just came.to midtown to pick up my iwc from service to.find out torneau across the street is on lockdown because of a robbery

 

About time the cops got them for robbing their customers!

 

The privilege of rank

 

http://www.myfoxny.com/story/29045216/shots-fired-during-tourneau-watch-store-robbery

 

You beat me to it - I just came back to this thread to post "Robberies happen at every Tourneau each day whenever they make a sale".

 

This is the third robbery @ this location in four years.

First time someone put a round into the floor.

There was an undercover inside - he caught one of three so the other two will be under soon.

This is one of my best friends - not just a guy I know but a dear friend....

 

What kind of watch does he wear?

 

If u was one of those cops maybe one of those watches would slide out of the bag

 

Lulzz...I'll ask him right now - hold on...

Tag

(The intertoobs really does make this a small world).

 

Luv the Phillies fan with a baby strapped to chest banner

 

It was a great one handed grab:

Nice hat snag here:

And the best at Citizen's Bank Park, although I can't find video of it, was 3 or 4 years ago when a guy was loaded with food coming from the center fieled concourse. He was walking in front of Harry The K's behind the lower level seats when a screaming line drive homer came right at him and he bare handed it. The catch made the jumbo screen, but it isn't on YouTube.

 

Philly fans probably booed the catch.

 

No, we love bare handed fan catches.

 

Tell Will that we think he dresses well but needs to get a decent watch to match.

 

Sorry about the bump on an old thread, but thought this was funny. In this article it says the thief is/was the valedictorian of his high school...

http://nypost.com/2015/05/13/suspect-in-brazen-jewelry-heist-is-a-high-school-valedictorian/

 

The guy who was valedictorian in my high school graduating class went on to become a prominent provincial politician....so the same outcome as this guy - a crook!

 

"Meanwhile, federal authorities stepped in to handle the case because foreign goods — Rolex watches from Switzerland — were stolen, police sources said.

Strategic Pattern Armed Robbery Technical Apprehension — a little-known agency made up of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, NYPD and US Marshals — can lay down the law because Rolexes are made in Switzerland, police sources said.

Rawlins will do more time in prison under federal law, up to 30 years, police sources said."

I don't understand this. Once the watches are bought by Torneau as a distributor for retail sale, what difference does it make where the watches were manufactured. If my Camry gets stolen should I be contacting the Strategic Pattern Armed Robbery Technical Apprehension, since it was made in Japan. Or is Rolex just so exclusive they can claim until it is sold to the end user it is still Swiss property or something. Or maybe I'm just ignorant of the facts, or just down right dumb when it comes to this stuff.

 

I was more impressed by this catch, the mitt notwithstanding