A bank was robbed in Brazil in much the same manner as a movie like The Ladykillers or, to a lesser extent, The Italian Job. (And those were both remakes, so the idea's been publicized for a while now) $67.8 million was stolen from a bank using an underground tunnel leading from a house across the street to a spot directly under the bank's vault. Inside the tunnel, police found a bolt cutter, a drill, an electric saw and a blowtorch, which were apparently used to cut through the vault's 3 1/2-foot-thick steel-reinforced concrete floor, the federal police spokeswoman said. Ironically, police suspect a man who had previously robbed a bank using a tunnel and was caught. The man later broke out of prison -- through an escape tunnel he dug. Somehow, the vault's motion sensors were not triggered. So somewhere in Brazil is the filthiest rich man in the world.






Posted by: nirajsanghvi on Aug 10th, 2005 | 12:01pm