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02-24-2020, 03:02 PM | #2 |
George Brett shit his pants
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I remember that game. If I recall correctly, you could get 2 of 3 of the pieces or 1 of 2 of the pieces for each street or avenue. The real difficulty was getting the one rare piece.
I ate lots of mcfries trying to get them sons a bitches |
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02-24-2020, 03:03 PM | #3 |
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Watch the doc! YOU NEVER HAD A CHANCE. This story is ****ing nuts
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02-24-2020, 05:26 PM | #4 |
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Yeah. Im watching it. It’s really interesting. ****ing chuckleheads. I can’t believe they didn’t get caught sooner
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02-24-2020, 07:02 PM | #5 |
In Search of a Life
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It's pretty awesome. The story is crazy by itself. But the loose cannon fbi agent is pretty great too.
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02-24-2020, 07:05 PM | #6 |
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02-24-2020, 07:05 PM | #7 |
In Search of a Life
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Thanks Carlota. I was to lazy to start a thread about this show but it needed a thread. I am super sucked in. I remember hearing about this scam and then nothing....then I found out the trials for all these guys started on 9/10/2001. That explains why everyone forgot about this. Very well done Doc. Love the FBI agent. Lol.
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02-24-2020, 08:24 PM | #8 |
sorta mod-ish
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Nice, I'll check this out
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02-25-2020, 03:41 AM | #9 |
Why so serious?
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Yeah, it's pretty amazing.
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02-25-2020, 07:32 AM | #10 |
Rockin' yer FACE OFF!
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I've heard good things. I don't have HBO, but I'll probably get the HBO Go app or something for a month to watch this.
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02-25-2020, 07:34 AM | #11 |
In Search of a Life
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Yesterday seemed a little too unnecessarily long. But great way to close. Someone on Twitter was laughing that everyone involved is a character themselves. There are so many wildly unreliable narrators that it’ll be interesting when the documentary reveals who actually did what.
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02-25-2020, 12:33 PM | #12 | |
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02-25-2020, 01:20 PM | #13 |
Banned
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There was a article posted about this story on here awhile back.
Makes you think how many things have been rigged over the years Last edited by Sorry; 02-25-2020 at 03:29 PM.. |
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02-25-2020, 03:29 PM | #14 |
I could of gone pro
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I'm watching, the biggest problem is the people of course are criminals, but they're not even likeable, in fact they're scumbags. I can't believe the FBI takes so long to put them away. The doc itself, is too long. It could of been a 2 hour Dateline episode. If it wasn't for this one FBI agent, it would be like watching paint dry.
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02-26-2020, 09:57 AM | #15 |
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The lure of the million dollar payout had so many of them jumping in to buy a winning ticket without truly understanding the payout structure and the mob's cut. If it was a lump sum, they'd at least have some money to potentially payoff their house or buy a few nice things. The $50k per year for 20 years made for a slow trickle after everyone took their piece of the pie.
With the mob Jerry taking half pre-tax and them having to pay taxes on the full amount, they were basically coming out with around $10k a year. After paying in $50k for the opportunity to get in on the scam, it was going to take five years before they broke even. Not exactly the windfall it seemed. |
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