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submitted 10 months ago by Damaskox@kbin.social to c/general@lemmy.world

Watching the movie at the moment.

It woke up a question.
Do we have successful heists like what we can see in the movie in real life?

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[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

I had a stroke reading the title

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

"Do heists like the one in the first Die Hard movie actually happen in real life?"

[-] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 11 points 10 months ago

Why waste time type lot word when few word do trick?

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago
[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 9 points 10 months ago

Don't read while choking.

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The Bonds names The James

[-] Damaskox@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Tried to write it in a short form 😂

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago

I think you burnt the toast

[-] fishos@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] Repelle@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

To add another example, The Millenium dome raid is a good story of a foiled heist that is reminiscent of cinematic heists.

[-] simple@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

This one is insane. The police response really does feel like it's straight out of an action movie.

On 7 November at 9:30 am, Operation Magician was under way, commanded by Detective Superintendent Jon Shatford of the Metropolitan Police. A total of two hundred officers were involved in the operation, of which forty were from the Specialist Firearms Command (SCO19). A further sixty armed Flying Squad officers were stationed around the Thames, and twenty on the river itself to hamper any escape attempts. Surveillance officers were disguised as Dome employees. The Millennium Dome's CCTV room was used by the police as a control room.

[-] OrangeCorvus@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the link! Doing a research and this post is perfect.

[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago

What about the Millennium Falcon and the Kessel Run?!?

[-] Blade9732@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

The Great train Robbery. https://w.wiki/84uK several books, movies out of this one. They lifted £58 million in today's money.

[-] Marebear@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The Hatton Garden heist was an audacious robbery in 2015 where a bunch of old dudes made off with £14m in jewellery.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago
[-] onTerryO@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago
[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

It was about that time that I realized the pawn shop owner was actually a gigantic lizard from the paleolithic era. And I said, hell no I ain't gonna sell you this jewelry for no $3.50. god damn loch ness monster.

[-] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Best I can do is $200. It’s going to sit here for a while, waiting for the right seller…

[-] ULS@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He went to Jared's?

[-] profdc9@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

This movie was based on it. I liked it quite a bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Thieves_(2018_film)

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Since nobody else said it, I will.

DB Cooper

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

The Bank Job

I really enjoyed this movie. Based on a true story, not sure exactly how accurate the movie is.

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago

There's a TV show that details some real heists https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18393692/

this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2023
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