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.
Yeah...
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
LOL
Somehow this makes me think of W.C. Fields hilarious short comedy “The Fatal Glass Of Beer’’.
“Doody said he believed...”
You got to be kidding me! Doody!?
The solution was staring them in the face!
I was reminded of the Johnny Cash(?) song where he steals the parts from the factory to build a car out of over the years. “I got a 51,52,53 ....”
For those of impure minds - not anyone here, of course - a 1 kg bar of gold measures 1.58 inches wide (40mm) by 3.15 inches long (80mm) by 0.71 inches thick (18mm). Clap two of ‘em together and it’s roughly the size of a gerbil less its tail, without that scratchy feeling you get when the little guys try to dig their way out. Or so I’ve been told...
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