Real-life
robberies are often the subject of our "dumb criminal" posts, but every
once in a while, thieves pull off a caper that is so brazen, clever, or
just plain huge that you mentally compare it to a Hollywood film. Some
of these real-life scripts would be rejected because they're "not
believable." Of course, the most impressive robberies are those that are
successful. Consider the case of the 2012 jewelry heist at Fraser Hart
jewelers at a mall in London. A half-dozen guys dressed in black on
motorcycles roared up to the second floor and smashed jewelry cases with
axes!
Within a matter of minutes, the raiders had
snatched up more than $3.1 million in Cartier and Rolex watches, loose
diamonds, and an undisclosed number of those Jane Seymour "Forever
Heart" pendants. Then they leaped back onto their doom cycles and
thundered off, screaming at random bystanders and dropping loot like
cartoon bandits in their wake.
Mall security sprang into action
and locked down the entire mall just in time to prevent the bikers from
returning and stealing anything else and keep the panicked, terrorized
throngs of mid-morning shoppers trapped inside. Investigators found
three stolen motorbikes dumped at a nearby golf course, but the trail of
jewels apparently didn't lead any further than that, because the riders
themselves remain shrouded in mystery.
That's just one of the
6 Real Heists More Badass Than Any Movie you can read about at Cracked.
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