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Jewlery Heists and Transporting Valuables
By Josh Board | Posted November 21, 2009, 5:30 p.m.
I heard that someone was robbed of $40,000 of jewels the other day.
It was on some AM news station. And I'm assuming it was a home invasion. Unless you're Liz Taylor (or a rapper), you aren't walking around with jewelry that's worth that much.
The AP had a story last week out of San Francisco. A jewelry dealer was robbed at a gas station of more than $300,000 in jewelry and cash.
The 49-year-old was filling up his rental car when men smashed a window and grabbed the loot (I've always loved the word "loot").
The guy lost a laptop, and 10 grand he had in a bag, along with loose stones and whatnot.
I'm wondering why someone that would travel around with such valuables, wouldn't be better prepared for a situation like this.
I've had times where I was driving with my signed Sgt. Pepper album. And, I'd worry about what would happen if I was in a car accident or someone car jacked me, etc.
I remember a time playing basketball with my stepbrother. We were teenagers. He screamed, and ran from the court. I thought he had been stung by a bee, since my friend Dave the week before, was pitching during a baseball game. I was in the outfield, and he started jumping around the mound screaming and yelling. He was stung by a bee while in the middle of his wind-up (and it made for a pretty wild pitch).
I asked later what had happened, and my stepbrother said that the boss at his Domino's Pizza job had asked him to take an envelope of money to the bank. It had about $10,000 in it. He forget, and it was four days later, on the basketball court, that he remembered. Luckily, it was still on his passenger seat of his crappy Ford Pinto. And his bosses never asked why there was a delay.
I'd love to ask this jewelry dealer what his deal was.
I'm sure the insurance company is.
LOOT - good word. Double O's are usually pretty cool together.
GOOD COOL HOOTERS WOOD SPOOL DOOM MOODY POOP BOO TOOL ROOKIE BOOBS LOO POOL WOO SHOOT GOON ... and speaking of POOLs...
i've been stung by bees about 10 times in my life and i've become quite allergic to them. SUCKS. i still let them out of the pool when i see them aimlessly "swimming" around.
By KarenBP 6:17 p.m., Nov 21, 2009 > Report it
I wonder why the guy wasn't packin' heat. Most states, Cailfornia included, allow jewelers to carry concealed weapons due to the risky nature of their travels. I too am allergic to bees and it sucks. Haven't been stung in a few years though.
By PistolPete 7:48 p.m., Nov 21, 2009 > Report it
I'm surprised that Domino's did not send the police after the twenty-four hours.
By kjginsandiego 8:51 p.m., Nov 21, 2009 > Report it
My favorite Domino's story with him involving money, is the time a good looking woman was asked to take off her shirt by some idiot working there. She said "For $50." He was one of the assistant managers or something, and was counting a register. They asked him for $30 (since all the other drivers ponied up the $20). He smiled, and handed them the money out of the register. She flashed them quickly, and ran out to her car with the money. The guys all applauded (are we really these easily amused?)
He then realized, he couldn't just have the register be short that amount, so he took $30 out of his wallet, and put it back in the safe with the rest of the days cash.
Regarding bees, I hated swimming laps at my pool in San Marcos, and always seeing bees swimming around. I never bothered rescuing them, because I thought I heard that once their wings are wet, they could never fly again. Oh wait, maybe that was butterflies.
I did often have to rescue baby lizards. Unfortunately, I usually found them when it was too late.
I've never been stung by a bee, but lots of wasps over the years. Not only would I not save one of them from my pool, I'd love to see those little bastards all drown tomorrow!
By JoshBoard 12:19 a.m., Nov 22, 2009 > Report it
One of the cool things about workin' at Slaveway was the Pizza Slut two doors down. Almost every night after work, I'd go out the backdoor, walked to the backdoor of Pizza Slut, enter in the driver's code, open the door and yell, "BEER RUN!!" Whether you were underage or not, that was your 30-second cue to pony up some money for beer.
One night for Thanksgiving we decided to hold a beer bust in the back of Pizza Slut. I bought MASSIVE amounts of beer from the CVS and we proceeded to get hammered. Pizza Slut was closed and it was about midnight when I ran out of beer. I had another 12-pack in the cooler. When I opened the door, my friend was bangin' his GF in the walk-in. Without missin' a beat, I said, "No no. Don't let me stop you. I need more beer and that dough needs to rise." As I turned and shut the door, I heard his GF start to laugh.
I almost wanted to quit my job and get hired at Pizza Slut. They were a hell of lot more fun than the lamos I worked with.
