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Helmet-wearing thieves shoot man multiple times, swipe his $22K Rolex during store stickup: cops
Nypost ^ | 11/10/2024 | Caitlin McCormack

Posted on 11/10/2024 4:27:02 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Two helmet-wearing goons shot a cellphone store worker multiple times and took his $22,000 Rolex during a stickup in Queens, cops said Saturday.

The robbers got tangled in a physical altercation with the victim just before 7 p.m. Friday at the Top in Town Wireless store on 32-78 Steinway St. in Astoria, according to the NYPD.

During the fight, one of the thieves fired multiple rounds at the victim, cops

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; crime; helmet; newyork; robbery; rolex; shoot; theft; thieves
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To: Red in Blue PA

They’ll probably get $700 to $1,000 for it ....


21 posted on 11/10/2024 4:54:17 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: Libloather

Time to get a new Timex!

https://youtu.be/nkIuQuy4whI?si=duukkAuNFonHsNpS


22 posted on 11/10/2024 4:57:25 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It is foreign to most of us that a cell phone store worker might be wearing a real Rolex. But, that is NYC for you. Most workers are really owners or sons of owners and New Yorkers know their Rolexes. A 18 year old might be wearing a fake, but it doesn’t surprise me a bit that the cell phone store person had a real one.


23 posted on 11/10/2024 4:59:30 PM PST by anton
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Getting their last licks in before they get booted out of the country.
24 posted on 11/10/2024 5:02:20 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (Everyone that voted Trump/R in '24 needs to show up in '26.)
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To: Red in Blue PA; ChicagoConservative27

If you are wearing a $22,000 Rolex you should also be wearing a $500 Glock.


25 posted on 11/10/2024 5:06:50 PM PST by Pontiac (esse welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: alternatives?

“The sad part. If you can’t wear them out, where do you wear them?”

Family functions like Thanksgiving Family Dinner.


26 posted on 11/10/2024 5:07:36 PM PST by Grampa Dave (An answer to decades of fervent prayers: "Liberal women spontaneously stopped procreating!")
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To: Pontiac

Exactly. I wear my Rolex or my Omega any dang time or place I want to. I also always wear a concealed Glock 33.

Never walk in fear. Take our country back.


27 posted on 11/10/2024 5:15:31 PM PST by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
A cellphone store worker has a $22,000 Rolex????


28 posted on 11/10/2024 5:19:10 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SharpRightTurn

“””That’s what jumped out at me too.””

I think it did everyone....How about probably “ripped it off” someone else too?


29 posted on 11/10/2024 5:23:26 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Ann Archy

Yeah prolly a quartz action Rolex


30 posted on 11/10/2024 5:26:24 PM PST by KierkegaardMAN (I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

London is also a dangerous place to wear a real Rolex. If you’re out at dinner a waiter might spot it on you and alert thieves waiting for you outside. Best to wear some cheap watch instead but yeah the point of a Rolex is to mostly flaunt it so that works against you. You don’t have as much fun with it if it just sits in your watch box at home.


31 posted on 11/10/2024 6:02:36 PM PST by xp38
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To: KierkegaardMAN

Rolex did make quartz watches once. Just look up Rolex day date oyster quartz say on ebay and you’ll see a bunch well north of 22K. Not all but some for sure.


32 posted on 11/10/2024 6:06:05 PM PST by xp38
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To: xp38

If you can afford a Rolex
you can afford to be late


33 posted on 11/10/2024 6:36:41 PM PST by KierkegaardMAN (I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
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To: KierkegaardMAN

lol....that’s a good line


34 posted on 11/10/2024 7:04:48 PM PST by xp38
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Correct...it IS a problem. But the thief is not thinking that one can walk around all year in Seoul or Tokyo without getting mugged. The thief wants to fence the watch to get enough money to pay for a shipment of meth or fentanyl.
Sadly the problem doesn’t disappear in New York,just because it’s safer somewhere else.
Smart people don’t show their valuables in public in New York or any other dump.


35 posted on 11/10/2024 7:42:17 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I have never understood why anyone, even someone who can afford it, would want a $22k watch. And a cell phone company employee probably can’t afford it. A knock-off, maybe?


36 posted on 11/10/2024 8:01:10 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: Grampa Dave

I have my dad’s Rolex. It was made in 1969. He bought it used in 1983. I only wear it in the month of December and only at the house. He loved the Christmas season and it is a way to honor his memory. On a regular day, I have a pocket watch that ran me $100.


37 posted on 11/10/2024 8:04:27 PM PST by Texas resident (AMF to BHO)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And here I thought that NYC has some of the toughest gun control laws in the land.......it just proves criminals don’t obey laws. The only thing criminals really fear is a police office with a firearm (or a vigilante with a firearm).


38 posted on 11/10/2024 8:30:34 PM PST by Robert357
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who goes to work at a store in multi thousand dollar jewelry?


39 posted on 11/11/2024 4:02:07 AM PST by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: b4me

I was taking a guy up to his judgement deptor exam at the Ohio Asst AG’s Office and on the elevator I noticed his Rolex President. I told him to put it in his pocket. He said: “do you think they’d try to take it?” I told him” “you betcha.” When they asked him about personal property he was sweating. When they asked him about Jewelry I thought he was going to faint. But he said, “yea I got a watch and a neck chain.” The AG lawyer just checked a box on his paperwork and never asked him where it was.


40 posted on 11/11/2024 4:10:32 AM PST by anton
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