Life imitating art? Seems like I've seen this movie before.



Several armed gunman in federal police cars entered one of Brazil’s busiest airports Thursday and made off with $40 million worth of gold and precious metals, taking two hostages with them during the heist.

Four suspects were captured on surveillance tape entering the Sao Paulo International Airport in Guarulhos in a black pickup truck that appeared to have the markings of Brazil’s federal police, Reuters reported.

The four men exited the vehicle, at least one armed with a rifle, and confronted airport employees. Security footage then shows the workers loading cargo into the vehicle.

According to a police report, the thieves made off with about 1,650 pounds of gold and other precious metals worth $40 million. They also took with them two airport workers as hostages.

A spokeswoman for the airport confirmed the heist to Reuters but did not comment on a hostage situation. She said no one was hurt during the robbery.

Early reports suggested that there were as many as eight suspects and that they kidnapped a senior airport official Wednesday and held him for 12 hours to gain information about the valuable cargo which was set to ship to New York and Zurich, the Evening Standard reported.

Four children related to the official were also said to be kidnapped in an attempt to gather information.

A local broadcaster said that the cars used during the heist were found abandoned in a neighborhood about 12 miles from the airport. The suspects remain at large.



https://www.foxnews.com/world/...zilian-airport-heist

JIMMMYYYY!!!

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
JIMMMYYYY!!!

Anyone want to bet the two “hostages” were the two inside guys?

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Originally posted by Kevbo:
Anyone want to bet the two “hostages” were the two inside guys?

I, for one, would be shocked if this were true!! Especially in Brazil!!

(sarcasm off)

I bet there were insiders. I bet those two weren't it. That's just too damn obvious.

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Originally posted by Kevbo:
Anyone want to bet the two “hostages” were the two inside guys?

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
JIMMMYYYY!!!

I worked for a Armored transport co. for 28 years.
We had a contract with the Fed and transported money flown in to the city to the Federal Reserve bank several times a week.
I was always amazed at the total lack or depth of security.
2 guys to load and then drive 120 million at a time to the FRB.

The money was always loaded in the cargo bay on commercial passenger jets in with the luggage.
I always laughed when I would look at the plane and watch the passengers looking out the windows at the large armored truck backed up the plane and large plastic wrapped bales of cash coming down the conveyor to the truck. They had no idea all the cash was sitting below them with there luggage.
I'm surprised that this kind of theft does not happen all the time.

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Life imitating art? Seems like I've seen this movie before

Pinky:
Oh my, oh my. Go sell chocolates you Heidi-motherf***ers, go sell cuckoo clocks, we got your gold!

I want to say they deserve it as what kind of security do you have that allows that much gold to be taken?

Yup...first thing I thought was "Goodfellas". Great minds...

Also reminds me of the movie "Heist" with Gene Hackman.
If you have not seen it, check it out. Pretty good!

Damn. Somebody diverted Hillary's cut from Libya.

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Originally posted by armored:
I worked for a Armored transport co. for 28 years.
We had a contract with the Fed and transported money flown in to the city to the Federal Reserve bank several times a week.
I was always amazed at the total lack or depth of security.
2 guys to load and then drive 120 million at a time to the FRB.

The money was always loaded in the cargo bay on commercial passenger jets in with the luggage.
I always laughed when I would look at the plane and watch the passengers looking out the windows at the large armored truck backed up the plane and large plastic wrapped bales of cash coming down the conveyor to the truck. They had no idea all the cash was sitting below them with there luggage.
I'm surprised that this kind of theft does not happen all the time.

Probably because they can just print more in fractional reserve banking. Appearances are important though.

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Originally posted by rocket72:
Damn. Somebody diverted Hillary's cut from Libya.

A member of this forum who has 1500 posts should know that we refrain from interjecting political commentary into apolitical threads. This is something that we should never see in this forum.

Gold is cool but stealing 1 ton sounds like work.

Good luck selling that shit.