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Boring thieves had tunnel visions (2009)

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That headline is amazing. The article is interesting. The headline is just a jewel. I suppose someone might be tempted to call it clickbait, but it's in no way misleading. it's just a spectacular title.

You might like "The World's Biggest Diamond Heist" from the same year (2009).

https://www.wired.com/2009/03/ff-diamonds-2/

That's a decidedly less interesting headline.

“Headless Body in Topless Bar” quality

The British politician Michael Foot was involved with nuclear disarmament, for which the headline "Foot heads arms body" was proposed [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foot

Fans of The Red-headed Leauge, I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red-Headed_League

Quite possibly with the Spaulding reference!

"no tunnel bank jobs have been pulled in the L.A. area since" - but there was one foiled last month in Brazil.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/04/brazil-bank-ro...

2013 Berlin http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264567/Robbers-tunn...

Not doable today, I think they use seismic sensors.

But then Elon Musk musk know something I don't... https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/29/16567088/elon-musk-the-b...

(a joke, OK? I know Tesla has enough money--for a few more quarters)

> Not doable today, I think they use seismic sensors.

Those are circumventable. Trigger the seismic sensors (before making access to the vault) a bunch of times until the alarm gets ignored or the sensors get temporarily disabled.

So how do you know when it's ignored?

when the police stop showing up?

The biggest brazilian heist was also made using tunnels, but they got away with a lot more money than those guys and most of the criminals involved were never captured.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Central_burglary_at_Fort...

Something similar happend in India this month itself! http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/how-shop-used...

Recalled me of "The Bank Job" movie, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bank_Job

There were tunnel bank robberies like these in the Black Echo, the first Bosch novel.

Not the first underground break ins. I think there's one in a Sherlock Holmes story. But seems like banks could just monitor vibrations to prevent this attack.

Black Echo was based off the heist described in the article. It was also mentioned in the article.

great read, but reading title I thought it had something to do with Elon Musk's Borking company and it's tunnels lol

I love stories like this, keep them coming!

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