Anyone lose their gold on a Transvalue truck in North Carolina?

Oddly, our local newspaper is reporting that the robbers "emerge[d] from woods at the roadside", which sounds distinctly different from "pulling up in a van".

http://www.newsobserver.com/2015/03/02/4594344_gunmen-steal-more-than-4-million.html?rh=1

The folks in the semi are going to have a lot of 'splainin' to do.

 

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Lol, the "armed guards" had someone walk up on them, but "couldn't give police a description of the gunmen". Man, it just keeps getting deeper and deeper huh? By "deeper and deeper", I am referring of course to the BS, not the believability of the story.

 

My wife can put it in her purse.

 

I came up with a similar number this morning, although I didn't post it.

Seems the "gold" was in a slurry of other materials if it was being shipped in barrels. Lyds mentioned a plausible explanation for the barrels. The barrels would need processing to extract the gold.

 

I can vision a movie script coming from this one staring George Clooney.

 

Anyone ever see the movie 'The Great Train Robbery'? (Connery/Sutherland)

For that matter, do any of you kids remember the original occurrence back in '63?

 

Oh, yeah! It's right up there second to JFK being killed! *sarcasm* ... no, I don't remember it. I was only 7. My memory from that age is pretty much limited to a few things that I experienced myself, and my world didn't include trains in Great Britain. Robbery or no Robbery.

I think any "kids" who remember this from the time it happened must be at least 68 or older, and keeping up with world news.

 

Well......I was 13 at the time.

 

I was one if it happened in the last couple months of that year.

 

Child......

And the embryonic fluid filters out news stories.

 

Must be true. I can't remember the Kennedy assassination either.

 

In a few days will be the 88th anniversary of the first armored car robbery in the US which occurred on March 11, 1927. I grew up (much later) less than a mile from where it happened and still live about 2 miles away. They got $104,000 which is about 1.3 Million in today's dollars. It's not at all uncommon today for armored trucks to carry over 1 Million in cash.

https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/march-11-first-armored-car-heist-went-off-140106916.html

 

That's what I was thinking too. If it was in metal form it doesn't take up that much space. 275 pounds of gold can be formed into a cube a little less than 7 1/2 inches on a side. Not something you would need a semi truck for.

On the other hand dissolved in solution creates another problem. Assuming standard 55 gal barrels, each barrel will have 90 pounds of gold and 400 or so pounds of solution in it. How do you get a 490 pound barrel down off a semi without a loading dock or a forklift?

And if they did break down you can bet they had radios and cell phones they could report the problem to the police immediately.

As for sabotaging the truck at a rest stop or something like that, one of the reason for two people is so that there are very few stops and the truck in never left unattended. You would think the guy sitting in the cab would notice someone opening his hood to mess with the engine.

No this smells like an inside job all the way. Maybe meet and offload the barrels someplace and then go stage the breakdown and robbery,

 

See the other thread. The investigators think it smells, too, and the story from the folks on the semi seems a bit fluid.

 

From another version of the story they are now changing the reason they pulled over, not mechanical trouble, they now say it was because one of them was carsick.

 

Previous reports confused because of language/translation problems.
Latest report: Eleven 25 pound gold bars; some more gold wasn't taken, no mention of silver. http://www.wral.com/suspicion-surrounds-i-95-gold-heist-as-investigation-continues/14490335/