Can’t expose your turtles from your hotplate hamsters? Wise up with this indispensable guide to prison slangTo go across the pavement is criminal parlance for robbing banks and security vans. The Wembley Mob (a gang of bank robbers from the late 1960s and early 70s) pioneered the method of driving the getaway vehicle up on to the pavement outside a bank and blocking the entrance. They were known as a “crash-bang gang” they would rely on the element of surprise by “crashing” the bank doors open and then firing a shotgun into the ceiling in order to elicit horror and compliance.
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Source: theguardian.com