Robbers make off with £75 million at Heathrow

[MackemX]

I don't know if this is true but it's damn hilarious if it is . I thought it as a kid but I'm all grown up now (I think :P)

I can't imagine what they thought when they got the van and opened up the cargo inside

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006110670,,00.html

BUNGLING crooks who robbed a van on its way to Heathrow got away with £75million — in MONOPOLY money.

The gang snatched the white Ford Transit from a street — convinced it was crammed with genuine currency.

But it was carrying hundreds of copies of the family board game, plus bundles of worthless Monopoly £500 and £100 notes to be used in an ad campaign.

Police last night vowed to send the hopeless Great Game Robbers straight to jail — WITHOUT passing Go.

One detective quipped: “There will be no Get Out Of Jail free card for these chancers when we catch them.

“And they won’t be collecting £200 either.”

The brand new liquid petroleum gas van was stolen as its driver made a delivery in Slough, near the airport.

A courier was due to drive it to Heathrow next day, so its cargo could be loaded on a plane to Czech capital Prague.

Inside were copies of a new express travel version of the traditional property-buying game — and piles of notes issued by the fictional Bank of Monopoly.

They were to be used as props in a commercial by makers Hasbro, being filmed in Prague to highlight how Monopoly has become an international game.

One scene was to show notes raining down over the city on to happy players.

Police are working on the theory that word got around the criminal world that an important shipment was in transit — and that somehow the gang became convinced that real money was involved.

[BJ_M]

great game == check this out for complete probability analysis

http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/monopoly/monopoly.shtml

or www.Monopolylive.com let you play Monopoly in the real London with 18 real cabs fitted with GPS systems as your movers.




the game itself has a interesting history -- and not the one you read on the monopoly site either:

# How a woman invented Monopoly and never got credit for it.
# How she was used, betrayed, and discarded by Parker Brothers
# How the game became a widely played public domain folk game like chess
# How it was played on home-made boards for twenty-five years
# How some Atlantic City Quaker teachers turned it into Monopoly®
# How it was stolen from the Quakers and the public domain with a fraudulent patent and a vanished copyright
# How and why Parker Brothers concocted a bogus Monopoly history which became an American legend
# How Monopoly-gate was covered up with a host of tricks including laundering deals, perjury, and subornation of perjury And how all this produced a billion dollars of monopoly profits and not in Monopoly money either.

http://www.antimonopoly.com/game_history.html