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Three held in bank heist inspired by Ocean's Eleven

sfgate.com — Three men who allegedly staged an inside-job San Jose bank robbery after watching the movie "Ocean's Eleven" will be in court today. They were arrested Wednesday evening for allegedly stealing $100,000 from the Wells Fargo branch inside the Safeway store.

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  • AmyVernon, on 11/14/2008, -2/+46Wow. They're morons.
    • arunforce, on 11/15/2008, -1/+3The guy who did the robbery like the Joker at least had some originality.
      • daRoach, on 11/15/2008, -1/+3Yeah because there are only 15 Batman movies as opposed to the 23 Ocean's Eleven movies.
    • TheJamesWoods, on 11/15/2008, -0/+8Yeah I know right.
      Oceans Eleven has eleven people.
      N00bs
    • flashboy131, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2Wankas!
  • bixby1, on 11/14/2008, -1/+29Ironically, of the 3 it was the FAT Asian guy did cool flips and body contortion.
    • Cglass, on 11/15/2008, -1/+7I thought for sure I missed that in the onion article,

      then it realized it wasn't The Onion O_O
  • orangederange, on 11/14/2008, -3/+9is that the same Tam Vu from the "you can muck millions" informercial fame?
  • oo7evan, on 11/14/2008, -4/+77Should have hired Obama and McCain
    • Mesmascizer, on 11/15/2008, -0/+18Boom baby!
    • sticko13, on 11/15/2008, -0/+5"god she's awesome" was one of the best lines i've ever heard on that show
  • nibus, on 11/14/2008, -0/+39Looks like we have to blame the movies now. Video games are out.
  • lulzitsadigg, on 11/15/2008, -0/+27Boom, baby!
  • Kev1000000, on 11/15/2008, -1/+23But I thought it was only videogames that influenced people!?
  • Gravity13, on 11/15/2008, -0/+19LOL, I used to live a few blocks from that Safeway.

    And I was like 14 when I first saw Ocean's Eleven, planned a whole escape route if cops were to stop me while I was walking home from school. Oh god, I clearly remember freezing stone cold in front of a cop one time. I was so dumb when I was younger.
    • Gravity13, on 11/15/2008, -0/+10Oh my god, I just realized I went to school with these guys!

      (what does this say of my schooling...)
    • HappyScrappy, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1You poor bastard.
  • OUChevelleSS, on 11/15/2008, -0/+37Only $100,000? Go big or go home.
    • anarchyinthekr, on 11/15/2008, -0/+15it's a wells fargo in safeway, man
  • MyDiggIsBig, on 11/15/2008, -1/+3oh san jose, you are so boring
  • VagueRant, on 11/15/2008, -1/+2Should have gone with an Inside Man approach, much more plausible.
  • passedoutghost, on 11/15/2008, -1/+6Movie plots are weak enough as it is and to apply that to real life scenarios? That's just stupid.
  • Richandler, on 11/15/2008, -0/+39Umm.... where were the other 8 guys?
    • isaaciaggard, on 11/15/2008, -0/+17THAT'S the only question worth asking.
    • chillypacman, on 11/15/2008, -0/+12They got away and are going to bust out these 3 from court.
  • rolf, on 11/15/2008, -2/+9Darwin Awards Fun Fact #197: Movies are for entertainment purposes only. They're not reality.
    • FTWmovin2canada, on 11/15/2008, -0/+7Death is required for a Darwin Award.
  • Finalreminder, on 11/15/2008, -3/+12$100,000 wouldn't even clear my mortgage - loosers.
    If your going to steal money, make it millions and disappear.
    • troye, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2It's easy to get the loot, but it's hard as hell to get away with it. Most bank robbers get the loot but most of them get caught. Only the greats are capable of eluding the cops and FBI for life.
    • sunburner, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2*l-o-s-e-r
    • inverselogic, on 11/15/2008, -0/+0Hans Gruber speaks the truth about "them" finding you.
    • sougly, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1*you're
  • CYR1X, on 11/15/2008, -0/+18This is an insult to the movies.
  • dmark77, on 11/15/2008, -2/+5Yet another reason to not live in San Jose.
    • consumerwhores, on 11/15/2008, -1/+4Dugg for hating San Jose.

      This place blows.. can't wait to mooovveeee.
    • Gravity13, on 11/15/2008, -0/+3Head north, Berkeley is ***** awesome, and so is SF.
  • isaaciaggard, on 11/15/2008, -4/+6What's with all the hate on these comments? Yeah, I mean, they're dumb (they got caught), but give me a fricking break: you all have wanted to plan a heist, too. Get real.

