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This is just beautiful.

 

Man Steals $100,000 Rare Coin Collection but Spends the Quarters, Dimes Etc at Face Value on Pizza and a Movie

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LONGVIEW — A Vancouver man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing an antique coin collection, estimated to be worth $100,000, after he spent some of the rare coins at a movie theater and pizza restaurant, Woodland police said.

 

One of the coins was a quarter worth thousands of dollars that the suspect spent at face value, according to investigators.

 

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I guarantee this is what was going through his mind...

 

"Hey, there's a huge box of quarters here in the garage, buried under a bunch of other crap, with a half-inch of dust on it. They don't even know it's here! Because if they did, they wouldn't just leave it sitting out here in storage. There's gotta be at least 30 or 40 dollars worth in here, and they don't even know it! ...Dude, if I took it, they wouldn't even realize it was gone. How cool is that?"

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  • 1 year later...

Mexican truck carrying cobalt-60 robbed

 

They stole a truck carrying cobalt-60 (the truck itself was legit, but not properly equipped, so they probably did not know what they were stealing), opened the box, and ditched everything. Most likely, they'll be dead soon.

I just read about a thai salvage yard having cobalt-60 mixed into it's stuff and not being found until radioactive items made from the steel started turning up.

 

Hmm, the thai item was back in 2000.

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I just read about a thai salvage yard having cobalt-60 mixed into it's stuff and not being found until radioactive items made from the steel started turning up.

 

Hmm, the thai item was back in 2000.

 

If this is the same story I heard...  

 

The radioactive stuff was from an old Xray machine.  It was discovered by a radiation detector going off at a highway checkpoint - the detectors over 100 feet away on the road going the other direction.  And the poor staffers weren't properly trained how to react when the sensor went off...

 

Chris.

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Haven't heard about that one, but a ship was quarantined in Italy (Genoa) when it was detected as emitting unsafe levels of radiation. It took robots about a year to pick through nearly 25,000 tons of scrap metal on board to find the source .... a cobalt-90 rod about 20 centimetres long and 1 cm thick (say, about 8 inches long by a third of an inch thick). It's nasty stuff. I don't recall the exact number but safe exposure time at close range was just a few minutes.

 

cheers, Mark

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