Big News in Canada. Mint employee gets 30 months jail time for stealing gold.... in his bum

[Mynight]

If I could get $150,000 a session then yes.
I'd take one for early retirement.

Wait so you get less that $150,000 now per one?

 

[Angilion]

http://www.680news.com/2017/02/02/mint-employee-hid-stolen-gold-rectum-gets-30-months-behind-bars/

What an *******, I literally mean WHAT an ******* to fit gold pucks. Being Canada when they say pucks I am assuming the same size as ice hockey.

My rough back of an envelope style calculations(*) make a gold puck about 2% of the size of an ice hockey puck. About 9 cm^3. So if it's 1cm thick and it's round, the diamater would be about 1.6cm. Not really a puck shape, but it gives you the idea about size.

And...my numbers will be out because I was using USA dollars and not Canadian dollars. So the pucks would be considerably smaller than above. About 7cm^3.

Really not a problem at all. Round off the edges (should be quite easy if the gold has a high purity) and it's safe and not even uncomfortable.



* The total value of the theft and the number of pucks is given, so the value per puck can be calculated given the assumption that they are all the same size. The cost per gram of gold is easily found out, as is the density of gold. Put it all together and do a bit of simple maths and you have what size puck of gold would be worth that much.

 

[Agent_Smith357]

Caught by a snooping bank cashier eh.

 

[Mr Badger]

Gold puck? Go hockey stick or go home.

 

[Diddums]

He must be a bit of a ringpiece to even attempt that tbh.

 

[MooMoo444]

Why would sticking it up your backside fool a metal detector? Seems a pretty poor system if so

 

[tom_e]

It was only tiny bits of scrap gold from what I remember reading when it first appeared in the news last month so it's not that surprising that a metal detector wouldn't have picked it up.

 

[Doogles]

Why would sticking it up your backside fool a metal detector? Seems a pretty poor system if so

It appeared to work for many times, he just got caught.

 

[Angilion]

Why would sticking it up your backside fool a metal detector? Seems a pretty poor system if so

Presumably the sensitivity of the equipment isn't up to the job or has been turned down to avoid false positives. Or maybe there's a limit to how strong a metal detector can be and still be considered completely safe to use on humans multiple times per day. Or maybe it's a matter of convenience, e.g. walking through an arch rather than a close scan with a handheld device. Or maybe he had an accomplice who rigged the scanning. It wouldn't be difficult to deliberately fail to detect metal while doing a "scan" with a handheld device.

Or maybe he was stealing very small amounts at a time, just flakes. It wouldn't be difficult to squish lots of little bits of pure gold together later to make a "puck" of more convenient size and detecting a flake of gold inside a person would be a lot more difficult than detecting a piece the size of a couple of dice.

But I'd agree that it's a pretty poor system on the basis that it clearly failed in its intended purpose under circumstances in which it should have succeeded. He was caught when selling the gold, not when stealing it.