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Ax-Wielding, Motorcycle-Riding Thieves Break Into London Mall in Stunning Heist Caught on Video

Nov. 8, 2012 10:02am Jonathon M. Seidl

Video of Ax Wielding Robbers on Motorcyles in Jewelsry Store at London Mall

The robbers captured on camera during the get away. (Photo: Rik Treister; LBC 97.3 FM in London)

It’s something that seems more at home in a Hollywood movie than in real life: a group of thieves break into a mall jewelry store using axes and bats and make their get away by driving motorcycles through the halls of the shopping center.

But that’s exactly what happened in London on Tuesday. A gang of six robbers rode into the Brent Cross shopping center and attacked the Fraser Hart jewelry store, smashing the glass and making off with Rolex watches and other valuables. They then hopped back on their motorcycles and headed out. They later abandoned the bikes by a nearby golf center and are still at large.

The incredible heist was all captured on video:

“It was very frightening. I could not believe it was happening,” Sue Bangs, who was shopping at the time, told the BBC. “All the shops suddenly put down their shutters and we were locked in for a while. My heart was pounding.”

You can watch the ABC report below:

And if the heist looks familiar, it loosely mirrors the heist in “The Italian Job”:

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sparkyrules
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 6:33pm
They’re criminals and all but I admire their boldness and ingenuity.They weren’t out to harm anyone and the booty was no doubt insured by the jewelry store.

I think I’ve watched Reservoir Dogs too many times.But they weren’t nearly as slick as these guys in London.

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Jake Dog2
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 6:26pm
Coming to this country via Obama gun control and the UN.

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dspman
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 6:22pm
A few bags of marbles from the toy store in the mall would have solved the problem.

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blair152
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 4:44pm
It’s probably part of a movie shoot. It looks fake to me.

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Bodacious_Boedi
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:54pm
My God….quickly….we must work with the UN to band motorcycles and axes!!!!!! (you’ve got to get the sarcasm or the joke goes flat.)

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Reformed
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:18pm
Looks like they need to strengthen their axe laws oner there!

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Larry E
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:50pm
One of the many wonderful advantages of gun control. The bad guys have all the weapons and can do whatever they want, and if any of the bad guys should possibly be injured by one of their victims they’d be able to sue and win. Then the attacker would spend less time in prison (if at all) than the person who tried to defend themselves or their property. Can’t be having people taking “the law” into their how hands you know. Wait a few years it’ll be the same here too.

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- SoNick
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 5:22pm
  so in your dream world, a well armed vigilante would have taken out the 9MM strapped to his ankle, shot 2 or 3 of the thieves and everything would have been just dandy?
- OklahomaBound
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 7:58pm
  “so in your dream world, a well armed vigilante would have taken out the 9MM strapped to his ankle, shot 2 or 3 of the thieves and everything would have been just dandy?”
  
  Yes. Or in your dream world you would just curl up in a ball and wait for the cops to show up, coward.
  
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- SoNick
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:26am
  vigilante justice has no place in a civilized society.
  
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- ZM1306
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 10:13am
  SONICK
  
  I do think it would have been better to hold them at gun point for the police. Had they forced my hand by attacking I would have one round for each of them and still have one in the chamber.
  
  I believe my (SR)1911 would have performed well against a large group despite its 7rd standard mag and 8rd extended mag for reloading.
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:22pm
When riding clubs go bad…

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- Poodleguy
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:57pm
  Wanna bet that these cretins are some of the ******* that have infested England??? They use motorcycles a lot in the middle east, especially to commit crimes & perpetrate homicide bombings! If it were here in the US it would more than likely be black bangers!!!!
  
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:31pm
  Yep…..there are a lot of black motorcycle gangs. The “Riding Reggies” is one that comes to mind>>>LOL.
  
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grimjack3791
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 1:39pm
Pretty easy to knock some punk off a motorcysle, especially in close quarters.

Just saying, you limey wimps.

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- Evantoo
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:03pm
  And one modest citizen carrying concealed could have popped them all. Too bad the Limeys voluntarily turned in their guns about 50 years ago. Word is, because of the increasing violence, especially in the areas of high Muslim immigrant populations, they want them back. For protecting themselves. Surprise, surprise.
  
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commonsense63
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 12:31pm
Anyone catch the plate number on the bikes…just sayin

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- K Chad Roberts
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 12:53pm
  If you watched the report on the robbery, they said that police recovered the motorcycles at a local golf course. Apparently the robbers ditched the bikes. Kinda smart, considering it’s pretty easy to get a cheap, non-papered bike. At least in America.
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 1:31pm
  Diversity is their strength.
  
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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 12:08pm
Just a little celebration of obamas victory.

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benwasright
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 11:58am
“When axes are outlawed…”?

