The Great Buenos Aires Bank Heist

Quite endearing Sunday afternoon read. The complete absence of violence makes it easy to sympathise. It seems they hold no grudges amongst each other too, which is remarkable given the sums involved.

&gt; After the movie, he hopes to produce a nine-part Spanish-language TV series about the heist.<p>Isn&#x27;t this loosely the plot of the Netflix show Money Heist (casa de papel in it&#x27;s original Spanish)? There&#x27;s already a show!<p>Otherwise it&#x27;s a really strange coincidence that many of the plot points line up. Or, its just standard practice to want to dig yourself out of a bank you just robbed.

They even had time to leave a note for the police:<p>“En barrio de ricachones, sin armas ni rencores, es sólo plata y no amores”

The style and rhythm of this article is superb. I wish they did a movie about it.

Isn’t this a similar plot to the inside man by spike lee? That movie came out around the same time as well. 2006

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. Like a real-life Ocean&#x27;s Eleven.

Reminds me of something I read by David Simon (author of The Wire and a crime-beat journalist): police like to think they are smarter than criminals, and often are, but not always.

Such a brilliantly insane plan:<p>Pretend to have a &quot;Dog Day Afternoon&quot; type of scenario when you really have a &quot;Red Haired League&quot; underneath.<p>So so many things that could go wrong and some actually did.<p>Also reminds a bit of misdirection in first &quot;Die Hard&quot; and yes also a bit of &quot;Man Inside&quot;.<p>Add in a bit of Rammstein&#x27;s &quot;Ich Will&quot; type of use of publicity.

* Why, he wonders, do people care so much for these stories?*<p>I can’t understand this either. I have a curiosity about heists too, but the max I’d do is watch an occasional movie or read an article. Ask for photos? What are they gonna do, frame and hang it at home?<p>Even worse is the public’s interest on serial killers, especially in the US. There are so many movies, books, shows on them!! Women write letters to these guys. It’s like these guys have celebrity status. This strikes me as weird.