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> But if you have a billion dollars of gold in your basement, you should be very, very paranoid.

At close to 25 tonnes, and ~1.3m³, I'd like to see the engineering behind such a heist

Someone stole 6 million pounds of maple syrup from Canada's strategic reserves. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-02/the-great-ca...

I'm sure moving a couple cubic meters of gold isn't a problem if you're motivated.

The Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve, no less.

15 minutes frittered reading up on that one. Seems the guys set up in the same warehouse so they could have trucks coming and going for a year or so and set up a Maple Syrup dealers in a neighbouring state to ship it to.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/business/arrests-made-in-m...

25 tonnes is not much... Five people can load it on two trucks in a few hours even without using any machinery.

Kill occupants of building, move 1.3 cubic meters of gold in 30 trips with transport van. Now you have a few other problems, such as making sure that you're not going to end up in the same way. Besides surveillance cam footage recording your whereabout during part of your trip and the distance being fairly easily estimated if you do two trips in quick succession leading to a possible ID and or location of the stash.

But getting it out of there is fairly easy if you lack a conscience and have a van. If you had access to a slightly larger truck it would be easier still.

I believe all you need is several mini coopers.

I understand that reference.

Procuring a "slightly larger truck" should be trivial given the value of the heist.

> getting it out of there is fairly easy if you lack a conscience and have a van

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