The Most Impenetrable Building in the World
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Side note, try to avoid the black shirt on such a dark background, it's too blended u need to pop out from the background
There are much harder buildings to get into. Toilets at a festival anyone?
bought a wallet. they're cool af
i've seen so many ridge wallet commercials/ads and this is by far the best I've seen. lolol
Highlights for me:
- Who needs that many cards?
- RFID? Whatever that does.
- Dirty cash. If you still use that for some inexplicable reason.
Think Simon needs to work on his sales patter.
Now I'm just hearing a certain voice during this video, "This is the Lock Picking Lawyer and today I'll be picking this vault door."
Or, "Hi! This is Mr. Puzzle."
@@michaelpipkin9942 A sequential discovery puzzle! Oh look! Machine guns! 😂
"Click out of one. Two is binding. False set on four.
...and we're in. Now, let's do that once again to prove it wasn't a fluke."
"Click on three" 😂😂😂
"Fort Knox.. is for tourists!" -- Simon (not Whistler)
Die hard with a vengeance
Haha remember that line
“Nomis” 👌
Okay you win
Hook line and sinkah!
You missed one defense. There are medieval style "murder holes" where guards with fully automatic weapons can shoot intruders, but intruders can't reach the guards.
What, they're magic one-way portals?
If the hole is small it would be really tough to hit it
@@shibasurfing Mace/tear gas doesn't need pinpoint accuracy, and I kind of doubt the guards will be cutting about with gas masks.
@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t they might be sealed holders for firearms, like they would use on old bombers. Insert a machine gun, lock it in place and you can shoot while being fully protected.
@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t Spraying mace or tear gas into a tiny hole spewing rifle bullets sounds like fun.
By the sparkle of all that immovable NYC gold: Do a follow up episode on the pacific islanders with the huge wheel-like money rocks that never move but do change ownership over time for internal trade. Apparently there is one at the bottom of a lagoon someone attempted to transport to another island but the boat sunk, and that money wheel still retains its usefulness on the tribal ledger. Everyone knows where it is located.
I wish I could like this multiple times, sounds extremely interesting
Any military historian will tell you, the easiest way to penetrate a building is to remove the walls of the building then pickup whatever you are after. The US showed us how at the Central Bank of Iraq.
After the fall of civilization, this building will be a great dungeon to explore.
Was wondering what it might be like to explore it in the fallout universe xD
2:35 - Chapter 1 - The gold
6:15 - Chapter 2 - The defenses
10:40 - Chapter 3 - The conspiracy
12:10 - Chapter 4 - The bomb
13:10 - Chapter 5 - The heist
A long time ago an F-4 tornado touched down and made a 100 yard wide path through part of my city. There was a bank in its path. The bank was gone except a slab with a big vault on top of it. Was weird and made me realize how extremely tough we can make things that need to be kept safe.
I was working at the Riggs Bank in DC as they were tearing a vault out in the basement. I’d say the walls were about 4ft thick of concrete and steel mesh every 2 or so inches. Took them forever to tear it all out. Pretty amazing.
Man thats a name I haven't heard in a very long time. I remember their commercials from when I was a kid. This city has changed a lot since then
Even this goes to show that any vault is physically penetrable. The purpose of a vault is actually to delay entry, until human action can be taken to take out the intruder. Fort Knox for example sits at an Army base
@@wyskass861 knox is also where they train tankers, so there's a sizeable amount of armor there.
@@blakegebauer76 Tankers aren't exactly sat in their tanks ready to go. Also they are probably watch closely in case they get any bright ideas with those tanks! Besides Fort Knox is rumoured to be mostly empty anyway, just loads of gold plated tungsten blanks.
@@blakegebauer76 True. Goldfinger managed to break in after Pussy Galore sprayed the base with sleeping gas, though. Only a British secret agent could save American gold.
He's right.
Holding real .9999 Fine Gold (or Silver) bullion in your hands is much different than seeing images of it; though how much of that is purely psychological is hard to say.
Aluminium used to give the same feeling, it used to be so expensive emperors ate from aluminium plates whilst visiting kings ate from gold plates.
It's a good thing that the bank vault with its 100 year old vault was impenetrable to cyber attacks, or a cyber attack could have successfully pulled $81 million out of there.
