Anaheim Bank Robbery

A Story by Abishai100

A wily Interpol-relations inquirer named Satan recruits a bank robbing team to infiltrate a corrupt Anaheim baron's blood-diamond deposit.

A fun blood-diamond heist inspired by the excellent modern bank-robbery film Heat, set in iconic Anaheim. Hope you like it,

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Anaheim (California) is a great place and home of the Mighty Ducks (NHL ice-hockey team. It's also where a corrupt Algerian baron named Ahmed Pointe is hiding blood-diamonds (warlord-mined gems from Africa/Europe used to fund terrorism!) in a Bank of America.

Amlan Satan, an Ivy League graduate and former Interpol-relations analyst, has tracked this Baron Pointe to Anaheim from LA where he lives. Amlan and his wife Esmerelda are living nicely in California and don't want trouble, so Satan (Amlan) wants to be sure his infiltration of Baron Pointe's dominion doesn't threaten their home security. Fortunately, Amlan is a master-thief.

AMLAN: Let's enjoy a Ducks ice-hockey game, dear.

ESMERELDA: Something on your mind, dear?
AMLAN: No, no, it's nothing; I have to think about a work matter later.

ESMERELDA: The Ducks should win this game!

Amlan has been staking out the Bank of America in Anaheim where Baron Pointe is keeping his blood-diamonds from Africa/Europe. This sort of North American blood-diamond traffic threatens the integrity of the diamond exchange, and Amlan cares about the ethical mining and manufacturing of these precious gems, since he invests in clean-coal technology eco-conservation politics. This Bank of America has become a site of great concern for the master-thief Satan (Amlan).

AMLAN: We'll rob the Bank of America costumed as strange circus-performers with water-guns!
MARCUS: How'll the manager and guardsmen know we mean business?
RAKI: Right, I mean, with water-guns, they might think something's funny.

AMLAN: No, we'll get into the safe-box area where Pointe keeps his diamonds with a strategy.

The trio of thieves want to avoid unnecessary 'heat' in Anaheim and therefore dress up and take the Metro Train from the Anaheim Station to the location near the Bank of America, intending to use the train-network system to plan their trek to and escape from the bank itself. This way, the cops won't be able to conveniently look for them on the streets, while witnesses on the train itself will claim they just saw circus-performers juggling balls on the train ride!

The Bank of America is a really nice place to do modern banking, and were it not for the corruption of Baron Pointe's blood-diamond traffic/smuggling, this Anaheim institution would be considered well-secured from the modern anathema of inventive terrorism financing in North America! However, Amlan/Marcus/Raki are a trio of skilled thieves, and Amlan recruited them online using funny chatroom jokes/puns to see who'd be willing to perform the careful procedure in the respectful American bank!

The trio call themselves the Red Triangle Gang and enter the bank with water-guns and start dancing around, bringing attention and leading the bank manager and one guardsman to approach them to ask them why they're being so theatrical and disturbing the normal pace of the customer-line with this funny act. The RTG (Red Triangle Gang) inform them they're opening a toy-store in Anaheim and brought diamonds (fakes!) and sample water-gun toys for their new account presentation for their circus company called, incidentally, Red Triangle.

Once inside the safe-box area of the vault-room of the Bank of America in Anaheim, the RTG (Amlan/Marcus/Raki) reveal that one of their toy water-guns in their bag is actually fitted with an inner-protective thin glass tube containing shooting corrosive acid. They're to burn through the safe-box of Baron Pointe and take photos of his rumored blood-diamonds. Amlan explains their circus company was hired by a special Interpol-relations California media organization doing a special series of media 'stunts' involving the photographing of rumored blood-diamonds in California owned by capitalism-barons like Pointe for a mock news series about blood-diamond terrorism storytelling! They deposit their own (fake!) diamonds in the safe-box the bank manager has opened for their new circus company RTG account but while taking photos of Pointe's diamonds after burning through his safe-box, Marcus switches the blood-diamonds with diamonds hidden in the soles of his shoes while Amlan and Raki are distracting the manager/guardsman with their water-guns and dancing right beneath the security camera at an angle that conceals Marcus switching the diamonds. They've of course explained to the manager they're gifting some of their (fake!) diamonds to financially compensate for the metal-burning of Pointe's safe-box lid.

After the RTG make their way out of the bank with the Pointe blood-diamonds following their theatrical photo-switching safe-box deed, leaving the manager/guardsman hysterical, they hop back onto the Anaheim Metro train and entertain the travelers with juggling-balls. When the manager discovers eventually that the diamonds deposited by the RTG (Red Triangle Gang) are fakes, they report the incident to the Anaheim Police, suggesting that there's some 'foul play' possibly involving some strange media-stunt arguably ordered or commanded by Baron Pointe himself!

BANK MANAGER: We don't know if Pointe will press charges or make comments, but this is highly dubious.

Nevertheless, the Anaheim police are ordered to patrol the streets in search of the RTG, also to determine if there's blood-diamond foul play behind the Baron Pointe street rumors. However, the RTG are long-gone.

Anaheim homicide-officer Charles had been investigating some underground reports of Baron Pointe linked to murders associated with some blood-diamond terrorism financing and is wondering if this RTG stunt was commissioned by Pointe himself to create a 'theater sideshow' to downplay these reports. Charles believes Pointe is up to something.