Grape escape: Thieves make off with $700K worth of rare wine from LA liquor store

Nypost ^ | 07/02/2023 | Patrick Reilly

[ChicagoConservative27]

They made a grape escape.

Brazen thieves broke into a Los Angeles liquor store and stole roughly $700,000 worth of rare wines, according to the store owner.

The heist happened around 1 a.m. on Saturday morning, Nazmul Haque Helal, the owner of Lincoln Fine Wines, told KTLA.

[ChicagoConservative27]

How can anybody run a business in Los Angeles? Insurance must be through the roof.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Couldn’t pay me to live in California.

[fhayek]

Insurance. You may be on to something there.

[econjack]

How did they arrive at $700K so quickly? I don’t doubt the wine was stolen, but I’ll bet the value has been inflated considerably.

[V_TWIN]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Insurance. You may be on to something there.

Rumpole had a case like that once. The owner of the store "fenced" his wine and had one of the Malloys in the frame for heisting it, the Malloy-in-question's wife participating in the frame up, leaving clews all over their flat to incriminate him, whilst she intended to run off with the wine merchant once old Malloy was in the gaol.

[going hot]

“Simple math” you never tell insurance that they stole the rot gut.

[StormEye]

"Brazen thieves broke into a Los Angeles liquor
store and stole roughly $700,000 worth of rare wines,..."

Was it a gang named the Vipers that pulled the heist?

[V_TWIN]

Heineken man not available for comment

[Leaning Right]

> They made a grape escape. <

Stop with the puns! Sure, it sounds like I’m wining. But I can’t bottle up my feelings here. So no, I won’t put a cork in it.

[neverevergiveup]

You may have missed your calling in life..

[BradyLS]

Operation: Wineswipe

[BradyLS]

Hmm. I'll bet the clews were meant to throw Rumpole off the trail! :-)

[lowbridge]

What's that? Your girl scout troop?

[DannyTN]

Time to raisin a posse.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

No the clews were there to lead the Metropolitan Police down the primrose path, but fortunately for the villain Malloy, and unfortunately for Mrs. Malloy and the wine merchant, Rumpole saw right through their designs.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The insurance company will want to see receipts and do their own inventory, or at least have the opportunity to do so if they have any suspicions. Unfortunately wine is fungible, and the whole lot is probably on a freighter bound for Shanghai by now.

[ought-six]

I know that area. It is in Venice. But it has been some 45 years since I lived in California.

[going hot]

Them puns is the dregs.

[going hot]

Receipts? We don’t need no steenkin receipts. ‘Sides, they stole them too!