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TLE: Thief

Sirens screamed as the thief ran heedless through the grid of lasers she plainly saw through her active goggles. Gravitometers measured the displacement as she hefted the diamond from its protective seat and four cameras fed video of her stuffing the diamond into her small backpack. Guards burst into the room and pointed their rifles at the huddled woman and her prize.

“Do you believe in magic?” she asked the men.

Without hesitation, the guards opened fire. Four cameras recorded the bullets tracing perfect ballistic paths through the air as the gravitometer noted the sudden disappearance of seventy two kilograms of mass.

Forty seven miles away, the woman laughed as she started her Toyota and headed off toward the border.

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