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Now let me tell you a story about a nigga livin' on the edge
Kinda like takin' the chances of jumpin' off the ledge
A money maker
Would often get involved wit the shit thats evolvin' the streets
Lookin' out for the laws
Go hang was the main thang
Was definitely a reason ta get the alias flippin' and check the whole name
Type a nigga that kill you dead for a nigga rock
Get you thinkin' about the prophecy that money got
Hot
But nigga wit the Benz and the ends
Not too many friends
No guts for the glory and the sins
Twins that he got involved wit ta make his ends
Biz that would have him scared in, but took a chance
Didn't care about his daddy
Didn't care about his brotha
Didn't care about his mama
But he cared about them dollas
A bloody world, up in the mind of a soldier
Ta neva die, and keep it live in your holster
[Chorus]
Pay niggas like ta ball
But pay niggas gots ta fall
You know it ain't no heaven for us all
Vouge niggas like ta kill
Vouge niggas like ta feel
Pumpin' up they muthafuckin' steel
Scar niggas gots ta know
Scar niggas make the dough
They used ta gettin' paid from every blow
But all niggas gots ta die
All niggas must decide
It's what around the world they 'gon reside
[Kool G Rap]
Uh, uh
Yo
Spoke nigga turn thug
Ropin' drugs, totin' the snub
Fifty keys of dope in the tub
Enemies soakin' in blood
Catch a open mug
Bodies layin' smoked in the mud
It ain't no hope for love, get poked wit slugs
Peep the nigga M.O.
Deliveries in stretch limos
Pickups inside the big truck
Swift bucks get his dick sucked
>From the big buck chick that kept the fifth tuck
She hit ducks, miss puckered up before the clip spark
Swiss duck caught the duplex, navy blue lefts
The lady blew tecs, talkin' 'bout who next
Daily ain't do sex, the crew flex, cruisin' through cess
20 inch chrome spin the gleam
The winnin' team, spend the cream
Livin' American dreams
Brick on the triple beam
Put laser beam dots on your wig top
6 shots hit 'til you drop
Stop the tick-tock
6 and glocks continue ta pop
Til it's pigs for block
They got this kid rocked
Wit the shit cocked
Shot off the Crip block
Stoppin' more drug traffic than gridlock
Miss not
But forced to us all
10 more came into the door
Wit him in the raw
No time ta waste, the safe's in the floor
Take the keys, takes a freeze
Break wit the G'd caper for cheese
Grab the G
Rape her then leave wit the jackpot
Put her ta sleep wit bad shots
Next day news showin' they snapshots
[Bookie]
Pay niggas
Automatically known wit the ballin'
Wit dope for all em, smellin' the beans when they callin'
Vouge niggas
Gangstas off the wall when they standin' tall
Killin' ain't feelins, wit extra bullets 'nuf ta make em fall
Scar niggas
Who extended it all, makin' deadly calls
Niggas wit coconut balls, breakin' down the laws
But all niggas
Niggas 'gon have ta die wit they eyes lookin to the sky
Or lookin' to the dirt, whichever way it works
And they was comin' for him, but he was blind
A mind of a muthafucka clockin' every dime
This nigga rolled up, a killa
Quickly hit him wit the gauge
Bigga than the graves
Took em days, ta fix him up
A closed casket
This nigga had a kid, now this nigga dead, left behind a bastard
So 19-99 is just anotha year for niggas dyin' the same way
So live your life ta see anotha day
[Chorus]
Pay niggas like ta ball
But pay niggas gots ta fall
You know it ain't no heaven for us all
Vogue niggas like ta kill
Vogue niggas like ta feel
Pumpin' up they muthafuckin' steel
Scar niggas gots ta know
Scar niggas make the dough
They used ta gettin' paid from every blow
But all niggas gots ta die
All niggas must decide
It's what around the world they 'gon reside
The Great Bookie robbery was a crime committed in Melbourne, Australia, on 21 April 1976.
