Hello and warm welcome, it’s been a long time since I put up some juicy stuff so you can dig your piggy eyes into it. What to do was busy in my mediocre working class life. After some brainstorming I thought why not make my blog a little adventurous. I know most of my blogs are very sad and melodramatic :P So let’s put some tadka of titillating suspense in this blog. I have handpicked some awesome heist just for you, warning some of these stories might be familiar as we have zillion movies made on them in Hollywood, Bollywood, Tollywood etc. etc. So let start the adventures of some really exciting burglaries that will blow your mind.
Some onions can really make you cry hard
At least for Mr. Anant Naik from Prateeksha Nagar in Wadala who was robbed of 700
kg of kitchen staple worth about Rs 50,000. "Naik had covered his stock of
onions at around 9.30pm on Friday and left for home. When he returned on
Saturday morning, 700 kg of onions kept in 14 sacks were missing," he told
the police. The stolen onion stock was estimated to be worth Rs 50,000 as the
wholesale onion prices had touched Rs 57 per kg at Lasalgaon in Maharashtra,
Asia's biggest onion market. Also in Delhi market and some other parts
of the country, retail onion prices had gone up to Rs 80 per kg depending. Taking full advantage of the onion black market
situation in the country the burglars made some quick bucks on the easy steal.
in
a brazen tale of robbery
A set of robbers targeted 16 houses in one night in Ashok Nagar chawl in Kanjur
Marg, and made away with cash and valuables worth Rs 6 lakh on hot summers Sunday. However, though the gang visited 16 houses,
they failed to break open three and found nothing at another three. So they
managed to get their haul adding up to Rs 6 lakh on the basis of whatever they
looted from 10 of those houses that is some whooping amount of hard cash stashed
in someone’s home. These robbers targeted the houses of people who were on
summer vacations, now that’s really nasty to ruin someone’s happy holiday
memories.
Online
cheaters
Anita Shirish
Kulkarni from Dombivli, aged 49 years and Mobin Yusuf Mahafule, aged 24 years
from Naupada in Mumbai rented a flat at Kharghar’s Eden Garden Sector-5. Using
fake documents, they renamed themselves as Anita and Siddharth Chabra, and
acted like mother-son. The process of cheating started with them ordering
iPhones with cash on delivery option. As soon as the delivery boy arrived at
their residence, one of them engaged the delivery personal in some talks, and
the other went inside the home, exchanged the actual delivery with a similar
box containing a fake handset. Once exchanged, they would inform the ignorant
delivery boy that the phone is defective. Using this strategy, they were able
to rob 17 iPhones, worth Rs 8.16 lakh. Now this is some really serious online
shoplifting.
Breaking
News
In the early hours of
March 18, 1990, an art theft occurred at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in
Boston, Massachusetts while
the rest of the city celebrated St Patrick's Day. A pair of men disguised as
Boston police officers tricked the museum security guards into granting them
access to the building. They proceeded to tie up the guards and loot the museum
for over an hour before escaping in their vehicle. Thirteen works of art were
stolen worth an estimated $500 million, making it the largest private property
theft in history. Since the collection and its layout are permanent, empty
frames remain hanging as homage to the missing works and also placeholders for
when they will be returned. The choice of paintings stolen will puzzles
experts, especially since more valuable artwork was untouched. Among the stolen
works was The Concert, one of only 34 known works by Vermeer and thought to be
the most valuable unrecovered painting at over $200 million. Also missing is
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Rembrandt's only known seascape. Other works
by Rembrandt, Degas, Manet, and Flinck were also stolen, I must say quite artistic
steal by the thieves.
Stealing
the Star
The Millennium Dome
raid was an attempted robbery of the Millennium Dome's diamond exhibition in
Greenwich, South East London occurring on 7 November 2000. A local gang planned
to ram-raid the De Beers diamond exhibition which was being held in the dome at
the time. The gang had then planned to escape via the Thames in a speedboat.
The De Beers diamond exhibition had a number of jewels on display including the
Millennium Star, a flawless 203.04 carats (40.608 g) gem with an estimated
worth of £200 million and considered one of the most perfect gems in the world.
Also on display were priceless blue diamonds. The attempted robbery was foiled
by the Flying Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service, who already had the
gang members under surveillance for their suspected roles in a number of
unsuccessful armoured vehicle robberies. The operation to foil the robbery was
the biggest operation undertaken in the Flying Squad's history and at trial the
judge in the case commended the way it was carried out. If the heist had succeeded, then with a haul
of £350 million worth of diamonds, it would have become the biggest robbery in
history at the time.
The
Chelambra bank robbery
In the
Malappuram district of Kerala, India is considered to be one of the biggest and
most sensational bank robberies in the crime history of Kerala. In the early
hours of 30 December 2007, the robbers made a hole in the floor of the Bank of
Kerala and got away with 80 kilograms of gold and 5,000,000 rupees, a total
value of 80 million Indian Rupees. The bank was in the second floor of a
building. The ground floor had a restaurant that was up for rent. The
four-member gang rented the restaurant by giving an advance payment of about
Rs. 50,000. They shut down the front door and placed a board saying that it was
under renovation and would reopen on 8 January 2008. To make things more
convincing, they even bought new furniture for the restaurant and much
construction material for the site. Those who were watching the scene would
have thought that repairs were going on. But they were cracking the first floor
open, where the lockers were kept. They cracked it and made a big enough hole
in the ceiling to the locker room. All the money they took was from some iron
safes which they cut open using a gas cutting machine. They took away gold and
cash kept inside the safe. The
police team also monitored all telephone calls in the closest mobile signal
towers at the location of the crime during the midnight hours of the incident.
