dbeards t1_it9asox wrote on October 21, 2022 at 9:41 PM Reply to TIL that in 2005 burglars stole $71.6 million from a bank in Fortaleza, Brazil by setting up a fake landscaping company near the bank and digging a 256ft tunnel beneath two city blocks to the bank over 3 months. Neighbors noticed vanloads of soil removed daily but assumed it was business-related. by Lagavulin16_neat I don’t know much about tunnel digging, but it feels like the engineering know-how and equipment required to pull that feat off would probably cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $71.6 million. Permalink −19−
dbeards t1_it9asox wrote
Reply to TIL that in 2005 burglars stole $71.6 million from a bank in Fortaleza, Brazil by setting up a fake landscaping company near the bank and digging a 256ft tunnel beneath two city blocks to the bank over 3 months. Neighbors noticed vanloads of soil removed daily but assumed it was business-related. by Lagavulin16_neat
I don’t know much about tunnel digging, but it feels like the engineering know-how and equipment required to pull that feat off would probably cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $71.6 million.