Police seek missing trucker, nickels

[Tyler Durden]

OK...most of the time I understanding the relevance of the emanations from 
RAH, but this one I don't get. What's the relevance? Choate nostalgia?

-TD

>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
>To: cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net
>Subject: Police seek missing trucker, nickels
>Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:44:25 -0500
>
><http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0501090059jan09,1,3129779,print.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed>
>
>The Chicago Tribune
>
>Police seek missing trucker, nickels
>Advertisement  Items compiled from Tribune news services
>
>  January 9, 2005
>
>  MIAMI, FLORIDA --  A truck driver has disappeared with the 3.6 million
>nickels he was hauling to the Federal Reserve Bank in New Orleans, police
>said Friday.
>
>  Angel Ricardo Mendoza, 43, picked up the coins, worth $180,000, Dec. 17
>from the Federal Reserve in New Jersey and was supposed to haul the
>cargo--weighing 45,000 pounds--to New Orleans for a trucking company
>subcontracted by the Federal Reserve, police said.
>
>  On Dec. 21, Mendoza's empty truck and trailer turned up at a truck stop 
>in
>Ft. Pierce, Fla.
>
>  Miami-Dade police, the FBI and the Federal Reserve police are 
>investigating.
>
>  "We are concerned for his safety because he's missing," Miami-Dade
>Detective Randy Rossman said.
>
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