• tomiant@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    I have no doubt they will get caught. With the number of cameras canvassing cities and infrastructure, it is only a matter of time before they can be backtracked to some point of origin, and then be found using standard police investigation techniques. This type of job will have been done by individuals from a small pool of criminals who specialize in them, and they’re not plentiful and almost always previously known by police.

    I’ve been thinking about it myself a lot for a book, and I just don’t see how they could get away in this day and age doing such a high profile robbery. Their best bet is to immediately move the loot and have third and fourth parties secure funds in overseas accounts so that they can access them after they served out their (relatively short) sentences, then live out their lives in wealth and opulence- except they rarely do that, because you don’t become a bank robber for the money.

    No matter how much money you potentially make, it’s never going to be enough.

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      The article doesn’t mention how much time passed since the crime occured and the discovery of the robbed vault. Depending on how much time passed, they could have easily fled the country, maybe even the EU.

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      2 days ago

      No…No…Nonononono…

      We OF COURSE need NOW cameras EVERYWHERE (yeah, Timmy, even in the cellar where you do what we ALREADY KNOW YOU DO THERE) and we HAVE TO implement AI (ARTIFICIAL GODDAMN INTELLIGENCE!“!§”“”“) to monitor the camera footage of every FUCKING CITIZEN, NON-CITIZEN, FUCKING EVERYONE!!!”.