Police seek missing trucker, nickels

[Pete Capelli]

Millions of micropayments lost?


On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 16:36:25 -0500, Tyler Durden
<camera_lumina at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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> >experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
> 
> 


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