So Simon's advice is that if you do a big robbery you might need to leave the country ... after he left the country and moved to the Czech Republic ... and is wearing a gold Rolex. Yep, sounds like he knows what he's talking about.

Danny's scripts on this channel have been TOP NOTCH. Let him out of the basement and on to Decoding the Unknown more often, Simon.

The way Simon blew right past the "imagine no possessions" bit that Danny wrote into the paragraph involving John Lennon 😂

I'm a casual criminalist subscriber, after that last one with that horrible baby murdering "Nurse" I'm perfectly happy to hear about a crazy, sophisticated Burglary. Thank you, Blaze Brotherhood!

I love that the script writers know Simon so well that they regularly predict Simons reactions in the text of their scripts.

One day I want Danny to end a script saying, “And that is how I ended up in this basement!”

We had the worlds worst bank heist in Melbourne Australia. During the gold rush, 1890's, one very well off bank took to bolting sheets of gold to the ceiling. Vaults were expensive and had to be imported from London and the ceiling was 2 stories high with no way up and showed their wealth and credit worthiness at a glance. While there was no way up there was a way down from above. Someone cut a hole in the roof, chiseled though the stone and plaster and popped out beside one of the sheets. He then proceeded to unbolt the sheet he was almost done when gravity intervened. No safety harness! A two story drop onto marble is no fun. The staff arrived to find him dead the next morning. The bank bought a vault.

I’m glad Simon kept the original title.

I'd love to see the burglary done by the pensioners mentioned at about 37:00 in an episode of Casual Criminalist if any of the writers wanna pick it up! I think it would be a fun breather episode for Simon.

The only complaint I have is that the audio levels for these videos are so inconsistent. It's such a wide range from Simon speaking softly that I need to raise the volume and then speaking so loudly where I have to lower the volume in a span of 5mins. That's the only complaint, which is like the ads being louder than the sound level of the video itself (but I have premium now bc I hate the ads)

"The 500million dollar inspector", written by George - is my favourite casual Criminalist episode. I guess that makes me an outlier, but we aren't all "Albert Fish" fans. Good work Danny and Simon.

Yes, police corruption in London is well documented. The 70's was a particularly corrupt time for New Scotland Yard. The reason the post office had the tracking vans is because it was them that used to track down people who did not have a TV licence.

simons voice is way quieter than the audio thats added for videoclips and transitions so much so its quite hard to hear him at times

I absolutely love Danny's writing and I really enjoy heist stories so this was a treat for me!

I love this series but the audio on this video was so off. The music was incredibly loud compared to previous episodes and it become quite frustrating and bothering, and it’s the only episode ever to have this issue for me and I’ve listened to all of them

Has no one seen the movie "The Bank Job" 2008 with Jason Statham? It is the Baker Street Robbery... Absolutely Fantastic!!

With regard to Corruption and Simon's complete innocence of history, a cursory read about West Midlands Serious Crime Squad, Scotland Yard's "Flying Squad" and the introduction of the 1984 Police and Criminal Evidence act, would be educational.

Don't fall for it Simon. This is just a cover for Danny's research into how to tunnel out of the basement

Love your videos Simon, I always listen to your podcasts on my daily commute. Is there any chance of fixing this week's podcast version? It'd be great to hear about the bank robbery without being drowned by this random accordion music

This reminds me of the robbery of Gotabanken in Sweden in the '90s. They drilled through the roof of a bankvault inside a mall. The vibration sensors went off time and time again. Security eventually ignored it since there was nothing to be seen from inside the bank.

i love the episodes but we really need to work on volume mixing. most of the episodes are great but theres no reason background music and background noise is louder than Simon actually talking. it doesnt happen every episode but it kind of ruins the episode for me. hope this doesnt come off as aggressive but it seems to be happening more and more often now adays.

The insurance thing never crossed my mind. Makes sense that a place can't insure what they can't see and put a value on. I used to have a safety deposit box myself. Thieves tried to break into the bank through the roof and were swiftly stopped. So i felt like my papers were safe there despite knowing it had been a targeted location.

Listening to this on Spotify and i cant hear shit because there's some music blasting over half the friggin thing.

I just love how Simon is like "We all know History Channel is rubbish, but i expected better from you, Pierce Brosnan! I can't believe James Bond lied to us."

