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Man attempts to hand over fake coins at Ann Arbor coin show
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The guy is driving a BMW with Arizona plates! -------------------------------------------- FROM: http://www.annarbor.com/news/crime/m...bor-coin-show/ Man attempts to hand over fake coins at Ann Arbor coin show Posted: 10:52 a.m. Today Ann Arbor police say they're working to identify a man who attempted to pass fake coins during the 49th Suburban Detroit Coin Show at a hotel on Plymouth Road Thursday. The man cut a deal to trade thousands of dollars worth of gold coins in exchange for platinum coins and cash at about 1 p.m., an Ann Arbor police report said. After showing the gold coins, he attempted to hand over a pouch full of "apparent fakes" during the transaction, the report said. He hurried out of the Holiday Inn when a man confronted him about it, according to the report. The man was described as black, in his 40s, 6 feet tall and 220 pounds. He was wearing a baseball cap and tinted glasses. He drove away in a black BMW with tinted windows and an Arizona license plate, the report said. Anyone with information can call Ann Arbor police at (734) 794-6939. ... |
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Man attempts to hand over fake coins at Ann Arbor coin show
Arizona Coin Collector wrote:
Hello The guy is driving a BMW with Arizona plates! -------------------------------------------- FROM: http://www.annarbor.com/news/crime/m...bor-coin-show/ Man attempts to hand over fake coins at Ann Arbor coin show Posted: 10:52 a.m. Today Ann Arbor police say they're working to identify a man who attempted to pass fake coins during the 49th Suburban Detroit Coin Show at a hotel on Plymouth Road Thursday. Is it a crime to "attempt" to pass a fake coin? One time I offered a coin that I believed to be genuine to a dealer at a show, and he informed me that it was a fake. I'm lucky, though, because I'm white, and I look honest. The man cut a deal to trade thousands of dollars worth of gold coins in exchange for platinum coins and cash at about 1 p.m., an Ann Arbor police report said. He "cut a deal" before "showing" the coins? After showing the gold coins, he attempted to hand over a pouch full of "apparent fakes" during the transaction, the report said. Were the gold coins that he "showed" the same coins that he was offering as part or all of the exchange? Were the "apparent fake" coins in the pouch some of the coins that he "showed", all of the coins that he "showed", or in addition to the coins he "showed"? He hurried out of the Holiday Inn when a man confronted him about it, according to the report. Was "the man who confronted him" the dealer with whom he cut the deal, another dealer, or another show attendee? Do we know that the suspect hurried out of the Holiday Inn as the result of this confrontation, or just subsequent to it? The man was described as black, in his 40s, 6 feet tall and 220 pounds. He was wearing a baseball cap and tinted glasses. He drove away in a black BMW with tinted windows and an Arizona license plate, the report said. Described by whom? What we have here is journalism at its worst. Jimmy Olson, Cub Reporter The Daily Planet (no relation whatsoever to rcc's oly) |
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Man attempts to hand over fake coins at Ann Arbor coin show
"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
... The man was described as black, in his 40s, 6 feet tall and 220 pounds. He was wearing a baseball cap and tinted glasses. He drove away in a black BMW with tinted windows and an Arizona license plate, the report said. Described by whom? By someone in the next county perhaps? Obviously he was described by someone at the scene, who it was is unimportant. I applaud the paper for not knuckling under to the PC mavens and actually describing a thief as being a negro. Usually they go to extremes to NOT mention the fact, even when it's obvious. Certainly a culprit's race is an essential part of an accurate description! |
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Man attempts to hand over fake coins at Ann Arbor coin show
The Giant Brain wrote:
