Bet Fred held up!

[TrueBlue]

Betfred in Rayleigh help up this evening by person or persons in balaclavas

What's it coming too! Also that's quite a newish shop would have latest security features! However they don't have any security glass there

 

[Benfleet A1]

What were the odds of that happening.

 

[Mad Cyril]

There are lots of armed robberies on Canvey at the moment. Is it really worth a couple of years in prison for a few hundred quid, a Fredo from and a copy of S****?

 

[Uncle Leo]

There are lots of armed robberies on Canvey at the moment. Is it really worth a couple of years in prison for a few hundred quid, a Fredo from and a copy of S****?

And the rest. I think you can be looking at ten years plus for armed robbery and a betting shop will rarely have more than a few grand in it at any given time.

For one, there is a timed safe (so you can yell "give us all your money" as much as you like, but you'll have to wait 24 hours) and for two, the staff do their banking pretty regularly to keep the amount of cash that can be nicked as low as possible.

 

[C C Csiders]

The last horse I had a bet on was called Slip of the Tongue. I meant to go to Corals to have a bet on it as the early morning price was best. However, in the end I went into Bet Freud.

 

[MK Shrimper]

"Old School" crims, who haven't moved with the times. It's all about cyber crime these days. The police will know exactly who to nick, ala Hatton Garden.

 

[C C Csiders]

And the rest. I think you can be looking at ten years plus for armed robbery and a betting shop will rarely have more than a few grand in it at any given time.

For one, there is a timed safe (so you can yell "give us all your money" as much as you like, but you'll have to wait 24 hours) and for two, the staff do their banking pretty regularly to keep the amount of cash that can be nicked as low as possible.

At the risk of doing a Barna #itsallaboutyou when I managed betting shops for AR Dennis in East London the time I got held up in Upton Lane, Clapton by two men in balaclavas with sawn-offs they got away with about £250. They wanted the safe opened and I said they would have to stay for 30 minutes - not surprisingly they were off sharpish.

 

[Mad Cyril]

"Old School" crims, who haven't moved with the times. It's all about cyber crime these days. The police will know exactly who to nick, ala Hatton Garden.

Or the Jill Dando murder.

 

[Uncle Leo]

At the risk of doing a Barna #itsallaboutyou when I managed betting shops for AR Dennis in East London the time I got held up in Upton Lane, Clapton by two men in balaclavas with sawn-offs they got away with about £250. They wanted the safe opened and I said they would have to stay for 30 minutes - not surprisingly they were off sharpish.

That wasn't a Barna as it was relevant to the thread.

Barna would have replied about the time he once met someone from Rayleigh when he was on a kibbutz.

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

That wasn't a Barna as it was relevant to the thread.

Barna would have replied about the time he once met someone from Rayleigh when he was on a kibbutz.

Or he once had a bet and he teaches a chap called Fred.
#ITSALLABOUTME, next town along had the newish cash machine ripped out of the wall and the jonny crims put a chain and lock through the handles of the police station door which is just around the corner from the bank.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

That wasn't a Barna as it was relevant to the thread.

Barna would have replied about the time he once met someone from Rayleigh when he was on a kibbutz.

As it happens, I did meet someone teaching in Basildon, (but she wasn't actually from there). :smiles:

 

[Benfleet A1]

And there it is.