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Sorry to hear about Drago. He was really good at playing bad guys.

I'm currently reading the book "Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago" by Max Allan Collins &  A. Brad Schwartz. It's a massively researched and very entertaining look at the real "Untouchables" and their nemesis.

On-topic for the board: the first time Ness and his men hit a Capone warehouse, they drove a big truck in reverse, right thru the front doors.  They realized the truck wouldn't take much of that.  Capone's breweries and warehouses often had multiple sets of reinforced doors inside that had to be busted down.  One of Ness' men had trained as a welder, and he designed a large steel "bumper" for the front of the truck, made out of old street-car tracks. 

https://www.amazon.com/Scarface-Untouchable-Capone-Battle-Chicago/dp/0062441949

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