{"id":254581,"date":"2025-12-27T20:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/254581\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T20:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:13:23","slug":"fyre-fest-memorial-flop-award-the-louvres-security-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/254581\/","title":{"rendered":"Fyre Fest Memorial Flop Award: The Louvre\u2019s security system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-14098c7c-8 ceoswy\">Imaginations ran wild after four thieves dressed as construction workers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningbrew.com\/stories\/2025\/10\/20\/louvre-d-and-lost-thieves-steal-french-crown-jewels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stole<\/a> about $100 million worth of jewelry from the Louvre in broad daylight in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-14098c7c-8 ceoswy\">The heist took about seven minutes, during which time the Thomas Crown copycats climbed a ladder into the French museum, snatched items that included a diadem (set with 24 Ceylon sapphires and more than 1,000 diamonds), and escaped before security guards noticed they were there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-14098c7c-8 ceoswy\">Parisian police have since made arrests, but have yet to recover any of the stolen jewels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-14098c7c-8 ceoswy\"><strong>Instant fame:<\/strong> The internet latched onto the stranger-than-fiction story, turning the massive loss into <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/the-louvre-heist-memes-arent-letting-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">memes<\/a>. For Halloween, \u201cLouvre thief\u201d was a top costume, and the story is already being turned into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/louvre-jewel-heist-doc-r-j-cutler-laurent-bouzereau-1236431352\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">documentary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-14098c7c-8 ceoswy\"><strong>Runners-up: <\/strong>Disney\u2019s live-action Snow White was your choice for the second biggest flop of the year. The movie failed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/is-snow-white-box-office-bomb-1236170816\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recoup<\/a> its budget at the box office after receiving so-so reviews and lead actress Rachel Zegler\u2019s anti-MAGA opinions led to the film being dubbed \u201cSnow Woke.\u201d\u2014JW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imaginations ran wild after four thieves dressed as construction workers stole about $100 million worth of jewelry from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-254581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115793363144864792","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}