Don't talk to me or my son ever again

and we would've gotten away with it, if it wasn't for that pesky boat seller.

“Alexander Petrov” and “Stefan Nordstrom” are, respectively, the most Russian and Swedish names I’ve ever heard.

200,000 Krona is about 25,000 USD in 2005. Imagine going through the trouble of setting up a heist involving 30+ people, stealing art worth over $30million, sitting on it for 5 years while it all goes tits up because someone used their actual phone number, then finally finding a buyer, then selling it for less than Toyota.

I thought that lawyer who tried to blatantly extort the police was an absolute idiot, but when he got acquitted, I figured he must be a legal genius.

Internet Historian: Hey do you know what time it is? Me: Ad time? Internet Historian: Its time for a montage Me: A surprise to be sure but a welcome one

What if we kissed under the Nord VPN servers? *O_O*

Jesus Christ just the fact they were even able to execute initial plan is mindblowing

My favorite character in this heist is the Swedish justice system. Jails you can leave on weekends and overturning the sentence of 3 of the culprits in the end.

This was a beautiful tale. I wish Sweden was a real place.

But I thought it was illegal to commit crimes in Sweden?

They could of become legends for robbing a museum with no traces, true legendary masterminds, if they used a fucking burner phone.

19:51 is absolute gold "sorry sorry, reflex" "thats okay."

I love how the "Ad Man" canonically now has an entire lore behind his character

I have to say, the criminals bringing a decoy painting to the sale was a 200 IQ 4D chess move but unfortunately for them, the police was playing 5D chess with their 300 IQ brains.

Something similar happened recently. A bank was clearing all it's valuables and hauling it to an offshore bank. Every employee, and guard left the bank but kept the security systems up and the front of the bank was locked down tighter than the Seirre Madre of absolute pain. Someone that following night broke into the bank quite easily: for you see while they locked down the main entrance, there was a maintenance tunnel connecting the garage to the rest of the bank. Person broke in via the now unguarded maintenance tunnel and into the bank armed to the teeth... he... was pissed... Why was he pissed? He thought there would be valuables there. So he did something radicicolous and sundance reject worthy. He shot out every possible window, bashed open every ventilation cover with a baseball bat, smashed the keypads on the vaults, broke every window, shot out every TV, cut cable lines, broke the hinges off every door, bashed executives worthless yet pretty paintings off their walls: anything he could access he destroyed, and to end it? He shot all the cameras watching him until that point. The next day the bank agents came back to see the place in tatters, the bank had to get $5.7M spent to fix or replace everything. Guess where this all took place? Somewhere very special and known for insane hijinks like this... florida... florida man gets arrested for mass destruction of bank property

These videos feel like historian is playing with some action figures

I don't know, "nothing has ever been stolen again" seems like an overblown statement, since Whitman stole my heart.

But it's illegal to do crime in Sweden.

Imagine being a stock image guy and ending up with one of your pictures in an Internet Historian video

The most unbelievable part of this story, is the FBI agent calling up a Swedish person who doesn't speak English fluently 21:06

When the Mona Lisa was stolen, the guy just walked up to it and took it off the wall and hid it under a jacket. He tried to exit out of a side door but it was locked. By then an employee came by and saw a guy in a trench coat holding a framed painting trying to get out. The guard unlocked the door for him and let him out. Nobody noticed the Mona Lisa was stolen for something like 2 or 3 days, when an artist who wanted to paint a copy complained, and a bored guard went searching. Only then they realized it's gone. That's why it's behind inches of glass now.

This man deserves to retrieve the password of his main channel.

"half scholar half daredevil and 100% men with alignment of chaotic good"what a man

“Art thief?” “Yes, are you the buyer?” Brilliant

Love how All cops, no matter nationality, looks like Cole Phelps.

So is this ad man trying to get back into the dating game after his wife's tragic passing? I'm happy for him man, hope he gets lucky soon and stops having everyone around him die in car crashes.

"... it's a drug bust with some Bulgarians..." As a Bulgarian, I am somehow not surprised.

laughing at the fact they pulled everything of perfectly but - had no buyer or any idea how to get a buyer - gave their lur

I work at an art museum and while we never had someone steal a piece, it once happened that somone hung up their own painting in one of the galleries

This is exactly one of those “I dunno, I didn’t think I get this far”

imagine if they'd used a burner phone. Then they would've had all the time in the world to get the paintings to a buyer

"... and nothing has ever been stolen again". what a heartwarming story this has been

The art thieves wouldn’t have been caught...if they used Nord VPN

So if he didn’t use his real phone number... they would’ve gotten away.

Every officer and their wives being Cole Phelps just makes this 500% better

How amazing is it that you can take a bunch of blurry memes and make something 9000 times better than your average Sundance film

The Nord VPN ad is actually the story of how Internet Historian met Internet Herstorian.

All this just because they used a real phone. What a mess.

24:00 5 years to get $200k?? $40k a year? He coulda just gotten, like, a regular job.

I will always love how the entire police force is just Phelps in different poses.

How come the police and the lawyer sound so similar? Was it an inside job?

Internet Historian has got to be one of the most entertaining and infinitely rewatchable content in all of UKposts

I don't know what's worse, them using their real phones or the Swedish museum using lackluster security on a Rembrandt painting.

