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Armored

Sunshine State of Crime

Armored

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True Crime

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In 1997 nearly $19 million disappeared from a Loomis Fargo armored truck in Jacksonville, Florida. The mastermind behind the job? The truck's driver who was hell bent on carrying out one of the most expensive labor protests in U.S. history.

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0:00.0

A feeling most people in the world experience at some point is the dislike of work or

0:06.7

discontentment with their boss and sometimes it's both of those things.

0:12.2

Even if you enjoy your job, there's a pretty good chance that at least once in your lifetime

0:16.4

you've experienced the crummy feeling that hits on a Sunday evening, right before you

0:21.0

set your alarm and lay down for the night.

0:23.8

The feeling that Monday's work day is going to be a drag.

0:27.6

For those of us who've worked bad jobs and for bad bosses, we know what it's like to

0:31.9

feel underpaid by an employer.

0:34.3

We know how it feels not to have our time and hard work appreciated.

0:38.5

Every day there are millions of people who let this hopeless feeling fester, far beyond

0:42.9

what's considered healthy.

0:45.0

For some, the feeling of being an unrecognized cog in the machine could even cause them

0:49.8

to take matters into their own hands to make things right.

0:53.5

In 1997, an armored truck driver in Florida declared a reckoning against his employer.

0:59.8

In a bold labor protest, Philip Johnson became the richest thief in American history overnight,

1:05.2

and sent federal investigators on a manhunt across the sunshine state and outside of the

1:10.2

U.S.

1:12.2

This is armored, the untold stories of murder, mayhem, and million dollar heists.

1:18.0

Today I'm telling you the story of a man who took what many considered to be the most

1:21.2

expensive moral stand against low wages in modern history.

1:52.0

On the evening of Saturday, March 29, 1997, the day before Easter, 33-year-old Philip Johnson

1:58.4

was finishing up his workday in Jacksonville, Florida.

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