Posted on 10/31/2021 6:09:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The suspects are a man and woman who spoke English and gave staff the impression of being a refined couple who checked into the hotel and dined at its restaurant. They then asked a hotel front desk clerk to serve them more food and when he went to the kitchen —- leaving security camera monitors unattended — the man slipped into the cellar and stole the bottles, Polo said.
The couple checked out in the early hours of Wednesday, paying with a credit card and leaving with bags full of bottles.
Polo said no one noticed their booty, which included the valuable 1806 Chateau d’Yquem and at least six other 19th-century bottles from the exclusive Romanée-Conti winemaker in France’s Burgundy region. He said that he had not calculated the total value of the stolen bottles, which were insured...
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Good grief, you’re one mentally disturbed dudette lacking an ability to grasp reality or have a modicum of common sense.
There you go again…. Words mean things.. perhaps you might not be as clever as you pretend. Sure like that usage of ‘reality’, because it does tie in nicely…
Yeah. You have to keep the box in the fridge the entire time or it goes bad.
Could be OK if they recorked it regularly, though I do not know if they did that back in the 19th century already.
Insurance scam. Inside job.
It is a good theory.
The wine may have been sold to private collectors, for cash, piecemeal. Then, whoever did that needed to cover their tracks, so this story was concocted.
This will be a tough case to crack. Might just be the perfect crime.
The wine may have been sold to private collectors, for cash, piecemeal. Then, whoever did that needed to cover their tracks, so this story was concocted.
Thanks. I watch a lot of reruns of "Columbo."
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