I’m not sure how widely spread this story is but since reading it in my local paper this morning I’ve recapped it to at least ten people today and they’ve all been completely amazed so I’ve decided to share it with the Bloglin just in case there are a few of you out there that haven’t heard it.

Two days ago in Stockholm Sweden a bunch of (ex-military?) dudes used a stolen helicopter to perform a robbery of a cash depot. Those involved repelled down from the hovering helicopter and broke in through a large pyramid window on the roof and removed unidentified sums of money from vault in the depot while workers inside reported hearing sounds of explosions throughout the building. Amidst the chaos responding police cars were met with spike strips rendering them useless and police helicopters were unable to be deployed due to a suspicious package marked “bomb” located at the police hanger. It was also mentioned that the perpetrators were armed with heavy assault rifles and regular police were advised to wait until a proper commando unit arrived at which point the criminals had already escaped with the money. The stolen helicopter was later found about 25 km from the cash depot with none of the perpetrators to be found.

A recount of the story is here via an English Swedish news source.

The only heist I can think of in recent memory that is even close to as amazing as this is was North Holywood’s 1997 shootout robbery in which two heavily armored guys tried to take a bank by brute force with AK-47′s loaded with armor piercing bullets. There wasn’t quite the same mysterious Hollywood ending behind this story however, as the two gunmen were shot dead after the police borrowed high powered rifles from a local gunshop in order to retaliate.

Bad craziness in the States and brilliant heists in the Euros!