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Maplins Robbery (the other kind) was: Something to Make TIVO owners cry.



----- Original Message -----
From: "steve" <steve@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Something to Make TIVO owners cry.


> At Maplin Glasgow, the highlight of everyone's day was walking to the
bank
> > with the days takings. The guys all basicaly agreed that if
anyone
wanted
> > it, they could have the damn thing. and if the "perp"
chipped us fifty
> quid,
> > we would helpfully forget everything about him...
> >
> > life on 5300 a year was not fun... :(
> >
> > Ian.
> >
>
> Bet you had a couple of grand in the bag.
>
> Steve.

Alas no, there were a lot less crims in Glasgow than popular mythology
would
make out..

I did once see the beaut of the cash wagon delivering change to the bank we
took our takings to, and the guys with their little trolley.

Usually, there were two guys: one would get the trolley from the bank, and
stand on one side of the four foot high barrier. the other would stand at
the back of the wagon and heave coins to his mate, who put them onto the
trolley, and then wheeled them into the bank.

Then one day, there's just the one guy, who gets the trolley, walks around
the barrier (about the length of his van away), then proceeds to load the
trolley by leaning over the barrier, and dropping the bags onto it.
Predictably, when he was about half way through, as he turned to the wagon
to get the next bag, a helpful scroat did a runner with the trolley...
highly amusing.

Ian.





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