

He wasn’t black. That was the reason.

@bodegaboy3106 2 года назад

LOL criminals get to be interviewed by Meagan Kelly with such enthusiasm, and can even point guns at cops! GOD FORBID these were 4 "super predators" then the narrative definitely would have been different LOL.

@keshawnstanford9458 2 года назад

That part

@Nostalgiababy 2 года назад

This !!

@fungus_am0nguz644 2 года назад

That guy that raised the gun on that SWAT dude sure was lucky. Those SWAT mfers dont play around, matter fact some are just itching for "action" not to defuse any situation.

@maticvass3262 2 года назад

The SWAT guy was probably white lol.

@jmathews470 2 года назад

Yes, like me.........finger on the trigger and a history of muscle spasms 🤣🤣

@gruzin6714 2 года назад

@@maticvass3262 yeah the SWAT guy was really thinking about this identity politics bullshit while having a gun pointed at him...

@muhammad1347 2 года назад

He wasn’t lucky, he is white.

@muhammad1347 2 года назад

@@gruzin6714 yes because police brutality on black people has never taken place in the US 🙄

@deanlongiii161 2 года назад

These idiots could have completely got away with this. Using the same email to set appt with the librarian and set up with Christie's was literally the domino that brought their entire op down. So stupid.

@joeishmael9217 Год назад

I was at that college when this happened. Sat beside Spencer in art class and he was insanely talented

@jabe6935 2 года назад

I hate to pull the race card here but I can’t imagine if me and my friends stole millions worth of art , regardless of the outcome, we wouldn’t get to make jokes with an audience on a talk show..

@natemedeiros60 2 года назад

That exactly what I was thinking. Let them be brown and it's over. Sad

@kierentaylor 2 года назад

It’s called white privilege.

@MixologistMilo 2 года назад

You’d be telling stories to your permanent inmate in your cell

@houseplant1016 2 года назад

Only 7 years and not being shot while you point a gun at a SWAT officer? Indeed, too much coincidence.

@foreversocal1 2 года назад

why not? there's no systemic racism in the u.s. *sarcasm

@agginssawols6861 2 года назад

Still better than screenshotting nft’s

@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa333 2 года назад

🤣🤣

@Jobe-13 2 года назад

😂

@aliciabun1867 2 года назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@justinreilly1 2 года назад

They left out the best part. They tried to steal 4 first editions of Audubon Birds of America which are beyond enormous and weigh a total of literally 200, yes 200 pounds. It was too ungainly and heavy and they dropped them trying to get downstairs. The 4 Audubon books are worth $4.5M total. Origin of Species worth only $25K. And there was literally no security or alarm on the case, just a 50 year old librarian! Watch the movie American Animals which is great.

@beefyiceman94 2 года назад

Thank you for recommending that movie, just watched it, it was wild!

@dfunckt 6 месяцев назад

I came to youtube to see if there was a better true crime video than that slow, boring movie, and this is it. There could have been some witty and comedic commentary in this video which would have made it better, but it does in less than 11 minutes what that movie tried to do.

@BlakeH97 2 года назад

"And for whatever reason my guy did not pull the trigger" when breaking into someone's house at 6 o'clock in the morning waking the home owner out of a dead sleep. And they're thankful the Police didn't shoot? They should be thankful they weren't shot?!

@BAC-bm8em 2 года назад

Snowboarding and skateboarding wasn’t enough of a adrenaline rush.

@davelee4968 2 года назад

Chaz’s teacher: You’d be better off pawning the Mona Lisa! Chaz *Takes It Literally*

@tribal_huksta3094 2 года назад

Dry

@UNPOCOLOCO444 2 года назад

Imagine

@meedee1326 2 года назад

"For whatever reason my guy did not pull the trigger " I can guess why.

@mirzapa 2 года назад

Moral of the story: you better have a buyer lined up before the heist. Going to Christies is just straight up amateur.

@iivv_nn 2 года назад

LOL, your only 19 and a teenager if youre white. If youre black or brown you're an adult ad get the maximum senteance.

@X2LR8 2 года назад

No if black or brown you don't even get arrested. You don't even get arrested.

@zem43 2 года назад

What world are you living in?

@jamesmc4249 2 года назад

@@zem43 chicago

@roxanavenegas7009 2 года назад

I mean your not wrong it's sad

@MezherA 2 года назад

The biggest art heists are the ones not discovered yet 😁

@Nomadsou 2 года назад

i immediatly stopped watching when i saw them having a talk show in the first minute... Biggest heist and they're inviting them to talk about it? If they were black americans, they would still be in prison...

