Do I do food today, or true crime? I think true crime, because I’ve done a lot of food this week.
“One Last Job: The Unlikely Story Behind the Hatton Garden Heist”.
This is also fairly short: only about 22 minutes.
Bonus: “The Gang Who Tried to Steal the World’s Largest Perfect Diamond”.
There’s a guy named Dan Howland who used to publish a acclaimed ‘zine called “The Journal of Ride Theory”. It was sort of a parody of academic journals, but dealt with amusement park and carnival rides. At least that’s the best way I can describe it. I missed the ‘zine when it was at its peak, but you can still get copies (including an omnibus book) from Lulu. At some point I ordered that: it may have been a package deal because I also got his amusing one-off, “Dome and Domer: The Increasingly Stupid Story of the Millennium Dome”.
For those unfamiliar with the Millennium Dome (and Howland does it much better justice than the Wikipedia entry) it was built to house the “Millennium Experience”, a one-year exhibition that ran from 1/1/2000 to 12/31/2000. It was also a legendary fiasco. (Three words: “robotic pubic lice“.)
Anyway, that was where I first heard about the Millennium Dome Heist, in which an inept group of crooks tried to steal diamonds from De Beers exhibition in the Dome, but were foiled by the Yard’s Flying Squad.
(Isn’t “Flying Squad” one of the best names for a police unit ever? Admit it, you want to be able to say “I’m part of the Flying Squad”.)
Okay, enough digression.
I have no joke here, I just like saying “this here’s a gun powder activated, 27 caliber, full auto, no kickback, nail-throwing mayhem“.