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Milan Underground

Residents in downtown Milan, Italy, heard weird construction-like sounds at night. “We began hearing noises on Sunday evening,” said one resident. “We were jokingly saying to each other, ‘Are they robbing the bank?’” Indeed, the sounds got closer and closer to a neighborhood bank. “On Monday one of us went to the bank to warn them about the tremors we had felt. Others went to the nearest police station on Tuesday because the sounds had not stopped.” Bank and police officials blew off the warnings — until bank employees arrived to find someone inside, who forced them to open the safe and safety deposit boxes. The robbers escaped through their tunnel before police arrived. (RC/AFP) ...Once the war was over, Col. Hogan’s men could hardly be called “heroes” anymore.