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Old 07-13-2007, 05:48 AM
luckyjimm luckyjimm is offline
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Default Re: This is how you rob a store--in a Bentley

It is a bit of a nonsense when they give the retail price to indicate the size of the raid. If the actual cost of the diamonds was $1 million but they would have sold for $10 million, then was it really a $10 million robbery? I wonder what figure the insurers will pay - the cost or the retail price?

Still, it's not as misleading as when a large shipment of, say, a tonne of cocaine is seized, and news reports give the estimated value as if it had been sold on the street by the gramme!
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