Posted on 01/09/2023 12:25:06 AM PST by blueplum
NEW YORK - The NYPD is searching for a trio of men who managed to steal $300,000 in cash from an armored truck outside of a bank in Brooklyn on Friday.
The brazen robbery happened at around 1 p.m. in Sunset Park, in front of a Chase Bank....
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Here we go with another push for digital currency. Then hackers will rob you.
Asked for directions. And the guard stopped paying attention.
Pretty bad.
These guards are not trained that thieves will use all kinds of scenarios to get their money? There is no backup guard to keep watch? This guard is a modern day Barney Fife, or had terrible training, or was in on it.
Was the distractor a cute female/male, what are their pronouns?
Inside job?
That would be my first thought.
If you’re a Brinks Mpan, you are not
expected to make polite chit chat or give prompt and helpful directions.
Most of them don’t even make eye contact with any pedestrians.
These aren’t professionally trained guards. They are paid peanuts to guard millions. You get what you pay for.
‘Hey guard, here, let me show you a card trick!”
“While the employee was distracted, the third suspect managed to grab a bag of cash that had been left unattended on the bumper of the armored truck”
I suspect leaving bags of money unattended on the bumper isn’t on the Brinks training manual.
Got a feeling this guard will get a good debriefing by Brinks and the police.
Reminds me of the scene in “Groundhog Day”.
I suspect you are correct.
The article only describes one guard.
Several years ago in Canada there was a train with a bunch of oil cars. The railroad was cheap and only had one locomotive engineer. When his authorized work time was up he put the brakes on the train and went to the hotel. The brakes failed, the train rolled down a hill, derailed and destroyed a town.
All because companies are too cheap to hire 2 people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-Mégantic_rail_disaster
Oh, wow. I looked up that disaster. Unbelievable a train full of oil with one engineer, and he went to the hotel to rest. The engineer, dispatcher, and manager were charged with 47 counts of manslaughter, but were acquited. The union said they should have charged the company president.
Sort of like the old song “Wreck of Old 97”, where the company paid a penalty for every minute the train was late, so the engineer was speeding down a mountain to make up time. That was over 100 years ago, but things haven’t changed that much.
Thanks for that recent history re the train disaster. How would you like to wake up from that nap and discover you were the one mostly at fault for 47 deaths?
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