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Robbing a bank

  • 01-06-2015 3:34pm
    #1
    Brego888
    Registered Users Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭


    Why does no one rob banks anymore?
    Is it those pesky time locked security doors?


Comments

  • #2
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    They do. But it's an inside job.


  • #3
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    I read somewhere that the average successful bank robbery nets around $10,000 in the US.

    Hardly seems worth the risk.


  • #4
    Laoislion8383
    Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭Laoislion8383


    Tiger kidnappings saves ever having to enter the back


  • #5
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Bastards have that many handling charges these days you'd be out money on robbing them.


  • #6
    Laoislion8383
    Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭Laoislion8383


    It could be that the whor@s are broke and nothing to rob :)


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  • #7
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Brego888 wrote: »
    Why does no one rob banks anymore?
    Is it those pesky time locked security doors?

    yeah.

    I find post offices are easier to rob.


  • #8
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    They do ..........


  • #9
    RossieMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,766 ✭✭✭RossieMan


    its those stupid ****ing maze you have to use to enter, a couple of people died in them last week, couldn't find their way out.


  • #10
    con___manx1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    Brego888 wrote: »
    Why does no one rob banks anymore?
    Is it those pesky time locked security doors?

    There was a big bank job in London not too long ago. They drilled through a really thick wall and raided the safety deposit boxes. It was on a weekend so no one in the bank.


  • #11
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Electronic transfers are how its done now in the west for the most part.

    Good old fashioned blags are rare now.


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  • #12
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,459 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    If they went up to the counter they'd probably get directed to the self service area in the corner.


  • #13
    Roquentin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Roquentin


    "Give a man a gun he will rob a bank, give a man a bank and he will rob the world."

    --unknown


  • #14
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    con___manx1 wrote: »
    There was a big bank job in London not too long ago. They drilled through a really thick wall and raided the safety deposit boxes. It was on a weekend so no one in the bank.

    Hatton Garden was not a bank


  • #15
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    More money in drugs and less risky


  • #16
    Juan8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 372 ✭✭Juan8


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    More money in drugs and less risky

    Beat me to it


  • #17
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,694 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    In Soviet Russia Ireland, banks rob you!


  • #18
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    I didn't want the hassle of filling in the forms.


  • #19
    con___manx1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Hatton Garden was not a bank

    Yes suppose it wasn't but some banks offer the same service with safety deposit boxes. Estimated 200 million taken ; )


  • #20
    Taxburden carrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 557 ✭✭✭Taxburden carrier


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    More money in drugs and less risky

    Yeah, no chance of injury or death in the drugs racket :rolleyes:


  • #21
    Chloris
    Closed Accounts Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Chloris


    con___manx1 wrote:
    There was a big bank job in London not too long ago. They drilled through a really thick wall and raided the safety deposit boxes. It was on a weekend so no one in the bank.
    Easter weekend, haha!
    Harry Palmr wrote:
    Hatton Garden was not a bank
    Safety deposit boxes with diamonds, wasn't it?


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  • #22
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    More money in drugs and less risky

    More money in BlackMarket Cigarettes than Drugs or Banks and even less risk ...........


  • #23
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,459 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    MadDog76 wrote: »
    More money in BlackMarket Cigarettes than Drugs or Banks and even less risk ...........


    A good job even better...zero risk.


  • #24
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Bank robbers never moved with the times, all to do with computers these days and they have no training in that.


  • #25
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,079 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    If GTA V has thought me anything its that with a helicopter and a couple of juggernaut suits, I can rob any bank


  • #26
    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    kneemos wrote: »
    If they went up to the counter they'd probably get directed to the self service area in the corner.

    Yep, or told there is no counter service on the day you choose to rob the place and advised to come back on 'Tuesday or Thursday between 10am and 12pm .....

    Mind you, the local garda station closed down a year ago, and the next nearest one is nearly 10miles away so if you DID rob the bank, you'd be well gone by the time the Gardai got there.....









    ***ATTENTION CRIMINALS***:
    Will tell you the location in return for a small share of the profits. PM me lol


  • #27
    Esroh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Esroh


    As kids we always wondered why our banks and post office we never robbed. Post office and 2 banks were beside each other. Oneway traffic system so one badly parkedvan would stop traffic and give you a clean getaway. Everytime the Army/gardai escorted the Cash pick up they were actually showing how it could be done .


  • #28
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,459 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Esroh wrote: »
    As kids we always wondered why our banks and post office we never robbed. Post office and 2 banks were beside each other. Oneway traffic system so one badly parkedvan would stop traffic and give you a clean getaway. Everytime the Army/gardai escorted the Cash pick up they were actually showing how it could be done .

    Bank done here years ago,one of them blocked the road with a pretend breakdown.
    Planning is everything.


  • #29
    Roquentin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Roquentin


    kneemos wrote: »
    Bank done here years ago,one of them blocked the road with a pretend breakdown.
    Planning is everything.

    "chance favours the prepared mind" louis pasteur


  • #30
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Brego888 wrote: »
    it those pesky time locked security doors?

    yeah man its desperate. Slim pickings.Lot of folk are getting into timeshares again.


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  • #31
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • #32
    FreaksAndGeeks
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭FreaksAndGeeks


    They're too busy robbing us.


  • #33
    Brego888
    Registered Users Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭Brego888


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    More money in drugs and less risky

    But surely the thrill of a good bank robbery would trump the drug dealing.


  • #34
    worded
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,608 ✭✭✭worded


    Banks are getting robbed all the time by hackers

    http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/world/bank-hackers-steal-millions-via-malware.html?referrer=&_r=0


  • #35
    ComfortKid
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭ComfortKid


    It's the banks that do the robbing these days.


  • #36
    RedemptionZ
    Registered Users Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭RedemptionZ


    Around the time of John Gilligan is where those high profile robberies stopped taking place in Ireland and the drug industry began to take over. Though interestingly as he grew up around a different breed of criminals he was traditionally more fond of robberies. But money talks and ultimately he began to see it was the way forward, in economic terms.


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  • #37
    worded
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,608 ✭✭✭worded


    That recent uk heist of the safety deposit place was some bit of precise drilling

    Can someone get a few pics on the www

    I'm on a slow connection Iphone

    The concrete wall was at least two meters thick

    The buzz must have been amazing when they got in.
    Imagine the adrenaline rush !


  • #38
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,870 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    worded wrote: »
    That recent uk heist of the safety deposit place was some bit of precise drilling

    Can someone get a few pics on the www

    I'm on a slow connection Iphone

    The concrete wall was at least two meters thick

    The buzz must have been amazing when they got in.
    Imagine the adrenaline rush !

    I'd imagine the adrenaline rush was the same as when they got arrested for it...


  • #39
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • #40
    greeno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭greeno


    http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/the-biggest/everybody-be-cool-the-10-biggest-bank-robberies-ever/?view=all


  • #41
    fizzypish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭fizzypish


    greeno wrote: »
    http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/the-biggest/everybody-be-cool-the-10-biggest-bank-robberies-ever/?view=all

    Hmmmm not that many people getting away with the old bank robbing......


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