Now this is just sad. So much hard work resulted in so little payoff.
Seems a group of thieves in England spent half a year doing it the old-fashioned way — digging a tunnel in the dead of night, hiding their efforts from passers-by, wincing at every loud sound they were making as if that would be the thing that would give them away and get them noticed and arrested and incarcerated and all manner of other harmful and woefully bad things.
They weren't exactly roughing it. They put in roof supports, so the tunnel wouldn't collapse mid-dig. They also put in lighting, so they could see in the dark and keep on going when they needed to most.
And, in a new-school twist, they went on all high-tech and drilled tiny holes into the store's floor so they could stick in little cameras to see how far away they were from paydirt.
See, the target was an ATM machine in Manchester. So the thieves tunneled under a parking lot and a video shop — 100 feet in all — to get to the ATM. Then, they opened up the machine and found … only 6,000 pounds. (The bank knows it was only 6,000 pounds because of electronic records.)
Yes, you could argue that with the exchange rate, that's actually … but that's not the point. The point is that these guys (and I'm assuming that it was guys here because women would probably know better) spent half a year of their lives on an ingenious get-rich-quick scheme and didn't get either part of that promise — they didn't get rich, and it certainly wasn't quick. In fact, these guys probably lost money in the end, if you factor in the cost of the roof supports, the lighting, and the telescopic cameras. If that doesn't get it, then you can calculate the time and effort they spent as labor, which has to count for something.
And yet all they got was a measly 6,000 pounds. Yes, that's a lot of money to some people (and it would be a lot of money to me, too, quite frankly). But these guys put a lot of blood and sweat into this job and all they got, really, was tears.
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