the fire alarm goes off for no apparent reason. so does another alarm on the fourth floor. after all that, rick returns and the gallery guard takes his turn making the rounds. the clock reads 1:24 a.m. and rick is alone at the guard desk. suddenly, the night takes a dangerous turn. he rang the doorbell. i could see him on the outside camera. i could see him walking down the streelt. i thought they were just clearing drunks off the street. there were a lot of drunken people in the street that particular night. but then they stopped and buzzed the buzzer. i leaned over to the intercom and i said yeah? and they said boston police, we got a report of disservice on the premise. so i buzzed them in. that decision to buzz them in is something rick abbot has had to live with for the past 23 years.
that first round takes longer than usual. the fire alarm goes off for no apparent reason. so does another alarm on the fourth floor. after all that, rick returns and the gallery guard takes his turn making the rounds. the clock reads 1:24 a.m. and rick is alone at the guard desk. suddenly, the night takes a dangerous turn. he rang the doorbell. i could see him on the outside camera. i could see him walking down the streelt. i thought they were just clearing drunks off the street. there were a lot of drunken people in the street that particular night. but then they stopped and buzzed the buzzer. i leaned over to the intercom and i said yeah? and they said boston police, we got a report of disservice on the premise. so i buzzed them in. that decision to buzz them in
so does another alarm on the fourth floor. after all that, rick returns and the gallery guard takes his turn making the rounds. the clock reads 1:24 a.m. and rick is alone at the guard desk. suddenly, the night takes a dangerous turn. he rang the doorbell. i could see him on the outside camera. i could see him walking down the streelt. i thought they were just clearing drunks off the street. there were a lot of drunken people in the street that particular night. but then they stopped and buzzed the buzzer. i leaned over to the intercom and i said yeah? and they said boston police, we got a report of disservice on the premise. so i buzzed them in. that decision to buzz them in is something rick abbot has had to live with for the past 23 years. the night watchman, against protocol, allowed them into the
apparent reason. so does another alarm on the fourth floor. after all that, rick returns and the gallery guard takes his turn making the rounds. the clock reads 1:24 a.m. and rick is alone at the guard desk. suddenly, the night takes a dangerous turn. he rang the doorbell. i could see him on the outside camera. i could see him walking down the streelt. i thought they were just clearing drunks off the street. there were a lot of drunken people in the street that particular night. but then they stopped and buzzed the buzzer. i leaned over to the intercom and i said yeah? and they said boston police, we got a report of disservice on the premise. so i buzzed them in. that decision to buzz them in is something rick abbot has had to live with for the past 23 years.
place. reporter: he couldn t see. couldn t hear. and he had no idea what was happening upstairs. all that he knew was that his museum was unguarded and about to be robbed. it all happened so fast, he never had a chance to hit the one panic button by the guard desk. he knew no one was coming to help. did the thieves know that as well? it appears they did. since they were in no rush to get out. the path is interesting. they took the guards, after they handcuffed them and taped them and brought them into the basement, about 24 minutes elapsed, though, before they would see them again. motion detectors placed throughout the building picked up their trail for nearly an hour and a half. but that didn t matter. those motion detectors weren t connected to police outside. they only alert the guard sitting at the computer by the entrance. a computer that was now