Thieves Use Vacuum To Siphon Cash From Safes 173
Tootech writes "A gang of thieves armed with a powerful vacuum cleaner that sucks cash from supermarket safes has struck for the fifteenth time in France. The burglars broke into their latest store near Paris and drilled a hole in the pneumatic tube that siphons money from the checkout to the strong-room. They then sucked rolls of cash totaling £60,000 from the safe without even having to break its lock. Police said the gang — dubbed the Vacuum Burglars — always raid Monoprix supermarkets and have hit 15 of the stores branches around Paris in the past four years. A spokesman added: 'They spotted a weakness in the company's security system and have been exploiting it ever since.'"
Noise (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:You can make this stuff up. (Score:3, Interesting)
It goes back even more, to the 1960s or 1970s, in the "Casino" episode of Mission: Impossible (the real one, the good one, not that crap with the self-aggrandizing Tom Cruise). They drilled into a vault and ran a vacuum to suck out all the money.
Re:You can make this stuff up. (Score:1, Interesting)
I dont remember that one, but I do remember the one where they drilled under a vault of gold, ran up a heating coil, melted the gold and had it drop out the bottom, and put it back into classic bar molds. Then they ran up a spraypaint can and repainted the vault so it wasn't obvious how they got the gold.
Re:beautifully done :) (Score:2, Interesting)
The scaling is not linear. As a company gets bigger they do make more money but not as much more as it costs to run things.
That's a problem in general with all sorts of designs that need to scale. Once you get past a certain point you run into all sorts of organizational and operational issues that are difficult to solve.
In other words, it's much harder to maintain a huge successful business than a small successful one. Think of it as a King of the Hill game.