(Worth a shot )
Blast, no way to manufacture an opening at the bank the easy way. We might have to resort to the messy way...
Join the party observing th bank, being on the lookout for any janitors, or even better, any janitorial service company entering the bank. Also try to use the internet to find what company the bank uses for general repair services.
No janitorial staff seems to come in during the evening. Maybe they clean in the early morning?
Yeah, can't find that either. Who would have thought the bank kept their contracted labor secret?
Keep watching with the cam-eyes. Be sure to scan the streets around the bank too.
"Hey, we got any energy drinks? Or something with caffeine in it? If I'm going to be doing this all night I'm gonna need something to help me stay up."
The night guard seems to patrol in a set pattern. You can't see them all the time, the building is too dense, but you can see them when they come around the front of the structure, so they probably have timed routes, doing rounds every hour or so and spending the rest of the time in some security room.
The streets outside are pretty empty, save for the odd vagrant or single car wandering down the road. This part of town seems pretty quiet at night. Nothing is open so there's no reason for anyone to come here, you suppose.
Search for naturally explosive sites in the city; fuel tanks, factories handling explosive stuff and so on. Filter out places that seem too dificult to blow up:
- Explosive stuff being too spread out to cause secondary explosions
- Is close to police stations
- Busy traffic around all time
- Apparent security (intuition, if there isn't any information available)
- Is close to planned escape routes
Basically anything to serve as explosive distraction. Obtain second opinion from Michael.
Ask Steve if he is able to do anything to distract police.
"Hey Michael, take a look at this."
About the best you can find is a gas station. There's not a lot of factories or giant tanks of fuel just sitting around in this part of the city. Thats more on the outskirts or the industrial park. But a gas station does have a fuel reserve under it. It would be possible to blow it up. Create a great big fireball but limited damage actually.
>Like what? I don't want to do too much. It would be a bit suspitious if they were suddenly and untraceably hacked. I could suggest some things for YOU to do if you want to distract them. "Hey, we got any energy drinks? Or something with caffeine in it? If I'm going to be doing this all night I'm gonna need something to help me stay up."
Let me check. I'll go grab some for you if we don't, I need to walk around a bit and think anyway.
Supply run! Retrieve late night snacks for our scouts, either from the kitchen or a nearby store.
Think about what the backup power could be, and if the blueprints suggest what might happen if power to the safety deposit room or vault room were to shut off.
You gather powdered donuts and coffee from a nearby 24 hour convenience store. Eating like cops on a stake out, planning to rob a bank. There's some wonderful irony in that. You carry them back to the lookout crew and then sit down on a couch to think.
The backup power is probably a generator of some kind, though none are shown on the blueprints. There's nothing on the blueprints but you would assume that, if the power were completely shut off, the vault and Boxes would all go into lock down.
Could we get an historic on: a) most successful robberies in the world's history and how they were conducted and b) failures and weaknesses of bank's systems, even if accidentally revealed, such as when an OS' backdoor is made public.
You're casting a pretty wide net there, councilman. Is this a fishing expedition to try and make me expose some sort of fatal weakness in the bank's systems? Because you're get nothing out of me! I want a lawyer!
The most successful robberies are unfortunately the ones they have little info on. Ones that went off so well they still don't know exactly how they did it. Put bluntly, if you do it in secret, in a stealthy manner, you have a much better chance then if you try to do it the "Traditional" way with rubber masks and high powered weapons.