I was just reading an article about Lee Murray, he was a part of the Securitas depot robbery, the biggest cash robbery in British History, I'm sure some of you guys from the UK have heard about it, anyways, Lee was sentenced to 10 years in a Moroccan prison for his part in the robber, and 15 more years were later added on, my question to you guys is do you think it was worth it? If you had guaranteed Millions of pounds(not sure how much it is in us dollars) stashed away and were guaranteed to get it upon your release would you be willing to do 10+ years in prison to get it?
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I'm with this. I aim to stay out of prison thank you very much.
I agree. I found $100 in an ATM machine that someone must have forgot to take. Talk about being absent minded! I decided to keep it and not tell anyone. But I started feeling guilty about it and gave it to the bank. I would have kept a buck though. Not worth the trip in to return it.
freakofnature
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I guess it depends on how much money means to you. Money doesn't really have a hold on me so I really wouldn't be interested in being a thief. :dunno Not to mention that I think stealing is morally wrong. So no, I wouldn't be willing to do prision time for millions of dollars. I'd be willing to work for it, though. 
fifteen years in a Canadian pen is tempting
not Moroccan though
not Moroccan though
come on guys, it's a hypothetical situation, the question isn't whether or not you would rob a bank, the question is if you DID rob a bank, and you were guaranteed to get your money back after your sentence would you go through with it, or would you take say an amnesty in exchange for giving up your share of the money and giving away the names and locations of your fellow perpetrators.
TommyTooter
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baby, i know second hand, that you don't even want to spend 5 days in a moroccan prison.
i happen to know one of the bronfman scions (seagram's distillers) who got himself into a little trouble with the moroccans over a small amount of hash back in the 70's.
it took two months and the ambassador to get him popped loose. his descriptions of the inside of the place were pretty horrifying too.
in answer to the question: i'm with the ladies. wouldn't do the bank robbery in the first place and sure wouldn't do it expecting to get caught so i could cool my heels in the joint for a telephone number just to have a few mil, which really ain't shit, when i got out.
i could piss away a million dollars a day if i had it to do it with. it was nothing for michael jackson to go to a mall and blow a half mil in a morning.
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An acquaintance of mine spent 2 years in a prison in Morocco for trying to take a big block of hashish over to Spain.
They are NOT nice places at all. Regular beatings from the guards are just the tip of the ice berg of the kinds of things get done to you in those places.
So no, not for me, no amount of money would make me want to go through that hell.
They are NOT nice places at all. Regular beatings from the guards are just the tip of the ice berg of the kinds of things get done to you in those places.
So no, not for me, no amount of money would make me want to go through that hell.
lol like I said earlier, there is NO amount of money that I would be willing to do time in a Moroccan prison to aquire, I might be willing to do a couple years in an American or Canadian prison. And Tooter, I know this is easy for me to say never having had that kind of money, but I would squander as little of it as possible and just try to live my life off it for as long as I could. And I'm talking more than one Mil, Lee Murray's share of the robbery going by todays exchange rates would be $11,604,133.35
Nope.I'll bet it was for jaywalking while drunk in rush hour.... yes?
Peter Parka
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10 + years is a huge chunk of your life flushed down the shitter and unless you've been to jail before, you wont get just how hard it is, how much time drags in there or just how much it affects your mental health. I did 6 months and that was something which changed me for life good. I'd rather live those 10 years as a free man with all the legal opportunity that life has to offer.
Another thing to consider... Even if you did the time, you don't get the money when you get out.
Lets say you robbed millions and got caught. You aren't getting out without divulging where the money is and even if you were able to keep from telling them, you'll never be able to spend it when your time is up. So you would have done the time for nothing.
Lets say you robbed millions and got caught. You aren't getting out without divulging where the money is and even if you were able to keep from telling them, you'll never be able to spend it when your time is up. So you would have done the time for nothing.
Well with all the money you'd easily be able to get to another country where you can spend your money freely and start a new life with a new Identity, anyways I know it wouldn't really work out like this that's why it's a hypothetical situation, IF you were in this situation that is utterly unrealistic where you can walk out of jail when your sentence is up and acquire your money and do with it as you please with no further consequences, again I know this wouldn't happen but totally hypothetical, would you be willing to give up 10 years of your life to do so?
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