Well, they didn;t hack the Federal Reserve or the gold, they hacked the Bangladeshi bank. The Reserve was just doing what it thought was legit business (and they caught a lot of it to boot)
Identity theft is not bank robbery.
@@Ashannon888 true. When they were trying for $1 Billion but “only” came out with $81 million (but technically $65 million since they caught that one guy with $16 million). So they only really got 6.5% of their goal. Still a lot of money - but nowhere near what they were trying for.
I caught that too 😂😂👍
I worked at a gold mine when I was a teenager, and had the opportunity to watch the process of molten ore being poured into rough bars. It's a crazy thing to witness first hand. I was allowed to handle one of the bars as well, and those things are HEAVY.
You've really got to lol at clips like 5:04...
I worked for a security company in Salt Lake in the 1990s, and we visited the Johnson-Matthey refinery that purifies the gold that comes from the Kennecott mine to provide an estimate for security system upgrades. Their metal detectors found the surgical staples IN MY KNEE, and I had to take off my pants to display the scar to prove that I wasn't stealing anything from them.
The Bank of England has a fascinating museum in one side of it. They had an exhibit with a gold (or maybe tungsten) bar inside a perspex pyramid. You could put your hand in and lift the bar. Movies that show robbers dumping lots of bars into bags and running off with them aren't exactly realistic. Which I guess is one of the big drawbacks to heists, the stuff is just soo damn heavy.
2:24 you can’t tell me NOT to break into places while wearing a tactical turtleneck Simon!
Archer reference!
A TACTICAL NECK
Do the Cleveland fed building next. Their vault stores mostly cash but moving it around is pretty much completely automated with robot couriers. Not to mention, when they were done building it they gave the construction crew a few days to try to break in with whatever they wanted and they only made a 1 foot dent in the concrete
when you do your job so well that you can't destroy something you built despite knowing all the materials and dimensions
@@DavidLinn honestly they were probably so proud of their own work when they could barely make a dent 😂
@@Rhov9 true that!
Really nailed the ‘puppet master’ look today Simon,well done ✅👏👏
🤪
Invisible torso
In the middle of no where in the Australia outback is Pine Gap. A secure research facility for Australia and the USA. Armed guards and totally fenced.
Inside that facility, is a higher security section. With guards, with higher security clearance.
In that section is a building that not even Australian citizens can get in, guarded by US soldiers.
Seems fairly secure to me.
It's just a comms site nothing particularly special, there are partner sites for ECHELON in US and UK. Not very high security, just a few feds with rifles. Some Australian cleaner probably goes in there all the time. It may be US data but they will need locals to do much of the support. It's main weakness is its remoteness because after the first few guards are down a counterattack is hundreds of miles away, and they are in the middle of nowhere alone!
@@engineeringvision9507 Yes, comes and monitoring - in the middle of no where.
They will see you coming a mile away. That's what they do.
@KoalaAteMySnack American security teams on bases here in the UK don't even seem to leave their bases. All they do is call the local police who will send one or two unarmed officers to do the actual policing.
Hear you its ultra sec access only at certain levels its built inside a 60 thousand foot deep natural bore bore and decades ago had the largest IBM super blue computer system floating on a concrete floor at the bottom of it or so a friend of a friends friend once mentioned ...its also a natural antenna....Its not as important as it once was but still in use.
$150 for a wallet? I wouldn't have anything to put in it.
Little known fact: one of the vault chambers is used to store all the original film of Fact Boi’s CZcams episodes.
*UPDATE: now expanded into a second chamber.
Planning permission is needed to expand it each time he makes a new channel.
It's where the North Korea BB episode is kept😂
I'm too distracted by the fact that Simon's outfit is so dark within a dark office that he almost looks like Holly from Red Dwarf... :P
I wonder if Simon finds people tuning him out for the first two minutes in real life too out of habit.
I bet everyone goes to make a quick cuppa when he starts talking
I'm admittedly a x2 playback speed person...
6 to 8 taps to the right cure all, I meet Simon once & I just taped his shoulder several times to get to the good stuff.
There is a browser add on that detects and automatically skips sponsor spots on youtube videos.
@@G-Mastah-Fash Indeed, spnsrblck (vowels removed since I'm not sure how YT feels about advertising such a thing in comments).
Odd how it looks like Simon’s head is just floating there and his hands are controlled by puppeteers.
🤣🤣🤣 Too right!
