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Vacuum Burglars: sucking 500,000 euros straight out of a supermarket

thesun.co.uk

33 pointsIgorPartola13 comments

all you'd need to add was a one-way valve type thing on the end of that tube inside the safe... not exactly rocket science. 4 years is a long time to leave something like that unaddressed...

Could easily be an inside job. Stew Leonard was put in jail for stealing money from his own pneumatic tubes.

To be taken like that once, I can see that but multiple times is a bit stupid.

If it's a real story, maybe. It's the Sun, after all - for it and the Daily Mail, I'd want independent corroboration if they said the sun rose in the East that morning.

For this story covering a remarkable string of thefts over four years? This Sun article is the only source being repeated by others in a few quick searches.

There are a few newspapers in French mentioning the story:

http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/le-gang-a-l-aspirateur... http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2010/09/22/97001-20100922F...

Huh! Well, that upgrades it to "it may have been bright looking eastward this morning" at the least.

I guess, but what are they going to do? It's not exactly easy to replace a system of pneumatic tubes for transferring money within a building; a suitable replacement is going to take forever to conceive and implement. And they've only lost €600,000 in 4 years = €150,000/year. If they chose to hire a security guard at every Monoprix, 7 days a week, they would have to spend at least several million Euros per year.

Some people spend years figuring how to make money, others spend years figuring how to take it from you.

I'm suddenly remembering an old Judge Dredd comic with a vacuum gang emptying out a bank vault.

Sure it wasn't a Beagle Boys/Scrooge McDuck comic?

Could be that, too. :)

(This one has Dredd coming back to Earth after spending six months of storylines serving as head judge of a moon colony, and suddenly acting ridiculously laid-back and mellow...and walking right by criminals engaging in crime. This includes an armed gang vacuuming out the contents of a bank vault. The lame gag turns out to be the reveal at the end that for some reason he has to be sworn back in again as a judge on Earth, and vigilantism...is a crime.)

sucks for the store

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