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TIL of Toshiba’s 300M yen robbery. In which a man dressed as a police officer intercepted a money delivery under a guise of needing to ‘inspect’ the car for explosives. After lighting a road flare under the car, the thief drove the car and money to ‘safety’, never to be seen again.

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