"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... The man was described as black, in his 40s, 6 feet tall and 220 pounds. He was wearing a baseball cap and tinted glasses. He drove away in a black BMW with tinted windows and an Arizona license plate, the report said. Described by whom? By someone in the next county perhaps? Obviously he was described by someone at the scene, who it was is unimportant. I applaud the paper for not knuckling under to the PC mavens and actually describing a thief as being a negro. Usually they go to extremes to NOT mention the fact, even when it's obvious. Certainly a culprit's race is an essential part of an accurate description! It sure sounds to me as if there were at least three "witnesses", seeing as how the information would likely have to have been gathered from several vantage points - one inside the show, one in the hotel lobby, one in the parking lot. Testimony is regularly made up long after the fact. "What were you thinking at the moment of the armed robbery, Sir?" "Well, I was thinking of my wife and family back home in North Lugburz, as well as my wealthy, elderly aunt (pronounced "ont", of course) and wondering if they were safe. This was just terrible! But I did have the presence of mind to note that the suspect's armpits were wet when his jacket flew open momentarily, and that he hadn't buffed his shoes or trimmed his nails in, probably, two days." James the Perspicacious |
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Man attempts to hand over fake coins at Ann Arbor coin show
In article , "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
Arizona Coin Collector wrote: Hello The guy is driving a BMW with Arizona plates! -------------------------------------------- FROM: http://www.annarbor.com/news/crime/m...e-coins-at-ann -arbor-coin-show/ Man attempts to hand over fake coins at Ann Arbor coin show Posted: 10:52 a.m. Today Ann Arbor police say they're working to identify a man who attempted to pass fake coins during the 49th Suburban Detroit Coin Show at a hotel on Plymouth Road Thursday. Is it a crime to "attempt" to pass a fake coin? One time I offered a coin that I believed to be genuine to a dealer at a show, and he informed me that it was a fake. I'm lucky, though, because I'm white, and I look honest. The man cut a deal to trade thousands of dollars worth of gold coins in exchange for platinum coins and cash at about 1 p.m., an Ann Arbor police report said. He "cut a deal" before "showing" the coins? After showing the gold coins, he attempted to hand over a pouch full of "apparent fakes" during the transaction, the report said. Were the gold coins that he "showed" the same coins that he was offering as part or all of the exchange? Were the "apparent fake" coins in the pouch some of the coins that he "showed", all of the coins that he "showed", or in addition to the coins he "showed"? He hurried out of the Holiday Inn when a man confronted him about it, according to the report. Was "the man who confronted him" the dealer with whom he cut the deal, another dealer, or another show attendee? Do we know that the suspect hurried out of the Holiday Inn as the result of this confrontation, or just subsequent to it? The man was described as black, in his 40s, 6 feet tall and 220 pounds. He was wearing a baseball cap and tinted glasses. He drove away in a black BMW with tinted windows and an Arizona license plate, the report said. Described by whom? What we have here is journalism at its worst. Jimmy Olson, Cub Reporter The Daily Planet (no relation whatsoever to rcc's oly) good journalism, jimmy! you may take two bimbos from the secretary pool and the afternnon off. |
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Man attempts to hand over fake coins at Ann Arbor coin show
Sorry to have missed the action. I was at the show on the 30th and
31st and no one mentioned it. Sorry, too,that I did not log in to RCC as usual, or I would have known to ask for details. The Ann Arbor show was fine, all in all. I spent several hours there over two days. I bought some small things on the first day. One of them was for a communist friend of mine, a commen of Marx from the USSR. (I won't touch nazi stuff, but you have to have a bitter sense of humor when you think of communists striking coins -- can't get away from money, you know...) On the second day, I brought material to sell. Abbott's passed but pointed to a dealer who was not at his table, so I walked over to David Nazarro and asked him if he could go $135 and he said, no, but he could go $140. So, I took that. It is one of the reasons that Detroit is a numismatic mecca. We have our own way of doing business here. One of the other dealers said that he was just getting into ancients. So, I went over to ELDERT BONTIKOE of Pegasi and got his auction catalog and Roman Checklist and took them to the other dealer and pointed out Eldert. When I saw him again, he had half a dozen ancients he was pretty happy with. One was new to me, an Alexander dressed up like a Satrap. 'Ummm.... you have the Orodontes in the wrong flip," I said. Also I was in fact misattributed as someone took my green EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY sweatshirt for a green MSU sweatshirt. "You have to be pretty brave to wear that here," she said. It took me a while to figure out what she meant, because usually U of M people give us EMU homies a lot of space on the street. Mike M. Michael E. Marotta "Seven square miles surrounded by reality." |
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