I know someone who planned almost this exact scenario years ago saying it was the best option for a robbery with a high chance of success for the robbery and getaway. If this was local I would have thought he was connected to someone involved.

First of all...  well done robbers! Not saying anybody should be doing what they did...but they did it well you have to agree.  Also, TIL Italian “armored vans” are super lame. 

They also have JEEP’s and Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross, depends on the locations

“an absurd, Fast and Furious-esque heist involving burning semi-trucks and backhoes ripping the roof off an armored van”

I don’t see anything “absurd” about it.

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Given the resources this took, I have to suspect they had mafia backing. 

Apparently Excavator in Italian means Bulldozer. It’s like those Italians have a different word for everything. (paraphrasing Steve Martin)

If this isn’t the plot for the sequel to Ronin, then I don’t know what.

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That’s what I like to see! Felonies committed with STYLE, baby!

an armored van being peeled open like a tuna can

Pictured here are the two suspects

Neat heist and all but could the cops just not go at it from the other direction and block their escape?  Helicopters keeping an eye on them?  

Does anyone else find it funny that the Carabieneri of the most passionate car producing nation on earth drive Subaru Foresters?

I guess you need something reliable when your Fiat won’t start.

They got an entire construction team to work quickly—in Italy!

Wow, the balls of these guys, huh? Hope it doesn’t come back to bite them in the ass or run in to a bunch of weird, brightly-dressed mafia folk, though I get the feeling these guys have a “don’t get greedy” rule like in Logan Lucky.

And what did ChargePoint do? They set-up chargers that cost ~3x what it costs to charge at home. Perhaps convenient in a pinch, if you need a couple extra miles, but use of their product for regular charging is akin to doing your weekly grocery shopping at 7-11.

I don’t think O&G would complain about a “fuel floor tax” as Tekamul described. The market/OPEC would continue to drive prices/profits. The trucking, taxi, manufacturing, labor, construction lobbies would have a problem with it and retailers would raise the prices of food, clothes, and services.

Oh really? Who told you that? Fox News? The oil and gas industry? I mean, heaven forbid we raise taxes on something we want people to use less of and use the money to provide alternatives. That would be like soshalizm, right?