Crooks steal gold from elderly man, sad

This poor fellow had been saving gold Krugerrands for decades, it was his BIG nest egg. This local coin dealer manged to steal it all from him. There is a lesson here. Link to story:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-jupiter-stolen-coins-20150729-story.html


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Sad story, but why would you show up to sell your coins at a deli . The thief owned his own coin shop, thats where I would of meet and the brief case would of never left my side, or been left in the car ..

 

thief looks like a drug addict. man that's sad.

 

Yeah, classic meth addict.

 

They look to me like giant face herpes

 

Sometimes you can't tell by the looks alone. The way they act and talk give them away. I deal with folks like this all the time. It's not fun and you have to be really careful. If they don't get what they want they find a different way to come at you.

A lot of older folks are too trusting because they grew up that way in a time that had fewer bad guys around every corner. The elderly need family to guide them on this type of stuff but sometimes the family are the bad guys.

 

With a face like that, I wouldn't sell him anything.

 

One of the major downfalls of physically owning bullion or coins. Not enough people take security seriously enough. There should have been a second person with the seller, and the coins should have never left his possession at any time. For this kind of money, the only way I would have allowed them to leave the bank was with a armed escort.

Not blaming the seller at all, but its simply a warning. A lot of us have what most of the country would consider a lot of money in coins or bullion. Sadly, millions of people would steal them from us if they could.

 

That transaction never should have taken place at a deli. Even if it was at a more secure establishment, with that amount of money involved, the seller should have brought someone to help or hired an armed security guard to assist during the transaction. I hate when the elderly get taken advantage of.

 

Boy, that crook sure is creepy looking! Whats the deal with his face?

 

Sad story. He should have never left that kinda bucks out of his possession. Heck most old farts like me are suspicious penny-pinchers! BTW, has gold finally risen? "...The Krugerrand is a South African coin worth thousands of dollars. ..."

 

I believe those could be bag marks. Police tend to roughly handle predators of children and the elderly.

 

Lol, love it, "bag marks". More thieves should leave jail with "bag marks", maybe even to the point of being ungradable.

 

They'd qualify for BU (beat up).

 

Just take it as a lesson (painfully) learned. I hope somehow they do recover at least some - if not all of the coins and the man gets restitution.

Back in the day - most were honest, because we got rid of the criminals much faster. They weren't given a chance to propagate.

 

Yeah the same lesson we have been trying to teach to dealers for over 60 years, never leave your coins in the car unattended.

 

Most still are honest.

Back in the day, there were still criminals. Yeah, we got rid of a lot of them -- but we got rid of a lot of innocent people, too.

 

That sign on the grave is a fake. Wood would not have lasted in that condition - that long. What you are proposing is media propaganda with no substantive evidence.

The family never counted or gave us grandkids any factual numbers, but I do know that when my grandfather used to run payroll for the ice company back in the very early 1900's just after WW1 he was known to have shot a few "would be" robbers. There was no calling 911, and for that matter - no official "Law" in Truckee, CA. Payroll still arrived on Wells Fargo stage or by train/horseback. You protected yourself the way you best knew how and there was little mercy for those that would try.

I'm quite sure that anyone he did shoot undoubtedly deserved it.

 

Back then, when a robber failed, the euphemistic Cause of Death on their death certificates was "lead poisoning"
The quick acting kind.

 

It's a maintained graveyard. Yes, they replace the signs periodically. I'll have to disagree about the "no substantive evidence" part, though, and I'm not sure what sort of "propaganda" you think they're promulgating.

http://www.boothillgraves.com/

You seem to be arguing that swifter "justice" (retribution), administered by more people (clerks as well as sheriffs), works better -- that "undeserving" people don't get shot. I disagree. I suppose this is getting pretty far off-topic, though.