I do love these stories about these super-competent bank heists. These are consistently the most impressive stories of crime, especially the folks smart enough to hit the safety deposit boxes like this. And honestly, this might be the one exception to keeping the conspiracy as small as possible - if you pick your bank right and have enough time to crack open a good number of boxes, you're walking away with a lot of money and the authorities don't even know what's missing. Everyone's walking away with a pretty penny and it's not gonna be easy to trace it. So you can get a fair number of people involved.

As someone who used to work at a bank I'd just like to say it's a SAFE deposit box, not safety lol. It's literally a box in a safe.😂

“Who isn’t a fan of Sherlock Holmes??” Arthur Conan Doyle.

Imagine being one of the burglars and finding out someone caught your radio communication and only the laziness of the police saved you from being caught in the act

14:40 “Better to do it slow with less people than fast with more people.” Life rules with Simon. 🤣

If the police are monitoring the walkie-talkie chatter and know that there is a lookout, then they would know that they are at the correct bank if they hear the lookout warn the crew that the police are outside the bank. Unless, of course, the lookout just wasn't doing his job.

A few years back, a 'spontaneous mob' of people in LA attacked rail-cars carrying UPS packages. Very much a targeted attack as no other rail-cars were tampered with. My bet is the operation was to intercept an extra-spicy package being transported on one of those rail-cars.

Guess the name wasn't changed lol.

When I saw the video title, I had believed it was a casual criminalist. I was happy thinking we were getting a lighthearted one after the last few

Background accordion music makes this pretty tough on the podcast.

Sorry to disappoint you Simon, but this caper seems to have been inspired by an old Edward G Robinson film called "Larceny Incorporated" from 1942, where a bunch of criminals (some coming straight out of prison) got hold of a failing luggage store and tunneled their way into a bank. And they even used the cover of street construction work to cover up their drilling sounds. I swear I kept picturing the movie unfolding as I heard more and more of the details of how these guys in 1971 pulled it off. PS: Great film. Worth a giggle.

Please tell the video editors to get consistent with audio levels... Some of your videos are so god damn quiet.

I think it was just down to bad communication, their dispatch probably didn’t even inform the officers that they were digging under the bank and just told them something like “robbery at a Lloyd’s bank”

The music audio is too loud and distracting. The volume of it needs to be turned down. I could not even get through the video.

It is a shame that the more non-violent heists don't do well on CC because they are so fascinating. I love a good heist story. So landing on Decoding works for me as well. Good job Danny

I really loved the movie with Jason Statham. It's probably his most accomplished performance to date. The story is very strong, as well. Can't say whether it's factual or not, but it sounds interesting, to say the least.

On the podcast it's impossible to hear Simon around 16 mins for a few minutes due to the background music. I love this story but it was really frustrating!!

yeeeeessss! thank you Danny for a bank robbery episode!

Love the story, but could the video editor just drop the background music down a bit?

Some colleagues and I once had some grapefruit which literally fell off the back of a lorry. Our office was near a large road junction. One day a lorry turning sharply dropped a box and the driver carried on. We rescued it to find it was full of grapefruit

Hey Simon and crew. I was listening to this on Spotify and for some reason for like 20 mins at the 16 min part there is really really loud french music playing. It's too loud hear Simon. I thought I'd let you know just in case you weren't aware 😂

Danny is my favorite writer. This was a great video!

I worked in a bank for a number of years, and the safe deposit boxes differed by branch. Some had much more elaborate set ups like Simon described. The branch I worked at the most had just a relatively small room with the boxes, maybe 6 ft wide by 10 ft long. We had a small table in there. It was inside the main vault, so it was behind the "vault door" you see in banks. But that was about it - no sliding doors or other stuff. We did have the two keys - we had one for employees to use, and then the customer had to bring in theirs (if they lost their key, it was a long and expensive process to get the box open). We'd open the locks, and leave them in the room (unless they requested help, usually older clients that would struggled with the length of the box and weight, so we'd move it to the table for them). I think the charge was like $15 a month? Maybe even less if they'd had it for a while? It's been a while

Love this channel, but I tried listening to this episode as a podcast, unfortunately, they added some music to that version, making it very hard to hear the narration. So here I am, hoping to hear the story.