It was a big task monitoring more than two million calls. The help of various
mobile service providers and IT professionals was also enlisted for the probe.
Finally, it was the identification of a secret phone number used by the main
suspects to communicate between themselves that became the turning point in the
investigation. The police team finally zeroed in on a house in Kozhikode where
the accused were hiding and arrested four people including Joseph alias Jaison
alias Babu, the kingpin of the operation along with three others including a
woman and recovered 80% of the stolen gold and money. It is the first recovery
in the crime history of Kerala of so much stolen property.
Airplane
Pirate Mr. D. B. Cooper
One
afternoon a day before Thanksgiving in 1971, a guy calling himself Dan Cooper
(the media mistakenly called him D.B. Cooper) boarded Northwest Airlines flight
#305 in Portland bound for Seattle. He was wearing a dark suit and a black tie
and was described as a business-executive type. While in the air, he opened his
brief case showing a bomb to the flight attendant and hijacked the plane. The
plane landed in Seattle where he demanded 200K in cash, four parachutes and
food for the crew before releasing all the passengers. With only three pilots
and one flight attendant left on board, they took off from Seattle with the
marked bills heading south while it was dark and lightly raining. In the 45
minutes after takeoff, Cooper sent the flight attendant to the cockpit while
donning the parachute, tied the bank bag full of twenty dollar bills to him,
lowered the rear stairs and somewhere north of Portland jumped into the night
sky. When the plane landed with the stairs down, they found the two remaining
parachutes and on the seat Cooper was sitting in, just a black tie. This is
called classic drama just the way aha aha, I like it aha aha...
Opera House heist
In a very dramatic turn of events on 19
March 1987, when 28 so-called probationary CBI officers entered the jewellery
shop around 2.15 pm to the fake income tax raid on the Opera House branch of
Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri (TBZ) in Mumbai. The mastermind alias Mon Singh strode
straight to owner Pratapbhai Zaveri, introduced himself as Research &
Analysis Wing (RAW) officer Mon Singh, and produced a search warrant. CCTV footage
was cut off, the jeweller has to surrender his licensed revolver, no telephone
calls and one probationer was asked to put up a board at the entrance stating
that a raid was on. The jeweller was told that the CBI was investigating the
quality of gold sold in such shops, the recruits picked up assorted jewellery
before sealing it in packets. Money was also collected from the cash counter
and stashed into briefcases. In 45 minutes Singh asked the recruits to keep the
booty worth Rs. 35 lakh in the waiting bus. The rest of the officers were asked
to guard the shop as Singh left to 'supervise' another raid. As Mon Singh had
booked a room at the The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower on March 17. Meanwhile,
Singh got off the bus at The Taj, asked the bell boy to call a taxi, and put
the bags inside the vehicle. The taxi headed towards Vile Parle where he was
last seen. After waiting for an hour, the 28 men realised something was amiss.
The jeweller immediately called the D B Marg police. A background check
revealed that Singh had inserted a classified advertisement in a leading daily
on March 17. He was seeking replies for the post of 'Security and Intelligence
officers. 'Candidates who answered were asked to report to room 415 at The Taj,
where he was believed to have been staying. He hired an office at Mittal Towers
in Nariman Point when The Taj refused to grant permission to interview
candidates. Singh selected 28 candidates and asked them to report near Gateway
of India around noon the following day. A bus was hired which headed towards
Chowpatty. All candidates were handed identity cards with fake government
Ashoka insignia. Minutes before entering the jewellery shop, they were briefed
about the 'mock raid'. Almost 23 years after the daring daylight robbery, the
Mumbai police are still clueless about the mysterious conman who knew too well
how the intelligence agency functioned.
Kakori
conspiracy
During our youth, all
of us have been fascinated by reading this story buried deep within our History
chapters. Let us revisit it once again as it is one of the epic burglaries in
the golden Revolutionary History of India. On August 9, 1925 when the No.8 Down
Train from Shahjahanpur to Lucknow was approaching Kakori, someone pulled the
chain and the train stopped abruptly. Ashfaqulla got off the second class
compartment with his friends Sachindra Bakshi and Rajendra Lahiri. The guard
got down to find out in which compartment the chain had been pulled and why.
Two revolutionaries fell on him and made him lie down on his face. Two others
pushed the driver from the engine to the ground and stood guard over him. One
revolutionary stood at each end of the train and both fired shots with their
pistols. In the meantime they shouted, "Travellers, do not be afraid. We
are revolutionaries fighting for freedom. Your lives, money and honour are
safe. But take care not to peep out of the train". Four young men entered
the guard’s van. They managed to push the box to the ground. It had a strong
lock. There was an opening on the top; through this opening they could drop
moneybags having British currency worth 8000 rupees. With a lot of struggle the
broke open lock of the box and Suddenly they heard the sound of a train coming
from Lucknow. Ramaprasad was frightened for a moment. He trembled at the
thought of the moving train colliding with the train they had stopped. All eyes
were on Ramaprasad. He ordered, "Stop firing. Turn down the pistols. Do
not strike the box. Ashfaq, wait a little". The few minutes were like an
age. The fast moving train passed by on the other track. The slit in the box
was widened and the moneybags were taken out. During this time all passengers
remained quiet including the British officers thinking that a big gang of
dacoits had attacked the train. They were busy taking out the moneybags
bundling them in rugs. Some of them walked towards Lucknow with the bundles on
their head. These revolutionaries were Ramaprasad Bismil, Rajendra Lahiri, Thakur
Roshan Singh, Sachindra Bakshi, Chandra Sekhar Azad, Keshab Chakravarty,
Banwari Lal, Mukundi Lal, Manmath Nath Gupta and Ashfaqulla Khan who were the
part of Hindustan Republican Association against the British rule in India.
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