Much like they ripped a scene from the 1995 Roberto De Niro caper Heat, an armored van was robbed in Montgomery County, Texas last week. Per the Montgomery County Police Reporter website, every week the van travels to the Applied Machinery Company, where it cashes payroll checks for the workers. As it was pulling up to the driveway, the robbers pulled off their caper.
The bad guys attempted to stop the cash van not just with a gun, but a unique weapon of choice, a stolen 5th generation Camaro. The driver rammed the Camaro into the side of the van and managed to tip on its side before crashing into the chain link fence. The airbags did deploy, but the driver got out and fired two shots at the windshield of the van (which did not penetrate the bullet proof glass). Nevertheless, he managed to grab an unspecified amount of cash before fleeing into the nearby woods. According to The Montgomery County Police Reporter, a Lincoln Navigator and Ford Expedition were spotted leaving the scene right before the Camaro driver began to steal the cash.
Thankfully no one was injured, save for a perfectly good 5th Gen. Cash-intensive businesses like this are always a target for opportunistic thieves, and we hope that law enforcement swiftly tracks the perpetrators down and brings them to justice.