Word: heist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Greenock, Scotland, three knife-wielding masked men overpowered a factory guard last month and stole $3.7 million worth of chips and related computer parts; in Fremont, California, burglars disarmed a security system and made off with more than $1.8 million of chips and computer equipment in a January warehouse heist. And outside Portland, Oregon, five gunmen bound and gagged 12 workers at a semiconductor plant last fall and fled with $2 million worth of chips...
...concerned is the agency that earlier this year it opened a high-tech- crime office with a dozen agents in San Jose, California, to clamp down on chip thefts. Among other things, the agents have found a rising threat of heist-related violence. "We're seeing more weapons being used," says special agent Rick Smith. In one stickup a robber put his gun to a chip retailer's head and pulled the trigger, but the weapon failed to fire. "No one's been killed yet," Smith says, "but it's going to happen...
Here's the plot: six men in balck suits and cheap sunglasses are hired by a big guy to pull of a diamond robbery. The cops show up at the heist too soon and a couple of the theives ge kille. Back at headquarters, the thieves' big question is, who ratted...
...film's most famous sequence, Tarantino gives an original portrayal of violence. The scene centers around the sadistic, twisted Mr. Blonde (all the thieves go by aliases) played by Michael Madsen. During the course of the heist, Mr. Blonde has taken a police officer captive. Back at the warehouse, some of the other guys figure this prisoner can tell them who in the band "ratted" to the police , but Blonde has his own plans. Dancing and singing to "Stuck in the Middle With You," he announces, "I don't give a fuck about what you know or don't know...
...group have their admirers as well as their despisers (the law, justice, order and the very sheepish-looking sheriffs, who are being outsmarted.) Once, when pulling off a bank heist, Clyde spares the savings of an old man, who has just made a withdrawal. When later interviewed by the police, the man proclaims: "Well, they did right by me. Me and the misses will be at their funeral...