Posted on 02/13/2022 4:49:29 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Today in “The Adventures of Florida Man,” one intelectually-challenged individual thought he had pulled off a major heist but then squandered it all away for a lack of due diligence and patience. The criminal stole rare coins and then cashed them in for a fraction of their actual worth. Peak Florida man right here.
Shane Anthony Mele of Riviera Beach, Florida, met Michael Johnson a few years ago through mutual friends. The 40-year-old Mele was down on his luck after his wallet was allegedly stolen and didn’t have a place to stay. Back in October, Johnson agreed to let Mele crash at his business office in exchange for help on a work project. Despite giving him a place to stay, Mele would end up robbing Johnson of his valuables.
On December 19th, Mele broke into Johnson’s North Palm Beach office and stole $33,000 worth of collectible coins. The commemorative presidential dollar coins were passed down from Johnson’s father after he died about six years ago. The office was ransacked and he stole other items as well. However, security cameras caught the moment Mele put blue tape over the lenses.
Mele was able to sell some of the coins for a few thousand dollars, but he grew tired of going to pawn shops. So the genius went to Coinstar machines and deposited the rare collectible coins and got face dollar for them. “He easily had $33,000 worth, and he dumped it in a Coinstar machine,” Johnson said. Shane Mele is definitely not a coin star.
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No death is too slow for that guy. 😆
Don’t cast your pearls before swine
People who steal thing are often careless about actual worth or value.
It’s always good when you misspell “intellectually-challenged.”
Most people are ignorant about the value of coins. Twice in the past 5 years I’ve found a silver dime near a coinstar machine. I guess the coinstar machines don’t take silver, or the old dimes weigh more.
Robert Goulet; The internationally known baritone,sings one of his greatest hits:
“What Kind Of FOOL Am I?”
Why not? It didn’t cost the thieves anything. Whatever they get is pure profit.
With ‘friends’ like this...
-PJ
No good deed goes unpunished.
These coins are worth only face value, they contain no gold or silver.
Intel inside
They are worth what the market will bear, and if the coins are rare Iris assuredly not face value. You only did splay your ignorance of a large and vibrant market with a statement like that.
And what if one of the coins was an 1877 Indian Head cent? They’re only made of copper.
When were were evacuated from GITMO in 1962, the dependents grabbed necessities and were shipped out. One of the officers’ wives took his extremely valuable coin collection.
Since the base was incommunicado, he wasn’t able to communicate with her for months. The first thing he asked about was his coin collection. She assured him she was careful and only spent the old coins.
Didn’t even stop to think he’d get way more than $29.30 if he took the coins to a coin dealer or a pawn shop.
That is some weapons-grade stupidity.
He did that for some of them
He got tired of doing that
View online pics of Shane Anthony Mele and you will have seen Hunter Biden with about 5 more years on him.
Darwin Award finalist!
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