@Iexapro 2 года назад

“For some reason he didn’t pull the trigger” uh you broke into someone’s house at 5am… just goes to show that cops do not think the way they serve these warrants is wrong. they’d do the same thing if someone busted through their door at that hour.

@eighterthabest9024 2 года назад

They crossed state lines!??!??!? 😱😱😱😱 Thats the ultimate crime....apparently.

@MarshallSmith27 2 года назад

@@Stevie-J no thats not why. local authorities cannot cross county lines much less state lines. thats the reason the FBI exists. its a federal police force

@organizedchaos4559 2 года назад

@@MarshallSmith27 not really, they’re not a police force. Just an investigation force with arrest abilities.

@MarshallSmith27 2 года назад

@@organizedchaos4559 that was obvious. I was making it clear for everyone else. they do have the right to arrest you so in fact they are a police force

@wickedzayyy 2 года назад

to your precious federal government, yes it is

@laxx1559 2 года назад

Once the feds get involved it's over with. The penalties are much worse.

@olskoolbkbk316 2 года назад

Sounds like unfiltered privilege

@binkytube 2 года назад

He also looks and sounds mentally challenged.

@ENESPUBGHESAP 8 месяцев назад

continuously helped me like you have. I thank God for your presence in my life. Thanks a lot!!!

@aceylaboy9773 2 года назад

Question should have been asked is. What would it take to get money for those? Who’s gonna buy a stolen piece of art that everybody will have their minds set on. They were worse than when I hit car doors

@jeffemory6615 2 года назад

☆☆☆☆ oh no poor baby such a rough life in tough times...

@braveman1641 2 года назад

5mins in, I'm already pissed

@lizzyg5398 2 года назад

They didn't think of how suspicious it would be that there's been a robbery of rare books worth 1 million and then all of the sudden the same books were at auction??

@phtevenchevas3960 2 года назад

One of the consequences of watching too many movies. It's impossible to steal something that people collect, it's called provenance. Once a well known work of art is stolen, the community spreads the word, and it has no value, it's labeled as stolen and the provenance is gone. The only people that might have bought it would be a Russian oligarch or the supreme leader of North Korea. Anybody reading this.....don't get any bright ideas.

@davidgalea6113 2 года назад

im glad you added "don't get any bright ideas" because I was just about to use your expert insider knowledge and steal the monalisa. thank god for your comment.

@phtevenchevas3960 2 года назад

@@davidgalea6113 too funny!

@ramsnation196 Год назад

@@phtevenchevas3960 ignore the sarcastic prick, I actually didnt know about the provenance part thank you

@colinr4860 2 года назад

is there a douchier name in existence than "Chas"?

@binkytube 2 года назад

He also looks and sounds mentally challenged.

@phyrexiancoffee6324 2 года назад

I remember hearing about this when I was in Elementary School, and did a report about it in High School. I'm from Louisville, KY so it was all over the news when it happened.

@TechHippie 2 года назад

"Lexington is a small town" Bro there are full states with less people in it 😂You probably had more people in your graduating class than I have in my entire town. Can't take this guy seriously after that 'fact'. This was a publicity stunt to get attention, and Vice, you're just giving it to them again.

@4y5vethgergtfdhb 2 года назад

Thank you, I was coming here to say the same thing.

@Zxzoxopeneyes 2 года назад

Real.

@konami1979 2 года назад

I was going to say, a city of 320K residents is not a "small town."

@shadow.banned 2 года назад

Definitely don't steal art from your own school. You can't just sell one of a kind books.

@Koshkinayekaterina 2 года назад

You actually can

@elijahgavin6706 2 года назад

You need to have a high profile black market buyer lined up, ideally with encrypted communications. Something these kids never would have had access to

@ChrisCoombes 2 года назад

Would have enjoyed seeing interviews with the parents.

@xLazarusEnvy 2 года назад

assuming they likely declined hahaha

@ChrisCoombes 2 года назад

@@xLazarusEnvy I’d have been impressed if they had though - to show a bit of accountability.

@pelin441 2 года назад

Watch American Animals

@ChrisCoombes 2 года назад

@@pelin441 thanks! Hadn’t heard of it, found this review ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--nc9AuvKY2k.html

@davelee4968 2 года назад

Wow so thought out, Chaz!

