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> Or are you imagining he'd go bury the gold in a hole in the woods somewhere? Why not?
by unsupp0rted 5mo ago
> Or are you imagining he'd go bury the gold in a hole in the woods somewhere?
Why not?
- phendrenad2 5mo agoWhy not make multiple trips to carry extremely heavy metal, as a frail office worker, into the woods, which are full of hikers and hunters, on country roads in a suspicious-looking sedan, with a shovel in hand? And then do it all over again whenever you intend to retrieve these gold bars to do whatever it is you want to do with them? Why indeed.
- esseph 5mo ago"as a frail office worker" They could be CIA SAC/SOG, aka Ground Branch.
- Aurornis 5mo agoWhy not carry 600 lbs of gold bars out into the forest and bury them, then hope nobody thought it was suspicious to see someone carrying a shovel into the forest on any one of the trips necessary to do it?
- fc417fc802 5mo agoA small plot of forested rural land without utility service doesn't cost much at all. Go car camping at your new private getaway for a few days. This isn't rocket science. Also if you drive out to a remote part of the US who is going to see you? There are some very empty places in this country. Not quite on the level of Canada or Russia but still.
- nickphx 5mo agoflock or any number of cameras that contribute to flock would see you.
- fc417fc802 5mo agoThey would see you driving out into the sticks to go camping for a few days. That's entirely normal isn't it? We haven't (yet) made it to the level of flock cameras on gravel logging roads.
- lionkor 5mo agoThere are some on hiking trails :)
- DANmode 5mo agoFlock brand?
- kotaKat 5mo agoYup. Gen1 unit with the standard square Flock panel and black pole they always use. https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1tofx8e/flock_camera_on_hikebike_trail/ https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1tofx8e/...
- fc417fc802 5mo agoAs horrifying as that image first appears, it turns out that's actually located adjacent to a road between two subdivisions in Mission Viejo CA. The picture conveniently had all of that cropped out though. It would appear that someone rotated the camera so it no longer faces the road.
- einpoklum 5mo agoWow, it's really quite the panopticon you have there in the US. "Land of the free"...
- Aurornis 5mo agoTrail cams are set by individuals, hunters, and wildlife observers. They’re used all over the world. It’s not “USA bad”. The government doesn’t have a network of trail cameras to monitor people on trails.
- bell-cot 5mo ago> A small plot of forested rural land without utility service... True. OTOH, (1) it's both unusual and public record that you own it, (2) it's seriously unsecured, and (3) the locals both know the turf far better than you and may feel little respect for the undeveloped land of an "outsider". Bigger picture - Mr. Rush's obsession with collecting very tangible wealth seems to have completely overridden his abilities for rational thought and long-term planning. EDIT: > Also if you drive out to a remote part of the US who is going to see you? The post-Snowden Surveillance State. Between license plate readers, the cell modem in your car, your cell phone, and the difficulty of faking your usual activity patterns "back home" while driving to/from some remote location radio silent (which itself is probably a red flag)...yeah, NO.
- Aurornis 5mo ago> A small plot of forested rural land without utility service doesn't cost much at all. Go car camping at your new private getaway for a few days. This isn't rocket science. Once someone is under investigation for something like this, they will look at everything. If the person suddenly bought a small plot of rural land with no utility service that’s going to raise red flags. As a secondary problem, once the investigators start asking you about it you have to lie to them, which opens you to more charges.
- 93po 5mo ago> once the investigators start asking you about it you have to lie to them You literally don't, that's what the fifth amendment is for there's a large lack of creativity in these comments. pay for a deer lease, go hunting, don't bring phone, bury gold somewhere random in thousands of acres of land deep enough metal detectors won't find it, kill deer, go home. repeat 3x a year and it's both not suspicious at all but also basically impossible for others to find the gold at that point even if they suspect.
- golem14 5mo agoAlso, Mr. Goldfinger would like to have a word.
- DANmode 5mo agoDo you ever debate with intellectual honesty? Nobody aside from you said “carry”.
- AngryData 5mo agoThere are endless miles of places in the US where you could not be seen. That said as evidence by your perspective, there are plenty of people who have never really been to places where you can not see another human for days or weeks or longer if you don't count seeing simple movement or campfire smoke a mile off.
- derefr 5mo agoBecause, for someone with any kind of security clearance, suddenly going out to the woods, if you don't normally go out to the woods, would be a major outlier from your highly-scrutinized and documented regular life; and so could easily lead the FBI to finding your buried gold, without having to get any kind of warrant.
- keybored 5mo agoThe security scrutiny is really so thorough that taking up a new apparent hobby gets flagged? That’s impressive.
- tommica 5mo agoThe answer is probably "Yes" if you work at CIA
- colonwqbang 5mo agoI don't think you know what you are talking about.
- ajam1507 5mo agoHow would they know you went out to the woods?
- GoblinSlayer 5mo agoSmartphone will report it.
- valvar 5mo agoJust leave it at home.
- GoblinSlayer 5mo agoIf FBI see you go without a phone, they will know you're a criminal.