They are, the puppet master is named Google
@@onemoreguyonline7878 I think you need to get outside for some fresh air
I was just checking the comments to see if anyone else noticed 😂
@@smbramer how could you not? LOL.
I'd argue that Fort Knox is a lot more impenetrable than the Federal Reserve. You'll just get shot at the Federal Reserve for the attempted heist but you'll get destroyed at Fort Knox and won't even get to the point of seeing the main building let alone get anywhere close to the vault door. Fort Knox is a military base. The vault is underground behind one of the most insane vault doors ever constructed. The building leading to the vault sits in the middle of a piece of land containing landmines (one of the few areas of the U.S. that has active landmines). The building itself is deep inside the military base. There are Apache helicopters on standby at all times. Access to the base entrance is a highway/freeway off-ramp.
Thank you Simon for using American standards of measurement such as a small goat and two bowling balls. Metrics make our smol brains hurty
There is only one reason Americans knows how much a kilo is
@@badluck5647 🤣😂
"Smol brains". TIL smol brains created the most powerful nation in the world. Try again, kid.
It's ironic because the US was one of the original group of inventors of the metric system and was one of the first countries in the world to legislate a switch to metric, yet few Americans are interested in their own invention, they'd rather use British feet and pounds instead.
It's ironic that the Brits invented three devices, microwave resonance chamber, atomic clock and Watt balance and the USA perfected all three and used them to redefine the meter, second and Kg precisely and officially.
The metric system runs on American technology. LOL!
Die hard 3 is a great documentary with Samuel L Jackson, high recommendation to watch. You mentioned the motion sensors but in that movie the bomb in the subway next to the vault was meant to trip all those sensors so the staff would turn them off.
"The banks firing range." Wow, my kind of financial industry/ banking job!! I just may have to apply lmao
“And *definitely* not the US capitol in D.C.”
Simon was alluding to Jan 6th, in a rather subtle and hilarious way. Simply add in the word “definitely” for that particular example, and it instantly is set apart from the rest and triggers the viewer’s memory of why the US Capitol building may be seen as especially vulnerable.
Fantastic humor like this is sprinkled throughout every video Simon makes, as well as apt analogy and poignant critique. He’s a superb narrator for any and all content, he knows precisely how to make a video. Bravo
I did some work for a bank on a Sunday. The only way in or out was a ramp to the basement. We were waiting for the elevator at lunch, and an armored truck drove in. They unloaded a flat cart with gold bars. They went right next to us waiting for the elevator. I was inches from the gold bars. It was unpleasant standing there with several guards watching us with machine guns.
Simon is fast becoming my 2nd favorite CZcams personality. Always look forward to more content.
You forgot to mention that the US Department of the Treasury is in charge of the US Secret Service and one of the entire floors of the NY Fed Reserve office building is a Secret Service office, including the shooting range. So, on top of all of the 'regular' armed guards, there are over 100 Secret Service agents in the building...
The Lock Picking Lawyer could find a weakness and exploit it
0:50 Simon's ad reads are always the best.
you forgot to mention the 3 or 4-in thick Teal Wood doors that close down over the doors along Wall Street if there's an alarm
(also all the elevators automatically return to the 1st floor, and remain closed)
by the way: there's also a great restaurant on the upper floors
The commercial for the Ridge wallet was the best part of the video.
The generators four stories below Union Station in NY.Fort Knox is a building within a building and the rooms fill with water to drown intruders.Liked this one too😊
You know whats funny, I used to work a couple blocks from there. And when I saw the title that place came immediately to mind.
There are always a lot of armed guards around, and the tiny windows in the massive walls have bars on them that could stop a truck.
Do a video on Mount Athos! Come on simon, aren't you interested in a men's only orthodox peninsula club
Edit*
Eastern orthodox *
Wonderful idea. Secretive, exotic, beautiful and way of life.
@@nrsrymj my bad, you are correct
While the NY Fed gold vault is pretty impenetrable, I can thing of other facilities that are moreso. Some of these are widely known. Ft Knox has most of the same internal security features, but unlike the NY Fed, no one who isn't on staff can get anywhere physically near the building, which has a deep perimeter guarded by machine gun nests. And it sits on an army base who's troops and tanks are available for it's defense.
Then there's the Cheyanne Mountain complex. I's dug into a mountain, and designed to take a direct hit from a multimegaton nuclear weapon.
