Black Americans snapped up antique shops, snakeskin bags full of antiquities
This surveillance footage captures a wonderful moment inside an antique store in the United States.
A group of black men armed with hammers frantically smashed open the glass door of the antique store and calmly put the store's artifacts into snakeskin pockets, a scene that stunned everyone.
This is not just an ordinary robbery, but also a new upgrade of the US zero-dollar purchase. Instead of settling for supermarkets and shopping malls, they set their sights on the more ancient heritage markets.
This not only tested the courage of these blacks, but also their cultural literacy. Netizens joked that the United States zero-dollar purchase has been raised to a new height.
These zero-yuan shopping enthusiasts have adopted the method of full face covering in the surveillance screen, only exposing the eye area.
In this scene, the black man is holding a black snakeskin pocket, ready to hide all his illegally obtained antique artifacts.
The man clutched a pistol in his hand, a rarity in a zero-dollar purchase.
Next, these people who are keen on zero-yuan purchases hold all kinds of antiques in their hands and walk out. Some use snakeskin bags, others in cardboard boxes. They marched with anticipation towards their "booty".
These people relayed the antiques out of the warehouse without interruption.
A man wearing a black hood walks curiously to the surveillance camera after the zero-dollar purchase is over, hoping to find antiques that have not yet been discovered. The announcement of this monitoring ** came as a surprise to Americans who were accustomed to zero-dollar purchases, who did not expect that zero-dollar purchases had expanded into the field of antiques.
Three years after the zero-dollar buying wave, the consumer demand of some black groups has shifted beyond ordinary goods to the field of antiques. In the United States, many antique stores have received a recommendation to strengthen security, as zero-dollar buying groups have begun to turn their attention to antique stores.
In California, antique stores in the Central and East Coast regions have become the "new favorites" of black zero-dollar shoppers. These shops have a long history, antiques are of high value, small in size and easy to hide.
For example, a Chinese antique shop in Pasadena displays items of historical value, such as 16th-century Cambodian wood carvings of Buddha, 500-year-old Indian stone carvings, and 18th-century Qing Dynasty coins.
However, these antiques have also become the object of looting.
This Qing Dynasty porcelain bowl is a product of the early 20th century, and for blacks, they can easily get 10 to 20 of these porcelain bowls from antique shops, and each of them can be sold in the market for thousands of dollars.
The coins of the Ming and Qing dynasties can be piled up in antique shops, which is also a new goal for zero-yuan purchase enthusiasts. Americans are increasingly playing zero-dollar purchases, stealing toothpaste and toothbrushes in the past, and now stealing cultural relics, and the next step may be calligraphy and painting in museums.
According to statistics, there are 15 zero-dollar purchase cases in the United States every day, which is double the number last year. The antique market has also become a target for zero-dollar purchases, which may be a sad thing for the United States as a developed country.