-01/06 BBC: “If guns are outlawed,” an American bumper sticker warns, “only outlaws will have guns.” “With gun crime in Britain soaring in the face of the strictest gun control laws of any democracy, the UK seems about to prove that warning prophetic.”

-7/6/09, the Reports on Crime released by the European Commission and United Nations: In the UK, there are 2,034 offences per 100,000 people, way ahead of second-placed Austria with a rate of 1,677. America has a violent crime rate of around 466 per 100,000. Canada is around 935 shockingly enough. Both numbers are dwarfed by jolly old England’s jaw dropping 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 citizens.

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- guz75
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 12:15pm
  Funny, you’ve neglected to include murder statistics? But of course that what somewhat invalidate your point, wouldn’t it? Us British might like a drink and a fight, but the worst you’re likely to wind up with is a bloody nose, we don’t kill each other in numbers akin to a third world country like you lot.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 1:37pm
  Well Guz, to get all politically incorrect, “us folk” generally don’t like to kill each other. I guarantee you that the town I live in, and all the surrounding towns, have a lower violent crime rate than London. I guarantee you that big cities out West (Cheyenne, or Fargo) have low, low violent crime rates. The near sole source of the majority of violence resulting in death or dismemberment, comes from inner cities in places normally not walked into by people who live in towns like I live in.
  
  Sorry. People who have the basic British culture in America, which is everyplace outside of big east coast and midwest cities (like Chicago, New York, etc), has a low to non-existent violent crime rate. Get into the different “cultures” of the big inner cities noted above, and it becomes a nightmare.
  
  It helps to compare apples to apples. I can and have left my doors unlocked at nights without fear, and where I live everybody has a closet full of firearms.
  
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- guz75
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:25pm
  Well done genius; ‘Towns have lower crime rates than cities’. Did you figure that out on your own or did you get some help.
  
  Do you have no sense of hypocrisy? Whether you like it or not I’m stating a fact, unlike the childlike and ignorant comments you’ve been making about my country in these comments; SMGs and Jamaican drug dealers? Somebody’s been watching too many films.
  
  I’ve lived and worked as a DJ in some of the roughest parts of London and I’ve never seen a gun and I’ve only met one Jamaican drug dealer!
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:14pm
  Actually Guz, I’m a traveler and I keep my eyes open. I’m not the only one who notices trends who travels there. That you’ve met a Jamaican drug dealer, despite working in a safe occupation dominated mostly by goofy youth, is not surprising.
  
  I’m stating, in case you missed it (hint: you did), that our large cities out West that are more or less homogenous culturally have a very low, U.K. crime rate levels (or, frankly, lower than yours). I mentioned Cheyenne and Fargo, for example (those are large cities in the States, in case you didn’t know). Our town crime rates, compared to your normal towns, match yours or are lower. Get it yet? The big cities that reject traditional British/American culture, mores and values, such as the festering pits of New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, etc. are responsible for the majority of violent crimes here that you mistakenly attribute to the majority of U.S. locals. Making sense now?
  
  Calling names really doesn’t make your case. Being a DJ is hardly a connection to the underground.
  
  Hope your day gets better.
  
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benwasright
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 11:57am
Guess they’ll ourlaw axes now, right?

-01/06 BBC: “If guns are outlawed,” an American bumper sticker warns, “only outlaws will have guns.” “With gun crime in Britain soaring in the face of the strictest gun control laws of any democracy, the UK seems about to prove that warning prophetic.”

-7/6/09, the Reports on Crime released by the European Commission and United Nations: In the UK, there are 2,034 offences per 100,000 people, way ahead of second-placed Austria with a rate of 1,677. America has a violent crime rate of around 466 per 100,000. Canada is around 935 shockingly enough. Both numbers are dwarfed by jolly old England’s jaw dropping 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 citizens.

The liberal mind — a mystery yet to be solved.

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Jim
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 11:47am
Thank God for concealed weapons permit… those that have them and are truly Americans will protect others and believe it or not, crime can be defeated. It will depend on us (the true Americans who still believe in liberty and freedom including freedom from threats).

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- drphil69
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 12:06pm
  Please let the libs kill each other, though!
  
  Can we make a law that all libs have a big “L” tatooed on their foreheads? It will make targeting much easier….
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 12:10pm
  Aye. Thank goodness even more for states like Ohio, Wyoming, South Dakota, Idaho, etc. that have Constitutional unlicensed open carry. Not only will we protect you, our very visible presence deters crimes before they occur!
  
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GrumpyCat
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 11:05am
A motorcycle is a very poor getaway vehicle. Had a bystander the wit, a simple pole or stick thrown in the front wheel will spectacularly stop the bike.