    If they had pulled it off, I'd want to shake their hands. Since they didn't, well, maybe we can learn something from their Dumb.
    • hackiavelli, on 11/15/2008, -0/+5"If they had pulled it off, I'd want to shake their hands"

      For risking jail or a lifetime on the lam for a three-way split on $100K?
      • troye, on 11/15/2008, -0/+330k+ goes a long way dude. Personally, i would blow it all on hookers, boze, and coke.

        And use like 10K for an associates degree, AA. 20K def. on boze and sluts though.
  • scoottie, on 11/15/2008, -9/+1anyone that stupid to be "inspired" by a movie like that should be shot .... or worse sent to Venezuela.
  • sageisgay, on 11/15/2008, -1/+8they should change the movie ratings system and instead of age restriction they should use intelligence instead.
  • LilBoyLuver, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2In what part of Ocean's Eleven do they pull of this elaborate slight of hand?

  • Swivelstick, on 11/15/2008, -0/+7Pfft they copied Sugar and Spice
  • Wryly, on 11/15/2008, -0/+5Sad. Throw them in jail. Just make sure to hang up lots of Clooney posters.
  • petaganayr, on 11/15/2008, -2/+13Actually last week, I attacked some Talibans in Afghanistan after watching Iron Man again. The goverment covered it up as a "training excercise."
    • passedoutghost, on 11/15/2008, -0/+5Really? After watching The Incredible Hulk, I left my life as a research scientist, injected myself with radioactive material and I -----
      • TheScreamer, on 11/15/2008, -0/+4Oh yeah, well last night, after watching Tinkerbell, I flew to... umm.. Damn, My wife's gonna read this, isn't she.
  • brainboy77, on 11/15/2008, -1/+3well, in fairness, they would have gotten julia roberts if they pulled off the heist. that's one woman over 40 i'd like to bang.
  • Chuckanut, on 11/15/2008, -1/+3Ocean's Eleven? Really? They even got the movie wrong. This is TOTALLY Inside Man with Denzel. Or, geez, Dog's Day Afternoon. They must have gotten mixed up during rigorous interrogation and resulting man-blubbering.

    Bright side? At least they got the $1 million street (cell block) cred.
  • mattyboy555, on 11/15/2008, -0/+17I guess they missed the end of the movie where they got away scott free...
  • acegi, on 11/15/2008, -1/+2the problem was they just had 11 chinese acrobatics.
  • bijil, on 11/15/2008, -1/+0oh..they could now pull out a prison break as scofield..dumbasses
  • moolcool, on 11/15/2008, -1/+5That's not how the movie ended...
  • chocoed, on 11/15/2008, -1/+1HAHA! I don't live too far from that place too. These guys are losers.
  • Thorpe, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1...and before Ocean's 11 time it would have been Heat. Damn, these films are good but keep reality separate.
    • thegrantman, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Heat was copied....remember the North Hollywood shootout?
      THAT was badass.
  • drex8, on 11/15/2008, -2/+1They should have also watched what happened to failed bank robbers when they get locked in the 'Pound in the Ass' Prison.
    Would have prepared them in case of an eventual failure.
  • minkusingh, on 11/15/2008, -3/+1haha, i live in San Jose about a mile from story road and im getting this news from digg...tells me, how much digg plays part in my everyday life...
  • Gr00ver, on 11/15/2008, -1/+6Robbing one of the richest casinos in Vegas in a movie and robbing a Wells Fargo branch inside a Safeway store ain't the same *****' ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same *****' sport.
  • floridiot2, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1I guess they saw the movie too.
  • BrokenVisage, on 11/15/2008, -0/+0All that for only $100,000?? They must have been inspired by the 1960 version of Ocean's Eleven. Idiots.
  • jzippy, on 11/15/2008, -2/+1George Clooney, Wrong for American Values.
  • Syphon8, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1The only movie heist that ever has a chance of working in reality is 'Inside Man'.
  • jamesmudgett, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1AAAAHHHAaa
  • screwthename, on 11/15/2008, -0/+13 idiots. at least get the number of people right first.
  • BuenoCabra, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1They say taupe is very soothing.
  • LaGStAr, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1You know there's not much of a story when the writer has to take up space by telling us who played who in Ocean's Eleven.
  • PottSie2, on 11/15/2008, -0/+0Do any of the men have already have a brother in prison or a covered head to toe with tattoos ? Was there any mention of the company ?

    Can't wait to see their crazy antics in prison ... break
  • solid12345, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Only 100,000? They would have done better to steal Bernie Mac's identity.
  • ASSASSYN360, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Well if it was inspired by oceans 11 then they got the wrong people.
  • aberdeen52, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Safeway bank branch =/= vegas casino

    noobs go home
  • turbovolv, on 11/15/2008, -0/+0It doesn't say anything about the monkey that was driving the van.
    There's always a monkey driving the van.
  • Seth024, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1With 8 more people, they would have succeeded.
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