Crime[edit]
A well-organised gang of six stole what is widely believed to be from $14–16 million (in 2011 the equivalent of $88 million) from bookmakers in the Victoria Club, which was located on the second floor of a building in Queen Street, Melbourne. The true figure for the amount stolen has never been confirmed, as the Victoria Club quoted the missing figure to police as only $1 million to avoid the attention of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). The gang included Raymond 'Chuck' Bennett, who is believed to have been the mastermind, Ian Carroll, Laurence Prendergast and Norman Lee. They rented an office several floors above and hid the money in that room's safe before coolly walking out of the building and onto the street days after the event.[1]
Aftermath[edit]
The identity of the robbers was widely known in the underworld and so Bennett became the target of standover men, who included Brian and Leslie Kane, and corrupt police demanding part of the proceeds. The Kane brothers were particularly violent psychopaths who wanted 'their cut' and were willing to torture, mutilate and kill to get their own way. After being told that the Kanes intended to kill him, Bennett, Prendergast and Vincent Mikkleson killed Leslie Kane on 19 October 1978 and went into hiding. The three were later arrested for the murder but as the body was never found, the charges were dismissed. With Brian Kane threatening to kill him, Bennett was arrested on a minor charge in 1979. While being escorted by police from the courthouse holding cells to the courtroom, he was taken up a flight of stairs into the path of a man, disguised as a barrister. The man shot Bennett several times in the chest. Bennett tried to flee but collapsed on the courthouse steps and died a short time later. Although Brian Kane was suspected, circumstantial evidence suggested a conspiracy to kill Bennett, which included senior members of the Victorian Police, most notably Brian Murphy with whom Bennett had a long-standing feud.
No one has ever been arrested for Bennett's murder, which was, in effect, an execution.
The money was never recovered and although Norman Lee was charged, he was later acquitted. None of the other members of the gang was ever convicted. Prendergast disappeared in 1985, and apart from Lee, the rest of the gang had all been murdered by the end of 1987. In 1992, Lee was killed by police during a heist at Melbourne Airport.
Lee's lawyer, Phillip Dunn, QC, later revealed the details of the crime, including the identities of all those involved.
As no one was ever jailed or convicted, the Great Bookie robbery technically remains an unsolved crime.
In popular culture[edit]
TV movie[edit]
Robbery is a 1985 Australian television film directed by Michael Thornhill based on the original crime but otherwise entirely fictional.
TV miniseries[edit]
| The Great Bookie Robbery | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Phillip Cornford |
| Directed by | Mark Joffe Marcus Cole |
| Starring | John Bach Catherine Wilkin Gary Day Bruno Lawrence |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 3 × 2 hours |
| Production | |
| Producer | Ian Bradley |
| Budget | A$4.2 million[2] |
| Release | |
| Original network | Nine Network |
| Original release | 15 November – 17 November 1986 |
Bookie And Barabbi Stories
In 1986 a miniseries of three 90-minute episodes was released depicting the robbery.[3][4]
Lee participated in the production as a consultant, and even used his own residence in Verity Street, Richmond as the shooting location for the house of one of the gang. Lee was still living there at the time of his death.
This miniseries started filming on 26 August 1984,[2] and was broadcast in November 1986.[5]
Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities[edit]
A highly fictionalised version of the crime was also depicted in one episode of the 2009 miniseries Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities. In this version, Bennett pulls off the crime with the assistance of Robert Trimbole, without the Kane brothers. The Kanes are tipped off after the event by Chris Flannery, setting off a turf war. Neither Trimbole nor Flannery were actually involved in the real heist. The heist is mentioned in another episode of this same series, after two men allegedly rob a courier allegedly working for the Kane brothers who has just done a change over of money for drugs. This initiates a war when threats are made on both sides, leading to the murder of one of the Kane brothers in 1978.
Movie version[edit]
The 2002 Australian feature film The Hard Word draws on the Great Bookie robbery for its major crime scene. In this version a number of people are killed during the robbery.
References[edit]
- ^'Inside the Great Bookie Robbery'. NewsComAu. 27 November 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- ^ ab'Robbery with realism', Cinema Papers, November 1984 p.46
- ^Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p.200
- ^'Features 10 years later, cameras roll on the Great Bookie Robbery Bright light for a perfect crime'. The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 5 April 1986. p. 7 (Section B). Retrieved 28 May 2020 – via Trove.
- ^'The Great Bookie Robbery'. IMDB. Retrieved 12 November 2018.