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A daring and patient robbery for the most valuable items in a bank's vault
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By Stephen Kurczy, Staff writer / January 4, 2011
Here's the plot: Thieves rent a building, dig a hole from their basement into a neighboring bank's security vault, and quietly break in and make off with the goods.
Is it Hollywood or real life? Both, actually. On New Year's Eve in Argentina's capital, a band of thieves tunneled through a 100-foot-hole into a neighboring bank and stole the contents of up to 140 safety deposit boxes. Nobody was harmed.
The spectacular robbery seems to come straight out of Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Red-Headed League," about thieves attempting to tunnel into a pawnbroker's basement, or Woody Allen's comedy film "Small Time Crooks," about a bumbling group of would-be robbers who open a cookie shop as a ruse for digging from their basement into a nearby bank vault.
"It has the feeling of a Pierce Brosnan film," says Ulrich Boser, a senior fellow at the Center of American Progress think tank in Washington, referencing the 1999 film "The Thomas Crown Affair" starring the British actor as art thief..............................
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/...ck-Holmes-tales
Video:
By Stephen Kurczy, Staff writer / January 4, 2011
Here's the plot: Thieves rent a building, dig a hole from their basement into a neighboring bank's security vault, and quietly break in and make off with the goods.
Is it Hollywood or real life? Both, actually. On New Year's Eve in Argentina's capital, a band of thieves tunneled through a 100-foot-hole into a neighboring bank and stole the contents of up to 140 safety deposit boxes. Nobody was harmed.
The spectacular robbery seems to come straight out of Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Red-Headed League," about thieves attempting to tunnel into a pawnbroker's basement, or Woody Allen's comedy film "Small Time Crooks," about a bumbling group of would-be robbers who open a cookie shop as a ruse for digging from their basement into a nearby bank vault.
"It has the feeling of a Pierce Brosnan film," says Ulrich Boser, a senior fellow at the Center of American Progress think tank in Washington, referencing the 1999 film "The Thomas Crown Affair" starring the British actor as art thief..............................
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/...ck-Holmes-tales