Would you steal from a self serevice till?

[bobspud]

I'm surprised the guy pinched 80 mill got immunity. I mean how can you guarantee immunity. Surely you pocket 40 million then grass him anyway and get the other 40 mill back.

Because if you are <put a bank name here> you don't want your investors/customers to know that you are so fecking stoopid that you let an Eastend wide boy wander round london all day with hundreds of millions of cashable I.O.U notes. I am more than willing to bet that apart from a dozen or so people no one outside the bank ever found out. It certainly would not have been reported to the police.
Money is cheap to a bank compared to reputation. The only thing they did after the incident was make sure that no one messenger got more than 40 million in a round.

[Pondlife]

This may be apocryphal (It was told to me in the early eighties by someone that purported to know the gentleman concerned)

In the late seventies an IBM systems programmer in the UK devised a system of writing a certain percentage of large investment banking transactions to a hidden sector on the boot disk. He scarpered with something like £27 million but they gave him amnesty as long as

1) He told him how he did it.
2) He didn't mention the fact their banking systems were not foolproof.

Don't flame me if I'm wrong, I just remember it being a story I was told at the time.

Was it about the time Superman III came out?


Edit: and no I don't steal from supermarkets because;
a) I had good parents
b) I'm not a chav

[Sands of Time]

Was it about the time Superman III came out?


Edit: and no I don't steal from supermarkets because;
a) I had good parents
b) I'm not a chav

Too bl00dy right!




Tone

[doodab]

Because if you are <put a bank name here> you don't want your investors/customers to know that you are so fecking stoopid that you let an Eastend wide boy wander round london all day with hundreds of millions of cashable I.O.U notes. I am more than willing to bet that apart from a dozen or so people no one outside the bank ever found out. It certainly would not have been reported to the police.
Money is cheap to a bank compared to reputation. The only thing they did after the incident was make sure that no one messenger got more than 40 million in a round.

Which does make one wonder how you know about it.

[BrilloPad]

The only thing they did after the incident was make sure that no one messenger got more than 40 million in a round.

Well that would put a stop to it. No-one is going to commit a crime for only £40m. Its just not worth it.

sasguru

[Lockhouse]

Was it about the time Superman III came out?

Funnily enough it was before then because I remember remembering the story when I saw the film...

[Scoobos]

I see stealing from TESCOs as a moral responsibility.

[alluvial]

Nope because me getting caught is a foregone conclusion when doing anything wrong.

[bobspud]

Which does make one wonder how you know about it.

I used to swap drops with one of the messengers that knew the guy.

[MrMark]

No, but then again I wouldn't commit fraud, shoplift or burgle. Nor would I take kickbacks or contract bribes and I've been offered some tidy ones over the years.

I always look at the long term, possible consequences, self respect and the affect it would have on my family.

I've never been unfaithful to my wife either as I couldn't imagine putting that much hurt on her.

So basically an honest (reasonably) and morally upstanding citizen (reasonably)

I used to think like this. But everyone has a breaking point. If a society (edit: and its agents) denies efficient workers jobs, yet rewards the politicians and bankers who got us into this mess, then the ethical case against stealing from the big boys becomes to look weaker. Just an opinion.