Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Story Fragment Series (d

 An Art Thief is planning to steal some art from a large museum. The Museum Director has seen too many movies and TV shows in which the clever thieves disarm the electronic systems controlled by computers, and waltz away with all the museum’s treasures. So this Director believes in simple man power. Where an ordinary museum may have 20 or so guards at night, this museum has 200. So that the thief takes his time installing hundreds of tiny cameras throughout the museum. When the night comes to steal the art, he puts on a stylishly black costume with a complicated looking helmet that doesn’t allow him to see out. Instead, he can only a see a gawds eye view of the museum, in 360 x 360 degree accuracy. The computer that takes in all the feed from the cameras & displays the positions of all the guards and identifies their faces, so that it can display a wedge of what they’re seeing, their entire field of vision, and also calculates areas of blackness. Since there are so many guards wandering around the museum at night, there are no other alarm systems at all. The thief is then allowed to simply use his gawds eye system to step confidently from black zone to black zone throughout the museum, taking down pictures, and hiding them in plain sight as he slowly moves them out to a waiting trailer. His technique is further enhanced by replacing each removed painting with a large poster, which is printed to replicate the lighting of the original, so that it will only be noticed as missing under the most astute examination. The pictures on the move through the museum are hidden behind more posters of wall sections and doors that are never used, or in maintenance closets. At some point; A Guard notices that some of the pictures are missing, and although there is chaos in the museum, The method that the thief is using is unhindered. At times he has to enter Zones which Represent The Peripheral Viewing Areas of The Guards, So that he may Enter these Zones for a Very Short Time, So when the Guard Swivels his head to look directly at the thief, he has moved beyound the edge of his viewing wedge. The Thief uses Pillars and other Guards, Window Glare, Deep Shadows, Confusing Backgrounds, Wall Murals, Tables, Furniture, Simply Freezing, Boldly Walking in The Open in Front of Guards that have been profiled as being kind of dumb or having a particular kind of vision problems, or crudely distracting The Guards or The Police that Arrive with Devices and Props that were placed in the museum with the cameras and are activated by remote control.

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