Then there's the bunker complex at Kirtland AFB in New Mexico where the military stores its undeployed nuclear weapons. Again no one except authorized personnel can get anywhere near the bunker, and the bunker has all the security features the NY Fed has, and more, and without the niceities necessary to deal with the public in close proximity.
I remember reading about germany and their gold in the newspapers, german goverment officials claimed some bar had different numbers on them than the ones in their records, believe they said they appeared new too. At the end of the day, they took their gold and were content with what they got.
Walked past it for years to my various jobs when I lived in NYC.
"Def not the capitol building" oh man too soon 😂
Another CasCrim Rule: Don't spell out your crimes in a movie script.🤫🤫🤫🤫
Finally, weight given in a logical comparison: small goats!
Right? The next time the doctor asks my weight I will give it in goats.
Do one on the most frequently robbed banks in the US and Europe.
A video on that NK hacking group please Simon!
10:24 "Two months", that's the key word/phrase I'm looking for. From the movie it only took Jeremy Irons a couple minutes. If he knew it'd take that long he probably would have given up :)
On Gold looking different irl, can confirm. Saw the Crown Jewels in England and it was the same. So damn shiny and sparkly. Pretty damn mesmerising to see in person, TV doesn’t do it justice in the least.
More secure than Cheyenne Mountain? I'm skeptical.
Ah gold. Spend a fortune digging it out of the earth, then spend a fortune basically hiding it back under the ground again. One of the dumbest things humans do with a pretty but virtually useless chunk of metal.
Precisely.
If you define “a fortune” as a whole stack of gold it all makes sense.
I wouldn't exactly call gold useless. Its resistance to corrosion makes it an ideal coating for electrical connectors. The ductility would make it nice as a sealant - it's just a bit expensive for this, so we tend to use copper instead. Alloys of it are ductile enough to be formed into virtually any shape with relative ease and hard enough to not be bent out of shape by normal every day forces - for example making it excellent for capping teeth. It's a metal with lots and lots of interesting engineering applications - why we waste it as a money store is beyond me...
@@KonradTheWizzard blame our ancestors. They are the ones who started the culture of gold as a store of wealth
Gold is actually quite useful in electronics... but the reason why average everyday humans want gold? Same reason they want diamonds.
Very. Good. Marketing.
Being a dork I did the math and that works out to 24 pounds per bar. Thought they'd be heavier.
Can't make them too big because they have to stack. Even then, you can't stack too many because the weight of the bars on top will smash the ones on the bottom because gold is so soft.
i've seen so many ridge wallet commercials/ad's and this is by far the best i've seen. lolol
Expert-grade marksman. I am one of those, per the U.S. Army. The minimum for that is 36/40, and the ranges are 50m 150m and 300m, and from three shooting positions as well, so it's not easy. You need great focus and tight control on breathing. An expert shot misses sometimes...but it's honestly not at all common. One-shotting targets is, conversely, quite common, especially at short range.
I suspect this is handgun marksmanship rather than US Army Marksmanship, since they're inside a building and likely to be using handguns and SMGs. Not to mention that they qualify in the bank's own shooting range, which isn't going to support 300m target ranges.
For the conspiracy theory, it seems slightly suspect that any inspections would be delayed for enough time to restock the vault with supplies from other locations.
RFID is the chip in your credit cards. A brush pass with a reader can steal the information pretty easily. Same principle as card skimmers that copy the magnetic strip info, but this is wireless. A Faraday cage is how you block it. Aluminum foil works in a pinch, but companies are putting other signal blockers in wallets now pretty regularly. Even cheap $20 ones can have it.
Yesterday. We were an army without a country.
Today, we have to decide what county we want to buy.
To our fallen comrades!
You know stormtroopers only have bad aim when they've been ordered to let the rebels escape so they can be tracked back to their base, right?
I think it goes like this: the first stormtroopers that were instructed to miss were told this logical explanation, but as the "bad aim" policy entered protocols for upcoming recruits, the reasoning behind it got lost over time, until new stormtroopers would just miss because they wouldn't know any better.
This is an excellent narrative.
Am I the only one who just see's a floating head with a beard and a pair of hands. 🤣
Nope!🤣🤣🤣
Comercial ends at 1:54
Safer than Knox? The fortress surrounded by an Army garrison that’s 45 minutes by air from not only one of the Army’s largest combat divisions which also happens to be the worlds ONLY Air Assault division?
