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Jewlery Heists and Transporting Valuables

I heard that someone was robbed of $40,000 of jewels the other day.

It was on some AM news station. And I'm assuming it was a home invasion. Unless you're Liz Taylor (or a rapper), you aren't walking around with jewelry that's worth that much.

The AP had a story last week out of San Francisco. A jewelry dealer was robbed at a gas station of more than $300,000 in jewelry and cash.

The 49-year-old was filling up his rental car when men smashed a window and grabbed the loot (I've always loved the word "loot").

The guy lost a laptop, and 10 grand he had in a bag, along with loose stones and whatnot.

I'm wondering why someone that would travel around with such valuables, wouldn't be better prepared for a situation like this.

I've had times where I was driving with my signed Sgt. Pepper album. And, I'd worry about what would happen if I was in a car accident or someone car jacked me, etc.

I remember a time playing basketball with my stepbrother. We were teenagers. He screamed, and ran from the court. I thought he had been stung by a bee, since my friend Dave the week before, was pitching during a baseball game. I was in the outfield, and he started jumping around the mound screaming and yelling. He was stung by a bee while in the middle of his wind-up (and it made for a pretty wild pitch).

I asked later what had happened, and my stepbrother said that the boss at his Domino's Pizza job had asked him to take an envelope of money to the bank. It had about $10,000 in it. He forget, and it was four days later, on the basketball court, that he remembered. Luckily, it was still on his passenger seat of his crappy Ford Pinto. And his bosses never asked why there was a delay.

I'd love to ask this jewelry dealer what his deal was.

I'm sure the insurance company is.

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I heard that someone was robbed of $40,000 of jewels the other day.

It was on some AM news station. And I'm assuming it was a home invasion. Unless you're Liz Taylor (or a rapper), you aren't walking around with jewelry that's worth that much.

The AP had a story last week out of San Francisco. A jewelry dealer was robbed at a gas station of more than $300,000 in jewelry and cash.

The 49-year-old was filling up his rental car when men smashed a window and grabbed the loot (I've always loved the word "loot").

The guy lost a laptop, and 10 grand he had in a bag, along with loose stones and whatnot.

I'm wondering why someone that would travel around with such valuables, wouldn't be better prepared for a situation like this.

I've had times where I was driving with my signed Sgt. Pepper album. And, I'd worry about what would happen if I was in a car accident or someone car jacked me, etc.

I remember a time playing basketball with my stepbrother. We were teenagers. He screamed, and ran from the court. I thought he had been stung by a bee, since my friend Dave the week before, was pitching during a baseball game. I was in the outfield, and he started jumping around the mound screaming and yelling. He was stung by a bee while in the middle of his wind-up (and it made for a pretty wild pitch).

I asked later what had happened, and my stepbrother said that the boss at his Domino's Pizza job had asked him to take an envelope of money to the bank. It had about $10,000 in it. He forget, and it was four days later, on the basketball court, that he remembered. Luckily, it was still on his passenger seat of his crappy Ford Pinto. And his bosses never asked why there was a delay.

I'd love to ask this jewelry dealer what his deal was.

I'm sure the insurance company is.

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