British Robbers Trained by Hollywood

Well ok, not really. But a break-in to a security depot in Great Britain seems to follow the plot of "Firewall"--the new Harrison Ford thriller. Just like in the movie, the robbers held the depot manager's family to force him to aid their caper. The crooks posed as police and stopped the manager on his way home from work. Another group went to his home and took is wife and young child into custody.

At 1:00am, they forced the manager to open up the depot for them. They spent 75 minutes loading up a truck with a boatload of money and made off. So far, I've heard estimates of 25($59.23) and 40($94.78) million pounds. If confirmed, this would be the largest bank robbery in UK history.

Unfortunately, the depot manager was no Harrison Ford and he hasn't tracked down and disposed of the criminals behind the robbery. I guess the robbers are training with Hollywood, now we just need the good guys to get the same training.

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UPDATE: The police in GB are now saying that as much as 50 million pounds were stolen and that the cash would weigh around 900 lbs. ABC is reporting that an arrest has been made an more arests are coming shortly.

$118m stolen in Britian's biggest heist