Via John Battelle, Bumbling Bigg City burglars got $12K from the Colorado Springs Gazette covers how two burglars turned to Google to crack a safe.

After breaking into a Colorado Springs amusement center, the burglars spent over an hour working the safe. Finally, they used a computer in the next room and searched for “how to open a safe” and “how to crack a safe” on Google

Success! They opened the safe and stole $12,000. So far, they haven’t been caught.

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