By PistolPete 12:32 a.m., Nov 22, 2009 > Report it
PP, that is a fuuuuunnnnnnnnnnny story!
i'll never think of Pizza Hut the same way again.
By KarenBP 12:41 a.m., Nov 22, 2009 > Report it
Josh, i got stung about 10 times consecutively from at least three wasps during a run thru some hiking trails in Northern California a couple of years back. i must have run next to, into or over one of their fallen hives or something. Very not fun.
Thanks for saving the lizards. Even if it was late.
Bees still fly after they land in the water. i've seen 'em carry on hundreds of times. Also, i got stung by one as i lifted him out of my parents' pool last year. And *then* he died. The end.
By KarenBP 12:44 a.m., Nov 22, 2009 > Report it
Were you glad he died? I mean, here you are saving him from his chlorine death bed, and he responds by stinging you butt (errrr, hand).
Pete, I would've said "Make sure he delivers in 30 minutes or less." Oh wait, that's the Dominos catch-phrase, huh?
Anyway...hopefully after they finished in the walk-in, they cleaned up in that big sink. You know the one. The one that KFC employees were washing in on the internet, and promptly got fired.
By JoshBoard 1:17 a.m., Nov 22, 2009 > Report it
I'll bet the insurance company thinks it was an inside job...like someone tipped of the guys who robbed him...like a bad movie or something! Never been stung by a bee...spider bites...those suck...and I always thought I was smart enough never to work directly with a girlfriend...I've seen them end badly and then it gets awkward at work...but a quickie in the cooler can't be that bad, right?
By redsoxfan 4:16 a.m., Nov 22, 2009 > Report it
Just to set the record straight, redsoxfan, his GF didn't work there. And Josh? I didn't have time to think of any great zingers so I just said the first thing that came to mind when he turned around and lost his manhood pretty quickly. Later on, I joked in private with him about some I had thought of while drinking.
By PistolPete 8:58 a.m., Nov 22, 2009 > Report it
That's a good point, Pete. Even though I type zingers as I think of 'em...people are probably a lot less funny when they walk into a cooler and see something of that nature.
If I was the guy that was walked in on, and break out a George Costanza yell and exclaim "It's cold in here! There's shrinkage!"
Although, I'd never be in a situation like that. I've never understood the point of just having sex at the location you happen to be at. The negatives of that always far outweigh the positivtes.
Regarding the "inside job"...it's funny, because everyone always hates insurance companies. And they do pull a lot of shady things when it's time to get a claim. But there are also people always cheating them, too.
If this jewelry dude knew he'd need to put gas in his car...why not do that before hand? Once you have that type of money and valuables in a vehicle, doors should be locked while driving. And you should be driving right to where you want to go.
Or, you can always hire a bodyguard of chauffer.
I did a story on the boy that drowned at Tommy Lees house. A local woman testified in that trial, and they basically said -- Lee hired clowns. He hired people to cater the food. He even hired security guards at his front door, to make sure only his kids friends and their parents came in.
Yet, he didn't think to hire a lifeguard, for a pool that went around an entire side of his mansion, that was out of view.
So, this guy should've known better. I'm guessing we'll hear it was an inside job, and once that comes out...not only does this guy get nabbed with insurance fraud, but filing false police reports and a whole host of other things.
By JoshBoard 2:11 p.m., Nov 22, 2009 > Report it
Karen...speaking of the two o combination in words, it seems like it the word "binocular" should be spelled with two O's.
By JoshBoard 7:02 p.m., Nov 22, 2009 > Report it
Noo, i was noot glad when the bee bit it. But yoou knoow i'm oone oof thoose weird vegetarian types whoo looves animals oof all soorts.
And i whooleheartedly agree aboout binooculars.
Bet GWB woould call'm that, in recalling hoow he'd say the woord "nuclear."
Thanks foor the replies, Joosh :)
(Joosh woorks soo many ways)
By KarenBP 7:24 p.m., Nov 22, 2009 > Report it
George Costanza :-D
I don't think they were expecting anyone to walk in the cooler because we were in the back parking lot for about an hour and a half. We only went inside to use the bathroom. And in fairness, I hid my beer in the cooler so nobody would take any.
By PistolPete 7:37 p.m., Nov 22, 2009 > Report it
My 3 years working at McDonald's as a teen, the only thing I ever caught anyone doing in the walk-in cooler, was eating food they weren't supposed to. You could walk in, and stick one of those tiny cheeseburgers in your mouth, and eat it, in under a minute.
By JoshBoard 1:59 a.m., Nov 23, 2009 > Report it
Karen I didn't know you were Norwegian.
By rickeysays 4:07 p.m., Nov 23, 2009 > Report it