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German robbers miscalculate explosive charge
legionkahn
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Would-be bank robbers in Germany miscalculated the amount of explosives needed to open the front door and instead leveled an entire building, Die WeltOnline reports.
The safe and the ATM machine survived intact, however, and the robbers apparently fled without taking any money from the bank branch in Malliss.
Police initially thought one of the robbers might have been buried in the rubble, but search dogs turned up nothing, Die Welt reports.
In addition, police found a stolen delivery van on fire outside the building. They surmise that the thieves brought it along to use to cart off the ATM machine.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/05/german-robbers
The safe and the ATM machine survived intact, however, and the robbers apparently fled without taking any money from the bank branch in Malliss.
Police initially thought one of the robbers might have been buried in the rubble, but search dogs turned up nothing, Die Welt reports.
In addition, police found a stolen delivery van on fire outside the building. They surmise that the thieves brought it along to use to cart off the ATM machine.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/05/german-robbers
Comments
"miscalculated the amount of explosives needed to open the front door and instead leveled an entire building"
When it seems, if the safe was still intact, that they did not use enough.
It would seem this would be a better statement:
"underestimated the amount of explosives needed to open the front door, which is more than it takes to level an entire building"
I guess they need to get more sophisticated and use properly shaped charges, and perhaps a backing of water or something to help focus the blast