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- MaximumBobby
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 1:14pm
  And yet, they didn’t.
  This is what happens when pacify/pussify your citizenry.
  
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- kickinwing
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:07pm
  Well you’re a regular Indiana Jones aren’t you?
  Surely you could find a length of rebar lying around and no doubt get it threaded in a 16-18″ wheel thats going by at at least 25 mph.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:50am
Muslims on motorbikes.

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ImChiquita
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:47am
Hey, is that the same mall where Top Gear’s VERY GREEN Ford Fiesta was chased by Corvette baddies and got to hang with the Royal Marines during a beach landing exercise?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e7R3y-qwZ0

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ImChiquita
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:41am
Is that the same mall where “Top Gear” had the VERY GREEN Ford Fiesta running away from the Corvette baddies, and got hang with the Royal Marines during a beach landing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e7R3y-qwZ0

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ADNIL
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:41am
So, where were the mall cops??? (sarcasm)
Time to arm the populace and declare open season on criminals. RIGHT!

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:52am
  The populace has been strongly conditioned that they were never armed (minus nobility who fox hunted), except during war time and then only distributed by the government, in their entire history. I collect antique paper ephemera (newspapers, photos, books, etc) and have SHOWN English friends of my tintypes of armed civilian Englishmen out at shooting competitions, showed them countless books that directly referenced armed non-government Englishmen, etc. They look me square in the eye and say that the photos are fake and the books are nothing but fancy. They have been totally brain wiped regarding their anglo-saxon birthright of free men being defined as armed men.
  
  In short (too late!), you could dump a mile high pile of firearms in the middle of Trafalgar Square and shout “Arms for free men, come gets yours for free” and, assuming the cops didn’t nail you, the English would walk by averting their eyes and shaking in fear.
  
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PB2GOD
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:38am
Good thing their are no armed citizens in London! Somebody could have got hurt!! Hate to see the bad guys have to go get a bullet pulled out of them.

Next time on “London Crime”… “Guy holds 400 hostage with a board with a nail in it…”

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:43am
  There are plenty of armed people in London. The gangs, for example, sport SMG’s on occasion. The Jamaican drug dealers are also well known to have access to a wide array of weaponry.
  
  Oh…you meant the submissive “law abiding” populace. Sorry, in that case, you’re right. My bad.
  
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QuincySmith
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:38am
The video is simply a view of 2014 US polling places.

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americanexile
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:29am
Surveillance state, thwarted by a $50 helmet. Glad that “liberty for security” trade works so well.

Maybe they could try having the cops watching the camera feeds walk around outside instead.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:37am
  I have a good friend in the countryside of England who makes a great sport of torching cameras. The rural areas of England have far fewer human guards on the cameras. I believe he is one of exactly three English libertarians in England. Great guy and quite a daring risk taker. I expect him to die in a hail of gunfire some day at the hands of bobbies, but I do honestly hope I’m wrong.
  
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PA PATRIOT
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:22am
The 007 Movie comes out this week…does it not?

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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:16am
Given how Orwellian London is, it’s not really surprising that they’d “catch” this on video. Anybody who has traveled to London in the last couple of years can tell you, as I do, that every street corner, without exception, has at least 4 cameras on it pointing in each direction, and cameras along the walkways inbetween as well. I was never happier to step into Paris after strolling around London when I was there last.

That said, clearly this stunt demonstrates the need to ban motorcycles and axes. At least, if you ask any Londoner. They’ve sold their birthright long ago and nobody now remembers their anglo-saxon heritage. They are some of the most easily led people on planet earth. I do not say this lightly, I am half English (as in for real), my family saw the handwriting on the law and left.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:35am
  On the law? Oh my. “On the wall”.
  
  Clearly I need to pour coffee directly on my hands this morning!
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 11:40am
  “They’ve sold their birthright long ago and nobody now remembers their anglo-saxon heritage. They are some of the most easily led people on planet earth. I do not say this lightly,
  
  You’re absolutely right, and it would be interesting to see an investigative psychologist do an in depth study on just why the English can be so easily led to the slaughter house and detest anybody who tries to tell them they are headed on a journey of doom.
  
  Imams preach blatant overt hate and jihad from the mosques, so they send in government geeks to placate them at all costs, yet they come down hard on anybody who publicly declares that immigration is a disaster, causing high crime, non-assimilation, constant turmoil and danger to society.
  
  In fact, I read a while back where the government pursued an official of the conservative BNP for saying far less than that. The horror of it was that everything he claimed was unequivocally true.
  
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noslave
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:16am
and if they lived in america & voted for obama, they wouldn’t have had to leave home?? to get what they wanted??

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- Gonzo
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 11:38am
  No,no,no. Jewels are for the ruling class. We get bread, cable TV and liquor when there is a hurricane.
  
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