No there would be a neat Darwin Award... robbers crushed under descending cash machine!
They managed to get the two ends of the channel tunnel to meet in the middle, so 15m ought to be doable with reasonable accuracy.
Although the robbers may not have benefitted from engineering degrees and access to fancy measuring devices :)
This whole thing is going to end up "40k nicked, another 100k to stabilise the floor and building after someone mined under it all".
Not unlike a compulsive gambler. You can sit down & explain that the odds are carefully arranged such that, over time, he _will_ end up with the sticky end of the lollypop (to quote Marilyn Monroe) - but it will make absolutely no difference.
It was standing on a concrete floor, which they had to cut a hole through. The only problem would be if they made the hole too large.
Colin Bignell
IRTA Compuserve gambler.
On 20 Mar 2014, Jethro_uk grunted:
But that really doesn't work... because the scrotes never think they are going to get caught, do they?
If someone had told this one that when he picked up his 500, there will be six policeman right there, who will *definitely* catch him and he will
*definitely* get sent down for two years, then even tha daftest one would probably manage to work out it would be a Bad Idea to go through with the plan.
I think it is one of these sectional buildings which enables them to appear almost overnight. Most of the tunneling was therefore more of a trench to increase the existing headroom.
Chris
The problem with that argument is that if the object of crime is to do very little work rather than to make money.
GF's dad is addicted to the rainbow riches fruit machines, he claims he knows how the machine works and how to beat it, yet all he does is feed £20 notes into it and put it on auto play with the all lines button (so about 3 quid a spin)
Couple of years ago we were all at mablethorpe, and he spent almost an entire day on one of those machines in an arcade, sending his missus to the bank every so often for a new wodge of money to feed it, Each time he got a win it went straight back into the machine, He only stopped when he had won the jackpot, £400,
He was over the moon, boasting his winnings now covered the cost of the 'holiday' he could buy us all fish and chips every night, drinks and so on, as it was all covered by his winnings,
We asked him how much he had put in the machine to win that £400 and if he had taken that figure off the winnings, he just looked at us blankly and changed the subject,
His wife told us later that she had withdrawn £650, and he already had about £100 on him when he started playing, no way of knowing what the smaller winnings were that went back in the machine, She said it was no use telling him that as he would get all arsey and make an excuse up to try and justify that he had actually beaten the machine.
I don't think that is true. I once (60 years ago) used to meet a property developer whose name was often in the newspapers with vague suggestions of fraud. He said to me, "Nobody can get as rich as me without breaking the law on occasion" - a remark that has stuck with me ever since. (I'm sure he is long dead, so I can mention his name: Jack Cotton.)
At much the same time I used to visit a kind of grammar school borstal, near Cambridge, run by a saintly couple. (Brendan Behan had been there, and wrote about it in "Borstal Boy".) Some of the children there were very clever, but virtually all of them suffered from some kind of mental illness.
What was 20 years ago? The snip?
So how do you measure the thickness of pigs shit ?
On 20/03/2014 15:52, Jethro_uk wrote: ...
One of the professors in the Law Faculty at university used to tell his students that there were a lot more graduates who lead a life of crime than end up in the police.
Colin Bignell
A viscometer.
Colin Bignell
There's a good reason why these places are referred to as 'Sheds'.
Right, so they wandered about the place with a tape measure and nobody notoced?
How would coming under a machine help anyway, it would be a funny safe that wasn't armoured underneath?
Yes. Sad bastards. You see them playing two or three machines simultaneously sometimes.
An battery pedometer?
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