Forgot how there has been an HBO mini series about the federal reserve 😂
Not impenetrable though Auric Goldfinger managed it with ease. They even caught it all on camera.
5:40 Safety shoes are made of manganese steel, not magnesium...
1:55 to skip the obnoxious ad
Normal Simon in the ad. And now it's like super clean trimmed and dark beard. If he put on a ball cap I would think he's about to do a bank heist
2:05 As an American speaking; shade warranted.
NFT shade also warranted. That shit was insanity
Germany did not get its "original" gold back. Differnt bars, different serial numbers, multiple manufacturers and over a period of 7 years..
Simon, you gotta ditch the black sweater for dark videos lol. On oled screens even on full brightness you're a floating head and hands 🤣. Still a great video lol
It's a new twist on the green screen issue.
Nice flex with that insurance card.
Would be nice if the Treasury stilled owned that gold but the Citizens of the United States had to pay interest on greenbacks with gold when the privately-owned Federal Reserve was created in 1913. Nixon cut ties to gold and now we Citizens are paying interest on nothing but our own demise....
It's all so insane!
The Next Bond Movie.. James Bond Takes On Dr Siric Whilstlerfeldt.. A Man who seeks to control Facts.. The mission to destroy him is complicated by the 'Fact' that unlike most Bond Villains, he doesnt have a Single Underground Lair .. he has MANY MANY UNDERGROUND LAIRS...
The Ridge wallet does not hold polymer notes well, similiar hand made leather wallets are also cheaper by half. Great idea, execution not so good.
As long as it does not hold coins well it is really useless in € countries too.
Hi, Simon. LOVE the turtleneck! Great look!
A 2 minutes advertisement...
YES, I will thank you now rather than later for continuing to waste my time and life.
Cheers Simon!
I would have said the DMV
The DMV easy to get in, impossible to get out
I live in NYC and I had no idea the Federal Reserve Building was there
Its not there anymore. I saw this documentary starring Bruce Willis and Sam L Jackson where Jeremy Irons stole all the gold and sunk it in the Hudson..
I wonder if gold was not shiny, if humans would never have given it any value at all in history. It would just be a really heavy nearly worthless rock.
Anyone else enjoy the floating head and forearms look for this video?
I have an unexpected urge to steal all that golf now
Gold
"Respect for property!" When the 2008 recession started, stock markets around the world started falling, then billions of dollars started pouring into the American stock market! Market specialist, didn't understand, they asked a foreign market investor. He said people around the world trust America's rule of law, because they respect others property!
If I had more than 27 middle names, pretty sure I'd want to attack many things.
Problem with Ridge Wallet is that these days, everyone I know prefers a phone case with credit card slots. They need to diversify their product portfolio.
Side projects is just as good as your main channel Simon. Loving your stuff still
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
A car park in Derby is right up there. Absolutely nothing has been stolen or vandalised there!
Congratulations on getting another sponsor!
Marty Byrd disapproves of Fact Boi's dismissal of cash.
2:46 for anybody wondering thats over 300 billion dollars worth of gold. actually using the value of each bar stated at 5:50 thats $318,080,000,000 worth
Die hard with a Vengeance...loved that movie lol. that what this reminded me of.
8:31 you severely over estimate how much gold i would be satisfied with taking. i would be happy with as many bars as i could carry, that being 2 or if i was really motivated maybe 3 . 1.2 million dollars is plenty for me.
Somehow you managed to make the sponsorship part entertaining congrats
$1.75 to have your gold bricks safely moved around is a bloody good deal. Come’on NY FED you can up those fees.
There’s a life after humans video that shows how after thousands of years the building will be gone but the bricks will be misty in tact under the ground in a watery grave
Unrelated to the video but we bought a ridge wallet for my husband Christmas before last and it's really good. He loves it
Dude the black sweater makes your head looks like it's floating in space
Someone in New York would probably notice that ... You obviously haven't been in a subway platform in NYC... Noone sees anything....if turning a blind eye was an Olympic sport, NYC could take the gold .... Noones goona snitch :-p
5:17 A had a gold like that. The chocolate was lovely.
The show starts at 1:57
This should be talking about every school in the United States of America.
Nice "head and hands" outfit today Simon :-)
They filter The air on the roof the ducts in any building is it's weakness . uranium into the ducts and then just wait .