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2007-09-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Free Radical 2007-09-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Maybe, but consider a posibility that the briefcase contained something more valuable than cash.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-02 01:52|| 2007-09-02 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Probably couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Posted by gorb 2007-09-02 03:33|| 2007-09-02 03:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Hmm, 2 cash filled envelopes? Sounds like payments to me. Ransacked? Yup, probably more important stuff in there. Couldn't be a thief, he wouldn't miss the bucks. Couldn't be a spy, he would have taken the money so people would suspect the thief.

Posted by Xenophon 2007-09-02 11:57|| 2007-09-02 11:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Did the nice Iranian man happen to have declared that money as law requires? If not, why is he still walking the streets?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-02 15:09|| 2007-09-02 15:09|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm with 2X4 - I bet he's more worried about what was taken (laptop? documents?) than about the cash....I wouldn't be so sure the thief didn't have an American accent to his German

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-09-02 15:40|| 2007-09-02 15:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Couldn't be a thief, he wouldn't miss the bucks.
Thieves were in a big hurry- grab the laptop or whatever, leave the mail.
Still want to know what the ducats were for.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2007-09-02 17:04|| 2007-09-02 17:04|| Front Page Top

#7 laptop? documents?

Heroin?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-02 17:09|| 2007-09-02 17:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Certainly something more valuable than the cash...

Posted by john frum 2007-09-02 17:58|| 2007-09-02 17:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Zen, heroins is shipped in diplo-pouches. Laptops are usually carried in their own case. I'd bet on interesting docs or data media.

Frank G, the 'thief' likely spoke native German. There are several branches of German Police, if you catch my drift. Not saying that some other party with an American accent coudn't been interested and involved, sorta remotely, too.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-02 22:56|| 2007-09-02 22:56|| Front Page Top

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