RONNIE
Ronnie is a small time crook from the late fifties early sixties,who has fallen on hard times in his later years.Back in the early years Ronnie used to work for a number of well known villains,before launching his own capers.
Forwhich he received a custodial sentence of 15 years.
The story unfolds where today in 2007 Ronnie finds times are tough especially for an old lag.With things like rent to pay and rates etc,Ronnie finds it difficult to keep up with todays heavy financial demands.
This is where the fictional part of the story begins.
He finds out that financially he could qualify for sheltered housing in an old people home,where the financial demands of day to day living would be removed.This transpires into a typical old peoples home where the residents are left all day sitting in big high back old tatty chairs,arranged in circles,a very run down and boring establishement.Where most of the residents are old before their time,some of this due to the situation and environment they find themselves in(ie rundown).
Ronnie moves in and finds a very depressed and rundown place,with a very boring and depressing outlook for the residents.Along with a very high handed attitude by the care staff who don't want to be there either,as most tend to be polish immigrants who can hardly speak English and just need the money.
Ronnie decides he's not having this,eventhough he's short of cash he is not short of contacts in the criminal world.He decides to liven up the residents lives.Over a period of time he starts to transform the place, suddenly the residents all have mobile phones so they can contact their relatives on the outside.Suddenly they are off to the seaside in a brand new coach all supplied by Ronnies contacts.
Ronnie then organizes parties for the residents and brings in entertainers etc.
The staff wonder whats going on,and Ronnie discovers that the staff have been slowly ripping off the residents so arranges an awayday for the staff.
Then proceeds to have their houses broken into and plants drugs in their houses,forwhich the police are tipped off and raid the properties.They discover drugs which transpires to be Viagra,however during there seatch they discover evidence of their crimes against the residents and are all arrested.
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The early years.
In this section we have a number of funny incidents that took place during some of Ronnies crimes.
So here I have taken a couple of stories.
One day Ronnie and his associates decide to rob a greyhound stadiumin east Anglia.Part of their plan in those early days was rather than get stopped in roadblockseach crime they committed they would simply put the money into large boxes and post their ill gotten gains home through the post office service.Two days later after the first crime Ronnie is sitting at home and there is a knock at the door ,it's the postman with a parcel,which is full of cash,kindly delivered by the post office.
In the meantime Ronnie and his young gang decide to hit the stadium again a couple of weeks later,as they believed no one would expect it.
Shortly after they decide to go again Ronnie bumps into his older brother,who at that time was short of cash and needed an earner,money.He asks Ronnie can he take part as the getaway driver.Ronnie feels sorry for him and decides to give him a chance.Ronnie asks his brother to give him a run in his car and demonstrate how good a driver he is for the job.His brother hits him with a bombshell by telling him he has not got a driving licence and is currently having driving lessons.Roninie tells him how the hell can he be the getaway driver if he can hardly drive.Ronnie decides to give him a chance after much argueing.
Ronnie jumps in the car and tells his brother ok lets go for it.His brother starts to move forward and before Ronnie realises his brother is poodling along at 29mph.Ronnie shouts at him how the bloody hell do you expect to be a getaway driver if you go at this speed,for christs sake put your foot to the floor.They approach a set of traffic lights and his brother duly stops,by which time Ronnie is spitting blood,and tells him keep going don't stop.
After a few arguments and a few driving tips from Ronnie it is decided to give him ago.So a few weeks later the day of the job Ronnie is waiting at an agreed meeting point to meet the gang and his brother.Ronnie looks down the road in amazement,theres his brother driving towards them not only in his own car but it has 'L' plates on it.
Ronnie tells him we can't rob a stadium in your bloody car with 'L'plates on it.We need to steal a car for the job,so they proceed and steal another vehicle.At this stage Ronnies brother is panicking 'I cant drive this car as I have only got used to my own car'.Ronnie tells him too shut up get in and drive,so his brother jumps in crunches the gears and up the road they go.On reaching the venue Ronnie informs his brother to wait outside and they will be 10-15 minutes and out,just keep the engine running and the doors unlocked.
The team go in rob the stadiumand run out to the car.Not only do they find the engine turned off but the doors are locked and his brother is having a cat nap.They smash the windows move Ronnies brother out of the driving seat and speed off,stopping at a different post office and mailing back the cash.It transpired that Ronnies brother was so nervous the night before he took some valium inorder to calm his nerves in the morning.
THE MINI CAB HEIST
These again are the days before all cash was transferred by security vans where money was transferred by many different ways and one was using mini cabs.Ronnie had a contact in a mini cab firm,who informed him his boss was about to pick up a couple of new cars for his mini cab firm.He also informed him that his boss was car mad,and was about to pick up a large quantity of cash for a bank in his new car.So he hatched a plan to hijack and steal the cash.The route was planned out and the plan was formed.Apparently transferring the cash from one location to the bank,involved a crossroads opposite the bank and local police station was across the road.They decided to take two cars one which followed the mini cab.Ronnie sat in his car and as the mini cab approached he drove straight into the front of the mini cab,the driver having just picked up the new car jumps out in hysterics forgetting the money in the back.By this time there is a mellee and a crowd gathers,Ronnie quietly slips away in the crowd and the second vehicle approaches the crashed mini cab from behind.One of the team jumps out quietly gets in the back and removes the money.By this time there is a big crowd standing around Ronniies car starring at the damage.The second vehicle drives slowly past the side of the mini cab,and suddenly the police appear and move the crowd aside so the car can get by.They drive down the road and pick Ronnie up and post the cash home.
THE DAIRY RAID
The team have been watching a dairy and decided to rob it on their cash collection day.The team arrives robs the dairyas they walk in one of Ronnies younger highly strung members picks up a pint of milk and drinks it.On the way out he asks the guy in the dairy howmuch was the milk and leaves the change on the way out.
As it was getting late they decided to keep the cash in the boot and make for home.On the way they realized they needed some petrol so pull into a garage and filled up.The young headstrong lad said don't worry I will pay for the petrol as he wanted some cigarretes.
He gets back into the car and urges the driver to get going,Ronnie asks why whats the hurry.Anyway they drive on and suddenly hit a road block 20 miles down the road.Don't forget there were not many cars on the road in those days,they thought it was just maybe one of their lights where out.
It transpired the young lad got his cigarretes but also decided to take the contents of the till too.The team were hopping mad as they had a car boot full of cash,they were all nicked.
harrymedia@aol.com
About Author :
Harry has spent just over 30 years in Uk advertising agencies.He formed this idea six years ago and would love to have it produced.There is a fully written script
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