The mole in the wall gang
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... strike again! Thieves spend months digging 50ft tunnel under Tesco[^] and steal £80,000 from the cash machine, from underneath! Now, I know they are criminals, and I know it's wrong, but...I can't help respecting that, and half hoping they get away with it... :laugh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Minimum wage is £6.31ph, so a 50 hour week will earn you £315.50. That's ~£6850 for 5 months, assuming they pay no NI contributions. So...Provided they have 11 members or less (and I'd assume they did) they are up on the deal... And that's assuming they can find a job giving them 50 hours every week rather than one of the company friendly "zero-hour" contracts. Crime does pay, it seems...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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... strike again! Thieves spend months digging 50ft tunnel under Tesco[^] and steal £80,000 from the cash machine, from underneath! Now, I know they are criminals, and I know it's wrong, but...I can't help respecting that, and half hoping they get away with it... :laugh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
Not a bad wage. Tax free, split that with 1 or 2 other people? Marc
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Not a bad wage. Tax free, split that with 1 or 2 other people? Marc
Not bad at all, when you figure tax out of the equation - and I suspect criminals don't pay tax on their ill-gotten gains. ;)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Minimum wage is £6.31ph, so a 50 hour week will earn you £315.50. That's ~£6850 for 5 months, assuming they pay no NI contributions. So...Provided they have 11 members or less (and I'd assume they did) they are up on the deal... And that's assuming they can find a job giving them 50 hours every week rather than one of the company friendly "zero-hour" contracts. Crime does pay, it seems...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Perhaps it's my aversion to hard labor that drove my earlier post. :-\ However, risking ones freedom for that amount of money seems odd (yes I know there have been people killed for $2). If you're gonna do it, do it bigger than that.
It's not that high a risk, really - the tunnel is underground, so they don't appear on CCTV anywhere, and you pick up nice fresh cash. I'm sure it's more complex than that, but if your alternative is 50 hours a week in Burger Hell for sod-all ad infinitum I can see the attraction! :laugh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Not bad at all, when you figure tax out of the equation - and I suspect criminals don't pay tax on their ill-gotten gains. ;)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
They do - but not to what we would consider the government.
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Minimum wage is £6.31ph, so a 50 hour week will earn you £315.50. That's ~£6850 for 5 months, assuming they pay no NI contributions. So...Provided they have 11 members or less (and I'd assume they did) they are up on the deal... And that's assuming they can find a job giving them 50 hours every week rather than one of the company friendly "zero-hour" contracts. Crime does pay, it seems...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
The workers at Tesco probably did it to get a raise :laugh:
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... strike again! Thieves spend months digging 50ft tunnel under Tesco[^] and steal £80,000 from the cash machine, from underneath! Now, I know they are criminals, and I know it's wrong, but...I can't help respecting that, and half hoping they get away with it... :laugh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
After all that work I kinda hope they get away with it too! Politicians and CEO types do it all the time but with a brief case through the front door.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever! Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Not bad at all, when you figure tax out of the equation - and I suspect criminals don't pay tax on their ill-gotten gains. ;)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Not bad at all, when you figure tax out of the equation - and I suspect criminals don't pay tax on their ill-gotten gains. ;)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
In order to freely use a significant amount stolen money without raising suspicion, you have to slowly funnel the money back into the system using some sort of legitimate business that preferably provides services, so the forged sales transactions are hard to trace. Or, you can get a middle man who funnels money in similar way, using multiple corrupt businesses owners, but then you pay a much higher rate than what you would normally pay as taxes if you gained that amount of money legally. I learned all this from watching Breaking Bad.
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In order to freely use a significant amount stolen money without raising suspicion, you have to slowly funnel the money back into the system using some sort of legitimate business that preferably provides services, so the forged sales transactions are hard to trace. Or, you can get a middle man who funnels money in similar way, using multiple corrupt businesses owners, but then you pay a much higher rate than what you would normally pay as taxes if you gained that amount of money legally. I learned all this from watching Breaking Bad.
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80k split between a number of people is not a significant amount of money!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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... strike again! Thieves spend months digging 50ft tunnel under Tesco[^] and steal £80,000 from the cash machine, from underneath! Now, I know they are criminals, and I know it's wrong, but...I can't help respecting that, and half hoping they get away with it... :laugh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
This bit stood out for me
'You may have seen people acting suspiciously on Friday night, possibly covered in soil.
Heard it on the radio last night & nearly fell over. Regards, Stewart
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... strike again! Thieves spend months digging 50ft tunnel under Tesco[^] and steal £80,000 from the cash machine, from underneath! Now, I know they are criminals, and I know it's wrong, but...I can't help respecting that, and half hoping they get away with it... :laugh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Cool plan eh? I am surprised way more of these aren't carried out, it is a fairly obvious attack route.
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