[HN Gopher] A thief who stole 106 rare clocks
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A thief who stole 106 rare clocks
 
Author : whatami
Score  : 39 points
Date   : 2023-04-24 17:29 UTC (1 days ago)
 
web link (www.smithsonianmag.com)
w3m dump (www.smithsonianmag.com)
 
| nathancahill wrote:
| Original source or second hand information?
 
| jareklupinski wrote:
| He had too much time on his hands.
 
| zadler wrote:
| Guess he couldn't find them second hand.
 
| seabass-labrax wrote:
| Nice of him to do this for hour enjoyment!
 
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| A man with one clock always knows what time it is. A man with two
| clocks is never sure.
| 
| We have no data on a man with 106 clocks.
 
  | Arrath wrote:
  | If even a portion of them chime the hour: the man is insane.
 
  | CamperBob2 wrote:
  | A man with 106 clocks can be sqrt(106) times more confident in
  | knowing what time it is.
 
    | KRAKRISMOTT wrote:
    | Why sqrt? The ensemble is 1-P(Wrong time probability for a
    | single clock)^106
 
      | thefifthsetpin wrote:
      | Every clock is wrong; they're just wrong by different
      | amounts.
 
| niccl wrote:
| There's a neat novel that has the Marie Antoinette Breguet as a
| core McGuffin. Written a few years before the timepieces were
| recovered: The Grand Complication, by Allen Kurzweil.
 
| PeterWhittaker wrote:
| He must be a Proust fan.
 
| joshcrowder wrote:
| It was just a matter of time until he got caught
 
| bookofjoe wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35632682
 
| zabzonk wrote:
| i had already clocked this.
 
| nerpderp82 wrote:
| The time for these clock puns to stop is now!
 
  | labster wrote:
  | Dude, don't be such a clock blocker.
 
| labster wrote:
| A clock thief knows no peace, he will always have to watch his
| six.
 
| onion2k wrote:
| I imagine he'll end up doing hard time.
 
  | dgacmu wrote:
  | Not in this case; his time was up.
 
  | [deleted]
 
| kainosnoema wrote:
| Really enjoyed all the minute details in this piece, like
| watching a documentary.
 
  | seabass-labrax wrote:
  | Still, it was rather alarming.
 
| wantlotsofcurry wrote:
| He's truly living on borrowed time
 
| ryanmcdonough wrote:
| Surprised he found the time to steal them all.
 
| nathancahill wrote:
| Museum should have had a watch dog.
 
| fasteddie wrote:
| This actually was his second offense.
 
  | nerpderp82 wrote:
  | On the other hand, he almost got away with it.
 
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