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Title: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: cottoneyeJoe on June 23, 2011, 05:36:02 AM
2 days ago I was delivering a USB stick with an GPG encrypted wallet to a customer for exchange. I wanted to do the delivery the next morning when I was going be in their part of town anyway but the customer insisted they needed it right away and I kinda owed them the favor of an after midnight delivery to the nightclub they worked at. No biggie, I'd couriered other packages to them there so I thought it was cool. Plus, they were gonna let me slide another week on a payment I owed them.

Anyway, the parking lot was full and I had to find a spot around the corner in the underground parking lot of a nearby business. I've blown too much money in that club on booze and women and squandered lots more on pool games, so to remove all temptation I left my wallet in my car and headed out with just my keys and the USB stick in my pocket. Because the street level is reserved for emergency vehicles and monthly paid parking, I had to go down two levels to find a spot. I parked near the elevators and noticed a couple of shady dudes hanging out near the stair well on the other side of the garage, smoking blunts and throwing bones. Oh, well, I'll only be a minute. wallet and ride should be fine I think as I head to the elevators. I can prolly get one of the bouncers to walk back with me and the bundle I'll be taking for the BTCs.

Turns out, the elevators are shut off that late at night. I gotta walk past the guys rolling dice at the stairs who are polite enough to tell me they shut the elevators off at 11pm as keep a brisk pace for the stairs.

About half-way up to the exit, through the long echoing concrete stairwell, I hear the more bleary-eyed of them asking in loud drunken slur what I'm doing in here this late and then something like "yeah let's check it out"....I can hear them coming up the stairs.

I panicked. If I had my wallet on me I might be able to bribe them off with the $100 or so that's in it, but all I've got on me is my keys and this USB stick that's worth close to 10 large and my customer getting antsy at the other end.  I start running for the next flight of stairs to the alley exit....when fuck me if one fast little bastard hasnt made it all the way around and is coming through the door above me with 2 more coming from below.

I knew they would shake me down and I had visions of them stealing the USB or worse, smashing it rage because I didnt have the blow or cash or whatever they were hoping to find. I didnt know what to do but I knew I had to do it fast....I swallowed the USB.

It barely made it down and was gagging me as it tried to make it's way back up....they didnt know what to think. I think they thought I was having a seizure or something and just split as I stood there clutching the handrail and spewing out gobs of stringy spit as the jagged USB stick kind just hung there in what felt like the middle of chest.

Anyway...to make a long story short, I finally made it into the bar and had to belt down a couple of beers while I told my customer to fuck off for making me come out here so late with such a shitty neighborhood around. I told him he could have his BTC once it passed and that there'd be an extra 10% if that didnt happen before Wednesday.

The problem is, it hasnt passed. I've been shitting into my bathtub and put a big screen over the drain to catch the USB while washing it all down, but nothing. I'm fucking sick of Total cereal and prunes and had enough coffee to keep an interstate truck driver awake for 2 days. Nothing. I'm starting to worry the stick is dissolving inside me at this point.

I went to the emergency room and told them I think I swallowed something bad but didnt say what. maybe a battery or something. They took 5 hours to decide to take xrays and....nothing. They gave me some laxative and said to check back with my regular doctor.

I'm so screwed. The customer thinks I'm lying to him and the guy who I'm delivering for is equally sure I'm fucking him over. At this point if I dont get the 500BTC to my customer in the next 3 days I'm not going to have an ass to shit anything out of.

Can anyone please help me?


   


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: ones51 on June 23, 2011, 05:42:55 AM
Craigslist Nigerian scammer!!!!


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: evolve on June 23, 2011, 05:44:39 AM
http://th00.deviantart.net/fs70/300W/f/2011/029/1/6/house___cool_story_bro_by_mrjefff-d38acsp.jpg








xrays or it didnt happen.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: Superform on June 23, 2011, 05:47:20 AM
subscribed


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: clint25n on June 23, 2011, 05:47:39 AM
Lol, a hilarious read  :D


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: Astro on June 23, 2011, 05:48:17 AM
These keep getting better and better.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: imperi on June 23, 2011, 05:48:50 AM
This is fake!! Everyone is using my real life experience as a meme now. I can't speak for Allinvain but I know he would not be impressed by this either.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: myrkul on June 23, 2011, 05:51:45 AM
Good news! When they tear it out of you, they'll still be able to access the BTC in the wallet!

