Attempted robbery & gunshots at an Apple store near Alto Palermo

[RandomS]

It happened last Saturday, 3 March 2018 at around 2:30pm.

https://www.clarin.com/policiales/policia-impidio-tiros-asalto-metros-alto-palermo_0_HJFydouuG.html

Google translate -

"They were about thirty shots in Santa Fe and Coronel Diaz, a few meters from the Alto Palermo shopping mall and in the afternoon, in Barrio Norte. The detonations lasted a few seconds. Those who passed by were covered with what they had nearby.....
...The thieves went to rob, at 2.30 pm, at the iPoint store, located in Santa Fe at 3100. The objective was to take high-end technological products: cell phones, computers and Apple tablets...."

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[ben]

How on earth do you commit armed robbery at Av S. Fe, engage in a shootout with police, and not get nabbed??

 

[London2Baires]

How on earth do you commit armed robbery at Av S. Fe, engage in a shootout with police, and not get nabbed??

You clear the operation with the Palermo police commissioner and pay them a cut?

....maybe I'm too cynical


...Thoughts... ;-P

 

[ben]

Hanlon's razor probably applies here.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
The stupidity is mind-boggling, true, but only slightly stretches what we already expected.

 

[London2Baires]

Hanlon's razor probably applies here.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
The stupidity is mind-boggling, true, but only slightly stretches what we already expected.

Contra; i'd really like to believe that there was corruption involved, if only to demonstrate that humanity isn't that ridiculously incapable...

 

[ben]

I hear you, but don't think so.
Consider the officer who engaged in the shootout: was he clued in too?

• If yes, then we're talking about 30 bullets fired in a way that looks like they're shooting at him, but really aren't. That sounds way too ridiculously capable; implausible, in fact.
• If no, the bosses were banking on at least this officer (and maybe more) who wasn't in the loop, to not succeed in apprehending the robbers. Because if he did, what was to happen next? They'd refuse to send reinforcements when contacted? Run the risk of his finding out that a firefight in which he nearly lost his life was actually blessed by his superiors?

I consider both of these options less likely than good old ineptness.
And again, it's not like we're really expecting police to be that capable either: this is just a bit over the top.

 

[elhombresinnombre]

Contra; i'd really like to believe that there was corruption involved, if only to demonstrate that humanity isn't that ridiculously incapable...

But humanity is ridiculously incapable. A couple of weeks ago, 7 San Francisco cops discharged 65 rounds of ammo in 15 seconds at a murder suspect. Nobody was hurt. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-francisco-police-officers-fired-65-shots-at-murder-suspect/

The only difference is that they arrested their man afterwards.

Pulp Fiction was a documentary,

 

[tangobob]

But humanity is ridiculously incapable. A couple of weeks ago, 7 San Francisco cops discharged 65 rounds of ammo in 15 seconds at a murder suspect. Nobody was hurt. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-francisco-police-officers-fired-65-shots-at-murder-suspect/

The only difference is that they arrested their man afterwards.

Pulp Fiction was a documentary,

Sounds like The A Team.