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| Friday, February 13, 2009 01:08 AM |
| Staying Up |
 by Fëanor |
This evening I should have eaten a healthy dinner and gone to bed early, to promote further recovery from my recent bout with the plague, but instead I had McDonalds (as I had promised myself I would as soon as I got healthy enough to stomach it), and couldn't sleep from stomach upset and too much caffeine, so catching up on TV it was for me! And indeed I am now all up to date again, although I expect to fall behind quickly tomorrow when Dollhouse and Terminator hit the airwaves.
Before I switched to catching up on my TV online, I was watching "live" TV and caught a really interesting show about famous burglaries. One of the first things I learned is that apparently all the good crews have their own team names, like "The Aardvark School" or whatever. The first story was about a team that robbed millions of dollars worth of diamonds and got away with it. Well, one of the guys was caught and put in prison for 10 years, but the rest of them got away, and the diamonds were never recovered. Crazy. The second story was about a really successful group of bank robbers who wanted to steal Richard Nixon's campaign funds, so they broke into the bank where they thought the funds were being stored and, over the course of the entire weekend, busted open almost every single safety deposit box looking for the cash. It blew my mind that they kept going back night after night to open more boxes. Also, the first night, they blew the roof of the vault off with 16 sticks of dynamite. The explosion would have caused a sonic boom. The demolitions expert sat inside the bank behind some sand bags while it went off. There were people going in and out of the parking lot next door. Despite all that, demolitions dude was fine, and nobody noticed or reported the explosion. I swear, I'm going to swallow a lot more of the crap that goes down in action movies now, because apparently much crazier stuff happens in real life.
Anyway, these dudes got away with a lot of cash and valuables, but never found the campaign funds (turns out they were in a different bank a few miles down the road). And unfortunately for them, they didn't get away clean even with that. What ended up giving them away was that they had used the same M.O. on other jobs (which first connected them to this job), and they had used their own names when buying the plane tickets. Also, even though one of them stayed behind to completely clean all evidence of their presence out of the condo they stayed in when doing the job, he forgot to hit "start" on the dishwasher, so the police were able to collect all kinds of evidence off of the used silverware and dishes. D'oh!
What made the second story especially compelling is that it included an interview with one of the actual burglars. Really interesting guy. Anyway, I thought those were some great stories. I wish I could remember the name of the show so I could watch it again. Then again, I certainly don't need another show to watch... |
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| Tagged (?): Food (Not), TV (Not) | |
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