{"id":97590,"date":"2016-06-10T01:02:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T01:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/10\/cracked-all-across-the-country-people-are\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T02:44:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T02:44:57","slug":"cracked-all-across-the-country-people-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/10\/cracked-all-across-the-country-people-are\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-97590 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/10\/cracked-all-across-the-country-people-are\/attachment\/97591\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o8givvJa8F1qz5q5lo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o8givvJa8F1qz5q5lo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o8givvJa8F1qz5q5lo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cracked.tumblr.com\/post\/145637648527\" target=\"_blank\">cracked<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>All <a href=\"http:\/\/www.10news.com\/news\/exclusive-cops-bust-major-lego-theft-ring\" target=\"_blank\">across<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/portland-man-selling-stolen-legos-online-arrested-in-undercover-sting\" target=\"_blank\">country<\/a> people are making off with <a href=\"http:\/\/wreg.com\/2016\/02\/25\/deputies-looking-for-thieves-who-stole-up-to-10k-worth-of-legos\/\" target=\"_blank\">thousands<\/a> of dollars of extremely popular LEGO sets and then flipping them on the web. Police have estimated one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/08\/16\/us\/new-york-arizona-lego-thefts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona racket<\/a> to have stolen and resold $250,000 worth of LEGO, and one ambitious Florida man stole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/suburbs\/oak-brook\/crime\/ct-lego-bandit-new-charges-met-0725-20150724-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">$2 million<\/a> worth of plastic dad-landmines. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/hamilton\/news\/20k-in-lego-stolen-from-hamilton-toys-r-us-1.3326311\" target=\"_blank\">A gang of crooks in Canada<\/a> broke into a Toys \u201cR\u201d Us just to steal LEGO merchandise. That means they passed aisles and aisles of expensive video game systems to get their hands on a bunch of little plastic blocks.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>But why is the LEGO brand such a hot ticket for thieves? Unless you\u2019re a 7-year-old day trader, you might not know that the price of LEGO bricks have been going through the roof for years now. These Scandinavian gemstones have an unrivaled market growth rate, with mint condition LEGO sets steadily increasing in value by 12 percent per year. Even more amazingly, some sets that are less than a year old can easily go for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/investing\/shares\/lego-a-better-investment-than-shares-and-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\">36 percent more than the original price<\/a> on eBay. Thieves have been capitalizing on the toy\u2019s popularity with collectors by selling their pilfered goods online, turning those LEGO bricks into bricks of pure gold \u2013 making Legoland the new El Dorado. It makes us wonder why gentlemen thieves even bother heisting priceless diamonds guarded by lasers when they can just clean out a Walmart and retire.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_23988_libraries-disney-parks-6-places-crawling-with-crime.html\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Libraries And Disney Parks: 6 Places Crawling With Crime<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/b><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cracked: All across the country people are making off with thousands of dollars of extremely popular LEGO sets and then flipping them on the web. Police have estimated one Arizona racket to have stolen and resold $250,000 worth of LEGO, and one ambitious Florida man stole $2 million worth of plastic dad-landmines. A gang of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/10\/cracked-all-across-the-country-people-are\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5419,4873,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97592,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97590\/revisions\/97592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}