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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   Notes on the Securitas robbery:   
      
   1) kidnapping the depot manager and his family in separate snatches is a   
   well-known method. They're not saying much about what defences were in   
   place against this, are they? Did the security guard at the perimeter   
   just wave him through, not noticing that guys were sitting next to him,   
   or what? And no-one managed to push an alarm button for however long it   
   took to load up the vehicle with the money? I doubt this very much.   
   Those places are well-protected, and they are INSURED too. They must   
   necessarily have procedures in place against this sort of robbery   
   involving kidnapping. It is more likely that a DECISION was taken to let   
   them have the money. Contrary to what is said in the UK media, loads of   
   money is paid to kidnappers in the UK.   
      
   2) Another possibility - even more likely, IMO - is that State forces of   
   one kind or another have just had a large input of cash. Goodness knows   
   what it will be used for. For rather nasty stuff, I should imagine.   
      
   3) I heard an interview on BBC radio with a former senior cop. The BBC   
   guy said - in the form of a question, as usual - that the robbers would   
   have to be very careful if they wanted to do stuff like buy a car with a   
   bundle of notes. The former senior cop said nope, they're professionals,   
   they ain't going to do that - they'll launder it through e.g.   
   Liechtenstein instead, or via 'financial advisers' who are 'used to   
   taking large cash deposits'.   
      
   The message being, of course, that anyone who buys a car with a couple   
   of grand in cash is dodgy... The backstory being, privacy is dangerous   
   and anti-social.   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
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