In September of 1971 a branch of Lloyds Bank in Baker Street, London was robbed.
The story is infamous, but for those of you who dont know, The Baker Street Robbery was a burglarly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes story of the "Red Headed League". Essentially a band of criminals would rent a shop, dig a tunnel 40ft (12m) long underneath a Chicken Shop and then tunnel upwards into the bank vault to eventually rob 268 Safety Deposit Boxes. For a fictional retelling of the story you may have seen the 2008 film "The Bank Job" starring Jason Statham.
Notably, to this day no one knows exatcly what was stolen from the safe deposit boxes or their worth. A conservative estimate would be that they made off with £500,000 in 1971 - worth a cool £6.2 Million today ($8.5 Million US), but rumours abound that the true value of what was stored in those Safe Deposit Boxes was not in their financial worth, but their political worth.
In 1970 Anthony Gavin conspired with second hand car salesmen Reg Tucker and Thomas Stephens, and Benjamin Wolfe to rob the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank.
Tucker would open an account at the bank with £500 aned rent a safety deposit box. I have never had a safety deposit box, but it is apperantly customary that you are left alone with your box for security concerns. Tucker would use these periods of isolation to measure and map the vault using his Umbrella and his armspan, he would also utilze the regular size of the floor tiles to map out the dimensions of the vault. Using this information he would draw up a map of the vault.
During this time Thomas Stephens acquired the necessary equipment for the job, including a Thermal Lance and a 100 ton Jack.
Lookout-men, Explosive experts and Alarm experts were also brought in. As were two unidentified men cited in Wikipedia as "T.H" and "Little Legs", and an unidentified woman.
Shortly After in May 1971, Wolfe rents a Shop at 189 Baker Street called "Le Sac".
Due to road works being carried out, the trembler alarms in the bank had been switched off and between the August Bank Holiday Weekend meant that there would be three days off (Friday thru Sunday + Monday Bank Holiday).
I will skip the details of the digging, but if you wish you can find more info at the wiki link. Suffice to say they dug their way through the bank vault between August and September, a full month of digging in cramped, confined spaces. Using a Thermal Lance and Gelignite to breach the Vault.
By Sept
... keep reading on reddit ➡Looks like I’ll be driving Holmes for Christmas
https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-business-considers-increasing-security-armed-robbery/38860543
Some of my buddies who live on high street were burgled today, during the day when they were at breakfast. The thief took an Xbox, a switch, some sentimental items a couple knives, and some valuable yu gi oh cards. If anyone knows anything please let me know, they mostly just want the items they, mainly just want then old wwII knives that his grandpa gave him and the necklace his grandpa gave him. If the theif is reading this, you can keep everything else but please return those items. You can leave it in the mailbox and we won’t ask any questions.
Just looking through the menu and there are like four dinner items. Was it like this before covid?
...with a basket of lemons.
Watson asks, "where did you get so many lemons from, Holmes "?
To which Holmes replies, "A lemon tree, Watson."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/bfdb5ffe-2828-3d75-badf-cc4d7f2607f9/police-search-for-suspects.html
First off, glad no one was hurt.
Second off, the place is called Hot Streak and the picture seems to show a bunch of...gambling machines set up all in a row?
Is this some kind of jack leg casino or something?
Anyone ever been there?
Google searches are not much help.
Hot Streak LLC
Address: 7124 Hull Street Rd, North Chesterfield, Virginia 23235-5802
Hot Streak LLC (Entity# 11297159) is a business entity registered with Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC). The business start date is October 22, 2021.
Just keep an eye out. Last night around 1 am a guy on a bike robbed a woman in the area at knifepoint and skedaddled out of there.
Battle of a couple of B-Sides...
FFL
- AKA "Fat Fucking Lie"
- Released as a B-Side to Best Of You, and also on the "Five Songs And A Cover" EP for Best Buy.
- Definitely a song that comes straight out of Dave's hardcore/punk background.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceulwXYjlw4
Baker Street
- A decidedly saxophone-free cover of Gerry Raferty's famous song
- Released as a b-side to My Hero, and quite frankly included in a whole bunch of other non-album releases since
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO1qcWa6blQ
Just saw the email we got about the two armed robberies - one of them was this morning right by Trader Joes at 10:45 AM. I always figured it's probably a good idea to not wander around at 3 AM but damn can't even buy lunch at TJ's?
*Typo - I meant Eddy Street
