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

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Post by sarchertech »

fsloth wrote: post #576
sarchertech wrote: post #495

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very rarely do corporations act like this once there’s any sort of spotlight on them. Especially over such a relatively small number. This is nothing to do with any standard corporate tactics and everything to do with the guys in charge being complete dick heads.

I wish it was so as well but "When McKinsey Comes To Town" by Bogdanich and Forsythe documents exactly standard tactics such as these in e.g. insurance.

It documents tactics like this that continue once a popular YouTuber brings a spotlight to the case and starts doing a multi part series on it?

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Post by zargon »

gosub100 wrote: post #543
thrance wrote: post #462

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's more like a combination of factors that make child abuse more prevalent: lack of access to the outside world (" we are in the world but not of the world "), a strict patriarchal hierarchy in the home that puts children at the bottom, endorsement by the church of physical punishments, etc.

And your source for this data? Or is this speculation?

The problem of child sex abuse in Mormonism is magnified by several factors. The community is very tight-knit and insular. Mormons believe that God directly guides their leaders. This leads to mental compartmentalization and slowness to recognize abuse to start with. When it is recognized, there is an extremely strong culture of handling grievances internally through the Priesthood hierarchy. Reports will go to the bishop, not secular authorities. The perspective is a bit skewed to begin with because it is normal and expected for Mormon bishops to ask youth (11 yo and up) explicit questions about their sex lives in private one-on-one "worthiness interviews". The "marching orders" that bishops (the equivalent of priests or pastors) follow (the Church Handbook of Instructions) are primarily designed to protect the church and its reputation. In places where the Mormon church has political power, it can even extend to law. For instance, bishops/clergy are exempted from mandatory reporting in Utah. Bishops are specifically instructed to _not_ report abuse to authorities. Instead they are to "call the hotline" (the Kirton McConkie law firm), where are advised on how to protect the abusers so that the church doesn't incur financial risk or negative publicity. The Mormon church is very centralized and hierarchical compared to many other churches, which means the official policy of cover-up is endemic.

The Mormon Stories (John Dehlin) and Radio Free Mormon podcasts have a lot of documentation of this. The first link below is one of the most important and has a lot of written content as well.

Look into Sam Young, whom the church excommunicated because he campaigned for ending the policy of asking teens and preteens sexually explicit questions in personal worthiness interviews.

https://protectldschildren.org/

https://radiofreemormon.org/2026/03/sam-young-protector-of-m...

Example of how the church deals with victims of abuse:

https://www.mormonstories.org/mormon-sa-jared-ashley-jones/

There is extensive documentation that this is the standard operating procedure:

https://radiofreemormon.org/2025/04/child-abuse-in-the-lds-c...

https://radiofreemormon.org/2023/12/rfm-324-how-the-mormon-c...

https://www.mormonstories.org/matt-long-sex-crimes-prosecuto...

https://radiofreemormon.org/2026/02/lds-church-caught-lying-...

The Mormon church was also intimately involved with Boy Scouts, so basically all of the Boy Scout problems overlapped and combined with the issues above.

https://www.mormonstories.org/boy-scout-abuse-tim-kosnoff/

https://www.mormonstories.org/bsa-bankruptcy-update-with-kos...

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Post by thrance »

gosub100 wrote: post #604
thrance wrote: post #595

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you just ask questions to waste time or do you actually care about the answer? React to my other comment first.

So you just falsify data to waste people's time? I think you are just guessing. Or protecting your own distate for people who have a different lifestyle than you.

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Post by jrflowers »

xigoi wrote: post #614
jrflowers wrote: post #201

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You should post the link to that. Police chases costing people’s lives is an awful thing, anybody that’s ever seen a cop driving 130mph because they think they’re Knight Rider might want to donate.

How is it not the motorcyclist’s fault? He voluntarily chose to get into a chase with them instead of obeying traffic laws.

High speed pursuits are a severe public safety hazard at best and extrajudicial murder at worst. The municipalities that ban them do so under the notion that given a choice between not chasing someone and risking the lives of every passenger in the car, other motorists, the police, and pedestrians, not chasing them makes more sense legally. An officer seeing what they believe to be a busted tail light does not actually constitute sufficient cause to execute a pedestrian crossing the street eleven blocks away.

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Post by archon810 »

jmcgough wrote: post #424
mattmaroon wrote: post #337

I just don’t understand why a company with $95m in sales would steal $200k. That’s a fraction of a percent of sales for the year. There’s now a boycott against them that will easily cost them more than that. If the case is as this blog says, it cannot be hard to find a lawyer to do this one pro bono. Breach of contract is one of the few things in America where you can sue for your legal fees. If you take over a busin…

I have a family member who works in estate planning. From all the stories he's told me, a lot of wealthy people compulsively screw over people / refuse to follow the contract they agreed to / etc, simply because they can and know that it is too expensive for most people to file a lawsuit.

Heck, our current president is a fine example of this behavior, according to numerous accounts.

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Post by getnormality »

Ovah wrote: post #561
getnormality wrote: post #556

I read the counterclaims from Bricks and Minifigs here: https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/blog/2026/05/28/bricks-mi... This post and TFA have a common issue: no one seems to have a clear, compellingly evidenced account of basic questions about the collection and its history under consignment: 1. What exactly was in the collection? 2. What happened to the collection after it was consigned: which sets were sold, which…

Have you seen the youtube videos? They paint a pretty clear picture.

Clear enough that my questions can be answered in writing? Someone should do that.

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Post by gamblor956 »

munk-a wrote: post #333
gamblor956 wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Courts are allowed to pierce the corporate veil when that happens.

They absolutely are and a good lawyer, I'm sure, could audit the accounts and find some misdeeds - the issue is that the auditing and even getting access to those records in court is extremely expensive. To my knowledge there isn't a way to trigger that kind of a discovery in small claims so you need to go through the pricey legal system. The money in question here is the proceeds from selling a collection valued at…

the issue is that the auditing and even getting access to those records in court is extremely expensive.

In most cases, the bankruptcy trustee will be doing that work already.

But in a case like this, it's probably not going to be necessary. Courts usually pierce the corporate veil in situations involving the debts of wholly-owned subsidiaries. It happens frequently enough that its actually news when they don't pierce the veil. This is because corporations usually do a bad job of doing all the things that are necessary to maintain the liability shield in court.

In a nutshell: it requires treating the subsidiary as an entirely separate entity, with separate books, accounts, back office, officers/management, etc. As this is extremely inefficient, most corporations don't bother. The only corporations that do are the ones that deal with company-killing litigation regularly enough that it's worth it to absorb the cost of maintaining the liability shield.

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Post by baobabKoodaa »

juleiie wrote: post #564
ChrisRR wrote: post #549

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Misc bricks aren't worth anywhere near as much as full sets (unless you happen to have some of the rarer bricks people are after)

Okay but you get the point. This is not investment, this is playground. No one buys Lego thinking “oh they will make me rich if I just keep them unopened for next 20 years” cmon

Plenty of people do exactly that. I'm not advocating that you do it (I think you will end up wasting your money), but plenty of people do exactly that.

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Post by JMiao »

mattmaroon wrote: post #337

I just don’t understand why a company with $95m in sales would steal $200k. That’s a fraction of a percent of sales for the year. There’s now a boycott against them that will easily cost them more than that. If the case is as this blog says, it cannot be hard to find a lawyer to do this one pro bono. Breach of contract is one of the few things in America where you can sue for your legal fees. If you take over a busin…

if the theft accusation is credible and not a rogue fuck up, then you wonder if a company that authorizes a $200k theft could have some other skeletons in the closet. like the sus $95mm sales claim.
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