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I’m surprised that someone still practises the ancient art of physical brick-and-mortar bank heist. I guess the bank was also surprised.
When the prolific and unrepentant bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he replied “That’s where the money is.”
Can’t argue with that logic
Another recession indicator: resurgence of high-profile heists
If we don’t switch from a Trickle Down to a Trickle UP Economy, we will spontaneously flip to a Robin Hood Economy (Take from the rich, give to the poor), and that usually comes accompanied by guillotines and what not.
I have no doubt they will get caught. With the number of cameras canvassing cities and infrastructure, it is only a matter of time before they can be backtracked to some point of origin, and then be found using standard police investigation techniques. This type of job will have been done by individuals from a small pool of criminals who specialize in them, and they’re not plentiful and almost always previously known by police.
I’ve been thinking about it myself a lot for a book, and I just don’t see how they could get away in this day and age doing such a high profile robbery. Their best bet is to immediately move the loot and have third and fourth parties secure funds in overseas accounts so that they can access them after they served out their (relatively short) sentences, then live out their lives in wealth and opulence- except they rarely do that, because you don’t become a bank robber for the money.
No matter how much money you potentially make, it’s never going to be enough.
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€30mil in cash is some haul.
Like the pile of cash scene from breaking bad
Any haul is 10 times lighter if you bring it home and get it for free :)
Good
Well bad because it was also safe deposit boxes, which wasn’t cash, and probably a person’s valuables emptied into a bag. This isn’t the Louvre heist where there were no actual victims.
The rich victims have insurance, and they can sue the bank, so that makes things even more difficult for the bank, and now an insurance company. This gets better and better.
Rich people think their wealth insulates them from annoyance and inconvenience, and yet vast amounts of it seem to only exacerbate it, which is nice. I’m glad when they are unhappy.
Not everyone who has money in a bank or valuables in a safe deposit box is rich.
People who aren’t rich keep documents, like divorce papers and birth certificates, in their safety deposit boxes, which the thieves don’t want. They only steal the jewelry and cash that the rich people are hiding.
I doubt they went through the items. They cracked the box and emptied it into a bag. Paper can be valuable depending what’s on it, they figure that out later.
Nah, these are bank robbers, it isn’t a movie. They want a quick turnover for their haul. If they open it, and it’s full of paper, they just drop it, and go to the next one, hoping its jewelry or cash. No sense filling your bag with heavy paper that may or may not be valuable, and is difficult to fence in any case. You’d hate to get near the end, and have no more room for gold and jewels, because youve got a lot of divorce papers.
Oh is that what they did in your fantasy? I guess the way to thwart a bank robber is to put cash and jewels inside an envelope.
Good fuck the banks
Eh, the bank probably won’t be inconvenienced much. I imagine they have insurance, so the insurance company will be fucked, so good cause fuck insurance companies.
Although for something this big the government might be the insurance for the bank, so taxpayers might foot the bill.
So fuck us I guess, we lose again.
Where do you get a drill that big?
More important question is that how do you use it quietly enough to not gain attention.
The “vault” had a brick wall and wooden shelves?
From the photo, there seems to have been a substantial-thickness concrete wall and then a brick wall. Obviously, they were still not enough, but it wasn’t just a brick wall.
And about the wooden shelves: So what? They are not security relevant or customer facing, they just need to work as shelves.
Those safe deposit boxes did not live up to their description.
The PAYDAY games would have you think they were made of titanium.
