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2007-12-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-

A Shining Example of Albanian Public Education: Dynamic dodos fumble FedEx theft

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Posted by Icerigger 2007-12-22 09:59|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Where is Greenpoint?

Posted by Almost Anonymous5839">Almost Anonymous5839 2007-12-22 11:09|| 2007-12-22 11:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Brooklyn: just north of Williamsburg, just south of Queens.

Posted by JSU 2007-12-22 12:27|| 2007-12-22 12:27|| Front Page Top

#3 That would not happen to many long haul truckers. The hijackers would be facing the business end of a shotgun.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-12-22 12:43|| 2007-12-22 12:43|| Front Page Top

#4 The comments on that site are very enlightening. According to them, you'd have to take the containers (weighing thousands of pounds) off the truck before they could be opened (their doors face the sides of the truck, not the rear). Might need a special forklift or other type of equipment, too.

So their stupidity lay mainly in not realizing that would happen.

I would think there wouldn't be much percentage in heisting a large, general cargo like this, even if the packages were just piled randomly in the truck. You'd get fruitcakes, clothes, books, other stuff it wouldn't be worth your while to unload. But I guess they're not petty crooks because they were the brightest bulbs on the string.

I always figure that if our Christmas presents are stolen, the thieves are in for one hell of a disappointment. Robert Rich CDs and books about the Age of Sail aren't going to bring very much down at Ye Olde Fence.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-12-22 13:18|| 2007-12-22 13:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Look at the Forgotten NY web site, AA. Here too.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-12-22 23:01|| 2007-12-22 23:01|| Front Page Top

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