First off, I love it when some correctly differentiates between theives, robbers, and burglers. Theivery is a general term for the stealing of something that one didn’t earn or own; robbery is personal—the taking of goods or money from off of an individual or group. But your house, your business, or in the case of the recent marvelous heist pulled down in Takayama, Japan, your museum, those location-specific crimes are burgled.

I have to say, it took big brass balls for the three masked men to burgle a big fat brick of gold that weighed 220 pounds, especially being that they did it in broad daylight with crowds present. Well done, lads!

Of course, it helped that there were no alarms, no sensors, and evidently no armed security present guarding the bar, worth around $2.1 million. Banzai!

Burglars Steal 220-Pound Gold Bar [redorbit.com]