# Die Hard: Would a large corporation actually have $640 million in untraceable stuff in one place?

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**Created:** [March 9, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-hard-would-a-large-corporation-actually-have-640-million-in-untraceable-stuff-in-one-place/683302 "2014-03-09T22:23:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-hard-would-a-large-corporation-actually-have-640-million-in-untraceable-stuff-in-one-place/683302/21 "2014-03-13T21:44:23Z")

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And no one would be looking for those bonds for weeks, until they cleared the rubble at the vault.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-hard-would-a-large-corporation-actually-have-640-million-in-untraceable-stuff-in-one-place/683302/22 "2014-03-13T23:08:03Z")

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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> Hans knew the FBI would be on his ass no matter what, so he used the bogeyman of hostage-taking terrorism to cover the real crime underway, set up a workable escape plan and - the main point - buy time and complicity by misdirecting law forces into “running the wrong playbook.” He as much as says so.

There was a funny scene in which he makes his demands. “I want these political prisoners and these and these released.” One of his henchmen looked puzzled at the name of one of the groups he mentioned, so he explained in an aside, “I read about them in Time magazine.”

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-hard-would-a-large-corporation-actually-have-640-million-in-untraceable-stuff-in-one-place/683302/23 "2014-03-13T23:14:11Z")

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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> set up a workable escape plan

I hate to admit wondering how the 11 of them were supposed to get away in one ambulance, assuming nobody noticed said ambulance was coming from the secured garage.

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