Practice Should Have Made Perfect: The Great Brink's Robbery

About this episode

The episode discusses the meticulous planning and eventual downfall of the Great Brink's Robbery heist team.

This heist team was more meticulous than most. They planned, they schemed, they made years of dry runs and observations. And the plan went off without a hitch. After the plan? Not so much. In a sort of early Stanford Marshmallow Test, these crimers just couldn't delay gratification. And for that, they paid the price.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Topics covered

• heist
• planning
• crime
• gratification
• consequences

Keywords

• Brink's Robbery
• heist
• crime planning
• delayed gratification
• Stanford Marshmallow Test

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Brink's

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