Are we the stars of CCTV?

[peterbirks]

You can't fault the intelligence of senior police officers. The spokesman for Kent police, speaking after a £40m raid on a banking facility in Tonbridge, Kent, said that "this was a meticulously planned operation". You don't say. And there was I, thinking that they were just sitting in a pub on Tuesday evening, had nothing to do, and decided to kidnap the site's owner, his wife and child, tie up 15 staff, and drive the money off in a 7.5 tonne van, all on the spur of the moment.

The trouble with getting rid of about £40m is that there is an awful lot of it. I half-expected the thieves to be caught straight away after the police arrested the driver of the only white 7.5 tonne van in the UK that was properly licensed, had legal tyres and was being driven in a careful and considerate manner, but it didn't happen.

I hear that they now have a number of plain-clothes officers situated in Tonbridge sweetshops, awaiting a a spate of customers coming in to buy single packets of polos with £20 notes.

One thing that you could do with the money is take part in the merger and acquisition fever in Canary Wharf. Just imagine it. A man walks into Merrill Lynch and says "Hello, I would like to bid for a listed company valued in the £25m or thereabouts range, please. No need to get the banks involved; I have the money in a van outside".

What's more worrying to think about is that there might be some investment banks willing to accommodate him.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry to bring up an old topic but I can't understand your comment about us gaining an 'hour in the week'.This calendar suggests that we only gain 100 minutes in the entire month!

http://www.sunrisesunset.com/calendar.asp?comb_city_info=London,%20United%20Kingdom;0;51.5;0;2&month=2&year=2006&time_type=0

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