'Italian Job' cliffhanger conundrum solvedIt is one of the most memorable cliffhanger cliff·hang·er n. 1. A melodramatic serial in which each episode ends in suspense. 2. A suspenseful situation occurring at the end of a chapter, scene, or episode. 3. endings in movie history, but now the problem of how Michael Caine and his gang can salvage the gold in "The Italian Job" has been solved. Caine's character Charlie Croker famously fa·mous·ly adv. 1. In a way or to an extent that is well known: "his famously neurotic mannerisms [are] lampooned in the novels of Evelyn Waugh" says: "Hang on a minute lads -- I've got an idea," in the last line of the 1969 classic, as their bus teeters on the edge of a precipice in the Italian Alps. The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC RSC Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) RSC Royal Shakespeare Company RSC Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (Spanish: corporate social responsibility) RSC Royal Society of Canada ) launched a competition to suggest how they could get the gold haul, tantalisingly out of reach at the back of the bus, without sending the vehicle and themselves plunging into the void. The only stipulation An agreement between attorneys that concerns business before a court and is designed to simplify or shorten litigation and save costs. During the course of a civil lawsuit, criminal proceeding, or any other type of litigation, the opposing attorneys may come to an agreement was that the gang of thieves -- whose vehicle spins half-over the edge on a mountain road as they head for Switzerland following a spectacular bank robbery The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. Bank robbery is the crime of robbing a bank. in Rome -- coud not take more than 30 minutes. Some 2,000 suggestions came in, and the winner was John Godwin For the politician, see . John Godwin (born March 10, 1877 in East Liverpool, Ohio; died May 5, 1956 in E.Liverpool, Ohio) played for Major League Baseball. He played for the Boston Americans in 1905 and 1906. Sources
This was his solution: first, the gang members need to smash the windows -- outwards at the back and inwards at the front, to shift the balance slightly in their favour. Their combined weight is the only thing stopping the gold at the back pulling the bus over the edge. Then one of the robbers should climb out through a broken window -- and let down the tyres at the front, helping to stabilise the vehicle by reducing the bounce effect of the wheels on the road. With the bus more favourably balanced, Croker could then use an access panel to get to the fuel tank, near the rear of the vehicle, and remove its drainage plug -- allowing some 140 kilos of fuel out. The shift in balance would then allow one gang member to get off the bus, and collect rocks to further weigh down the front end -- so that Croker could creep forward and rescue the bullion BULLION. In its usual acceptation, is uncoined gold or silver, in bars, plates, or other masses. 1 East, P. C. 188. 2. In the acts of Congress, the term is also applied to copper properly manufactured for the purpose of being coined into money. , bar by bar. "We've been overwhelmed o·ver·whelm tr.v. o·ver·whelmed, o·ver·whelm·ing, o·ver·whelms 1. To surge over and submerge; engulf: waves overwhelming the rocky shoreline. 2. a. by the response to our competition, and are delighted to have found such a deserving winner," said Richard Pike, chief executive of the RSC. "Mr. Godwin's entry is just the kind of practical thinking Croker would have used -- but he ably demonstrates the science behind the idea as well," he added. The only remaining problem, of course, would be what to do next -- given that the bus would have no fuel and two flat tyres, and was in any case still hanging over the edge of a cliff, a long way from anywhere in the Italian Alps. 
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