• velindora@lemmy.cafe
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    3 months ago

    Well bad because it was also safe deposit boxes, which wasn’t cash, and probably a person’s valuables emptied into a bag. This isn’t the Louvre heist where there were no actual victims.

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      3 months ago

      The rich victims have insurance, and they can sue the bank, so that makes things even more difficult for the bank, and now an insurance company. This gets better and better.

      Rich people think their wealth insulates them from annoyance and inconvenience, and yet vast amounts of it seem to only exacerbate it, which is nice. I’m glad when they are unhappy.

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          3 months ago

          People who aren’t rich keep documents, like divorce papers and birth certificates, in their safety deposit boxes, which the thieves don’t want. They only steal the jewelry and cash that the rich people are hiding.

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            3 months ago

            I doubt they went through the items. They cracked the box and emptied it into a bag. Paper can be valuable depending what’s on it, they figure that out later.

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              3 months ago

              Nah, these are bank robbers, it isn’t a movie. They want a quick turnover for their haul. If they open it, and it’s full of paper, they just drop it, and go to the next one, hoping its jewelry or cash. No sense filling your bag with heavy paper that may or may not be valuable, and is difficult to fence in any case. You’d hate to get near the end, and have no more room for gold and jewels, because youve got a lot of divorce papers.

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                3 months ago

                Oh is that what they did in your fantasy? I guess the way to thwart a bank robber is to put cash and jewels inside an envelope.

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                  3 months ago

                  Fantasy? Not really, I’ve read a few books by bank robbers and jewel thieves, and I have decent Critical Thinking Skills, so I’m speculating based on a little knowledge of that world. It’s not Nakatomi Plaza, they aren’t looking for bearer bonds, they want a quick score, a quick turnover, and a quick trip out of town, preferably within 24 hours. They don’t want to be putting out feelers for fencing well documented paper that will immediately lead straight back to them.

                  It’s pretty easy to tell if an envelope is holding papers or lumpy stuff like jewelry, just by looking at it. Also, it’s a paper envelope, so a quickly poked hole will verify if it’s worth the trouble.

                  If I’m a thief, and my assignment is going through safe deposit boxes, I’m not wasting my time on paper.