Rolex heist idiots missed their classes from the Pink Panther..

The robbery of the Rolex shop last Sunday was certainly a major surprise. When was the last time something like this happened? A luxury store hit by robbers in broad daylight. Bold move, indeed.

But now that the police or whoever seem to be working already on solving the case and GB5 have resumed its normal operations, here's what I thought about the whole thing.

Whoever was behind the robbery, the idiot certainly wasn't smart and definitely didn't have the smallest ounce of style nor sophistication in staging the heist.

Let me just clear something here, I don't approve of the robbery. Lives were put at stake, and after all the tragedy this city (this country) has recently gone through, we don't need another reason to be fearful and panicky.

What I'm just talking about is the execution of the crime.

In one of the issues of Vanity Fair (or was it GQ?), I read an article about the "greatest" jewelry thieves. I can't remember much of the article, but I'm sure it condemned the acts. But I also remember how the author was amazed with how well-planned and slick the "operation" was.

Any reader who read the article would have reacted, "You gotta admit. Those bastards had style."

The robbery last Sunday, on the other hand, had the makings of a Lito Lapid-Max Alvarado film.

A Rolex store with a lot of broken glasses, a portion of the Topshop window display shattered, one of the gunned down robbers lying on the floor with several pieces of Rolex surrounding him. Geez! All that's missing are the characters of Jinggoy Estrada or Bong Revilla walking in with a posse of uniformed men and you already have a typical scene from a Pinoy action film.

I wonder how the idiots announced that they were going to rob the store. Did they just suddenly storm in the shop and yelled, "Walang kikilos! Magsidapa kayo. Holdup ito!", which was immediately followed by the breaking of the display glasses.

Sheesh. They obviously haven't heard of the Pink Panther, huh.

So instead of having a, uhm, sorry, nicely-written article on how suave the robbery was carried out like this one on the Harry Winston heist in Paris or this one where the thieves arrived in a Bentley, the criminals get an ordinary news article. Imagine having your robbery described as "spectacular," you'd certainly be the talk of the town (even your fellow con men. Hehe!)

If you're going to commit a crime, you might as well do it in spectacular fashion that would leave the authorities and media impressed and with their jaws dropping. Instead of them taunting you and bopping you for a poorly organized act.