Danny... dropped the ball on this one. There's this a tiny detail that got glossed over as a blunder by the police and bank employees... but it wasn't. at 25:51 *TIME LOCKED VAULT* .... They physically CAN'T open the vault door and peek inside, Simon. It's not possible! "This blunder of blunders gave the gang the rest of the weekend..." *This isn't a blunder!* It's TIME LOCKED. I kept waiting for Danny to circle back and explain why the bank employees couldn't open the vault door even when they want to, but he never did? That's the real blunder here. I'll explain: There is a timer on the *inside* of the vault door that is set by the employees before they leave. If they left at 3pm on Friday, and were returning at 8am Monday, then they would have set that timer for around 64 hours. Until that timer runs out, there is no opening the vault door. Not unless you drill through the vault door in the exact location of the timer itself and disengage it. You can try the combination all you want, the door won't open until the timer runs out. That's the whole point of the timers. That's why tunneling up into the vault itself was key. It's far easier than trying to get through that vault door itself outside of banking hours. Or do I owe Danny an apology because I just missed the part where he explained it...? (ETA during rewatch) 35:54 "All they had to do was open the vault door .... but they decided not to bother." *THEY CAN'T! It's time locked!*

Not shown but Danny actually beat Simon into submission to keep the title.

staff calling him out at 24:50 for his sidetrack lmao that was the best. thank you, Simon and staff. you're fantastic.

“What do you think they were tunneling in through the main door?!” In the most high pitched Simon voice ever 🤣😂

Yep in the US we have 'it fell off the back of the truck', or 'it came off the docks', and we have if you see some seedy flea market or parking lot van dude selling things out of their van and says, don't ask where I got this. Saw one of those at the old flea market (a junk sales lot, sort of like a city garage sale), and did not buy obviously. One time some stooge was selling obviously contraband coats from the coat store, still in the wrappings, in the mall in the parking lot! He got caught obviously. Crooks were stealing unmarked books from the bookstore some decades ago.

Wimpy was a character on the (very) old cartoon, Popeye. He had a famous repeated conversation with other characters where he would ask them to lend him money for a burger, and he would pay them back on Tuesday. God I'm old ...

Hey, the volume has been a bit all over the place recently (on several channels) : relatively low with sudden burst of loud sounds. It’s an easy fix (basically a nice compressor + limiter) so I let you know

Extra casual casual criminalist. I like it

Simon or whoever sees this, there is an issue with the podcast version of this episode the music is louder than the Simon's voice, which some people might think is a positive, but makes it impossible to follow the narration.

They [edit: Scotland Yard, that is] could not open the vault even if they wanted to: it was probably time-locked. To prevent lock picking / kidnapping the bank manager, once the vault is sealed for the day, it only opens via an internal clock controlled lock at the next programmed time - probably Monday morning in this case.

Thanks, mate, for not having the loud music over this version.

I watched the film, but never looked in to it any further, i found this fascinating.

Simon seems to be particularly enjoying this one. So fun to see.

Whoever decided to make the random memes and music effects 1000 times louder than Simon can go jump off a bridge. I'm not sitting through 71 minutes of ear-bleeding jumpscares though. Which SUCKS because this seems like a really interesting video.

Usually listen to these on Spotify but the audio is drowned out on this episode so much you can’t actually hear it

This was an excellent piece! Great job Danny! Good read Simon and of course, the added commentary is why I love Simon. Thanks to the editor(s) for making awesome videos with excellent inserts! ❤❤❤

Is this the heist in the Jason Statham movie?

Is it me or is the music to loud? Struggling to actually hear Simon clearly 🤔

Simon, I listen to the Podcast version of this channel as well as Casual Criminalist and they are usually excellent. However i had to turn this episode off due to the overly loud and really annoying French style accordion music! It kept stopping then starting again. On a different note I used to work in a small branch of a well known British bank and we kept safety deposit boxes. Some had been in the walk-in safe for almost 50 years. It always amazed me that people could put anything they wanted in and the bank would never check it or ask what was in it!

Oh thank God Simon needed something like this

Simon you have far to much faith in the police and secret service. Ofcourse they'd cover it up. Great episode BTW

this was an absolutely fantastic episode. Danny killed it.

Simon, you and your crew are absolutely fantastic. Keep up the great work, all of you!

A note about the editing in this one: I listened to this as a podcast via Spotify, where I cant leave any comments. In this episode there's bits with this "french style" accordion music. This is way too loud, being in the car I had no chance to understand what Simon was saying. That was really annoying, the rest was ok. Also Simons voice sometimes gets very silent when he also speaks lower, but that's an ongoing problem I'm meanwhile used to. ;⁠-⁠) I tried to setup normalizing the volume but it doesnt work so well. Maybe you could normalize the sound volune of the podcast a little, also third party ads in the podcast are generally much louder than the pod itself.

