Posted on 04/29/2018 12:24:10 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Two kilograms of gold have gone missing from the Royal Canadian Mint, three years after an employee repeatedly — and with international notoriety — stole chunks of the precious metal by hiding it in his rectum.
The mint confirmed Thursday that an employee has been fired and the RCMP called after the discovery of the missing gold, two one-kilogram blanks, together worth about $110,000.
“Last month, as a result of robust internal inventory processes, employees of the Royal Canadian Mint reported a small amount of gold missing from the premises,” Alison Crawford, the senior manager of public affairs, wrote in an email Thursday.
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The admission from the mint comes 15 months after employee Leston Lawrence, then 35, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for stealing about $190,000 worth of gold nuggets by stuffing them in his rectum.
Lawrence, an operator in the mint’s refinery section, was convicted Nov. 9, 2016 of stealing 22 gold “pucks” during a three-month period that began in December 2014, then reselling them and spending the proceeds.
Though the method of escape was never proven, the mint and the judge were satisfied Lawrence must have hidden the pucks — about the diameter of a golf ball — in his rectum as he exited the secure area after his shift.
Darn near killed him...
There’s gold in them thar hills.
heh heh heh
Flushing our tax dollars down the toilet?
I’m trying to make sense of this article.
Since the orifice packer was sentenced in 2016, does this mean there has been another incident of missing gold? Must be if the RCMP have just been notified.
I’ve heard the expression “$%y+ing a gold brick” but this seems excessive.
For those of us who don't know, are Canadian golf balls the same size as American golf balls? (I suppose the same question could be asked about Canadian rectums, but that question would probably start a whole new thread).
Took that job and shoved it.
Never mind. Got it.
The $190K heist was up the butt. The $110K heist is new.
Sounds like a flimsy excuse for a-hole probing on a large scale.
What what in the butt?
They don’t seem to be rocket scientists at the Canadian mint: “While Lawrence’s smuggling method was never proven, Doody said he believed Lawrence must have hidden the gold pieces — roughly about as wide as a golf ball — in his rectum as he left work after his shifts. Vaseline and latex gloves were found in Lawrence’s locker, and he set off a metal detector inside the building 28 times in a span of 41 days, despite gold never being found on his body, the newspaper reports.” https://nypost.com/2017/02/03/mint-worker-gets-prison-for-smuggling-gold-in-his-butt/
The Man With the Golden Buns
Constipation...
...three years’ worth...
“despite gold never being found on his body”
On being the key word here. Innie not outie.
Hole in one !
Don’t know if it tightened the sphinter muscles or not but Turd-owe has been screwing Canada and Canadians since 2015.
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