to wonder why someone would take a Faberge egg to the pub?

[OonaStubbs]

Man jailed for stealing handbag that contained £2.2m Fabergé egg - BBC News

To wonder why anyone would take a Fabergé egg with them to the pub? Obviously it was a horrendous crime for the man to take the bag and he deserves to go to prison, but what would possess someone to take a bag containing such a valuable artifact to a pub, in Soho no less?

Me too. DH jokes with me about the fact that when I choose a program on TV, all the commercials are for mobility devices, walk-in baths, funeral providers, and adult-only cruises. I mean, I may seem a WEE bit younger than their target audience, but dude, I need three out of those four things (ha! You’ll have to guess which), so I feel I’m amongst my people, all of us watching ITV3 where they refer to advertising at 9pm as “supporting ITV3 Late Night.”

It’s the other stuff that gives it away as an insurance fraud -£350 gift card?! Come on!

Well, if anything this thread has done- it's made me want to watch Vera.

If my employer asked me to transport this item of £2.2m after an event I would expect them to provide the safe and secure transport of me and it. I would refuse if they didn't.

I would also say "no thanks, maybe another time! Need to get this thing back to museum/whatever!" to pub drinks after the event.

Monumentally stupid.

Really makes you wonder about the lives some people live - carting around a 2 million pound article in your handbag and casually putting it down where someone can just take it? Really? Really?

Hard agree, the whole thing has a stinky vibe, some kind of fraud going on, nobody sane would go to a pub with this in their handbag, it's literally unbelievable. Insurance scam?

I guarantee it's a scam, insurance fraud probably.

That's quite a nice one, some of the others are a ott.

Probably a fake one, the bag thief wouldn't know, someone still has the real one and the insurance cheque i suspect. The whole story is beyond fishy.

The headline valuation is misleading. A couple of full sets, with the whiskey sold for $2m, but they only sold 2 of 7 sets. £100k the true value

The value of the bag, the laptop, and the other items without the egg would make me not want to put it down, outside a pub! 🤣

Someone needs to do a deep dive on this and produce a podcast series or something. People need answers.

Hiw fid the egg get into the handbag in the place?

Very dodgy?