When Simon mentioned the difference between burglary and robber I said to myself, ”oh like The Bank Job”

Simon you should make a video on the Hatten Garden burglary! Id love to here the exact details of the crime!

I am not usually a fan of the true crime stuff, but this was fascinating.

there are still a few Wimpys left! there was one in or near a train station in Essex. is that still there?!

So usually when Cas Crims drop on a Friday I just toss them in my Watch Later for the weekend when i go food shopping....I saw the title and absolutely never looked at what channel this really was. I absolutely love the heist stories because they end up feeling so much more enjoyable. But yeah I seriously went 15 minutes and missed Simon mention the channel name.

25:52 "TIME LOCKED VAULT hadn't been tampered with..." Simon, you CAN'T just open the vault door and stick your head in to look. That timer will NOT allow the vault door to be opened until it runs out. And it was likely set to finish on Monday morning. The bank and the police effectively have their hands tied. Nothing they can do until then. **unpauses video** Edit: Wait... We never circle back around to this detail? Really? Danny dropped the ball on the research.

This whole story was just nuts. Fantastic telling.

An 84 year old Simon still doing this. I'd watch/listen then.

Saw the movie. Fun film. It was weird listening to you reading out the plot. Definitely see the movie. :)

this sounds like a casual crim, what the duece

This was a really good one. Well done Simon and Danny!

Simons reaction to the 200 car pileup tells me he dosent drive, he just lives in this office across all his videos with the camera pointed at every wall differently except the one wall with his cot and toilet.

The Business Blaze name was stolen

I cant comment on Spotify so I'll just do it here. What is up with the very loud music around the 16 min mark? it is so loud i can barely hear what simon is saying

As Holmes might say, 'If you eliminate the impossible, the improbable, no matter how unlikely, may be the truth.'

Love your shows, mostly listen as podcasts. The last couple the music has been to loud and i can barely hear you, it’s frustrating

The real reason Simon is getting a new house is he's currently basement was running out of room for all his writers and editors. #saveDanny

41:19 wait, wait... The ANGLICAN archbishop of Canterbury refused a royal marriage because the husband was a divorced man? Wasn't the Anglican Churc founded on the grounds of allowing royal marriages where the husband was a divorced man (a couple of times, and a couple more widowed by force)? 1:05:13 this brings to mind that time last year (or the one before last, not sure right now) where a complete police station was found guilty of corruption for accepting bribes from drug smugglers after the new chief arrived the first day to his new post and found that while he drove a relatively cheap car, every single one of his new subordinates was driving cars like BMWs and Mercedes Benzs.

Simon has to be the only British person that has somehow missed the many films about this and Hatton Garden in the past decade.

Simon not ever heading about the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary is quite baffling there is even three films based on it, but none of them are that good. But it was big news at the time.

Great one Danny! Now blink once if Simon is treating you well in the Blazement

This is a great script, at least from what I can hear of it. They have been almost unlistenable on Spotify, especially this one. I had to give up and watch it here because your mic is lower than the background music and sound effects, so basically all I hear is elevator music with the occasional sound effect. If I wanted to listen to that, I would have searched for elevator music instead of your podcasts. It's only barely better on KZfaq but I can't listen to that while driving without paying for KZfaq Red and it's not worth that, I'll just listen to a different podcast. Please ask your editor to upload your mic at a higher level and lay off on the unnecessary background music and sound effects, they add nothing of value and take away why I tuned in the first place. Then please reupload all your Spotify content at a higher base volume and without the fluffy elevator music and lazy sound effects.

It ended way too soon. The comment about AliExpress had me chuckling too. So much left to think about. Love it.

Audio on here is far better than spotify. The accordian "background" music is louder than simon thru the whole thing

I was listening to this on Spotify, not sure how it looks like here, but in the main part were was described how they dug the music was so loud, that I couldn't understand a word :(

I listened to this on the podcast, and during the robbery itself there’s some really loud accordion music playing, making it hard to hear what Simon says. I’m sure it’s some clever reference, but can it be turned down a bit?

The coffee gulping noise enhancement was *completely* unnecessary!! Rude! 😂

That part with John Lennon... wtf, that's some weird and obviously suspicious stuff. The worst part, when documents about this case will be public, a lot of us won't be alive to finally know the full story. xD