So 7 guys have been convicted of carrying out The Hatton Garden Robbery in London and I just cannot get over the ridiculous details of this crime:
- All of them are pensioners
- They have a combined age of over 500
- One dude used his bus pass to get to the robbery
- The nicknames are amazing
- Seriously one dude is known as Billy the Fish
- Another was “The Guv’nor”
- One of them buried his stash in 2 separate graves, told the police about the smaller one and then they found the grave with the larger stash and asked him about it he said “Oh that one was for my own personal use”
- They had a very serious discussion about what the heist movie that will inevitably get made about the robbery (it’s the biggest robbery in British history) should be called. The police got the whole conversation on tape, the extracts released to the press are glorious
No but guys, google this and watch the video of how they got in.
Pensioners shimmying through a tiny hole in a wall. PENSIONERS! Like how did their backs not go out?
I know right? How tiny was that hole in the wall?
Apparently the trick is to Superman it, you put one arm up ahead of you and keep the other by your side and that gets your shoulders at the right angle to get through and then once your upper body is in you can drag yourself through. But even when the guy from Newsnight did it he struggled to get through and he was early 40s and quite skinny.
This post was just a list of stuff off the top of my head but when you actually look into it the whole thing is just insane. It’s like a movie.
holy fuck.
Can’t trust those pensioners….