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{{quote|''Ronnie Kray, one of the two Kray Twins who basically run organized crime in London, commits the murder he'll finally be sent away for when he walks into the Blind Beggar pub and shoots George Cornell in the head... Kray would manage to get away with this for three years by virtue of the fact that nobody was actually stupid enough to testify against a man who walked into pubs and shot people dead, this being [[Trigger Happy|a sort of tautological behavior]].''|[http://tardiseruditorum.blogspot.com/2011/03/ready-to-outsit-eternity-ark.html Philip Sandifer]}}
So there's the Evil Overlord sitting on his throne, when a figure in black suddenly appears looking like Death himself. He strikes a fatal blow and the crowd is so shocked (and/or the victim so [[0% Approval Rating|unpopular]]) that no one makes much effort to stop the assassin. As was noted by the titular assassin of ''Day of the Jackal'', assassination is relatively easy; getting away is the hard part. However, this is the opposite
If the Target employs [[Swiss Cheese Security]], they deserve it.
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