Their age is unimportant. They made the same mistakes that all criminals make when they can't keep their mouths shut. Socialising together is stupid.<p>My father worked in Scotland Yard. He once told me that their are villians and professionals. They never catch the professionals. They always catch the villians through loose talk.<p>The hardest thing isn't the theft, it's the fencing of the goods, and then hiding the proceeds from the taxman. You can't just start driving around in a Bentley and buying houses.<p>These guys were always going to get caught however old they were.
I'd like to believe there is a secret rag tag bunch of 60-70 year old, retired Engineers out there working on some cool tech.<p>If we have 60-70 year old's running for president, moving the markets on wall st and robbing diamonds there just have to be a few greybeards dying of cancer working on perpetual motion or something.
I mean this is the generation that built the first rockets and computers with fucking slide rules. I am sure a few lurk around here. What are you busybodies upto?
Is anybody else really, really tired of the focus on their age? I feel like every British media outlet has been churning out the same low-hanging fruit for months now: "Old school gangsters" going after "one last job". I vaguely remember the actual 6 o'clock BBC news making some gag about zimmer frames or hip replacements. Two of them were in their forties for one thing...<p>I sincerely hope that when I'm of a certain vintage the only remark on any of my achievements* won't be "check out how OLD he is".<p>*Hesitant to call a robbery an achievement, but in a sense it is.