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Did...did you read the article at all? "U.S. Private Vaults was indicted in February on charges of conspiring with unnamed customers to sell drugs, launder mon
by lostcolony 5y ago
Did...did you read the article at all?
"U.S. Private Vaults was indicted in February on charges of conspiring with unnamed customers to sell drugs, launder money and structure cash transactions to dodge government detection. No people were charged."
Meaning that the private company offering these deposit boxes was the target; and then everyone who used them is collectively facing the government seizing it for an indictment completely unrelated to them.
- AdmiralAsshat 5y agoYou may have missed the implicit "/s" from the parent's post.
- javawizard 5y agoAnd that's why it needed an explicit "/s": without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it's impossible to create a parody of extreme views such that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied[0]. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
- nefitty 5y agoYou're not supposed to question if someone read the article. You're gonna get in trouble with a concerned HN citizen