This movie is based loosely on the $17 mil heist of Loomis Fargo that took place in Charlotte, NC about 10 years ago. Most of the gang involved in this was from Gaston and Lincoln Counties and they did everything burglars are not supposed to do after a job. The Chambers were especially stupid because immediately moved from a trailer park into a $500K home in Cramer Mountain gated community and paid cash for it. Michelle chambers went out and got a boob job they she paid cash for. She would also periodically go to different banks with large amounts of cash asking the tellers how much she could deposit without them letting the IRS know. The bunch were locally referred to as the Cramer Mountain Hillbillies. The FBI staked them out from the beginning building a case against them and when they did move in on them they found cash stuffed in dog food cans, in mattresses, in 50 gallon barrels and any other container you could think of. Some of their former neighbors in Cramer Mountain swear that there is still cash buried in the yard somewhere because Steve Chambers came and borrowed a shovel from one of them right before the FBI moved in on them. Galifianakis plays the Loomis employee that loaded the van with the cash and took off to Mexico afterward with only $25,000 of the total. Chambers actually put out a hit on the guy after he did all the heavy lifting in the heist.
