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Real-life heists read like a movie script

In the last few years, true crime entertainment has skyrocketed in popularity thanks to hit series such as Netflix’s Making a Murderer, the Casefile True Crime podcast, Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime and others. Here are some of the most thrilling real-life heists in history: by Patr ick Felts

The Gardner Museum Heist

One of the most infamous art thefts took place at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts. In the early hours of March 18, two men disguised themselves as police officers and were let into the museum by a security guard to investigate a “noise complaint.” When the two men entered, there was no investigation of a noise complaint, and both security guards were tied up in the museum’s basement while the thieves stole 13 pieces of art worth a combined value of $500 million in under two hours. Some of the works stolen included one-of-a-kind pieces from iconic artists such as Manet and Rembrandt. To this day, the case remains unsolved and the missing artwork has never been found. The museum still offers a $10 million reward to anyone with information leading to the recovery of the works. Ste wart Gardner Museum

The Mysterious Case of D.B. Cooper

Thanksgiving week travel can be a nightmare, and it certainly was for passengers and crew on Northwest Airlines flight #305, but in a much different way than expected. After the flight from Portland to Seattle took off on the day before Thanksgiving 1971, a man in an all-black suit who went by the alias of D.B. Cooper showed a flight attendant what he claimed was a bomb in his briefcase, and Cooper proceeded to hijack the plane. After landing in Seattle, Cooper demanded $200,000, four parachutes and food for the crew before the plane went south by his demand. Local Air Force jets and helicopters followed the plane out of Seattle, and once the plane was a few miles north of Portland again, Cooper sent the flight attendant to the cockpit while he used two of his parachutes to jump out of the plane with the money. Cooper jumped into the night sky and was never heard from again. Nine years later, a young boy found $5,800 buried under the sand north of Portland, and the FBI said that the serial numbers on the money matched those of Cooper’s. The case of D.B. Cooper remains unsolved.

The Millenium Dome Raid

At the turn of the millennium, thieves in London attempted one of the most high-stakes and daring diamond robberies of all time. In November 2000, a massive De Beers diamond exhibition was being displayed at the Millennium Dome in London, the perfect target for a local gang. The four gang members broke down the fence surrounding the building with a stolen earthmover from a construction site. The plan was for the robbery to move quickly and to escape on a speedboat on the River Thames before entering a getaway car. Three of the robbers entered the vault equipped with sledgehammers, smoke bombs and gas masks. However, their plans were foiled by the Flying Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. The gang members were already under surveillance for other failed robberies. Had they been successful, the theft would have been worth a massive £350 million, or around $450 million. The De Beer s Diam ond

The French Bank Vault Tunnelers

In 1976, criminals in Nice, France pulled off what reporters at the time called “the heist of the century” when they robbed a branch of the Société Générale bank through a series of elaborate tunnels. The criminals spent months preparing and used rafts to surf through the sewers in order to dig the tunnels. They broke into the vault from underground and got away with 46 million francs, the equivalent today of roughly $32 million. In the immediate aftermath of the robbery, police found the tunnels, reinforced with concrete walls, along with cigarettes, wine bottles, food and pictures of scantily clad women. Only one person was arrested for the crime in the months following the incident, Albert Spaggiari, until Jaques Cassandri admitted his involvement in a 2010 book under the false belief that the crime was too old for him to be prosecuted under French law. Cassandri was put on trial in 2018, and no other suspects nor the stolen money have been found.

The Västberga Helicopter Robbery

In 2009, a raid of a cash depot in Stockholm, Sweden went down like a scene from a Hollywood blockbuster. A group of thieves landed their stolen helicopter on the roof of the G4S cash depot in the Västberga area of Stockholm, then detonated three large explosives and lowered themselves in on ropes and stole bags of cash from the depot and got away. The robbery was thoroughly planned, as the criminals had used metal rods to block off nearby roads, planted a bag marked “bomb” at the police station and decided to execute the heist just days before Sweden received their monthly salary so the depot would be full with money. The thieves stole the equivalent of about $5 million, and ten men involved with the incident were charged in 2010. In 2018, Deadline reported that Netflix was making a movie about the robbery called The Helicopter Heist, written by Stephen Knight and starring Jake Gylenhall.

c h a n g e s v i e w e r s ’ h a b i t s T he term “binge watching” has been around since 2003, but has only been used ubiquitously since 2012. Whether it is on Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ or even cable television, people watch TV for unhealthy periods of time.

After Netflix added favorite TV shows including The Office and Friends to their catalog, viewers found it easier to digest a 30-minute show compared to a full-length movie. Junior Maccoy Lewis is currently watching That 70s Show, another previously aired show added to the Netflix lore. “It always gives me a good, quick laugh when I need it,” said Lewis. Then, Netflix added their own content like House of Cards and Stranger Things, which gave people even more reasons to watch episodes at a faster rate.

But what makes a show binge worthy in the first place? CheatSheet.com created a three-step process to determine how binge worthy a show is. Step one is that the show must have a 88% of American adults reported a loss in sleep due to binge watching. Junior Adam Sellmer can agree with the report. “I’ve stayed up late to watch Ben 10 and I regretted it the next morning. I haven’t done it since,” said Sellmer.

Netflix plays a part in the loss of sleep too. After episodes, the auto-play function goes into effect. Auto-play takes viewers from one episode of a TV show to another, thus looping the viewer into one more episode. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings even described sleep as the company’s biggest competition.

Netflix coined a term for people who treat binge watching like a sport: binge racer. The

“Some shows are so good I have to binge watch even when I’m busy with work and school.” - Fletcher Vielee, junior

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Most-binged TV shows on Netflix of 2019

1. Stranger Things 2. Lucifer 3. Orange is the new Black 4. 13 Reasons Why 5. Marvel’s “The Punisher” 6. The Umbrella Academy 7. Marvel’s “Jessica Jones” 8. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 9. Santa Clarita Diet 10. You goal of a binge racer is to watch every episode of a show within 24 hours of its initial release on Netflix. “It’s harder to commit to one night a week (for months) than it is to sit down and watch a full season in one go,” said junior Mason McDonald.

Hulu isn’t far behind Netflix in promoting binge watching. The streaming service announced that it will reward viewers who watch three or more episodes of a show with an episode free of commercials.

Binge watching can do some good for viewers, too. According to TheLoop.com, binge watching increases our emotional intelligence. The article explains that people relate more to family members, and empathize with political leaders. Their stance is that binge watching affords a better understanding of other’s life choices and relationships. seamless and continuous story. Step two is that the show has to have a slow burn leading to the final climax, in order to keep people on their seats. The last step in the process is to create the expectation of a resolution so people can feel proud of the hours put into watching the show.

According to Wistia.com, it isn’t the show itself viewers crave, but in fact, the pleasure from watching episodes back to back. When people watch a show they enjoy on loop, it releases dopamine into the body. Dopamine gives the body a pleasurable and rewarding feeling. The brain will also send a signal to the body to keep doing what it is doing because it feels good.

Although binge watching may not feel bad while actually watching, Americans pay the price for binge watching. SleepReview.com that Americans who identify as “binge watchers” report higher levels of anxiety, stress and depression. The Jakarta Post adds that Streaming goes mainstream in less than 20 years 20 06 20 07 Hulu was founded with many partners including AOL, Yahoo! and Myspace. Went Live in 2007 20 00 Netflix began as DVD mail-to-user movie rental plan. Netflix streaming began in 2007. Amazon Video on Demand was launched as Amazon Unbox 20 12 Netflix debuts original content: Lilyhammer - for three seasons