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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 68 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I had a stroke reading the title

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

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

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 9 points 2 years ago

Don't read while choking.

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The Bonds names The James

[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I had a good wank too

[–] Damaskox@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tried to write it in a short form πŸ˜‚

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

I think you burnt the toast

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Blade9732@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

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

[–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Since nobody else said it, I will.

DB Cooper

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

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 9 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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