Comments on: Bank Robbers Steal Worthless £50m

By: Curios

Curios — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:35:58 +0000

$85 Million in toilet paper and toothpaste? Sounds like a fun Friday night to me.

By: RS

RS — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:29:27 +0000

Sure would be fun to try to spend that much money. Reminds me of that movie Brewsters Millions where Richard Prior has to spend a certain amount of money in a specific way.

They could just use it for a lot of small things such as groceries and clothes…stuff that you just pay cash for.

By: Empty Spaces

Empty Spaces — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 05:32:12 +0000

I was thinking exactly the same thing when i heard it on tv. how the hell are they going to dispose of the money. they’ll probably have to bury it and leave it for several years or try to smuggle it abroad.

i think they’ll get caught pretty soon. someone’s bound to get sloppy.

By: jim

jim — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:26:24 +0000

Who’s “george”? :)

By: Flexo

Flexo — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:15:46 +0000

“George,”

Very amusing. :-)

By: jim

jim — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:59:01 +0000

They make it sound like they have to launder all $85m in one shot… heck, I can launder a few grand every week and be perfectly content. Plus, don’t you think there are “services” out there that can launder money for a fee? Of course there are.

By: george.hardwicke

george.hardwicke — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:44:51 +0000

Dear Sir,

I am a personal accountant of George Hardwicke, who recently came upon $85 million due to a personal windfall. Due to some misunderstandings with the British Exchequer and Scotland Yard, Mr. Hardwicke requires that the monies be repatriated to your country. I seek your partnership in assisting Mr. Hardwicke with this transaction.

For your efforts, Mr. Hardwicke is prepared to offer you the generous sums of 30%, or $25.5 million. To facilitate the transaction, I will require from you only your bank account number. Please provide this to me posthaste and I will initiate the transfer of $85 million to your account forthwith.

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By: retireat30

retireat30 — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:39:19 +0000

So because they have $85 million it is worthless. Let’s think out the logic here:

If they had stolen $1 million, they would have about $1 million.

Because they stole an additional $84 million, they now have less than $1 million?

Uhm… No. It makes for a fun story, but these people were smart enough to pull off the largest heist in british history. Lets give them some credit for being able to extract at least half: $42 million out of their $84.

Nevertheless, talk about diminishing returns to scale.

By: jim

jim — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:07:53 +0000

I’ll take a worthless $85M any day… :)

By: samerwriter

samerwriter — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:06:42 +0000

I get a chuckle every time I think about these 10 guys sitting around the perimeter of a room with $85 million sitting in the middle of the floor, looking at each other and thinking, “now what?”

It reminds of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”:
“Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.”

Of course right now they’re probably still at the stage of trying to figure out how to knock off their cohorts (or, alternately, how to avoid getting knocked off).

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:33:52 +0000

Tonbridge Robbery….one thing British bank staff are trained to death on is detecting Money Laundering.

Is it the same in the US?