Greatest Robberies of all time

DEFTLEFTHAND

Brinks Mat has to top the poll, 1983, 26 million stolen in gold bullion from a Heathrow warehouse . Worth half a billion in todays gold prices.

The great train robbery also, experdly executed.




In Irish terms, does anybody remember the ill fate raid on the National Irish Bank at College Green? Carried by the General and his crew.

The Satanist

The theft of the sun from my heart, carried out by the Manic Street Preachers was spectacular imo

893bet

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Kolido

Apple...prices for their devices are daylight robbery

Donnielighto

Eve online or Hans Gruber

The Satanist

The Satanist wrote: »

The theft of the sun from my heart, carried out by the Manic Street Preachers was spectacular imo

I always perceived them as victims rather than perpetrators

Day Lewin

Stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre was a pretty good coup...

the world's most famous painting, from one of the most famous art galleries. Coolness.

https:/https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/mona-lisa-stolen-louvre/

Thierry Henry amirite?

DEFTLEFTHAND

The biggest one ever foiled was The Millennium Star Diamond at the the Millennium Dome, London. Nov, 2000.

The Flying Squad were on to them. They let the robbery take place before swooping in and arresting the men.


That diamond is worth 700 million.

jochenstacker

1995, Brinks Allied robbery in Santry.
£3 million were taken. It was meticulously planned with sections of fence loosened for the ram raid.

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2015/0123/675178-biggest-heist/

gifted

Herself and the three chicks regularly rob my bank account.....don't know how but they do

biko

When the Pink Panther diamond was stolen by The Phantom.



Jk, it was Dala that stole it herself.

ArchXStanton

I'm pretty sure I seen a documentary about this, at the time the bank was releasing new notes into circulation, the thief's didn't touch the new notes in the vault because they would be easier to trace

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Central_burglary_at_Fortaleza

Ten of Swords

This may not fit the typical model of a 'heist' but the guy still got away with it...

D B Cooper

The Talking Bread

Margaret Cash. The Penny's Heist

super_furry

I sometimes think how easy it would have been to pull off big robberies in the past. Bank or post offices especially, considering there was no CCTV, no Garda heli-copters, no mobile phones.

Trigger Happy

The Harold’s cross heist was the most spectacular Irish one that I can remember. Well planned and ruthlessly carried out.

Oasis1974

Shergar the horse? Never saw the beast again IRA nicked him for a few million ransom but he refused to talk according to Martin McGuiness.

LuasSimon

Northern Bank robbery in Belfast of close on 30 Million Sterling in 2004 , Northern bank had to bring out new notes so much had been stolen , only one person ever caught even if much of the Haul couldn’t be used .
A case of the raid been too successful perhaps , as in they had robbed so much lol .

timthumbni

LuasSimon wrote: »

Northern Bank robbery in Belfast of close on 30 Million Sterling in 2004 , Northern bank had to bring out new notes so much had been stolen , only one person ever caught even if much of the Haul couldn’t be used .
A case of the raid been too successful perhaps , as in they had robbed so much lol .

And used to pay off the heroes of the child murdering terrorists in the ra. Very successful indeed.

El_Bee

timthumbni wrote: »

And used to pay off the heroes of the child murdering terrorists in the ra. Very successful indeed.

How dare you accuse the IRA of largely being an organized crime gang who took advantage of the Civil Rights movement in the North to dupe gullible people in the Republic (and a lot of even more gullible "Irish Americans") into funding and arming them, letting them massively outgun their competition (other criminals) and take over areas under the guise of "cleaning up the neighborhoods", then rule over nationalist areas with an iron fist for decades with the threat of brutal violence to anyone who dared speak against their criminal activities. Oh and now and then they'd get some guy who was massively in debt to drive a van full of explosives or a mortar somewhere (although a staggeringly high amount of times the driver bottled it and the attack never occurred) you know, to keep up appearances.

The Talking Bread

timthumbni wrote: »

And used to pay off the heroes of the child murdering terrorists in the ra. Very successful indeed.

I don't think the thread i about the moral justification of crime (robberies).
The success reference is based on the pulling off of the crime, the strategy behind it etc coupled with it's enormity.
Noone is suggesting this is Robin Hood stuff

jochenstacker

Ten of Swords wrote: »

This may not fit the typical model of a 'heist' but the guy still got away with it...

D B Cooper

XKCD hast a great theory on that

https://m.xkcd.com/1400/

Roadtoad

1994, Offaly robbed Limerick of the All Ireland hurling.

The Talking Bread

Roadtoad wrote: »

1994, Offaly robbed Limerick of the All Ireland hurling.

Limerick robbed themselves! You have no claim to anything or no reason to feel done over if you concede 2-5 in a few minutes!!

Worn Out

What the government takes from my salary each month.

Your Face

Montreal Nov 9th 1997

4068ac1elhodqr

Foreign visitors to Europe have a real taste for the Gold:

Solid 220-pound gold coin (100kg, $4.3m) lifted out of German Museum, without anyone noticing.
Crown jewels of Sweden used for the funerals of King Karl IX and Queen Kristina stolen from Strangnas Cathedral.

branie2

The great train robbery of 1963

Elmer Blooker

The Lufthansa heist at JFK airport December 1978 which may not be the biggest robbery now but at the time it was huge.
any excuse to post a Goodfellas clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVvvkDSXj_I

BorneTobyWilde

2005 Champions League

Kolido

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

2005 Champions League

That was foiled, Milan were caught!

Ulysses Gaze

Banco Central Burglary in Fortaleza, Brazil

After renting a commercial property in the middle of the city and posing as landscapers, the gang behind this enormous heist spent three months digging a 256-foot tunnel to a position beneath the bank. Then, over a weekend in August, they tunneled up through reinforced concrete into the vault of the Banco Central branch.

They robbed $70 million.

Ulysses Gaze

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

2005 Champions League

That's not Robbery.

This WAS robbery

KERSPLAT!

Meath winning the Leinster final v Louth in 2010, how the feck did we get away with that!

Your Face

The thing about Arsenal is, they always try to walk it in.

RobbingBandit

My hero Bertie I won it on a horse

The real RobbingBandit

ERG89

Whoever told the 2 guys there was treasure on Oak Island.
Spent a bomb searching for it. Even though they have the TV series the amount of money wasted must be frightening.

Capt'n Midnight

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1865132_1865133_1865218,00.html

On Jan. 20, 1976, a group associated with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization exploited the chaos of the country's civil war and broke into the British Bank of the Middle East in Beirut.

Instead of using cunning and skill, the robbers used brute force, blasting through a wall the bank shared with a Catholic church. Reportedly with the help of a bunch of Corsican locksmiths, the group then cracked the bank's vault and plundered its contents — anywhere from $20 million to $50 million worth of gold bars, Lebanese and foreign currency, stocks and jewels.

Ten of Swords

Ten of Swords wrote: »

This may not fit the typical model of a 'heist' but the guy still got away with it...

D B Cooper

AKA Don Draper :eek:

Cina

The one in Paris last night.

rgodard80a

The bank bailout guaranteeing all debt including unsecured bondholders.

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/night-of-the-bank-guarantee-4258897-Sep2018/

uch

I got away with a stunning hiest of a colouring book and a Fizzle stick in 1976 from the local newsagents, people in the area are still talking about it

Knex*

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Ryan Tubridy count?

500k. Baffling.