I've read about the perfect bank heist in a novel once, but I think it'd really only work in a country like Australia, where there can often be a couple hundred km between towns and it's not too hard to leave things where people just aren't going to notice them for a whole week.
It's supposedly based on real events from the 70s.
You basically need two partners to make it work.
It goes as follows:
- Get high powered sports bikes. Something like a Kwasaki ZX-7 nowadays. You also need a transit van.
- Get some caltrops. You can make them by welding short screws/nails together at the heads. You'll want plenty.
- Good back packs and power screw drivers are also a must.
- Find a small town with only one police station, and make sure that it's at least 100km from another town with a police station of size.
- Find a decent location about 50km from town where you can stash the bikes.
- Late one night, steal some motorbike and a van plates. If this town is near a state border, go interstate to steal them. Keep original plates with you in the front pockets of the backpacks.
- Two of you go to the bank, one goes to the local police station.
- Call the guy at the police station to say you're going in. One stays in the van, one goes in to shoot the security guard and video cameras before demanding the money is placed in the backpacks. At the same time, the guy at the police station will have laid down the caltrops in their drive way, and gotten the fuck out of there on his bike. His job is over until you meet up somewhere.
- Police come charging out. First car hits a caltrop, punctures tires, has a few other cars pile into it, reducing viable police cars, creating confusion, and generally delaying cops a few vital minutes.
- Assuming even one backpack is full, get into the van and drive to where the bikes are. If you're being followed by police again, punch out a back window, and drop a shitload more caltrops.
- Provided you've managed to get rid of the cops, you go to where the bikes are stashed. Change the plate on the van. Ride the bikes across the fields until you find another road, and take that to a town.
- Stay overnight, change the plates on the bikes.
- Ride to wherever and meet guy #3