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Purveyor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:06 PM
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Conn. Thieves Steal $1 million Worth Of Cigarettes
Source: Associated Press

MILFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut police say $1 million worth of cigarettes were stolen from a warehouse over the weekend.

Police say the thieves who broke into Montano Cigarettes, Candy & Tobacco Inc. stole some 15,000 cartons of cigarettes.

Investigators say Saturday's theft in Milford was well planned. The burglars disabled lighting and security systems, and then used a ladder to scale a concrete wall and enter through a roof hatch.

Surveillance cameras were able to catch only some of the action.

Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ibIfGxtya3johgYnyoj1H95Y78kQD9791R6O1
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TheCoxwain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:09 PM
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1. They can break this record!!!
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 07:44 AM
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37. Smoke Em- If you got Em
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:09 PM
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2. So we'll see a flood of cheap, black market cigarattes in NYC.
Hope the got my brand.
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davepc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:59 PM
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16. Hope the bodega owner who sells them to you is strong armed into selling them as well?
Some thick necked goons tell the owner he WILL sell the cigarettes THEY provide to him, tax stamps be damned. And if he gets caught selling them sans tax stamp by the authorities the bodega owner gets to face the fines and possible prison time. What a great thing to support.

Yeay organized crime!
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 01:01 PM
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17. No, usually just outside construction sites, out of a panel truck.
The bodegas are monitored by the tax man.
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Politicalboi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:18 PM
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3. And tomorrow
They will be worth more.
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:20 PM
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4. That onerous cigarette tax is to go into effect this week.
Black MKts will open up everywhere.

If as many people as they claim do not smoke, then this tax
is hypocrisy. There is no way they can collect enough to
pay for health care. Fuzzy Math. They know they will
not collect the needed funds. A little honesty is too much
to expect.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 07:52 PM
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44. and it will do for crime, what prohibition did..(at least in Calif)
Look for money order sales to skyrocket too..

If you use a check or credit card to buy cigarettes from the indians, calif comes after you for taxes "not paid"...
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:21 PM
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5. Its too bad no one will buy these....
Nobody on Earth is going to buy black market cigarettes knowing that it will deny money to the essential SCHIP program.
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Seeking Serenity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:22 PM
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7. You're joking, right?
Did you forget the :sarcasm: thingy?
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:25 PM
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10. Didn't forget. Thought it was too blatant
:).
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Seeking Serenity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:26 PM
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11. I don't know. With some of the posters around here,
I can never be 100% sure anymore.

:hi:
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:23 PM
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8. ...
...

:wow:

:rofl:

Good one.
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 01:13 PM
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20. You are kidding are you not. There would be no black market if
people did not buy.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:21 PM
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6. This is the direct result of over-taxing tobacco
and you'll see far more, again, because of the stupid tax increases on tobacco.

All it has done is inflame the black market for smokes.
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apnu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:45 PM
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13. I'm glad I quit in 2005.
Really. This shit is just stupid.
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 06:39 PM
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25. Correct.
I see people come into local convenience stores in Virginia and buy 15 cartons of smokes at a clip. Guess where they're going? To DC, NY and other places where the taxes are even more ridiculous than they are in VA or MD.
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Codeine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 02:06 AM
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33. No. It's the direct result
of people being pathetic thieves and addicts.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 07:10 AM
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35. humans have adictable tendancies hard-wired
so when you call people pathetic, you're speaking of yourself as well. ;)
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Codeine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 01:45 PM
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38. My sentence was a bit skewed.
"Pathetic" was supposed to be a modifier for thieves, not the addicts. That wasn't what I ended up writing, however.

And I disagree about that hard-wired addictive tendencies. That smacks of the worst sort of claptrap to me. Most of us aren't addicted to anything.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 02:43 PM
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39. "never trust a man without a vice"
Edited on Wed Apr-01-09 02:51 PM by ixion
Mark Twain said that, and I would agree.


edit to add: but you're right. my initial post was skewed as well. I meant that we (mammals) are hard-wired with the desire to alter our perception of reality. That does not implicitly lead to addiction.

so point taken. :hi:
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christx30 Donating Member (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 02:40 AM
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34. And when the
income taxes get hiked up, expect to see more people put their money overseas. The US stands to lose trillions as well as millions of jobs, thanks to over-taxation.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:24 PM
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9. But they were only worth $800,000 a week ago.
Edited on Tue Mar-31-09 12:24 PM by Deja Q
:smoke:
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 07:53 PM
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45. Found: a new career for ousted stock brokers
way better return than "the market"..
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Wednesdays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:41 PM
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12. That's one helluva nicotine fit!
:smoke:
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davepc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:52 PM
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14. So higher sin taxes = more profits for organized crime. What could possibly go wrong?!
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 01:30 PM
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22. If there wasn't a tax differential between states....
besides the profit in the outright theft.
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960 Donating Member (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 12:56 PM
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15. So, what's that like 3 packs?
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 01:03 PM
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18. no doubt...
:rofl:
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Tunkamerica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 01:05 PM
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19. that was going to be my joke.
when i was a kid i got caught stealing a pack of cigarettes. Today it would be grand theft.
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 09:51 PM
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28. Mine too
I remember back when I smoked, I could get a carton for $3. Lasted me a week. Dunno how anyone affords it now.
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 01:27 PM
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21. inside job....
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 01:32 PM
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23. That guy is gonna have one helluva smoker's cough.
:smoke: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke:
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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 03:56 PM
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24. So, with the price jump, they got about 10 packs total?
That'll last someone 'til the weekend... :shrug:
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hayu_lol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 06:55 PM
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26. Time for the Guv'vint to begin the ...
cloning effort to bring back Elliot Ness.

Probably gonna sell them wholesale to a Indian outlet.
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 09:44 PM
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27. The revolt has begun.
There is going to be a lot more of this sort of thing happening.
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 11:18 PM
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29. Eat the rich, right? Destroy the businessmen, right?
Revolt my ass. Looting and theft are just that.

If you want to revolt, quit smoking, or seriously reduce your use. Now THAT will kill the cigarette companies.

Anarchy is NOT the answer. Anarchy is great for creativity, but theft is CRIME.
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 11:37 PM
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30. It's a revolt against the heavy thumbed taxation.
Not against the tobacco companies. And this sort of thing is going to continue. I already buy my smokes online but if a couple of cases "fall off" a truck nearby I will take advantage of that as well.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 11:47 PM
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31. So the black market has begun 1 day in advance of the hike. Woohoo!
Gotta love that underground economy! So how much will they lose with this bullshit tax hike, just like they're losing on the marj tax they could be making?
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 12:25 AM
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32. Damn! How many truckloads is 15,000 cartons?
:shrug:

"Well planned" certainly sounds like "inside job" to me...
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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 07:24 AM
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36. Well, that's made them pretty useless hasn't it ...
> The burglars disabled lighting and security systems

:silly:
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 03:07 PM
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40. Holy smokes. They won't be the butt of any jokes.
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Speaker Donating Member (225 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 06:19 PM
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41. America's most dangerous new job...
door gunner on a cigarette truck.
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Dreamer Tatum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 06:24 PM
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42. You mean people will resort to crime to avoid overtaxation of a vice?
Wow, I wonder that might imply if certain other vices are legalized...
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pipoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 07:29 PM
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43. Maybe its time once again?
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