Yes, Get Indeed

Masked gunmen used a stolen helicopter and explosives to engineer a spectacular raid on a cash depot in Stockholm this morning, breaking into the building through the roof and flying off with bags of cash. Baller!

The daring pre-dawn heist stunned police in the Swedish capital, who were unable to deploy their own helicopters to the scene because suspected explosives had been placed at their hangar. Double baller!

The security company that owns the facility, G4S PLC, said the thieves had made off with "an unconfirmed sum of money" and added it would offer a large reward for information leading to their arrest and the return of the loot. The company did not give an exact amount for the reward. One person was detained later in a Stockholm suburb in connection with the robbery, but wasn't officially declared a suspect.

Shortly after 5 a.m., the helicopter swooped down toward the cash depot and hovered over the building as the robbers hoisted themselves onto the roof in what police said was a carefully planned operation. What, it wasn't an ill-conceived, hastilly spontanious plan? "What we know is that they forced down some kind of wall to get in," they said. "We don't want to comment on how they did it." There were 21 staff members inside the building during the heist, but no one was injured.

Investigators said the robbers wore masks and were believed to have carried automatic weapons and used explosives during the 20-minute raid. Witnesses reported hearing loud bangs during the heist. A witness told channel TV4 he saw a gray helicopter hovering above the building for about 15 minutes. "Two men hoisted themselves down...they hoisted up money, too." A police commando team was seen trying to enter the cash depot in the Vastberga neighborhood with a battering ram.

Police later found an abandoned helicopter near a lake north of Stockholm, about 15 miles from the cash depot. A police spokeswoman said the chopper was reported stolen and was believed to be the one used by the robbers. The bomb squad was examining the suspected explosives left at the police hangar, which prevented their helicopters from taking off. Britain-based G4S PLC is one of the world's largest security companies. The Vastberga facility stores cash that is transported to banks and other businesses in Sweden.

The country has seen a series of spectacular robberies in recent years. Last year a group of men broke into a mail processing center in Goteborg, paralyzing large parts of Sweden's second-largest city after spreading out spikes, burning out cars in different areas and leaving suspected explosive devices in the center. In 2006, Goteborg's international airport was partially closed after masked men crashed through a gate and held up luggage handlers as they were unloading crates of foreign currency worth 7.8 million kronor ($1.1 million) from a passenger aircraft. Four years earlier, robbers pulled off a similar heist at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport, when staff were loading foreign currency worth 43 million kronor onto an aircraft.

This does not surpise me at all, since Sweden's neighbor is Finland, home of Kimi Räikkönen, and he is bad ass. It must rub off on them.