Humorous stories abound about bungling burglars. Some
guy attempts to rob a bank without a mask, the word E A S T S I D E tattooed on his upper lip. Probably should tattoo D U
M B-A * * across his forehead.
The Law managed to bungle a few cases over the
decades, also. It’s bad enough when the loss amounts to millions, but then
someone writes a book or makes a movie about it. What ever happened to D.B.
Cooper?
Many train robberies have never been solved. Included
on England’s list is The Great Train Robbery of 1855. And again in 1963 when
fifteen guys remembered to don their masks before they stopped the train in Buckinghamshire
and got away with 2.5 million pounds in used bank notes.
Jimmy “The Gent” Burke masterminded New York’s
Lufthansa Air Terminal robbery in 1978, making off with untraceable currency
amounting to six million dollars. Someone probably lost their job over that.
Worse, in 1990, two police officers responded to a
disturbance at the Boston Museum. On admittance, they cuffed the security
guards and left with Degas and Rembrandt paintings worth 300 million dollars.
Which 1990 movie title renamed mobsters "decent chaps"?
