Did This Really Just Happen? - Joe Blogs

A bank robbery straight out of the movies.

In Germany, thieves have carried out an old-school heist, drilling through reinforced concrete from a neighboring structure and breaking into a bank vault containing thousands of safe deposit boxes — without threatening staff and without triggering immediate alarms.

Early estimates suggest losses anywhere between €10 million and €50 million, but with safe deposit boxes, nobody really knows. Banks don’t catalogue what’s inside them, contents often aren’t insured by default, and many victims may struggle to prove what they’ve lost.

In this video, I break down:
• How this classic bank heist was carried out
• Why the stolen value estimates vary so wildly
• Why people use safe deposit boxes in the first place
• What people actually keep inside them

And why this feels uncannily like Ocean’s Eleven — minus the glamour

This wasn’t a smash-and-grab.
It was time, planning, patience… and a drill.

Old-school crime in a digital world — and a reminder that even the most secure systems have blind spots.

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I wonder what is inside Vladimir Putin's safe deposit box? A pee tape or two?