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This is so incredible that I think I’ve seen this in a movie before.* And if I didn’t, it should be put in a movie immediately. Genius bank robbers dug a 100 foot tunnel from a parking garage across the street to the bank’s safe deposit room and walked away with over £11,000,000 in goods.
Police were only notified of the robbery when a security guard noticed smoke coming out of the vault. When police stormed the room, they didn’t find bank robbers but discovered the tunnel the robbers used to escape. Turns out, the smoke was coming from a fire the bank robbers set to cover their tracks.
The bank, which is located in Berlin, Germany, is still trying to figure out what was stolen from the safe deposit boxes. I imagine the bank robbers are in some Latin American beach trying to figure out which paradise destination to visit next. You go guys. [Telegraph, Neatorama]
*The Bank Job was a movie based on a true story about a 1971 bank robbery that used a tunnel. So there’s that.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200465/
I just watched The Bank Job last week. May be these guys got the inspiration from the movie? But then, digging tunnels to get to treasure isn’t exactly new.
sans armes, ni haine, ni violence (“without weapons, nor hatred, nor violence”).
I think this is the robbery you were looking for:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Spaggiari
I seem to remember that a few years later they were convicted on DNA evidence – they hadn’t counted on this new science catching them out. Also my spell-check doesn’t know the word heist, which is strange.
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they are on a beach earning 20 per cent(fake german accent required_
You go guys?
Yes, I hope they go straight to your house dig a tunnel and rob all your things too.
Hmmm….there’s a French patisserie across the road from me…and they get a fresh batch of macarons every monday and wednesday.
I need a spade, and one of those helmets with a torch strapped on it…
couldnt you just hire snow white and the 7 dwarfs to do the job for you?
i mean all the dwarfs could do the tunnelling and digging, and you could *ahem* ‘look after; snow white
Isn’t Snow White supposed to be 14 though, Mr Fritzl?
i have no idea, i thought she was older, but googled it and so she is, i withdraw my last statement, however i do have a spare cellar*
*just joking in-case some moron thinks i am serious
There there, we all make mistakes buddy. Here’s a sweet cup of tea to calm your nerves. I’ll just pop into the kitchen to find some biscuits, won’t be long…
*dials 999*
hahahahahaha
Don’t know what its like in Germany… but in the UK banks have seismic sensors to stop this kind of thing…..
I don’t what it’s like in Germany… in the UK banks don’t have anything worth nicking as they pissed the economy up the wall and everyone had to flog anything of value.
Probably better robbing the Cash4Gold warehouse.
Bank of England has £156bn in gold. try there.
Isn’t that also a very very secure place to rob?
well, you don’t get something for nothing!
True true!
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