Althouse: 6,000 pounds of gold and silver fell out of a Russian airplane.

March 16, 2018

6,000 pounds of gold and silver fell out of a Russian airplane.

The Daily News Reports.

18 comments:

David Begley said...: Some of Vlad's stash falls to the ground.

And to put this in perspective, $120 million is way less than the cash Barack gave to Iran.

We had a good counterclaim and Barack settled for a high number and got zero in return.

I'm sure all of the lawyers here would love to have been on the other side of Obama. A guy who never tried a case and was playing with other people's money.; 3/16/18, 7:06 AM
Dledhead said...: I thought it was going to be over some farmers field. You are better than click bait; 3/16/18, 7:08 AM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: Наша Russia.; 3/16/18, 7:18 AM
MadisonMan said...: Finders Keepers. Except it's Russian Govt, so the prudent thing is to give it back.

Gold / silver has never fallen from the sky into my yard. (pout); 3/16/18, 7:20 AM
TRISTRAM said...: In US, you have helicopter money, in Russia, we have airplane gold.; 3/16/18, 7:24 AM
madAsHell said...: How does several tons of weight shift in an aircraft, and not cause a wreck??; 3/16/18, 8:23 AM
Shawn Levasseur said...: D.B. Cooper was unavailable for comment.; 3/16/18, 9:10 AM
richlb said...: Was it bound for Syria?; 3/16/18, 9:49 AM
mockturtle said...: "..unsecured cargo". Yikes! Were they really so stupid? Something that heavy not secured in an aircraft? Somebody screwed up.; 3/16/18, 9:57 AM
Char Char Binks, Esq. said...: "I thought it was going to be over some farmers field. You are better than click bait"

You simply made an ignorant and unjustified assumption. That's on you.; 3/16/18, 10:17 AM
Drago said...: If I had a nickel for everytime that happened....; 3/16/18, 12:15 PM
Darrell said...: That's why Russia doesn't run Amazon Prime shipping.; 3/16/18, 12:18 PM
mikee said...: Nine tons of gold and silver were on the flight.
How often do the mines around Yakutsk produce this much gold and silver?
Is this a weekly or monthly flight or quarterly?
Where was the gold and silver going?
The reporting of this even is so uninformative as to be a joke, were it not so ridiculously bad.; 3/16/18, 12:19 PM
mccullough said...: Looks like MI-6 is finally learning how to play the game.; 3/16/18, 12:22 PM
mockturtle said...: Looks like MI-6 is finally learning how to play the game.

But they still need a little more practice. ;-); 3/16/18, 12:26 PM
Earnest Prole said...: If there's one thing I know, it's that 6,000 pounds of silver and gold won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold.; 3/16/18, 1:18 PM
Scott said...: Russia builds airplanes like Harley Davidson builds motorcycles. Except that Harleys are already on the ground, so the impact isn't so bad.; 3/16/18, 6:39 PM
Robert Holmgren said...: Is this one of those ‘golden showers’ we’ve been hearing about?; 3/16/18, 7:41 PM