Four rolls of Gold Eagles missing.....Update, found
lathmach
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I have been doing some work for the owner of a small machine shop near me.
I delivered an order of parts to his home early this afternoon.
He's been living in a small house trailer since his house burned, and is presently having a house built on the same site overlooking Lake Michigan.
I drove up just as the carpenter crew was leaving for lunch. The guy was outside the trailer talking to them.
After they left, we looked at the machined parts I'd brought, and talked a bit.
He'd been one of my coin dealers when I was putting on coin shows.
He said he wanted to show me something, and went to his little electric golf cart he uses to scoot around his property on.
He came back pale as a ghost.
He'd left 4 square plastic tubes of old Gold Eagles on the seat.
They were gone.
He told me he'd let me know how things turn out.
Ray
I delivered an order of parts to his home early this afternoon.
He's been living in a small house trailer since his house burned, and is presently having a house built on the same site overlooking Lake Michigan.
I drove up just as the carpenter crew was leaving for lunch. The guy was outside the trailer talking to them.
After they left, we looked at the machined parts I'd brought, and talked a bit.
He'd been one of my coin dealers when I was putting on coin shows.
He said he wanted to show me something, and went to his little electric golf cart he uses to scoot around his property on.
He came back pale as a ghost.
He'd left 4 square plastic tubes of old Gold Eagles on the seat.
They were gone.
He told me he'd let me know how things turn out.
Ray
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<< <i>I would immediately suspect the carpenter crew. >>
The owner will immediately suspect any coin collectors in the vicinity, be they carpenters or not.
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
this is not his year.
sorry to hear about this.
Here's a link to it.
Machine shop auction
I may go and buy a few things for my machine shop.
I've been cleaning up some of his work so his customers aren't left hanging.
Ray
<< <i>Call the police, get the carpenter crew sequestered along with ANYONE else that had access during the time period. One will break. >>
It seems unlikely that the local law enforcement authorites will have the ability to "sequester" anyone without any evidence of their involvement in the disappearance. They may be questioned, but cannot be held without probable cause.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
<< <i>I have been doing some work for the owner of a small machine shop near me.
I delivered an order of parts to his home early this afternoon.
He's been living in a small house trailer since his house burned, and is presently having a house built on the same site overlooking Lake Michigan.
I drove up just as the carpenter crew was leaving for lunch. The guy was outside the trailer talking to them.
After they left, we looked at the machined parts I'd brought, and talked a bit.
He'd been one of my coin dealers when I was putting on coin shows.
He said he wanted to show me something, and went to his little electric golf cart he uses to scoot around his property on.
He came back pale as a ghost.
He'd left 4 square plastic tubes of old Gold Eagles on the seat.
They were gone.
He told me he'd let me know how things turn out.
Ray >>
I would immediately contact all pawn, bullion brokers and coinshops within a 100 mile radius. Crooks for the most part are stupid, that's why they are crooks. The will most likely try and unload them all at the same place and probably in the plastic tubes they stole them in.
JJ
What demonination were they?$5 are less painful than $50's. Hope he finds them.
Box of 20
30K on a golf cart seat could turn some smart people crooked...
Bullion coins run a close second.
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That is the reason banks have Safety Deposit Boxes.
<< <i>I am really sorry that your friend cought such a bad case of stupid. But If he left them laying around then he desreves to lose them.
That is the reason banks have Safety Deposit Boxes. >>
Sorry but nobody "Deserves" to be a victim of theft.
<< <i>I am really sorry that your friend cought such a bad case of stupid. But If he left them laying around then he desreves to lose them.
That is the reason banks have Safety Deposit Boxes. >>
It may be my age, 57, but I don't agree at all. I came from a time and place where keys were left it the ignition and doors left unlocked.
And your stuff was left alone.
W.C. Fields
Hoard the keys.
<< <i>It's Bush's fault!
NO! NO! It's Spiro Agnew's fault.
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<< <i>I am really sorry that your friend cought such a bad case of stupid. But If he left them laying around then he desreves to lose them.
That is the reason banks have Safety Deposit Boxes. >>
It may be my age, 57, but I don't agree at all. I came from a time and place where keys were left it the ignition and doors left unlocked.
And your stuff was left alone. >>
Still is around here. I havent taken the keys out of my truck in months... or the car for that matter... and the keys to my shop are right above the door... and everyone knows it.
You cannot just leave them there because someone may come along and steal them. You cannot wait for the person to return because he may not return for hours. I think i would take them right to the police station and get a reciept saying that i turned them in and leave a note on the cart if possible .
Maybe the person did not think to write a note and they turned them in to the police. Why would anyone take four rolls of gold coins on a golf cart to begin with?
Stupid is as stupid does.
Lesson learned.
They could have fallen onto the back deck or onto the ground.
He is selling off his business yet buying $30,000 in Gold?
Who is going to be so careless with that much Gold?
Something's not quite right here.
<< <i>Crooks for the most part are stupid, >>
ONLY the stupid ones get caught...the smart ones, you never hear about...I wonder if it's an attempt at an"insurance claim"..
<< <i>Crooks for the most part are stupid, that's why they are crooks. >>
In this case, the victum is even more stupid.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
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<< <i>Crooks for the most part are stupid, >>
ONLY the stupid ones get caught...the smart ones, you never hear about...I wonder if it's an attempt at an"insurance claim".. >>
With a convenient "witness?"
He has my symptathy. Stupidity isn't always the cause for leaving valuables around. It's very easy for me to get distracted in the middle of things. Memory loss is the cause for most careless things on my part. I've moved valuables around, got distracted, couldn't find them later after I realized what I was in the middle of, thankfully, so far they have always shown up. That is other than 2 gold coins that I've looked high and low for the last 5+yrs. Hopefully even they will show up eventually.
NO PERSON DESERVES TO HAVE GOLD COINS STOLEN, REGARDLESS OF HOW STUPID SOME ON YOU THINK HE WAS.
my bet is he finds them eventually...
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Thousands in "gold eagles" stolen = insurance claim
Hmmmm, I wonder if anyone else saw the gold eagles?
<< <i>Still is around here. I havent taken the keys out of my truck in months... or the car for that matter... and the keys to my shop are right above the door... and everyone knows it. >>
Around here the truck and car would be stolen, stripped of parts, and the scrap metal would be on a slow boat to china by now. As for the shop it would be a empy wherehouse over night. We have had people try to steal the scrap alumiun at work while the night shift was still there. Had to move the bins inside the building. And as for the cars three of my fellow workers have had theres stolen out of their driveway and they all had alarms and were locked.
Hopefully he finds them. That would be a nasty loss.
Tyler
<< <i>Thousands in "gold eagles" stolen = insurance claim >>
"Mysterious disappearance" is usually not covered by insurance. When something has gone missing, but with no proof of actual theft (basically, you need a witness who actually saw someone take something, or at least evidence of a break-in), you won't collect a dime. Leaving something in the seat of a golf cart, unlocked, will have simply "gone missing" according to every insurance company. And even if you can prove theft, you'd better have a receipt proving you owned such an item.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
Ray
<< <i>I'm 15 miles from Muskegon.
Ray >>
It was Tassa!
Round up the usual suspects!
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<< <i>"It was the carpenters"
Round up the usual suspects! >>
Still waiting for an update...but chances are good they were found safe and sound.
<< <i> Still waiting for an update...but chances are good they were found safe and sound. >>
I have my doubts that they ever existed.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
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<< <i> Still waiting for an update...but chances are good they were found safe and sound. >>
I have my doubts that they ever existed. >>
Well, my ID says it all but I'm glad you said it first