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Sir Lemming
Jan 27, 2009

It's a piece of JUNK!

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Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



tbh if organized crime stuck to diluting olive oil i would be very impressed

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



I miss the days when the crime was focused around laundering money through a pizza shop front that actually had surprisingly good pizza. Mostly because I really want a pizza right now :sigh:

venus de lmao
Apr 30, 2007

Call me "pixeltits"

I thought the olive oil thing was reasonably common knowledge. The New Yorker covered it in 2007, and I saw a TV special about it when I was literally a child, and I'm 36 now. Every couple of years, another investigative piece comes out. Google turned up articles from 2012, 2014, 2016, 2021, and 2023. Like, this is less an earth-shaking revelation and more just the latest in a long chain of reports.

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Diluting olive oil and selling it as a better quality than it is seems like a crime that would have started about ten minutes after people started selling olive oil

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



check out german organized crime: they put gasoline in the riesling. piesporter on fire

FFT
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

venus de lmao posted:

I thought the olive oil thing was reasonably common knowledge. The New Yorker covered it in 2007, and I saw a TV special about it when I was literally a child, and I'm 36 now. Every couple of years, another investigative piece comes out. Google turned up articles from 2012, 2014, 2016, 2021, and 2023. Like, this is less an earth-shaking revelation and more just the latest in a long chain of reports.
Mob connections to olive oil was part of the plot in The Godfather (maybe both parts one and two)

Phy
Jun 27, 2008



Fun Shoe
From the CBC:

He thought he'd sold his Rolex for $15K. Sleight of hand left him with coupons instead

quote:

Once in the kitchen, Mattel recalls Marius placing a black pouch on the counter and pulling out a silver envelope with a rubber band around it. He remembers Marius removing the rubber band and handing him the envelope.

"He lets me take out the money and he takes back the envelope. I count out $15,000 in $100 bills. I even make little bundles of $1,000 on the counter," Mattel said.

"Then [Marius] picks up the money and puts it back in the envelope. He puts the rubber band back around the envelope and hands it to me."

With a $100 bill still visible through the clear window of the envelope, Mattel says he handed the man his Rolex and, after exchanging a few pleasantries, Marius left.

A little while later, Mattel decided to open the envelope again. This time, he realized, it'd been stuffed with a bunch of coupons.

"I came undone. I really felt the heat, thinking to myself, 'I've been had,'" he said.

Mattel had just become the latest victim of a criminal magician or magicians who allegedly committed other similar thefts in the greater Montreal area, Radio-Canada's investigation has found.

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 13 hours!
I hope the offender gets sentenced to do children's parties.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010


I think I've read about this trick in at least two cheap crime novels.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



note to self: the number of magicians should be ambiguous

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

A criminal magician is also known as a rogue wizard.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
Also in advanced form an Arcane Trickster.

FFT
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Also in advanced form an Arcane Trickster.
False, those didn't show up until third edition.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



sup fuckers? i brought exactly 1½ wizard and im gonna kill them on stage

e: "partially", apparently. I am going to kill the wizard three quarters of the way

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1773220990043996399

Phy
Jun 27, 2008



Fun Shoe

3D Megadoodoo posted:

I think I've read about this trick in at least two cheap crime novels.

If this turns out to be a guerilla ad campaign for another one of those Now You See Me movies I'm going to only be mildly surprised

Ommin
Apr 5, 2006
I like to watch CinemaSins and Honest Trailers for all the movies I'm curious about but don't want to watch. It's like Cliff's Notes with commentary notes to use in conversation to "prove you watched it."
Harry the Hat strikes again!

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
https://twitter.com/TheTrekCentral/status/1773327617694847309

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

as a person who never leaves my house i've done pretty well for myself.

Where the gently caress did this doctor learn to practice medicine?

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

Platystemon posted:

Where the gently caress did this doctor learn to practice medicine?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8893054/

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Azathoth Prime
Feb 20, 2004

Free 2nd day shipping on all eldritch horrors.


Antivehicular posted:

Diluting olive oil and selling it as a better quality than it is seems like a crime that would have started about ten minutes after people started selling olive oil

There’s an Ea-Nasir of olive oil out there somewhere, waiting to be discovered.

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