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Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by eks391 »

protocolture wrote: post #236
eff-nix wrote: post #183

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If their atheist affiliation had a pattern of this exact behaviour, that had been documented even so far as how it had corrupted the FBI. https://academic.oup.com/california-scholarship-online/book/... Why yes, 6 day old account, I would say the same in that scenario. Thanks for playing.

Without an account with the journal, all I could read was the abstract, but it didn't hint to me that they corrupted the FBI, whatever that means, but have a high representation within the FBI.

Someone recently told me that when he worked for the BLM, there was a lot of LDS folk, which reinforced my observation that they are overrepresented in federal jobs in general (I have no evidence for this, just several anecdotes). I assumed it is because they usually don't smoke marijuana, so they are more likely to be eligible. That abstract gave more compelling possibilities that I didn't think of, that don't seem conspiratorial, like the higher multilingual likelihood at concentrated places like BYU, making it a great spot for recruiting.

Does the article go into more detail on how they "corrupted" the FBI that is not easily explained by them simply being ideal FBI hires?

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by eff-nix »

eks391 wrote: post #411
protocolture wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If their atheist affiliation had a pattern of this exact behaviour, that had been documented even so far as how it had corrupted the FBI. https://academic.oup.com/california-scholarship-online/book/... Why yes, 6 day old account, I would say the same in that scenario. Thanks for playing.

Without an account with the journal, all I could read was the abstract, but it didn't hint to me that they corrupted the FBI, whatever that means, but have a high representation within the FBI. Someone recently told me that when he worked for the BLM, there was a lot of LDS folk, which reinforced my observation that they are overrepresented in federal jobs in general (I have no evidence for this, just several anecdot…

Exactly. The abstract essentially says “these people make for great employees for X Y Z reasons, but many people look at that and come up with conspiracy theories based on it”. Then the Parent says “look the research agrees with me!”

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by eks391 »

kibwen wrote: post #374
solomonb wrote: post #172

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I'm not doubting the claims at all. I simply don't understand why a massive company would shoot themselves in the foot over something relatively small.

I encourage you to relieve yourself of your naivete. Your default stance needs to be that every company on the planet would feed you feet-first and screaming into a woodchipper if they thought they could make a dollar from it.

Your comment is so depressing because of how graphic it is, and what makes it so upsetting is that I can't disagree. You and I have lost faith in the world. Oh, to go back to when I was young and I thought theft and abuse were rare...

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by vintermann »

toofy wrote: post #389
keithnz wrote: post #267

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If you look at the latest stuff from the previous owner where they recorded multiple conversations / pulled security footage... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zedmOopRTm0 1, they were allowed to do consignment deals, 2, when corporate took control, they said they'd take on the consignment liability, 3, BAM outright threatens them with making the legal process too expensive for them. All of which contradicts the curr…

yeah, it’s plain as day they say blatantly they’ll take on the consignment. the reckless ben youtube videos are pretty clearly laid out with contracts, video evidence, etc.. the crazy part to me is how blatant the executives of bricks and minifigs are in saying go ahead and try to sue us, we’ll drag this out until you’re broke from lawyers fees. we’re a lawyer rich corp and you’re not. they don’t even try to hide it.…

Sign of the times. It's not enough to be rich and powerful, the goal is to be able to gloat about your impunity. Little Epsteins.

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by helterskelter »

rdtsc wrote: post #400
63 wrote: post #357

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My understanding is that 50% of people in the state of Utah are mormon. I'm not saying there wasn't corruption, but it could very well be pure chance with those odds.

If cops are pulling over another person from Utah probably not a big deal but when dealing with an outsider from out of state the situation is different.

I can personally attest to this, along with many of my friends and family.

I've driven hundreds of extra miles per trip going around that damned state.

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by protocolture »

eks391 wrote: post #411
protocolture wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If their atheist affiliation had a pattern of this exact behaviour, that had been documented even so far as how it had corrupted the FBI. https://academic.oup.com/california-scholarship-online/book/... Why yes, 6 day old account, I would say the same in that scenario. Thanks for playing.

Without an account with the journal, all I could read was the abstract, but it didn't hint to me that they corrupted the FBI, whatever that means, but have a high representation within the FBI. Someone recently told me that when he worked for the BLM, there was a lot of LDS folk, which reinforced my observation that they are overrepresented in federal jobs in general (I have no evidence for this, just several anecdot…

I have read multiple accounts from insiders that were effectively:

1. LDS members can be obligated to provide each other jobs where possible.

2. LDS members (especially of the same congregation) are obligated to not report on each other to non LDS authorities.

And these factors made it sort of an invasion, where after a couple of likely competent LDS members started to make towards the top of government hierarchies, they started ballooning these organisations with their compatriots. Theres been a heap of money spent changing the public perception of this towards "Oh actually Mormons make great public sector employees because they dont drink".

You wont find much for this outside of books usually from retired spooks or journalists who involve themselves in that area.

But the issues have occasionally spilled over to public notice.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/10/02/Former-FBI-agent-tes...

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by fastball »

smcl wrote: post #281
AntonyGarand wrote: post #269

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It is my understanding that they sued the franchise, which then closed, and not the parent corporate entity. While they won against the franchise due to the default judgement, they didn't win against corporate. The store that is now closed is the franchise they sued.

This entire story started because the corporation took control of the franchise though

Fairly certain it was actually someone affiliated with corporate who took over the franchise, but it is still a franchisee.

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by rib3ye »

gkoberger wrote: post #11

I'm really confused by this blog. There seems to be a large portion of the story missing. I can't figure out the correlation between the owner losing their franchise and the rest of the story. Why did they want to steal the sets? If they're really a $400M company (whatever that means), why would they do this over (at most) $200k? I couldn't figure out what is being claimed here. I'm not saying it's not true, I just c…

The Reckless Ben video is the best thing I've seen on youtube in the last several years.

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by fastball »

kylemaxwell wrote: post #84
vasco wrote: post #3

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There's no moral universe where shooting somebody over money, especially this amount of money, is the correct course of action.

TIL that morality is actually objective, glad we finally cleared that up.
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