Busy Tuesday morning on the Plaza

Yes, there was LOTS of activity on the Plaza this morning. Listening to the radio this morning, I heard there was an old-fashioned jewelry store heist there last evening, requiring hours of drilling through concrete and everything. Sure crime is crime and it's not good but, come on--that's a hoot. You wouldn't think that kind of thing would happen any more. From the Star today: Thieves punched through a concrete block wall and bored into a thick metal safe early Monday to steal gold and diamonds from a Country Club Plaza jewelry store. “It was like the Mafia,” said Simon Zouein, the owner of Vinca Jewelry at 4801 Jefferson St. “They had three or four hours, and nobody caught them.” Really. You wouldn't think this kind of stuff would happen any longer. Not in this century, anyway. I would have thought jewelry stores have ten kinds of alarms and cameras on them to make this non-existent. And then it seems like the Highwoods Security foot patrol would have kept this from happening, too. If you own Vinca Jewelers today, don't you know you have a bone to pick, so to speak, with Highwoods Properties? So much for security. “They came from behind the store through a private alley that’s usually locked, and it was locked,” Zouein said. “They broke the door to the alley. Then they went in and broke the concrete wall of our store.” The service corridor is controlled by Highwoods Properties, the owner of the Plaza. “No security caught them,” Zouein said. “I don’t know who to blame.” Oh, really? I'll bet. What do you bet a low-level security guard--or two--loses his or her $10-$15.00 per hour job over this? It's always the "little guy". The other activity, as I was leaving the area this morning, I saw the crews in their "sky buckets" installing Christmas lights on two different towers. Yes, it was certainly a busy morning on the Country Club Plaza today. Some good. Some bad. For real "busy-ness", though, you ought to read about the brief flash mob down there this past Saturday night, as described from an employee of the Cheesecake Factory, at Plog. See the 2nd link below. I can't tell you more about it than they can and do. Link to original story: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/06/2203508/thieves-hit-vinca-jewelry-on-the.html http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2010/09/plaza_flash_mob_wasnt_about_race_until_it_was_about_race.php