Man arrested for stealing $1.2M worth of fajitas

[CommuterBob]

http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/local/article_d9e65356-b155-11e7-8634-7fcc67848f6d.html

First question I asked, is how do you steal $1.2M worth of fajitas, to which the answer is you do it over 9 years.

The second question is how do you hide 800 pounds of fajitas on a single delivery from your boss?

 

[UCFRogerz]

When we talk about a deliver of 800lbs of fajitas, is that the sum of the parts? 800lbs of flank steak? peppers? tortillas? The cast iron pans?

 

[UCFWayne]

$1.2m / 9 years is still $133,333 worth of fajitas a year...

 

[UCFRogerz]

$1.2m / 9 years is still $133,333 worth of fajitas a year...

That begets another question. Is that retail or wholesale value? One is a substantially larger amount of fajita ingredients.

 

[cnsaguy]

Are there many food things better than eating the onions from a hot fajita pan?

 

[NinjaKnight]

Is this street value of the fajitas, where the cops come up with some outrageous number to make them look like they saved the entire world (i.e. officer snuffy finds an oz of shitty weed and a couple Percocet's and somehow it's $10 million dollar street value drug bust)?

 

[Happy Hands]

I'll add this to my list of money that the government has wasted. Nine years of selling stolen fajitas and nobody realized it. I can't imagine the amount of crap that gets stolen every year and taxpayers foot the bill. Next time someone asks me why I'm an anarchist, I can honestly answer "because of fajitas."

 

[sk8knight]

Is this street value of the fajitas, where the cops come up with some outrageous number to make them look like they saved the entire world (i.e. officer snuffy finds an oz of shitty weed and a couple Percocet's and somehow it's $10 million dollar street value drug bust)?

Just so that there aren't any misconceptions, officers file charges based on quantitative measures (like weight of substance) and the street value is set by the US Drug Enforcement Agency.

 

[NinjaKnight]

Just so that there aren't any misconceptions, officers file charges based on quantitative measures (like weight of substance) and the street value is set by the US Drug Enforcement Agency.

Well yeah, that's kind of my point, whoever sets the rate for the "street value" has an incentive to inflate their numbers.

 

[CommuterBob]

That begets another question. Is that retail or wholesale value? One is a substantially larger amount of fajita ingredients.

I think that it's the total of the PO's that the guy signed over those 9 years, so wholesale value. What he sold those fajitas for is unknown. He got all of the ingredients for free (kitchen paid for them), so he could have sold them dirt cheap and still made money.

 

[fabknight]

Well yeah, that's kind of my point, whoever sets the rate for the "street value" has an incentive to inflate their numbers.

Can't confirm and I don't feel like looking it up but I think I read somewhere that when street value is assessed they assume that it will be sold, split, sold, split,... They sum the total times it will be split and sold increasing the value every time. So one ounce of pot at $200 gets split into quarter ounce bags and sold at $50/bag...total $400 street value.