Re: RARA-AVIS: Families as hostages in bank jobs

From: Karin Montin ( kmontin@sympatico.ca)
Date: 24 May 2006


It happened recently in real life in England (and I think Ireland just before that). He wasn't a bank manager, but the manager of a Securitas depot where they stored a lot of cash. They arrested some people a few days later.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4739324.stm

Karin

At 01:51 PM 24/05/2006 -0400, Mark wrote:

>I think I first read the plot where a bank manager's family is held
>hostage while one of the criminals takes the manager to open the bank's
>vault in one of Garry Disher's Wyatt novels. Since then, I've seen it
>in a number of TV shows -- Law & Order, one of the CSIs, 24, maybe even
>Nash Bridges.
>
>So, my questions are:
>
>When did this start showing up in books? Was Disher the first?
>
>And does this happen in real life? I don't remember reading about it in
>the papers. Seems there's a lot of added exposure there.
>
>Duane, you've written a book on bank jobs, real and fictional. Do you
>know?

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