"Can I get the weekends off jail time?" "To behave responsibly?" "Yessssss" Actually steals paintings LIKE A BOSS

_"Nothing was stolen ever again."_ Oh, so I don't need Nord VPN. Sweet!

17:16 as a bulgarian I am offended , but agree with this portrayal.

It has only just dawned on me that each scene is meticulously handcrafted in photoshop. So much effort put in.

"You don't need a criminal lawyer, you need a *criminal* lawyer"

This would never have happened if the painting had a gun to protect itself.

I'm writing my thesis on art crime currently, I LOVE that you cited Anthony A. Amore's book, he does great writing on art crime!

You'd think that they'd have a plan on how to sell these things before going through the trouble of an elaborate heist. What a bunch of goobers.

Sweden: 8 year sentence for 30 million dollar art heist US: 30 year sentence for routine drug bust

I love how he has the thief putting the laundry bag into the engine bay of his Porsche. XD

I love how he made Summito play the Russian and had that white guy play the Iraqis.

9:47 Hearing a screaming voice juxtaposed to such a calm narrator is just hilarious.

As a russian I can say that "Alexander Petrov" is the most generic russian name I ever heard

This is a little far-fetched ... there's no way BOTH of them washed their hands.

Trade alert I receive: priceless painting You receive: jail sentence

20:24 "I GASPED" *Inception Fog Horn Sound Effect*

Can we just admire the fact that Nord VPN still sponsor this man after his last ad. Impressive.

Whatever amount nordvpn pays him, it’s not enough.

He put so much detail into this. Even the Detroit Become Human interrogation track is in there 1t 19:48

"Swedish corona" . So we find the true source.

theory, internet historian is actually james bond illegitimate child.

I just love the idea that Cole Phelps goes to sleep in his suit alongside his wife, Cole Phelps.

the fact that TRO can sound like that intimidates me a bit

I honestly love these nordvpn ads. They're the best advertisements I've ever seen. And they're unironically actually funny. Thank you for the laughs.

I love the idea that every single person in law enforcement throughout the entirety of Sweden is just Cole Phelps.

One of the cars that were used to distract the police were stolen from my step-father, whom I finally got to show this video for as he's been locked in Portugal due to Corona. He claimed they only set it on fire, but he loved the presentation and has become a fan on the channel! Due to how long it took to solve the case proper, he forgot all about it until I brought it up to him now... so it took almost 20 years but now he's laughing over the idiocy of the guys that stole his car

I love that it was an almost airtight crime due to pure luck, considering how many goofs they made after they found they found their phone number.

18:05 - I guarantee you Historian knows that the engine lives there in that car and is having the biggest piss ever. I love these little satirical details.

This is as good as theAntwerp diamond heist where the thieves defeated a world-class alarm system with a can of hair spray and trash bags to steel $100M of jewels. The whole reason they got busted was because one of the guys had a panic attack and botched destroying the evidence and an old French hunter was mad kids were on his lawn.

As a museum guard, the security in that museum almost gave me a stroke.

i feel like any theif who steals art is one of those people who is mechanically good at a game, but absolutely terrible when it comes to strategy

I’ve only ever heard TRO use his serious voice, so his cameo makes me fucking weep every time I rewatch this video.

"NordVPN: If you don't get it, you'll die."

Moral of the story: never use your real phone number

Third time watching this and i just realized the whole police department is the same dude

What’s a Swedish minimum security prison like? A 4 star hotel? Just staying in your home

0:20 “never talk to me or my son ever again” -Justin Whang, 2020

"and nothing has ever been stolen, again." we did it boys, crime is no more!

I like how all of the "actors" are just extremely distinct UKpostsrs. Made it very easy for me to follow who's who despite me being useless with remembering names

I feel like this could get into Sundance festival for how well-crafted it is

Sundance Rejects is why I can no longer tolerate real movies.

I like how quickly it went from "these are professionals" to "these are amateurs"

I'm here watching this in 2022 for the 20th time pretending everything is OK. This is my comfort brain food.

I love all your videos from both channels. I like your humor and the way you weave the stories. Thanks for the hard work. And also, I liked the way you portray the ads. Genius!!

Me: "why's he got a #1 dad beanie?" 20 minutes later "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh best foreshadowing I've ever seen"

The detective sleep with a full coat and a fedora on.. how tense he is

1:37 "Wire cutters are all we need." _Proceeds to use a drill._

Seeing old early 2000s style money just shows this guy does his research

the voice actor breaking character is hillarious

This is the best straight-to-DVD action flick I've ever seen.

Detective : "Do you know what time, it is ?" Detective : "Uhhh, is it-" [10:10] Me : "Add Thyme ???" Detective : "it's time for a montage !" _"A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one"_

Unbelievable. They were a burner phone away from completely getting away with it.

TRO's voice sent shivers down my spine, he sounds like a true criminal monster.

The thing that makes Internet Historian are the little gags he puts in subtly like the water dripping of the guards hand after searching the toilet in the guys cell. 6:08

I love how much effort is put into citing sources in these vids

@ 5:12 you use a tinder notification. when me and my girlfriend were watching we both kinda panicked and looked at our phones thinking that we had just gotten a notification because we thought the other was low key cheating. we couldn't have been laughing harder. you're videos are awesome!