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Fri Jan-23-09 08:02 AM
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Science solves Italian Job mystery

Source: ThePressAssociation

For 40 years, film fans have pondered what happened to Sir Michael Caine's gang at the end of The Italian Job.

The movie ended with the back of the bus laden with gold bullion perched over a chasm in the Alps, and Sir Michael's character Charlie Croker says: "Hang on a minute lads - I've got a great idea."

However, the riddle of how they could have extricated the gold - and themselves - from the cliff-hanger scenario has never been solved - until now.

John Godwin, 39, an IT manager from Godalming, Surrey, beat 2,000 other entrants in a competition organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) to work out how it could have been done, in a time limit of 30 minutes.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090123/tuk-science-solves-italian-job-mystery-6323e80.html

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Fri Jan-23-09 08:08 AM
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1. Croker would have sussed it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy3BdoWaYxY

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