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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Today's Idiot
2007-09-02
Thief steals case, but misses $13,000 inside
Crime didn't pay!
BERLIN (Reuters) - A thief stole a briefcase and threw it away without noticing it contained 10,000 euros ($13,660) in cash, German authorities said Thursday.
Oops!
"I think they'll be annoyed when they find out," said a spokesman for police in the western city of Duesseldorf.
'Annoyed' is one way of putting it.
The case's owner, a 57-year-old Iranian businessman, had reported it missing as he prepared to board a flight in Duesseldorf airport. A policewoman later found it -- ransacked, but still containing the two cash-filled envelopes.
Hmmmm... what was the cash for, Hossein?
Posted by:Free Radical

#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  

#8  Certainly something more valuable than the cash...
Posted by: john frum   2007-09-02 17:58  

#7  laptop? documents?

Heroin?
Posted by: Zenster   2007-09-02 17:09  

#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   2007-09-02 17:04  

#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   2007-09-02 15:40  

#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   2007-09-02 15:09  

#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  

#2  Probably couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Posted by: gorb   2007-09-02 03:33  

#1  Maybe, but consider a posibility that the briefcase contained something more valuable than cash.
Posted by: twobyfour   2007-09-02 01:52  

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