# Posts implying an intent to commit a crime? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 14, 2013, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-implying-an-intent-to-commit-a-crime/647124 "2013-01-14T02:18:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-implying-an-intent-to-commit-a-crime/647124/41 "2013-01-20T04:02:16Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > Notes: > > 1. Hang around the Hope diamond. > 2. Ignore feckless security guards. > 3. Profit. I never thought of it. Had I just picked up the diamond and left, they no doubt would have just continued tell me I shouldn’t do that. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-implying-an-intent-to-commit-a-crime/647124/42 "2013-01-20T04:04:57Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I never thought of it. Had I just picked up the diamond and left, they no doubt would have just continued tell me I shouldn’t do that. They’d be living with you today, at your breakfast table, telling you to give it back. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-implying-an-intent-to-commit-a-crime/647124/43 "2013-01-20T04:11:14Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > They’d be living with you today, at your breakfast table, telling you to give it back. And there’d be another thousand or so security guards outside who would have followed along, all chanting for me to stop. But no, they wouldn’t be living with me. Their bosses wouldn’t authorize the overtime. ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-implying-an-intent-to-commit-a-crime/647124/44 "2013-01-20T04:34:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I’m pretty sure the police would rather you let them handle things, rather than go out and play “Junior G-Man” on your own. Does board etiquette dictate that I should ask a person’s permission before using their quote in my signature? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-implying-an-intent-to-commit-a-crime/647124/45 "2013-01-20T05:56:54Z")
> [@spinky](#): > > Does board etiquette dictate that I should ask a person’s permission before using their quote in my signature? Permission not needed, but granted anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-implying-an-intent-to-commit-a-crime/647124/46 "2013-01-20T19:52:34Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > They’d be living with you today, at your breakfast table, telling you to give it back. Nah. He would’ve sold it by now, and they’d be pestering the new “owner.” ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-implying-an-intent-to-commit-a-crime/647124/47 "2013-01-21T00:10:44Z")
Pfft. The Hope Diamond is about as hard to sell as it is to get change for the trillion dollar coin. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-implying-an-intent-to-commit-a-crime/647124/48 "2013-01-21T05:57:04Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Pfft. The Hope Diamond is about as hard to sell as it is to get change for the trillion dollar coin. If someone ever did steal the hope diamond then I would suspect they would take it to a diamond chop shop and sell it as a few smaller but still rather large diamonds. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-implying-an-intent-to-commit-a-crime/647124/49 "2013-01-21T15:25:56Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > It’ really not worth its own thread but I’ll tell it here. Back in the 80s I worked at the Smithsonian as an AV technician. I was assigned to set up a podium and PA system for a press event/conference about the Hope. Can’t remember what, exactly, they were moving it or moving the whole gem collection or something like it. But the “hook” was that they were going to take the Hope out of its case and put it on some noted Washington trophy wife of the time (it’s set into a necklace), so it would be a rare photo op. Anyway, after the whole thing was over (btw, the trophy wife looked like she’d been awardws 50 years ago and been tarnished and dropped a couple of times since), the necklace was sitting on a table, waiting for some curator type to come along and return it to its case, and I needed to pack up the PA system and get to my next gig. But there were 4 or 5 armed guards (who were also Smithsonian employees like me) who told me I couldn’t approach the diamond, and my gear was all around it. I said something like, “Sorry, I’m on a clock here, and I can’t wait around indefinitely for someone to show up and move the thing”, and I started packing my gear anyway. The fearless guards continued to tell me I shouldn’t be doing this but didn’t stop me. A couple of days later I got called into the office and mildly reprimanded by my boss, who got a complaint from Security and said that a note about the incident would be added to my employee file. But she wasn’t very upset, she knew I had to run all over the Mall all day from one museum to another to work at special events. Knew a guy in McKeesport for a while – Jack Murphy. He didn’t get the Hope but ----- he would have tried given a chance like that. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-implying-an-intent-to-commit-a-crime/647124/50 "2013-01-24T20:13:31Z")
A guy asks for help to kill a man one time and he’s a criminal, but if you paint one picture that doesn’t make you a painter. I’m taking my killin’-related business elsewhere! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-implying-an-intent-to-commit-a-crime/647124.md?page=2)