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2017-03-21 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Secret Service 'Theft' Caught on Video, Thief Knew What He Was After

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Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-03-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Sounds more like a dead drop than a robbery.

Posted by SteveS 2017-03-21 00:47|| 2017-03-21 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 I hadn't thought of a Dead Drop. Considering how messed up the SS has become it's believable.

Posted by Jeasing Creque5352 2017-03-21 05:50|| 2017-03-21 05:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Doesn't Uber require a smart phone and credit card? Plus Uber drives often record their customers. Lastly the Uber driver would be a witness.

Posted by Airandee 2017-03-21 06:24|| 2017-03-21 06:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Doesn't Uber require a smart phone and credit card? Plus Uber drives often record their customers. Lastly the Uber driver would be a witness. Posted by Airandee

Yes, there could in fact be a trail. I suspect a generous cash transaction however.

More importantly, it would appear Trump Towers is under surveillance of one type or another. Perhaps less time should be spent there.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-21 06:31|| 2017-03-21 06:31|| Front Page Top

#5 My thought too Besoeker. There ought to be a trail of breadcrumbs. BTW, how did Uber rate this passenger?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-03-21 07:49|| 2017-03-21 07:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Was the thief the Uber driver?

Doesn't take much to find a conspiracy here between the SS agent and the thief, and ????

Posted by AlanC 2017-03-21 08:05|| 2017-03-21 08:05|| Front Page Top

#7 @#5: I thought Uber passenger ratings were posted on youtube?

Posted by Beldar Lumumba8289 2017-03-21 08:26|| 2017-03-21 08:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Setting up a Dead Drop in your own driveway is an interesting twist.

Usually preferred would be a bench or lampost in lovely Ft. Greene Park, but leaving the 'bundle' in your driveway might deflect from you as simply being stupid and not actually subversive.

Leaving one's vehicle unlocked at 3AM (in Brooklyn mind you, not Greenleaf Kansas), and not simply staging a 'smash and grab' to retrieve the item(s), does indicate the latter in my mind.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-03-21 10:00|| 2017-03-21 10:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Setting up a Dead Drop in your own driveway is an interesting twist.

Genius found in the illogical? Well I mean, James Comey is still the Director of the FBI.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-21 10:05|| 2017-03-21 10:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Genius found in the illogical?

A 'Genius' might have fleshed it out a bit more to make it believable, though. The 'unlocked vehicle' would NOT be SOP for any area resident. The video supposedly doesn't show the guy using a key or anything to enter the car, either.

The idea that a 'thief' simply trolled residential areas, riding in an Uber no less, looking for unlocked vehicles with laptops/passports/lapel pins (with very powerful night vision double plus ultra x-ray binoculars, no doubt) is beyond absurd.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-03-21 10:28|| 2017-03-21 10:28|| Front Page Top

#11 As I posted yesterday, I don't worry about SS agents who say they won't take a bullet for Trump, but about ones who're more discrete.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-21 10:40|| 2017-03-21 10:40|| Front Page Top

#12 Whatever other crimes the agent may have committed he is clearly felony stupid.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-03-21 12:28|| 2017-03-21 12:28|| Front Page Top

#13 How do they know it was an Uber? Unless they have the license plate, which should make tracking the passenger easy.

Either the thief was dumb as bricks, or this was a sophisticated operation with a false persona.

Posted by phil_b 2017-03-21 20:43|| 2017-03-21 20:43|| Front Page Top

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