Sux 2 be you, tho.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: gmaxwell on June 23, 2011, 05:53:35 AM
I'm so screwed. The customer thinks I'm lying to him and the guy who I'm delivering for is equally sure I'm fucking him over. At this point if I dont get the 500BTC to my customer in the next 3 days I'm not going to have an ass to shit anything out of.

Can anyone please help me?

I recommend microsd and http://www.spy-coins.com/producthtm/micronickle.htm in the future.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: kwaaak on June 23, 2011, 06:12:58 AM
If the wallet is encrypted why don't you send the file via e-mail?


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: evolve on June 23, 2011, 06:26:31 AM
so my thread about zombie hookers eating my btc wallet gets deleted, but this one gets to stay???

.....nice.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: myrkul on June 23, 2011, 06:31:27 AM
Well, this one at least has the semblance of plausibility.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: evolve on June 23, 2011, 06:34:14 AM
there is nothing plausible about this story (or the 6 others, for that matter.) and some sucker is going to end up giving him money.

ok. fine.

but its not ok for me to make fun of the rash of scammers and supposedly stolen BTC? i dont understand that.



Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: imperi on June 23, 2011, 06:35:23 AM
there is nothing plausible about this story.

and some sucker is going to end up giving him money.

so its ok to scam here, but if i make fun of the scammers, my post gets deleted?

The forum is open-source. Get over it.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: evolve on June 23, 2011, 06:37:45 AM
thats funny, especially coming from the guy who was crying in my thread.

but whatever. im done.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: Bit_Happy on June 23, 2011, 06:39:14 AM
....
Can anyone please help me?
   

Yes!
Send only 9BTC to my address and I promise your shitty troubles will be solved within < 5 hours.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: Oldminer on June 23, 2011, 06:41:21 AM
These keep getting better and better.

This ^^

Still not going to give him any money though


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: cottoneyeJoe on June 23, 2011, 06:45:39 AM
there is nothing plausible about this story (or the 6 others, for that matter.) and some sucker is going to end up giving him money.

Tell that to my intestines! You''ll kindly note, I'm not asking for donations...I dont even list an address for them....I'm asking for help evacuating the damn thing....


... and yes, it's a parody. Sorry for the disruption....if anyone should be...ummm....butt sore?....I'll stop now.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: Bit_Happy on June 23, 2011, 06:53:40 AM
there is nothing plausible about this story (or the 6 others, for that matter.) and some sucker is going to end up giving him money.

Tell that to my intestines! You''ll kindly note, I'm not asking for donations...I dont even list an address for them....I'm asking for help evacuating the damn thing....


... and yes, it's a parody. Sorry for the disruption....if anyone should be...ummm....butt sore?....I'll stop now.

A) Enjoy eating a large meal
B) You could get a NYC policeman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner_Louima) to extract it for you.   :o

Abner Louima (b. 1966 in Thomassin, Haiti) is a Haitian who was assaulted, brutalized and forcibly sodomized with the handle of a bathroom plunger by New York City police officers after being arrested outside a Brooklyn nightclub in 1997. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner_Louima)


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: TraderTimm on June 23, 2011, 08:35:11 AM
I'm touched by your story.

Please submit a donation to the "allinvain" sub-par security church (address below) for consideration. Induction into the "BTC Fool" sainthood will be judged, first by how much BTC you lost, and the tenacity of your efforts to get the media to parrot your story. Only if you can get on an episode of "Dr. Phil" or equivalent will you win your prize.

Enter often, for a chance to win!

Thank you for your support.



Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: d.james on June 23, 2011, 08:44:56 AM
I will give you 500 BTCs if you swallow another USB stick and dissolve it.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: indicasteve on June 23, 2011, 10:11:31 AM
Excuse me sir, I think your roflcopter just crashed into my lmaocoaster.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: 1.21gigawatts on June 24, 2011, 05:11:41 AM
This would be the beginning of a great movie script


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: goodlord666 on June 24, 2011, 01:45:46 PM
Couldnt you have just shoved it up your ass? man..


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: Bazil on June 24, 2011, 06:19:01 PM
I'd love to read the sequel to this one.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: clint25n on June 24, 2011, 06:26:35 PM
Please continue your story, and the details  :D
Please!


