A truckload of F1 KitKats, a painting of fish: what is it that makes heists so delicious? |
Now, let me begin by saying: stealing is bad. I don’t think you should steal things. It is a good way to get yourself sent to prison and it is morally wrong to take things that don’t belong to you. Cargo theft? Bad. Stealing priceless artworks from museums where they could be enjoyed by everyone? Bad.
Last week, thieves made off with 12 tons of KitKats from a truck in Italy, while there was another art heist to follow the literal daylight robbery that occurred at the Louvre in Paris last year: this time, Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse paintings were stolen from a museum in northern Italy. These stories reliably go viral and prompt delightful phrases such as “major candy crime” in this very newspaper. And they go viral not, for the most part, because people are outraged, but because they find something thrilling about heists.
I don’t have to lose any sleep over the victims of the KitKat crime. Sure, cargo theft: sounds reprehensible, doesn’t it? But a gigantic company such as Nestlé will be fine and, in any case, one in the eye for Nestlé seems less unacceptable given the company’s, shall........