[April Lexington]

Bonds usually exist in electronic form. Very few real good old fashioned paper bonds floating around. Bearer bonds are long gone and normal bonds have serial numbers, etc. Especially in that quantity. Maybe forgeries. Maybe a last ditch effort for some incredibly wealthy person to sprint to Switzerland. This is either kooky or scary!

[Xenophon450]

Exactly, why even bother if the convenience exists. I have hardly ever heard of someone traveling with physical certificates, perhaps it happens more than I believe, but I suspect not. When I bought bonds it was a strictly digital affair, of course I never owned 135+ billion in bonds, maybe they get special decoder rings after the first billion ;-P.

[Broker]

There is something kinda fishy / sushi about this truckload of bonds. Either real stupid or extremely stupid case.

[Leisler]

Years ago when common stock certificates were still printed and sent by your broker to you if you wanted them, but mostly just sat.

Anyways, a mob company had the cartage contract for Wall Street and some wiseguys took briefcases of GM shares to Europe and borrowed against them and disappeared.