• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I spent a decade working in insolvency.

    When we were going into a business that had failed the question was “Are the idiots, criminals or both?”

    One highlight:

    A boat sales / marine business goes bust. When we arrive with the paper work and seize the place there are about a dozen new boats on the lot worth several million. We change the locks on the gates.

    Arrive the next day, the gates have been busted open and several million in boats are now missing. We look up the addresses of the owners (one of them lives on acreage) and drive to their property…from the road we can see the boats stashed there. Really smart guys.

    So we call the police. Someone inside notices use there and decides to flee with one of the boats, it is huge but they think they can get away.

    We then have the slowest car chase in history as we calmly follow this guy towing a boat on a trailer down the road while talking to the cops to meet us.