Cops and Robbers at The Corner Café

Hang on to your swag bags, and welcome to our cops and robbers theme.

Cops and Robbers can mean a few things, it can be a game, a film, a tv show, or even cops trying to catch robbers.

In Britain today, all policemen are commonly referred to as ‘Bobbies’ or 'Coppers'. Originally though, they were known as ‘Peelers’ in reference to one Sir Robert Peel (1788 – 1850) who founded the Metropolitan Police Force at Scotland Yard in London.

Robbers go back even further, eg Robin Hood & his Merry Men were good-intentioned robbers, and the roads were once the haunt of notorious highwaymen like Dick Turpin.

A statue of Robin Hood just outside Nottingham Castle.

Two of the best-planned robberies, I think, are the ones below.

The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963, at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England. 11 men were sentenced (Bill Boal and Lennie Field were later exonerated) to terms of up to 30 years.

In April 2015, the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area, was burgled. The total stolen may have a value of up to £200 million, and the incident has been called the "largest burglary in English legal history."

There is no obligation to follow any of our informal themes. They are simply for fun. This is an open topic chat thread, so please just post or talk about anything you like!