Thieves in Los Angeles pulled off one of the largest cash heists in city history over the weekend, stealing as much as $30m from a money storage facility on Easter Sunday, authorities said on Wednesday.
The break-in unfolded at an unnamed facility in the Sylmar area of the San Fernando Valley that handles and stores cash from businesses across the region. Burglars were able to enter without immediate detection and breached a safe, said Elaine Morales, a Los Angeles police department commander, to the Los Angeles Times.
The easiest way of stealing money from a safe is not to put it in the safe in the first place.
Thieves broke in and stole my mattress.
Just remembered this one
https://youtu.be/pbKUv0701vE?feature=shared
Think I saw that episode of Elementary.
There’s a great Peter Falk movie called The Brinks Job, based on a 1950 robbery in Boston when someone worked out that the Brinks warehouse, which was protected by its reputation for impregnability, was actually less protected at night than a corner shop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Brink%27s_Robbery
Well done lads! Your mothers must be proud of you.
Based on what little coverage of this heist I have read so far, the description of how they ‘breached a safe’ is most-likely a polite fiction for ‘they opened a safe or it was opened for them’. ‘Breaching’ a safe is mostly movie-plot fantasy, and if they were able to get past the building security and alarms, they obviously had enough inside knowledge to open the safe as well. For sure they wouldn’t go to all the trouble of a covert entry in order to then start the highly-unpredictable job of drilling or blasting on a safe.
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I am reminded of the Thunderbirds episode “Vault of Death” where they rescue a clerk from the Bank of England, then all go home and leave the safe open.