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One common failing of criminals is that, being so focused on instant gratification, they omit to think things through.(The Week)(Brief Article)
* One common failing of criminals is that, being so focused on instant gratification, they omit to think things through. The disappearance of Angel Ricardo Mendoza, a trucker hauling 3.6 million nickels--$180,000, but weighing 22.5 tons and packed into 900 fifty-pound bags--to the Federal Reserve in New Orleans is a case in point. The unfortunate Mendoza himself is not, at the time of writing, ...
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