What didn't the thieves realize?

Sabrina Cruz, Melissa Fernandes and Taha Khan from 'Answer in Progress' discuss a question about cack-handed criminals.

GUESTS:

HOST: Tom Scott.
QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe.

EDITED BY: Julie Hassett at The Podcast Studios, Dublin.
GRAPHICS: Chris Hanel at Support Class. Assistant: Dillon Pentz.
FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott.

[SaszaDerRoyt]

"There were a number of ways to phrase that sentence, that was certainly one of them" I think this is going to have to enter my regular vocabulary lmao

[itscoolstaghorn]

I want to "yes, and" Taha's movie idea - somehow the robbers gets mixed up with a bunch of people going to an escape room and both groups go to the wrong places, so the thieves ends up hitting the escape room while the escape room-goers end up doing an actual big-scale theft while under the impression that it's part of the escape room.

[IceMetalPunk]

Ocean's Dumbasses is definitely not a film I ever thought I'd beg for, but now I really want it 😂

[korg]

Before they even finished reading the question, I immediately thought..

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"Escape room", it seemed obvious the way it was worded.
Also, CCTV cameras usually don't store the footage locally. It just sends it to a central location put simply.

[waterdogzzz]

Since Tom made a point of it I got curious. The Dutch word that got translated as bastards was "prutsers", which would be better translated as fumblers or fools.

[nicojar]

This is the most Dutch/Utrecht story there could be!
There's an element of context you guys might be missing here...
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... Utrecht is the student/party city in Netherlands. The guys were not caught, took snacks and soda and the bit of cash in the till. And the camera, indeed in hope they'd resell.
But it's highly likely they were stoners being completely high. They got to the safe because it is a small, quaint house with a big window pane, it looks like a shop from outside. The escape room is in a popular neighbourhood where people are often drunk / under drugs at night. And the fact that they took snacks is a telltale clue: they got the munchies. ;)
That is literally what you can imagine, no doubt about that.

[ripopol]

at 28 seconds making my guess:
That sounds like an escaperoom. Like an expensive deluxe one with great props (legitimately antique safe), but between the name "mysterium" and the fact the key was right there in reach? I think its an escaperoom.

[bungleh]

"what was in the safe was seemingly meaningless"
"an NFT"

giggles

[SylviaRustyFae]

Unrelated tangent: On folk bein surprised by the contents of a safe... This reminds me of the funny story of when my gpa and gmas house burned down

Obvs the house burnin down isnt the funny part. When the firefighters showed up and went inside, they realised prty quickly that the home was gonna be comin down soon; so they grabbed things that seemed important that werent alrdy aflame, and took some of it out

One such thing they browt out was a large metal chest in the kitchen, which theyd assumed held valuable documents... But when my gpa saw them luggin it out he just laughed and said "The potatoes are done"

Yeah, the metal chest was just the best place to keep the potatoes away from light or humidity; and they ate a lot of potatoes prty regularly — its the Irish in them :p

Any valuable documents were just kept in open air or even on display in terms of pictures and ofc that all burnt up in the fire — but hey, at least their potatoes were baked to perfection xD

[darjanator]

Being a closed circuit TV system, the recording wouldn't even have been kept on the camera. Those are just sensors, motors and lenses. All the data is fed to a central server on the same CLOSED CIRCUIT, so all they did was prevent someone else to be seen.

[hadinossanosam]

5:28 So Ocean's 11 crossed with Johnny English? Yeah, I'd watch that xD

[aenorist]

With the name and the key round the corner, this has to be an escape room.

[Patrick-.-]

Utrecht*

As a dutchy, I did not know this one.

[FlesHBoX]

My initial guess: What they thought they were breaking into was just a fake display, or did not contain what they were looking for, and they thought that stealing the camera would protect them from getting caught, lol.

[TakeruDavis]

My mind went straight to escape rooms when key being just behind a corner. Even the name of the place gave that vibe.

[holgerchristiansen]

Even while hearing the question being read out, my mind just screamed
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Mysterium? That sounds like an Escape Room!
Antique Safe, Key around the corner, CCTV Camera - it all fits
Easiest question ever for me (being an escape room enthusiast with around 65 rooms done, and knowing will that the Netherlands are kind of known for those, too)

[stoneagainst]

The whole "body" part was so funny haha
Something tells me if Tom Lum was there he would have disappeared from the screen for a long time haha

[nanardeurlambda]

0:29 with a place with that name, I'm expecting a illusionist shop kind of thing. so I'm going to say the safe had a false bottom, and the real valuable stuff had been replaced by a line of colorful handkerchieves.
3:30 we said "seemingly"

4:25 my answer was kind of funny, this version is so much better.

[hmoham]

Something about the way the question was written my first joke guess actually turned out to be the actual answer.

[tubegerm]

got this one instantly from the question.