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Lincoln, NE man maced buying gold...

CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭
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...foil wrapped chocolate coins.



<< <i>Lincoln, NE He wanted gold, but all he got was a chocolate coin and a face full of pepper spray.

Lincoln police say a couple lured a man to the U-Stop at 84th Street and Cornhusker Highway by giving a false name and claiming they had gold to sell.

The man, 65, told police the woman climbed into his car to do the deal, but something didn't seem right and he changed his mind. Then the woman sprayed him in the face.

The man pushed her out of the car, and she left with her accomplice in a beat-up, maroon Mitsubishi, Lincoln Police Officer Katie Flood said.

Flood said the man described the woman as white and in her 30s, with mid-length brown hair, acne, glasses, blue jeans and a flannel coat. She left behind two of the alleged gold coins, actually pieces of chocolate in gold-colored wrappers, police say. >>

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The buyer said something didn't seem right, maybe the acne tipped him off that the coins were chocolate. image

Thankfully the guy was only maced and not worse. image
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  • JupitarCoinsJupitarCoins Posts: 2,595 ✭
    Good story--thanks.
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,464 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good advice - never buy gold coins that smell like chocolate. image
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    Not even SWISS coins?!image
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I never realized chocolate was as heavy as gold. image

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  • COALPORTERCOALPORTER Posts: 2,900 ✭✭
    Well, chocolate is going up allot too. image
  • PCcoinsPCcoins Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭
    Anytime someone wants to meet at 84th st. and something, it's just not gonna turn out well.



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  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,120 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A coin huckster in Lincoln, Nebraska?

    I don't believe it.

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  • lightcyclerlightcycler Posts: 546 ✭


    << <i>A coin huckster in Lincoln, Nebraska?

    I don't believe it. >>



    A husker fan no doubt image
  • CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭


    << <i>A coin huckster in Lincoln, Nebraska?

    I don't believe it. >>



    Hey now! image
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  • mikeygmikeyg Posts: 1,002 ✭




    I guess getting hosed when I buy gold isnt so bad.image
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When it seems too good to be true.... well, we all know the rest.... even if they were gold, they would likely be stolen goods... or more likely, simply a case of luring to be robbed.... this whole situation is a giant red flag. Cheers, RickO
  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

    ...does anyone think the candy was stolen? image
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  • JamesMurrayJamesMurray Posts: 4,036 ✭
    Why is it when i read this a little voice is screaming Craigslist in my napper ..
  • scottgardenerscottgardener Posts: 1,205 ✭
    This is plain weird. It's horrible, and it should not be funny, but it's not hard to picture all kinds of responses, like how candy coming out of China might be contaminated with actual precious metal.
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  • CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭
    Man, that icon looks awfully familiar image
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  • notlogicalnotlogical Posts: 2,235 ✭


    << <i>Man, that icon looks awfully familiar image >>



    It's my evil twin....

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  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    hey Sam, hope your doing ok!

    as for thethread, who would agree to buy gold in that fashion, sure im going to meet
    somone I do not know in some unfamiliar place to exchange large dollars in the dark

    lol asked to be maced, seriously, as there are enough people out there driven by greed
    to do smoething as stupid as this they deserve what they get.

    I do feel sorry though
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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 36,065 ✭✭✭✭✭
    and a new crime of the grab cash and go type
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  • JamesMurrayJamesMurray Posts: 4,036 ✭
    "A Hastings man on Tuesday reported the theft of $27,000 following what was supposed to be a transaction with a gold coin dealer that Lincoln police had warned him not to go through with."

    Difficult to sympathise.

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  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭
    Sounds like an episode of Cops, almost. Except it's not usually gold they are offering...
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