The German Hatton Garden Job

[Alickadoo]

Just like the Hatton Garden safe deposit robbery - now the Germans have their own.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4grzz60kp3o

Perhaps they will make a TV programme about it?

[LunarOne]

It's Christmas, so I'm imagining a bunch of men dressed in black. Some of them may or not have long blond hair and some may be named Hans and Karl. See, this is what happens when you don't invite an off-duty policeman to the party.

[General Price]

€10000 insurance cover for each box,that doesn't seem like much.Going to be some grumpy customers.

[stemll]

I also thought about Hatton Garden when I read that.

I actually thought about the King Of Thieves movie first and Ray Winstone being pushed through the hole they'd cut . "Don't eat anything while you're in there!"

As for the insurance. Assuming customers are told about the 10k insurance limit, if they then put stuff worth more than that in there, then it's on them.

ETA correct insurance limit

Edited by stemll on Tuesday 30th December 23:32

[TwinKam]

They were doing this sort of bank-holiday bank-job thing in Nice back in the seventies... weld the vault door shut from the inside, take your time and open every box, out the same way as you came in, in this case it was from a sewer, hence the ensuing film being called 'Dirty Money'.

[Watchthis]

Not 100k, it's 10k limit

At that amount you're as well keeping at home under your own policy

[Wheel Turned Out]

Being Pistonheads I'm obliged to say they had good taste in getaway vehicle.

[stemll]

Watchthis said:

Not 100k, it's 10k limit

At that amount you're as well keeping at home under your own policy

Must have a bouncy 0 key

I will correct it

[hidetheelephants]

General Price said:

10000 insurance cover for each box,that doesn't seem like much.Going to be some grumpy customers.

But no-one will have anything more valuable stored than sentimental trinkets and their opa's watch. The mysterious bump in black market sales of gold, jewels, bearer shares and 1940s memorabilia will be purely coincidental; "I did nazi that coming", said no one.

[48k]

According to a documentary about the Hatton Garden job, often people will not want to declare the value of what they are putting in their safety deposit boxes or indeed even what it is. So a 10k insurance limit is not a problem.

[Alickadoo]

48k said:

According to a documentary about the Hatton Garden job, often people will not want to declare the value of what they are putting in their safety deposit boxes or indeed even what it is. So a 10k insurance limit is not a problem.

AI Overview
There are two major films about the Hatton Garden heist: King of Thieves (2018) starring Michael Caine & Jim Broadbent, focusing on the aging gang's dynamics, and The Hatton Garden Job (2017) with Larry Lamb & Matthew Goode, presenting a more gritty, low-budget take on the same events. A 2019 ITV TV series, Hatton Garden, also dramatized the story with Timothy Spall and Kenneth Cranham. Both films depict the elderly career criminals pulling off the massive Easter weekend burglary in 2015, but offer different tones and casts.

[fourstardan]

General Price said:

10000 insurance cover for each box,that doesn't seem like much.Going to be some grumpy customers.

Heinz depositing his heirlooms will not be happy.

[Alickadoo]

General Price said:

10000 insurance cover for each box,that doesn't seem like much.Going to be some grumpy customers.

Possibly, but I would suggest that a lot of the customers had stuff in their boxes that they wouldn't want the tax people to know about - as was the case in the Hatton Garden job.

[48k]

I'm having massive deja vu.

[egomeister]

Alickadoo said:

General Price said:

10000 insurance cover for each box,that doesn't seem like much.Going to be some grumpy customers.

Possibly, but I would suggest that a lot of the customers had stuff in their boxes that they wouldn't want the tax people to know about - as was the case in the Hatton Garden job.

Maybe, but Germany also has more of a culture of gold ownership than the UK so I would expect a lot more legitimate storage of things like that compared to what you'd see here.

[ChocolateFrog]

Watchthis said:

Not 100k, it's 10k limit

At that amount you're as well keeping at home under your own policy

I liked the bit about checking on your home insurance policy.

A lot of people will be massively out of pocket.

[kestral]

Alickadoo said:

Possibly, but I would suggest that a lot of the customers had stuff in their boxes that they wouldn't want the tax people to know about - as was the case in the Hatton Garden job.

Possibly !

If you don't want to pay inheritance tax you buy some gold bars and put them in a safe deposit box.