Pen heist

[Monty]

A man stole 11 pens worth over $7000 from a local store during business hours yesterday. Here's a link to the story.

 

[Herb G]

Well, he knew what he was after. I tend to take these stories with a healthy grain of salt.

Keep in mind a lot of jewelry store deploy fakes in the display cases and keep the real stuff in the safe in the back.
There was a local Mom & Pop store here years ago that said they were broke into & a lot of stuff was stolen.

Something was fishy with their story & it came out later the "robbery" was an attempt to collect insurance money so they could go out of business & retire. Nothing was stolen except fake jewelry. They forgot to take the real stuff out of the safe, which is where the cops found it.

 

[Smitty37]

Well, he knew what he was after. I tend to take these stories with a healthy grain of salt.

Keep in mind a lot of jewelry store deploy fakes in the display cases and keep the real stuff in the safe in the back.
There was a local Mom & Pop store here years ago that said they were broke into & a lot of stuff was stolen.

Something was fishy with their story & it came out later the "robbery" was an attempt to collect insurance money so they could go out of business & retire. Nothing was stolen except fake jewelry. They forgot to take the real stuff out of the safe, which is where the cops found it.

Mont Blanc pens are not jewelry. Showing customers a "cheap" imitation for high end brand name pens would present some difficulties you wouldn't have with jewelry and I doubt that the makers are providing "paste" pen displays.

 

[Sappheiros]

Such a shame to our name. I'm sure the store will get its money back, even if it's a hassle. I hope the thief comes forward, but more likely he'll try again and get caught.

 

[edicehouse]

I wonder what the street value of an expensive pen is....

 

[Smitty37]

I wonder what the street value of an expensive pen is....

My guess would be that depends on what "street" it is. Would be worth next to nothing in an area inhabited by people in my income bracket and could be worth quite a bit in an area where people are wealthy but not especially honest. - One needs to assume the thief has a market in mind. Stealing Mona Lisa would not be worth a lot to a thief unless they knew someone who was willing to pay for the painting.

 

[SteveG]

I wonder what the street value of an expensive pen is....

I could tell you how much I paid, but that would tend to implicate me.

Ohh!...maybe I said too much already! :tongue:

 

[Smitty37]

That sound a lot like what some folks have been saying at congressional hearings lately.

I wonder what the street value of an expensive pen is....

I could tell you how much I paid, but that would tend to implicate me.

Ohh!...maybe I said too much already! :tongue: