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Stealing 2 million, one coin at a time, over 13 years, mostly at night, by waggling a magnetised car antenna through a small slot for hours and hours, is actual

Stealing 2 million, one coin at a time, over 13 years, mostly at night, by waggling a magnetised car antenna through a small slot for hours and hours, is actually hard work. Its like the opposite of The Shawshank Redemption.

breischl 3y ago
Digging a tunnel through a rock wall with a tiny hammer over years, as in The Shawshank Redemption, seems very similar. Both sound like a lot of work though.
- nsajko 3y ago
  Missed the joke.
- theptip 3y ago
  The direction of travel relative to jail is the opposite though.
hinkley 3y ago
There was that couple in New England where the husband figured out there was a lottery ticket that was nearly guaranteed to return a slight profit if nobody won the previous couple of weeks. Several articles were written about them, I think I saw an ad for a movie even, but it took both of them working very long days to pull this off, including standing in convenience stores for hours at a time pushing buttons. I think they ended up making less than $100 an hour between them. Which is a better job than many people can get, but if you're retirement age in a job you can actually retire from, then this is more about Sticking It to the Man than about getting rich.
- Scoundreller 3y ago
  That was a calculated bet though, where the expected value was known to the positive, but you’d need to buy as much as possible to guarantee your outcome each time that situation happened.
- robterrell 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_%26_Marge_Go_Large https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_%26_Marge_Go_Large
dmix 3y ago
It's not necessarily one coin at a time, a strong magnet could pull multiple, which means you could make $3-4 in a few seconds once you mastered it. Push it in so it bends down, pull out, drop into the shaving bag, insert again, etc. He probably had a lot of time to work on each box.
cush 3y ago
Luckily for him, Canada has a $2 coin. If he tried this in the US, he’d only make $250k
ikekkdcjkfke 3y ago
When money becomes a target, it fails to be a good money?
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breischl 3y ago

Digging a tunnel through a rock wall with a tiny hammer over years, as in The Shawshank Redemption, seems very similar. Both sound like a lot of work though.

nsajko 3y ago
Missed the joke.
theptip 3y ago
The direction of travel relative to jail is the opposite though.

hinkley 3y ago

There was that couple in New England where the husband figured out there was a lottery ticket that was nearly guaranteed to return a slight profit if nobody won the previous couple of weeks. Several articles were written about them, I think I saw an ad for a movie even, but it took both of them working very long days to pull this off, including standing in convenience stores for hours at a time pushing buttons. I think they ended up making less than $100 an hour between them. Which is a better job than many people can get, but if you're retirement age in a job you can actually retire from, then this is more about Sticking It to the Man than about getting rich.

Scoundreller 3y ago
That was a calculated bet though, where the expected value was known to the positive, but you’d need to buy as much as possible to guarantee your outcome each time that situation happened.
robterrell 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_%26_Marge_Go_Large https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_%26_Marge_Go_Large

dmix 3y ago

It's not necessarily one coin at a time, a strong magnet could pull multiple, which means you could make $3-4 in a few seconds once you mastered it. Push it in so it bends down, pull out, drop into the shaving bag, insert again, etc. He probably had a lot of time to work on each box.

cush 3y ago

Luckily for him, Canada has a $2 coin. If he tried this in the US, he’d only make $250k

ikekkdcjkfke 3y ago

When money becomes a target, it fails to be a good money?

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