Re: Bank Robbers Tunnel Their Way to Millions

["Stephen J. Smoogen" <smooge () gmail com>]

On 2/13/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> Fun for someone, somewhere. ;-)
>
> [snip]
>
> By Monte Reel
> Washington Post Foreign Service
> Monday, February 13, 2006; Page A22
>
> BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 12 -- The hostage standoff was stretching into its seventh hour, with hundreds of police officers 
> surrounding the bank. After negotiating a peculiar swap -- four hostages for some pizzas and sodas -- the captors 
> inside seemed suspiciously quiet. So police stormed the building.
>
> They found the 19 remaining hostages safe and sound, but the captors had vanished. A hole in the basement wall was 
> covered with an iron lid that had been bolted shut from the other side. Later, police discovered that the hole led to 
> a secret tunnel, which hooked into a municipal drainage system that emptied into the La Plata River. It was a clean 
> getaway.

This and other sucessful bank robberies can be linked to the City of
Villians game. Kids who play these games learn how to correctly invade
banks, stores, and other places.. when in the past they had to follow
the masterminds rule-book which always meant police had the advantage.

Sigh..

--
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator

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