schme wrote:Construction equipement is not hard to come by. Alot of companies sell it. I believe quite fervently that two people very well could have done it on their own with the help of a few bank loans.
As for connections to get them out of the country and whatnot, well, that's a different story.
No... All very bad moves... With a bank loan especially. First of all if it was that easy it would have actually been done a LONG time ago. You can't just go to the bank and be like "lend me money". They'll never lend you money without knowing what it's for, who you are, and without you paying some of it upfront.
Cops would do a search of the surounding area for recently rented or bought machinery immediatly because there is no way they'd believe one or two guys did it with a shovel.
You need SOMEONE and not SOME COMPANY to finance this sort of thing. You need the people who ALREADY have the equipment. Now a FRIEND or friend of a friend with a construction company would be good. He'd get a cut of the job and it wouldn't be written anywhere that the machinery was rented.
Then you need the people to actually make it happen. People who can get you blueprints and other information to know exactly when to start tunneling upwards.
There is no way some two-bit, grade 10 eduction, highschool dropout, alone with one friend, could have accomplished this.
