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Plus, you can leave an apartment unattended - a van being driven has a big weak link in the chain that has to push the gas and brake pedals.
by pavel_lishin 1y ago
Plus, you can leave an apartment unattended - a van being driven has a big weak link in the chain that has to push the gas and brake pedals.
- avianlyric 1y agoNothing stopping you from parking the van and just moving it every few hours. Put a some plumbing decals on the side and nobody will look twice at it.
- pavel_lishin 1y agoSure, but again - you gotta have one of your low-level chumps stop by the van every so often, and that raises the chances of that chump getting caught and squeezed by the cops until names start coming out.
- immibis 1y agoWe're all just ignoring the fact that it's not actually a crime to have a lot of SIM cards?
- jacquesm 1y agoThat depends on your location.
- pavel_lishin 1y agoBut it is a crime to drive a van around with a SIM farm that provides services to criminals.
- immibis 1y agoNo, actually that's not a crime either, unless you know they're criminals and you know they're doing a crime. Helping criminals do a crime is a crime, but driving around with a box of SIM cards and radio modems isn't a crime.
- jacquesm 1y agoThis is very much location dependent and I think you should qualify your statement with where you think this is not a crime. In plenty of locations it would be.
- mschuster91 1y agoAn unattended apartment can raise red flags. A van however, in most jurisdictions even if you end up in a police checkpoint, they may not force you to reveal what is in your van.
- pavel_lishin 1y ago> An unattended apartment can raise red flags. The last three places I've lived, I'd never seen the residents of fully half the apartments on my floor. They could have been jam packed with SIM farms, or abandoned tigers, or dead hookers in chest freezers for all I or anyone else in the building knew or cared about. An apartment where nobody bothers their neighbors or the super, but keeps the rent checks coming, is the absolute best case scenario for everyone involved. And again - if an unattended apartment is raided, there's nobody there to drop names. You lose the investment, but that's likely a lesser problem than worrying about what Kasim is going to tell the cops once the handcuffs go on.
- kulahan 1y agoI was thinking about that for this scenario. Dude could easily have just paid rent in cash and never shared much (real) personal info with the landlord; literally what happened here is exactly what you posit.