Posted August 01, 2015
F4LL0UT: Allegedly they've been around at least since the middle-ages. I don't think they are going anywhere.
I've read one in a book published in 1836 ("Les Voleurs", written by chief of police Vidocq. Nice read if you are interested in 18th/19th century thieves and crooks, and french free copies are easy to find on the net). It was a nice sob story about a noble family that hid their jewels just before they got caught and executed by the evil revolutionaries in the 1790', and their poor servant needed a noble soul to pay for his trip to the hiding place. So yeah, they're a classic ^^