> we don't tend to get so many of them around West London.
how many of them do you need? they were only burglarizing one place at a time.
and it seems like if you're going to be a rare book thief, london would be a reasonable place to set up shop.
how many of them do you need? they were only burglarizing one place at a time.
and it seems like if you're going to be a rare book thief, london would be a reasonable place to set up shop.
Does the fact someone carried out this crime, in this way, not surprise anyone even a little bit?
The level of technique is something tens of thousands of people have in my city — 1% of the few million people in the metro. There’s hundreds of similar metros near mountains, globally.
The level of information necessary for the alarms is all over the dark web, and something someone with a criminal background would be able to find and understand. Another 1% of the population.
So, 100 * 1M * 0.01 * 0.01 = 10,000.
So globally, we’d expect around ten thousand criminals with that level of climbing skill — and it’s not surprising to find a dozen of them stealing books in London. They’re going to be doing something, somewhere: it turned out to be this, here.
I think the story is fascinating, like finding a pretty flower, so I don’t share the bored cynicism — but it’s about as surprising as finding a pretty flower in a meadow.