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slightly OT - CNN on missing Key West gold bar, ...coming up in a moment

turn on CNN to catch this report on the missing gold bar..., soon after 5:27 cdt ???

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,945 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hopefully it was recovered undamaged and the perps were caught.

    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

  • well that was simple.

    why didn't any of you other people think of this first when you were standing there holding the thing?!
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,945 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I missed the CNN report. What's happened?

    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

  • the guy picks the bar up, knocks it a time or two on the clear viewing panels (made of acrylic of some kind?);

    then pops out the bar by slamming it back, bashing it against the thinner-cut parts of the innermost acrylic panel;

    rotates the bar just a bit to slide it out of the arm hole portion of the display (made of a stronger material, but at this point it doesn't matter, as he's already busted out the innermost containment panel and has room inside the clear display cubicle to rotate the bar just enough to pull it right out of the arm hole);

    slides the bar into his deep pants pocket, casually walks away from the display, off-view of the camera.

    bodda bing, bodda boom.


    p.s. of course maybe someone else saw some other stuff going on in the video, I couldn't make it all out.


    oh, btw, in the story it is presented that the thieves may have saddled themselves with a white elephant, no mention was made, that I caught, of the bar being melted right off the bat.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Typical... that old saw about gold being hard to get rid of.... this bar is similar in some respects to stolen art, there is a market for it. One way or the other, it can be liquidated. Cheers, RickO

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