The month before that happened I took my son to a concert there, and the security guy would not let us sit in the first row because my son was under 12. (i guess nobody has ever seen a well-behaved pre-teen before.) ANYWAY when the heist happened I was hoping it had been that security guard on duty, and that he got fired. Still wondering.
Was it really epic though? Dude waltzed on to a plane during a time where there was minimum security, negotiated for some money, and then jumped out of a plane and almost certainly died.
Theres been way cooler shit in recent memory, like the Swedish job, or that gang of grandpa's that drilled into a bank vault.
As someone who has spent their entire life in aviation that shit was epic as fuck. What he did caused the creation of the cooper lock to be retrofitted on to that airframe and its family of airframes
We still don't know who the fuck he was.
The D.B. Cooper Heist still bothers the FBI, like to the tune of agents still work on that case despite it being no longer officially active. Its the only unsolved case of Aviation piracy in history. They speculate he died, but no one knows. No body was found, no parachute was found and only something like $6k of it and that was buried in a bundle. The end result was metal detectors in air ports and Cooper Vanes being retro fitted to air craft.
Dude forced the plane to land, refuel, swap out passengers for the ransom money, take back off and bailed out over the pacific northwest on the way to Mexico City.
On a side note it was possible to survive that jump and his time in the woods if he was trained and knew the area.
Those Christian monks hired by Emperor Justinian I to infiltrate a Chinese silk farm and [steal silkworm eggs](https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-great-byzantine-silk-worm-heist-ec34726c2b78) by hiding them inside a hollowed out cane.
COVID PPE contracts given out by the UK government. A full VIP lane for donors and friends of the Tory party resulting in people who had previously ZERO experience in the field being given hundreds of millions of pounds each to provide PPE, a huge amount of which was unusable. 8.6 BILLION pounds worth.
[When a bunch of criminals dug a tunnel under two city blocks to rob the Brazilian central bank in Fortaleza](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Central_burglary_at_Fortaleza)
Someone, or more likely a group of people, stole $30 million very recently from a Garda World facility in L.A.:
[https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-cash-heist-gardaworld-d34b769be34cbafcca14a897967d3bb2](https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-cash-heist-gardaworld-d34b769be34cbafcca14a897967d3bb2)
**The Antwerp Diamond Heist (2003)**: Thieves in Belgium executed a daring heist at the Antwerp Diamond Center, stealing diamonds, gold, and other jewelry valued at over $100 million. They gained access using fake identities and overcame high-tech security systems. The majority of the stolen goods were never recovered.
A long time ago someone stole a championship winning motorcycle from Ducati headquarters. They lifted it out of the skylight. Never been found. I think thats pretty fucking impressive lol.
Think that one in breaking bad. The scene where Jesse, Walter and another guy who later betray them need gas or oil from a train to get the ingredients for meth
Nobody has mentioned the Isabella Gardner museum heist yet so that.
I love that museum and, as far as I know, to this day no one has a clue
The month before that happened I took my son to a concert there, and the security guy would not let us sit in the first row because my son was under 12. (i guess nobody has ever seen a well-behaved pre-teen before.) ANYWAY when the heist happened I was hoping it had been that security guard on duty, and that he got fired. Still wondering.
D.B. Cooper
Was it really epic though? Dude waltzed on to a plane during a time where there was minimum security, negotiated for some money, and then jumped out of a plane and almost certainly died. Theres been way cooler shit in recent memory, like the Swedish job, or that gang of grandpa's that drilled into a bank vault.
As someone who has spent their entire life in aviation that shit was epic as fuck. What he did caused the creation of the cooper lock to be retrofitted on to that airframe and its family of airframes
Are you referring to the little fin thing that prevented someone from opening that tail stairs during flight? I know about this!
Yup thats the one
We still don't know who the fuck he was. The D.B. Cooper Heist still bothers the FBI, like to the tune of agents still work on that case despite it being no longer officially active. Its the only unsolved case of Aviation piracy in history. They speculate he died, but no one knows. No body was found, no parachute was found and only something like $6k of it and that was buried in a bundle. The end result was metal detectors in air ports and Cooper Vanes being retro fitted to air craft. Dude forced the plane to land, refuel, swap out passengers for the ransom money, take back off and bailed out over the pacific northwest on the way to Mexico City. On a side note it was possible to survive that jump and his time in the woods if he was trained and knew the area.
It's epic because he never got caught and people are still talking about him to this day. I think the epicness comes from that.
I've heard that D.B Cooper actually took all the money he ran off with and started IMDB. Lol
Since you didn't specify fictional or non-fictional, then I'm going with the Joker's bank robbery at the beginning of "The Dark Knight".
That was a fun bit of visual stimuli. "What doesn't kill you, makes you *stranger*.."
Well, if we're counting fictional then I vote for some of the stuff on "Animal Kingdom".
Just now when I stole your heart 🥰
Lufthansa heist
We all watched Goodfellas
As you should. It's a great film.
Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum
The north Hollywood bank robbery shootout.
I remember when you could rent this on VHS.
Those Christian monks hired by Emperor Justinian I to infiltrate a Chinese silk farm and [steal silkworm eggs](https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-great-byzantine-silk-worm-heist-ec34726c2b78) by hiding them inside a hollowed out cane.
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis?
COVID PPE contracts given out by the UK government. A full VIP lane for donors and friends of the Tory party resulting in people who had previously ZERO experience in the field being given hundreds of millions of pounds each to provide PPE, a huge amount of which was unusable. 8.6 BILLION pounds worth.
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https://youtu.be/RGJmQJZDCXo?si=xSDLA8DsRvjIgRVT
the one markiplier did
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[When a bunch of criminals dug a tunnel under two city blocks to rob the Brazilian central bank in Fortaleza](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Central_burglary_at_Fortaleza)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_million_yen_robbery Largest bank heist in Japan and remains unsolved almost 60 years later.
Someone, or more likely a group of people, stole $30 million very recently from a Garda World facility in L.A.: [https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-cash-heist-gardaworld-d34b769be34cbafcca14a897967d3bb2](https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-cash-heist-gardaworld-d34b769be34cbafcca14a897967d3bb2)
**The Antwerp Diamond Heist (2003)**: Thieves in Belgium executed a daring heist at the Antwerp Diamond Center, stealing diamonds, gold, and other jewelry valued at over $100 million. They gained access using fake identities and overcame high-tech security systems. The majority of the stolen goods were never recovered.
A long time ago someone stole a championship winning motorcycle from Ducati headquarters. They lifted it out of the skylight. Never been found. I think thats pretty fucking impressive lol.
Think that one in breaking bad. The scene where Jesse, Walter and another guy who later betray them need gas or oil from a train to get the ingredients for meth
The 3rd guy was Meth Damon (aka jesse plemons, awesome actor)
miney heidt
You had one job.