• Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    What on earth could someone do with 80,000 lbs of beef? You can’t exactly move that kind of volume on the black market. Storing that amount of beef alone would take a massive amount of space and cooling.

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        3 days ago

        If I ever need to unload 40 tons of illicitly-obtained meat, I’ll be going to you, Mr. Semi.

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        3 days ago

        Username checks out.

        Also, they may have actually already had a buyer ready… could have even been an inside job…

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          “I’m gonna give you a rule of thumb. You foller it and you just might hold on to this ranch of yours. All large-scale crime is an inside job. Takin’ fingerprints and sendin’ trash off to the lab just don’t ger her done. If you’re dealin’ with people, you gotta be human.” Slim Pickins as Henry Beige in Rancho Deluxe