Theme: bank robbery


The crime of stealing from a bank (or comparable venue) by physically gaining entry to its facilities and unlawfully removing large amounts of money or valuables, is featured. Bank-like outfits include other venues that have vaults, for example casinos or Fort Knox.

Notes:
In real life most bank robberies are made at gunpoint, i.e., by threatening bank employees with violence. In fiction (more than reality) there are sometimes clever schemes to gain entry clandestinely, for example by tunneling in during off-hours, or using deception. The latter is technically a case of "burglary" when violence is not used, but is categorized as "bank robbery" for convenience. This definition may well (and rightly should) be revisited in the future.

Examples:
In talesoftheunexpected5x06 "The Moles", two old friends whose business faced financial ruin hatched a clever plan to tunnel their way into a certain bank vault from an antique shop adjacent to it.

References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_robbery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_robbers_and_robberies

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