$1.6M Bucket of gold on the lose

[Xraywolf]

[h=1]NYPD: Thief stole 86 lb. bucket of gold flakes worth $1.6M from armored truck in Midtown[/h]
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nypd-thief-stole-86-lb-153238979.html

 

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[kcm]

...But all I really wanted was the bucket. I threw the rest away. HONEST!!

 

[Jason in Enid]

That didn't weigh 86 pounds! The way that guy carried it off it wasn't close to the listed weight.

 

[Peyton Manning]

was that the gold tod hoffman got this week?

 

[Xraywolf]

I dunno, gold weighs 160 lbs per gallon.
Flake would be lighter, but it would have some weight to it if the bucket was filled.
Bucket looks to be about 2 gallons 3 max, so if filled would be extremely heavy unless the drop in weight solid vs flake is more extreme than I am thinking.

They say its 86lbs - A full 5 gallon bucket, which I have lifted 100's if not 1,000's of times, is pretty dang heavy and they weight around 50-70 lbs [a gallon of paint would be heavier than a gallon of water].
So I'm dubious about the weight too, the guy doesn't look like a power lifter or anything.

 

[SD51]

Saw the video earlier today. They left the back of the truck open. Reminded me of the scene in the movie "Groundhog Day".

 

[boogeyman]

Insurance scam setup, wanna bet? Read the story It said the guard walked around the front of the truck to get his call phone (yeah right). Watch the vid real careful - how many people are walking past? The thief walks towards the front of the truck?!? Then he spends an hour dragging it the distance it would normally take 10 minutes to cover to a white van that was waiting. His buddy with the van just happened to be there? The van driver didn't think to pull a little closer?

My prediction? A bucket was placed in the truck, the guard conveniently walked away when he saw his accomplice. The bucket was probably filled with pennies, the lid was sealed by the shipper. The pennies / gold will never be recovered. The shipper, driver, thief, van driver will soon be splitting their shares of 1.2 million.


BTW if you really need a giggle, read the comments from the MSN article! According to the armchair sleuths the only place that much flake could've come from is on the floor of some jeweler. Guess we've been doing all that hard work in the field and all we had to do was ask the jeweler if we could have a couple of scoops of his 1.2 million he has sitting in the corner of the back room!! Great comments! If you don't get a laugh out of em, there's sumpin wrong with you!

 

[cyberdan]

It looks like just some small time thief saw an opportunity to steel something. I am sure he did not even know what was in there. He also didn't know there are cameras everywhere. The van was also plainly marked with a company name and I am sure the police got plates from that last video. I know NCIS would have solved this in 5 min

 

[smokeythecat]

Yes, great pics with the cameras.

 

[clv]

Dam, too bad I am restricted to only lifting 25 pounds...and he found it without a metal detector or a gold pan. I guess that the streets of New York are really paved with gold

 

[boogeyman]

It looks like just some small time thief saw an opportunity to steel something. I am sure he did not even know what was in there. He also didn't know there are cameras everywhere. The van was also plainly marked with a company name and I am sure the police got plates from that last video. I know NCIS would have solved this in 5 min

Yup! 5.5 if they had to run DNA!

 

[Xraywolf]

[h=1]Man Arrested in Ecuador in Brazen NYC Theft of Gold Flakes[/h]
A fugitive wanted for the brazen theft of an 86-pound bucket of gold flakes worth nearly $1.6 million off an armored truck in midtown Manhattan has been arrested in Ecuador, police said Friday.
U.S. Homeland Security investigators and New York City and Ecuadorean police apprehended Julio Nivelo, who also uses aliases. In Ecuador, prosecutor Maria Aguirre said Nivelo would be tried in the country for theft. Ecuador does not permit extradition.
Nivelo was arrested Thursday after leaving the home of a relative, where he had been living, said police Col. Carlos Coloma. Officials tracked him from New York through Florida, they said.
Defense attorney Faricio Garcia argued that immigration documents indicate that Nivelo wasn't even in New York at the time of the theft because he has been banned from entering the U.S. since 2008.
Earlier, Ecuadoran police said in a statement that there was no registry of Nivelo entering the country legally, "and it is presumed that he did it in a clandestine manner at the border."
The gold hasn't been recovered. Surveillance cameras showed the thief swiping the 5-gallon bucket off the back of the vehicle in broad daylight on Sept. 29.


Man Arrested in Ecuador in Brazen NYC Theft of Gold Flakes - ABC News

 

[kcm]

Whaty a moron, as well as the morons that allowed him to even have the chance to try!

 

[cyberdan]

...because he has been banned from entering the U.S. since 2008...

What else has this illegal alien has been doing for the last several years, and what got him deported in the first place.

 

[against the wind]

I dunno, gold weighs 160 lbs per gallon.
Flake would be lighter, but it would have some weight to it if the bucket was filled.
Bucket looks to be about 2 gallons 3 max, so if filled would be extremely heavy unless the drop in weight solid vs flake is more extreme than I am thinking.

They say its 86lbs - A full 5 gallon bucket, which I have lifted 100's if not 1,000's of times, is pretty dang heavy and they weight around 50-70 lbs [a gallon of paint would be heavier than a gallon of water].
So I'm dubious about the weight too, the guy doesn't look like a power lifter or anything.

I was wondering, , which weighs more? 80 pounds of feathers or 80 pounds of gold? Isn't 80 lbs equal to 80lbs?
I think it would take a much larger container to hold 80 lbs. of feathers but the weight would be the same.
I heard that the thief has been identified and apprehended.

 

[Jason in Enid]

I was wondering, , which weighs more? 80 pounds of feathers or 80 pounds of gold? Isn't 80 lbs equal to 80lbs?
I think it would take a much larger container to hold 80 lbs. of feathers but the weight would be the same.
I heard that the thief has been identified and apprehended.

Dont confuse a pound = pound with a gallon = pound. A 5 gallon bucket of water is easy enough to lift. A 5 gallon bucket of hydrocloric acid would be much, much heavier.

 

[Xraywolf]

Well sure, 80 lbs of anything is equal to 80 lbs of anything else. 80 lbs of gold would fit in half a gallon, 80 lbs of feathers probably 50 gallon drum.