I worked as a security guard for Brinks, while in college in Ottawa, Ontario during the mid '70's. It was a great job for a student-very flexible hours (they almost always needed someone at some hour of the day or night), pay was ok, and I met a lot of bank tellers
. It was considered extremely safe in Ottawa, until one of our crews had a guard murdered. Mo Prudhomme was a very friendly, young father who was killed by a shotgun blast, for no reason at all. Like most guards, he would have gladly handed over the dough.
There was also an incident in 1976 when there was a big robbery in Montreal. The Brinks truck driver was reading his morning paper, while parked in the rear of a bank. A delivery van pulled up in front of the truck (while the crew was downstairs getting the morning delivery of deposits), and when the driver heard a rap on the window, he was instructed to look ahead at the van. When he did, he saw the doors open and a .50 cal. machine gun mounted in the van , pointed at him.
Being a military veteran, he realized what that gun could do to an armored truck, so complied with the request to get out and wait for the rest of the crew. When they returned, the robbery took place.
AFAIK, the money has never been returned. Aside from these stories, however the job was pretty routine. geegee