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Bringing Down the House: the Bombing of Harvey's Casino (Original) / Bringing Down the House: the Bombing of Harvey's Casino (US)
After losing hundreds of thousands to casinos in Stateline, NV - near the beautiful Lake Tahoe - a gambler decides to get what he feels is owed by building a bomb. After stealing dynamite from a power plant he builds what would become one of the most complicated bombs in history and extorted Harvey's of Lake Tahoe for $3 million. What followed was 48 hours of panic, evacuations, and a comedy of errors as the bombers bungled the delivery of the money. A year-long investigation led to the arrest of a Hungarian ex-pat, a plot for a second bomb, and one of the craziest stories of bombing and extortion in US history. It is a bombing that changed how bomb investigations and casino security operated from that day on.
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