Robbery in London - 300 deposit boxes

[Meridius]

Serb Montenegrin pink panther group again im guessing? Seem to be the only people who pull off things like this consistently.

[S10GTA]

kev1974 said:

Burqa disguise probably came into play

Turns out they were wearing builders overalls and dust masks. Ban the builders overalls doesn't have quite the same ring to it does it.

[soad]

The Diamond Geezers - Mr Ginger, Mr Strong, the Tall Man, the Old Man, The Gent and Mr Montana.

What a lovely bit of work. Proper caper this is.

[Laurel Green]

Bloody Eastern Europeans coming over here and stealing all our diamonds.

[Pesty]

soad said:

The Diamond Geezers - Mr Ginger, Mr Strong, the Tall Man, the Old Man, The Gent and Mr Montana.

What a lovely bit of work. Proper caper this is.

Did Mr ginger fk up and not have a mask on?

Anyway.

Mr. Ginger Hey, why am I Mr. Ginger?
Joe: Because you're a ginger
Mr. Ginger: Why can't we pick our own names?
Joe: No way, no way. Tried it once, doesn't work. You got four guys all fighting over who's gonna Have a cool name, but they don't know each other, so nobody wants to back down. No way. I pick. You're Mr. Ginger. Be thankful you're not Mr. Yellow.
The gent: Who cares what your name is?
Mr. Ginger: Yeah, that's easy for your to say, you're The gent You have a cool-sounding name. Alright look, if it's no big deal to be Mr. Ginger, you wanna trade?

[Burwood]

Can anyone in the know illustrate what sort of drill and gear is needed to do this. I heard mention of a 3,000 lb drill. Surely they aren't easy to come by.

[Laurel Green]

The above mentioned Mirror link suggested(I think it was)a 70lb drill.

ETA: 35kg one of These

Edited by Laurel Green on Saturday 11th April 12:34

[soad]

Pesty said:

Did Mr ginger fk up and not have a mask on?

But you can't see much - only back of the head.

Wore one later.

[Scuffers]

Burwood said:

Can anyone in the know illustrate what sort of drill and gear is needed to do this. I heard mention of a 3,000 lb drill. Surely they aren't easy to come by.

they used two of these apparently:



https://www.hilti.co.uk/diamond-coring-and-sawing/...

they are pretty much off the shelf stuff,

this is a vid of the smaller version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaTxGe-wnsA

[Luke Warm]

Burwood said:

Can anyone in the know illustrate what sort of drill and gear is needed to do this. I heard mention of a 3,000 lb drill. Surely they aren't easy to come by.

£3,000 not 3,000 lb.

[Burwood]

Luke Warm said:

Burwood said:

Can anyone in the know illustrate what sort of drill and gear is needed to do this. I heard mention of a 3,000 lb drill. Surely they aren't easy to come by.

£3,000 not 3,000 lb.

Lol. I figured it was some mega drill to cut through 45 cm steel doors. One can almost admire the mastermind behind this

[jammy_basturd]

Burwood said:

Luke Warm said:

Burwood said:

Can anyone in the know illustrate what sort of drill and gear is needed to do this. I heard mention of a 3,000 lb drill. Surely they aren't easy to come by.

£3,000 not 3,000 lb.

Lol. I figured it was some mega drill to cut through 45 cm steel doors. One can almost admire the mastermind behind this

Doesn't really take a mastermind for this one. Get some burly blokes and decent drilling/cutting equipment and you're most of the way there. They didn't even get the tricky part right, disabling the alarm.

As others have said, they rode their luck as the police didn't respond to the alarm going off and the security guard that did show up only looked through the window.

This was a really masterminded heist.

[Riley Blue]

Oakey said:

The last piece I saw about this on the news suggested that there had been a lot of false alarms over that period due to that underground fire.

Possibly the thieves set off a series of false alarms over a period of time to piss of the police. Then, with the police classifying it as a PITA installation, they did the heist.

[Laurel Green]

jammy_basturd said:

This was a really masterminded heist.

Very interesting, thanks for posting.

[Transmitter Man]

Hilti DD350.

One careful owner.

http://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogu...

[Laurel Green]

Transmitter Man said:

Hilti DD350.

One careful owner.

http://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogu...

One would think with all the money they now have that they'd be donating it to charity.

[woodypup59]

It seems they copied their MO from the Belgian TV series Salamander.

[carinaman]

Did they half inch the drill in Salamander?:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-322915...

[Hooli]

Hooli said:

Vaud said:

Surely this is crying out for it's first review?

https://plus.google.com/110347422484210750004/abou...

If I were childish and not old and sensible I would add, "Love the new open plan basement"

Just to say, this is still up. They obviously check the internet as well as they do their alarms

[turbobloke]

IIRC the recent Sunday Mirror front page claimed the video of the men with wheelie bins had led police to identify those involved and arrests were imminent, within days. It's now Tuesday so presumably BiB will be in the vans on their way.....