Parking inspector and wife arrested for €1m meter theft (www.bbc.com)
from throws_lemy@reddthat.com to world@lemmy.world on 26 Nov 03:26
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satanmat@lemmy.world on 26 Nov 04:33 next collapse

Someone didn’t watch the money laundering episodes of Breaking Bad

Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works on 26 Nov 04:40 next collapse

Yeah, just depositing the money into your account is surprisingly sloppy.

Vending machine business, that’s the way to go.

SendMePhotos@lemmy.world on 26 Nov 06:42 collapse

Or American Dad

tomiant@piefed.social on 26 Nov 10:38 collapse

Impressive scam! Simple, and they got €1 mil out of it before being discovered. If they were smart, which I will assume they weren’t, they could have that money in an offshore account and couldn’t be taken back by authorities. They’d maybe do some time or probation, then they could comfortably fuck off and live low key in some tropical third world country for the rest of their days if they budgeted well.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca on 26 Nov 15:25 collapse

Need more than just a million to retire comfortably. Though, I guess if you did it on the cheap in a less developed country, it might be possible.

tomiant@piefed.social on 27 Nov 12:56 collapse

That truly depends on what you mean by “comfortably”. You can very easily survive the rest of your life “comfortably” on $1 million. Unless your definition of “comfort” includes a bunch of bullshit that you don’t actually need and arguably makes your life worse for you and shorter just because you’ve grown accustomed to it.

$1M is plenty.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca on 27 Nov 14:03 collapse

If you want to own a house and a car in a developed country, with property taxes, insurance, house repairs, car repairs etc etc etc, $1M won’t cut it. If it was, I would have retired years ago.

jazzkoalapaws@ttrpg.network on 27 Nov 16:04 next collapse

You are wrong, but that’s okay.

tomiant@piefed.social on 27 Nov 16:52 next collapse

a house and a car in a developed country, with property taxes, insurance, house repairs, car repairs etc etc etc

See, that’s your problem right there.

P1nkman@lemmy.world on 27 Nov 20:24 collapse

A 105" TV, a pool, a guest house, boat, new phones model every year, latest tech etc. How else do you live comfortably? /s

tomiant@piefed.social on 28 Nov 15:39 collapse

That’s the issue though. They believe that is the only way to live, and that is the way they live, so that is the right way to live, so they will oppose anything that will infringe on their living that exact way.

partofthevoice@lemmy.zip on 27 Nov 18:26 collapse

Maybe if by “developed” you mean capitalistic.