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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A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes! (and he is getting fed up of it)
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Al Capone earned $105m per year from alcohol and rackets during the Prohibition era. Today, this would be equivalent to $1.4b per year.
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!
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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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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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