In 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300,000,000 Yen robbery remains unsolved to this day.
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The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
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Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.
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The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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