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DUBLIN: Robbery Ruckus Fallout from Ireland's largest cash heist ever has officials and security personnel fending off allegations of bumbling. On Jan. 24, two jeeps burst through the fence of the Brink's-Allied depot in northern Dublin. The five masked occupants, encountering no resistance, bagged $4.2 million and sped away. Following Justice Ministry assurances that all precautions had been taken to prevent such a raid, embarrassing revelations emerged. Not only did police fail to beef up surveillance after a warning that a security-company robbery was being planned, but when the theft took place, most of the Brink...
Harvard museum officials now claim that a case similar to the Hogue heist could not happen again...
...after the score became 3-2, Gudeman threaded a perfect pass that caught freshman Lindsay Minkus in full stride. Minkus went in alone on Heist and scored up high to end the scoring with...
...Tarantino movie has this effect on people. There's an ear-slicing scene in Reservoir Dogs, the 1992 heist movie he wrote and directed, that revolts some folks who have never even seen it. In True Romance and Natural Born Killers, two Tarantino scripts with identical itineraries (Bonnie and Clyde going to hell in a hot rod), knives skate across faces and guns blow fishbowl holes in stomachs. When a tough wants to leave his mark on someone, he does it with a mutilating flourish. Tarantino's films allow for no idle bystanders; you either get with the pogrom...
...York City -- After executing a smooth $1.9 million jewelry heist at Tiffany's two weeks ago, the decidedly unstreetwise thieves fenced their wares directly on the streets of Times Square and Harlem. Offering $10,000 pieces for as little as $200, the group was quickly rounded up by police...