RCMP: Former Canadian mint worker smuggled out $180K by hiding it up his butt

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RCMP: Former Canadian mint worker smuggled out $180K by hiding it up his butt

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According to RCMP investigators, Leston Lawrence would make 210g "pucks" of gold using the mint's "dipping spoon," hide them up his butt, then pawn them for about $6,800, at the Ottawa Gold Buyers in the Westgate Shopping Centre, depositing the cheques at a Royal Bank in the same mall.

They say that Lawrence triggered the metal detectors more than any other employee save those with medical implants, though subsequent hand-wandings and searches never turned up any metal. A teller at the bank alerted the RCMP, who opened Lawrence's safe-deposit box and found four more pucks. A search of Lawrence's locker turned up a jar of vaseline. A mint employee was directed to attempt to recreate the feat, lubricating an identical puck and inserting it into their anus, which apparently worked fine.

Lawrence's defense says that there's no way to prove that the gold originated with the mint, which had not reported any gold to be missing.
Investigators also found a container of vaseline in his locker and the trial was presented with the prospect that a puck could be concealed in an anal cavity and not be detected by the wand. In preparation for these proceedings, in fact, a security employee actually tested the idea, Barnes said.
Source: Boing Boing

I hope whoever "tested the idea" got to keep the gold.

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Re: RCMP: Former Canadian mint worker smuggled out $180K by hiding it up his butt

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pucks
Canadians would love the irony if Alanis Morrissette didn't miseducate them on what irony means 21 years ago.
I hope whoever "tested the idea" got to keep the gold
Either that or someone with no job prospects about to be fired.

"Mr. Stevens....,we do have one way to keep your employment. Are you sitting down?"

"Yes, Mr. Bryant."

"Good. Because you won't be for about 12 hours."

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