@audreydupuy2628 2 года назад

Damn 7 years.... that's a lot. I don't see why they're proud of their theft though, they didn't even remotely pull it off.

@dunkcsa9780 Год назад

Omg Snatch is still one of my favorite movies. Some of the best quotes of all time, I love it every bit as much today as when it first came out. This was my go-to movie to put on the screen in my car when I was riding around town, ahh such good times...

@GotDuhka 2 года назад

Another reason no-knock warrants are a bad idea. Lucky nobody was killed or injured.

@tommym321 2 года назад

Cops love to play soldier. They get to don all that neat gear.

@markmoulin9009 2 года назад

American Animals. Great telling of this story. Amazing performance from Evan Peters

@OneMwataK 2 года назад

"for some reason my guy did not pull the trigger". Had Chas been D'Marcus, poor D'Marcus would be dead

@findtruth5329 2 года назад

I love this! It goes to show how many people are only separated from hell because they haven't died as yet.

@panier66 2 года назад

A no-knock warrant for an art thief. This is bad.

@XMorera1110 2 года назад

They got community service cause they grew up in a rough neighborhood lol

@ElonMuckX 2 года назад

And they still got to graduate……….WITH HONORS!

@DB-pk3tj 2 года назад

Worse punishment then the folks in LA robbing trains for goods with ZERO repercussions.

@foreversocal1 2 года назад

they did 7 years didn't they?

@DB-pk3tj 2 года назад

I was just about to say watch the video lol. Yeah 7 years in prison.

@78firstclass 2 года назад

@@foreversocal1 yeah 7yrs @ home in moms basement

@hakanaral 8 месяцев назад

The work he does is so vital the world needs more people like you lust love the podcast so you put up I love hearing these scammers squirm keep up the good work, it takes good hearted individuals the gutts to do this instead. There should be whole government department buildings filled with *mystery planet org* on the internet doing stuff like this to protect and serve its own scammed civilians. That would be tax money well spent.

@Nicko-ir2to 2 года назад

Why are they not in jail 🤷🏽‍♂️

@Sinaqval Год назад

White

@1smoky85 2 года назад

Never heard of a 19 yr old kid wtf

@rsantos7051 2 года назад

His mind they're still in HS but he's a full time college student and should know better lol.

@leweegiggles 2 года назад

The film about this "American animals" was excellent in my opinion. It's a mix of interview material from the real guys and a very well acted reconstruction of the whole story

@traviscoates6878 2 года назад

It was pretty decent...

@_khaliboss 2 года назад

I was about to say that 🔥👍🏼

@haleyjo9154 2 года назад

just watched and i love evan peters so pleased to say he didn't disapoint

@_khaliboss 2 года назад

@@haleyjo9154 Ikr 🤯

@crextor 2 года назад

Was looking for this comment

@chucklesmolly88 2 года назад

They pulled off every childhood dream to commit a crime with their best friends

@colechapman6976 2 года назад

speak for yourself, not every child dreams of committing a crime!

@helderalmeida2790 2 года назад

And people say shooting games doesn't influence kids to get a gun and do the same. If this guy watched a heist movie to get inspiration so too games has the power to influence your behaviour.

@JesusChrist2000BC 2 года назад

Charles Allen got a strong eye brow technician. Hope she gets paid well.

@2TMarie 2 года назад

What I don't understand is, why rare books, of this caliber, were located at a Kentucky public library, and not in a museum, or at least guarded??

@nil3413 Год назад

The books in special collections are locked away, you have to make an appointment to view them and you're watched like a hawk. Also, this was not a public library, it was a university library.

@ROT4RYfc3s 2 года назад

They're still coming off as cocky even though they're idiots who got caught and expected to be able to easily sell all that stolen art.

@rassingaming8845 2 года назад

I knew not to take what this guy says for granted when he said lexington was a “small town”

@goldenwheeledbanshee9160 2 года назад

How greed will get u caught every time. Been lucky 2 have gotten 200.000 but they wanted 7.000.000. Rich spoiled kid's.

@Chloe-cg5ez Год назад

“For whatever reason, my guy didn’t pull the trigger”......yeah like we don’t know the real reason 🙄

@djdiggerjonez4063 2 года назад

I just finished watching their episode on Masterminds, now I know where your Vice reporters got the idea.

@polemius01 Год назад

AFTER being bound and masked, the librarian "immediately" realized that a robbery was taken place??!! What tipped her off? The kids were pretty dumb in thinking that Christies would serve as a fence!