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  • #16
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    Originally posted by Southern_land View Post
    Based on this I feel I have no real alternative but to turn you lot in. Clearly you're in it together

    I have an alibi, but I'd offer up Jason Statham as a suspect...it's more his sort of thing.

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    • #17
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      Armored Truck Dash for Cash on Highway Prompts Police Warning to Motorists


      Police in Texas said they want to "remind" drivers who found cash blowing on the side of an interstate on Friday that their discovery could land them behind bars.

      A Brinks Armored Truck was traveling west along Interstate 20 Friday afternoon towards Abilene, Texas, when the truck’s passenger door opened and a “substantial” amount of cash fell out of the truck, according to a statement from the Weatherford Police Department.

      The money was dropped over a seven-mile stretch of highway, police said.

      Officers dispatched to the area around 3 p.m. on Friday found small amounts of money, along with a few individuals who picked up some of the loose cash off the road. Authorities believe most of the money that was lost by the truck has been picked up by drivers traveling along the highway.

      Video posted to Facebook shows several vehicles pulling over to the shoulder of the road, with people walking to their vehicles with handfuls of cash.

      Police asked on Friday that anyone who picked up some of the money off the roadway to return to them or Brinks.

      “Weatherford Police would like to remind everyone that the loose money is property of Brinks Armored Car Service,” police said in a statement.

      “Weatherford Police will investigate and potentially prosecute any individual that has picked up any of the loose money and not returned it to either Brinks or the Police Department.”

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      • #18
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        I don't have a news story link for this one, but it also falls into the theme of this thread where "real life events can mirror movie plots."

        This is relayed to me verbally...

        Eight teenagers go snowmobiling last month and get stranded as darkness approaches. A stranger with one hand leads them back to his cabin in the woods for the night. He does not have a phone and it is a mountain area where phones do not work anyway. The stranger with one hand blown off in an accidental explosion years ago is actually a registered sex offender, pedophile, paranoid, has security cameras around the property and weapons caches hidden around the woods. The ATF has raided the place at least once that I know of. I also hear he grows weed somewhere in the basement cellars. The teens are forced to stay the night with him at the cabin in the woods.

        In a movie he would have to kill six or seven of the teens, but real life was not quite so dramatic. ...nobody injured. Everybody went home safely the next day.

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        • #19
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          BBC - US lottery security boss charged with fixing draw

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          • #20
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            Someone stole $1B from Moldova - an eighth of its GDP

            http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...post/26923909/


            KIEV, Ukraine - When thousands filled the streets of Moldova's capital Sunday in the little country's largest protest in years, their complaint was pretty significant.
            Late last year, about $1 billion disappeared in an apparent banking scandal that's mystified Europe's poorest country.
            To put that sum into perspective, it's an eighth of the country's GDP. In United States terms, that portion of the economy would add up to more than $2 trillion.
            The money reportedly vanished in a series of murky loans dealt out last November by three major banks - one of them state-owned - to as yet unknown recipients.

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            • #21
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              5 paintings missing since WWII returning to Germany


              WASHINGTON (AP) — Five paintings missing since World War II are being returned to collections in Germany at the behest of the heirs of their American acquirers.
              The paintings, including three won by an American GI in a poker game, were turned over to the German government Tuesday. Their return was organized by the State Department and the Monuments Men Foundation, which promotes the work of those who protected cultural works during the war and seeks to track down and repatriate objects that went missing.

              http://apnews.myway.com/article/2015...a4074bd34.html


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              • #22
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                http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ike-heist.html

                the $4.8M gold bar heist: How thieves used GPS tracker and remote-controlled pepper-spray launcher to subdue driver and steal 275lbs of gold in Hollywood-like heist
                • FBI says armed robbers used GPS tracker and remote-controlled pepper-spray launcher to subdue drivers
                • Agents identified the alleged ringleader as Adalberto Perez, 46, who was arrested this week in Miami, Florida, and two accomplices remain at large
                • A truck on I-95 in North Carolina suddenly filled with pepper spray
                • Drivers were forced to pull over and robbers claimed they were police
                • Then the men tied them up and marched them into the woods
                • Robbers put out orange traffic cones to make truck appear innocuous
                • They wore reflective clothing to look like they belonged on the roadside
                • Thieves then cut off locks and quickly unloaded 275 pounds of gold and about 40 silver coins into the van and sped away
                Last edited by Done Deal Pro; 03-18-2016, 08:46 AM. Reason: Formatting.

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                • #23
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                  $1B bank heist thwarted by a typo

                  http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...typo/81638358/

                  Hackers helped themselves to $81 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last month - but the massive theft could have been far worse if not for a typo, reports Reuters. Investigators say the heist began when the hackers breached the security systems of Bangladesh Bank and then, posing as the Bangladeshi bankers, requested dozens of large transfers from the New York Fed. About $81 million had gone through to entities in the Philippines before red flags up went because the hackers had written "fandation" instead of "foundation" on one of the transfers. Routing bank Deutsche Bank caught the error, got suspicious, and alerted the Bangladesh central bank, which put a stop to the transfer. In total, hackers had put in almost three dozen transfer requests and planned to steal another $850 million to $870 million...

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                  • #24
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                    HAH these guys are all small potatoes compared to this criminal mastermind:
                    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...n_6068584.html

                    A teletubby made off with a portion of leftover chinese food in his man purse and didn't even get put in time out. Now thats what i call a heist.

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                    • #25
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                      The Millennium Diamond heist.

                      One of the world biggest diamonds on display in the London Millennium Dome, the attempted theft foiled by months of police work.

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                      • #26
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                        7/26/19

                        1,500 pounds of gold gone in 3 minutes during Brazil heist

                        It took less than three minutes for eight armed men to make off with $30 million worth of gold bars from Sao Paulo's international airport -- possibly the second-largest heist in Brazil's history.

                        Criminals disguised as federal police officers drove to the Guarulhos airport on Thursday afternoon in an SUV and flatbed truck, both fashioned to look official, according to the airport's press office.

                        Security camera footage shows them wearing balaclavas and giving orders to cargo terminal employees, one of whom used a forklift to load the precious cargo onto the truck's bed.

                        The gold was bound for Zurich and New York, the airport's press office said in an email, without disclosing its provenance. Sao Paulo's civil police, which is in charge of the investigation, said the men took 720 kilograms (1,587 pounds) in bars valued at 110 million reais ($30 million).

                        The crime was perpetrated by "a well-organized gang,- police chief João Carlos Miguel Hueb told reporters on Friday. "This certainly wasn't their first robbery.-

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                        • #27
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                          Originally posted by RogerOThornhill View Post
                          7/26/19

                          The crime was perpetrated by "a well-organized gang,- police chief João Carlos Miguel Hueb told reporters on Friday. "This certainly wasn't my first robbery.-
                          I heard the starting gun


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                          • #28
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                            Make up your own plot! It can't be stranger than real life.

                            I post these news tidbits from time to time just to show that these things actually do happen outside of the movie theater. This thread is heists, but the news is full of ideas in all genres.

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                            • #29
                              Re: An Actual $300m Bank Heist

                              Link below is to a GQ article on the Great Buenos Aires Heist of 2006. (estimated $10 million)

                              Police were clueless for a long time until a tiny thread unravelled...otherwise it was a work of art. Some aspects of the heist have been used in some English language films in addition to a Spanish language feature film specifically about the heist.



                              https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-b...es-bank-heist?

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