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: PCRon on June 24, 2011, 06:28:28 PM

..put a big screen over the drain...
   

I'm still trying to figure out why you put a TV over the drain??  Is it an HD Big Screen??


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: Clipse on June 24, 2011, 06:36:02 PM
Do tell us more, like what refreshner do you use while shitting in the bathtub.



Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: Bazil on June 24, 2011, 07:37:23 PM
Do tell us more, like what refreshner do you use while shitting in the bathtub.



yeah if that happened to me I think I'd just crap in the alley for a week.  Then again the nearest alley to my house is probably 50+ miles away, so it'd be a long drive to take a dump.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: x0Jakeyboy0x on June 25, 2011, 05:10:03 AM
Well written.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: TheGer on June 25, 2011, 07:41:26 AM
That will teach you to have backups of that shit.  If you get into trouble you can trash it so it can't be used instead of eating it.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: bitcola on June 25, 2011, 09:07:36 AM
Bull for the simple reason alone that you would not give him the same USB. You'd transfer the wallet.dat from the shit infested one to a brand new key.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: fxgmblr on June 28, 2011, 09:29:23 PM
you took all that time to write up that BS story?
although it was an interesting read lol =)
 
so where did this supposedly take place?
what neighbourhood/city?


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: malevolent on June 29, 2011, 03:57:14 PM
You could ask some surgeon to cut you up and search your intestines... they shouldnt be longer than 8-12m i thinketh.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: Mousepotato on June 29, 2011, 10:36:30 PM
This thread disappoints.  I was waiting for "you're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air" :(


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: shata on July 05, 2011, 01:39:44 AM
Ur dumb for not having another backup of that wallet at home anyways.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: iBTC on July 05, 2011, 05:57:06 AM
I will retrieve the bitcoins, it will cost you 499 to do it, i take the money upfront.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: mc_lovin on July 11, 2011, 11:41:59 AM
SO entertaining. 

Win.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: JaTochNietDan on July 11, 2011, 04:55:32 PM
Anyway...to make a long story short, I finally made it into the bar and had to belt down a couple of beers while I told my customer to fuck off for making me come out here so late with such a shitty neighborhood around. I told him he could have his BTC once it passed and that there'd be an extra 10% if that didnt happen before Wednesday.

You went drinking alcohol when you had $10,000 worth of Bitcoin in your stomach? LOL

:)


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: Eri on July 14, 2011, 07:04:18 PM
OMG this has got to be the funniest thing i've read in weeks, true or not its great! on the chance its true, has it passed yet? XD
i can see it now, you give it to the guy and... "WTF this thing smells like shit!" "yeah i just got a hold of it this morning"

though if it does pass... clean it well, wouldn't want it to short out when you plug it in, shits conductive :D


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: myrkul on July 14, 2011, 07:15:53 PM
OMG this has got to be the funniest thing i've read in weeks, true or not its great! on the chance its true, has it passed yet? XD
i can see it now, you give it to the guy and... "WTF this thing smells like shit!" "yeah i just got a hold of it this morning"

though if it does pass... clean it well, wouldn't want it to short out when you plug it in, shits conductive :D

How you know this I do NOT want to know.  ;)


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: Eri on July 14, 2011, 07:20:28 PM
rofl, thought someone would say that... i just assumed it would be conductive cause it has water in it XD

but can ya picture someone putting a poo in a loop? battery, power tester.. and poo.  anyone want to test this? XD


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: myrkul on July 14, 2011, 07:33:55 PM
rofl, thought someone would say that... i just assumed it would be conductive cause it has water in it XD

but can ya picture someone putting a poo in a loop? battery, power tester.. and poo.  anyone want to test this? XD

Actually, I think the Mythbusters have, for their 'hits the fan' episode. They wanted their substitute to be as accurate as possible.


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: Eri on July 14, 2011, 07:37:04 PM
lol, somehow not surprising!


Title: Re: Stuck USB stick with 500 BTC...is it gone?
Post by: paraipan on July 15, 2011, 01:26:48 AM
OMG this has got to be the funniest thing i've read in weeks, true or not its great! on the chance its true, has it passed yet? XD
i can see it now, you give it to the guy and... "WTF this thing smells like shit!" "yeah i just got a hold of it this morning"

though if it does pass... clean it well, wouldn't want it to short out when you plug it in, shits conductive :D

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