Be wary of gold from South Korea for a few months.....

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Be wary of gold from South Korea for a few months.....

Postby cesariojpn » Wed Jul 24, 2013 1:24 pm

SK Customs officials seize $3 million in gold smuggled up people's butts.

http://kotaku.com/three-million-dollars ... -893383927
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Re: Be wary of gold from South Korea for a few months.....

Postby Morsecode » Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:48 pm

I liked the comment..."Bitcoin's lesser known companion currency: the buttcoin..."
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Re: Be wary of gold from South Korea for a few months.....

Postby fansubs_ca » Wed Jul 24, 2013 9:55 pm

They are actually a hiphop group that was going to film the music video for their
new song "I got bling coming out of my butt". :D
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Re: Be wary of gold from South Korea for a few months.....

Postby cesariojpn » Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:06 am

Something to think about:

40 bars x 225g=~8kg. So you're saying someone's intestine can hold 8 KILOGRAMS of gold?? I know people can [shucks] a lot, but that's just ridiculous.
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Re: Be wary of gold from South Korea for a few months.....

Postby Thogey » Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:24 am

Ray once smuggled five CTUs into Canada.
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Re: Be wary of gold from South Korea for a few months.....

Postby neilgin1 » Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:53 am

Thogey wrote:Ray once smuggled five CTUs into Canada.



oh no.......oh my, have mercy........how long Father?.....how long?

Major, I don't know what a "CTU" is, but assuming this is something that's not a small item.....ummm, is the implication, that our dear colleague......how can I say this?........did he....?....y'know....uhhh...DID HE?.....there?....in that way?

please tell me, sir...you're just having a bit of rib on us lot......its just HORRIBLE....its dark, and i'm just undone right now.

Ray?......any comment OB? this is bad...it looks bad. say something.

goodness! mercy me!! how long? (chortle).......now i'm gonna go read the article.

later add------read the article....I don't get it...what advantage do they gain?...is their some sort of prohibition about private gold ownership, or onerous tax burden in the ROK for gold?....or is it some sort of black money that needs to stay out of the white world?....THAT I understand, but what about when somebody wants to convert it into paper fiat?....interesting though.....people sure do worship money....consider this, folks risk their LIVES smuggling Bibles into North Korea, but risk their freedom smuggling gold into South Korea...hmmm.
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Re: Be wary of gold from South Korea for a few months.....

Postby beauanderos » Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:11 pm

Thogey wrote:Ray once smuggled five CTUs into Canada.

The odd thing is they were BU when I started... and BU when they were deposited... but they started out brilliant uncirculated and changed to butt ugly :sick: Must have something to do with simmering them in the juices. I tell ya, smuggling copper ain't all that fun... when the tape unravels and the cardboard gets wedged.. it can lead to some bad stretches :shock: :shifty: :lol:
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Re: Be wary of gold from South Korea for a few months.....

Postby silverflake » Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:15 pm

Neilgin1, CTU is "copper trading unit" or $100 in copper pennies.

But hey, I am just glad it all came out in the end.

A smooth finish.

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Re: Be wary of gold from South Korea for a few months.....

Postby cesariojpn » Thu Jul 25, 2013 5:59 pm

neilgin1 wrote:later add------read the article....I don't get it...what advantage do they gain?...is their some sort of prohibition about private gold ownership, or onerous tax burden in the ROK for gold?....or is it some sort of black money that needs to stay out of the white world?....THAT I understand, but what about when somebody wants to convert it into paper fiat?....interesting though.....people sure do worship money.....


Cause people want to smuggle things and not pay taxes for them.
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Re: Be wary of gold from South Korea for a few months.....

Postby Engineer » Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:04 am

Thogey wrote:Ray once smuggled five CTUs into Canada.


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Re: Be wary of gold from South Korea for a few months.....

Postby beauanderos » Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:15 am

Engineer wrote:
Thogey wrote:Ray once smuggled five CTUs into Canada.



:clap: :thumbup: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Now we know where Ugly Abes come from :shifty: :sick:
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