life in the fast lane.... unreal

[senco78]

An excerpt from ''The Accountant's Story'' by Roberto Escobar, Pablo Escobar's brother and accountant. ''The operation spent $2,500 a month just purchasing rubber bands to wrap the stacks of cashand since they had more illegal money than they could deposit in the banks, they stored the bricks of cash in their warehouses, annually writing off 10% as "spoilage" when the rats crept in at night and nibbled on the hundred dollar bills.''
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar

$2,500 a month is a lot of rubber bands...And 10% ''spoilage'' would suck when you consider the Medelln Cartel during the height of its operations, brought in more than $60 million per day. (yea $60 million a DAY)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medellín_Cartel

But hey what ya' gonna do ? In 1989, Forbes magazine declared Escobar as the seventh richest man in the world. Money to burn...Like $2 million in cash in one night...just to keep warm. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...n-the-run.html

Millionaire at 22...shot dead at 44, life in the fast lane.

 

[Archie]

wow

instead of saying someone is so rich they have money to burn, or wipe their ass with....

we can now bring "money to feed the rats with" into the lexicon

 

[Archie]

so 2 billion dollars a year got lost to the rats, what does that do to the country's "dollar" after 4-5 years of that.


unless the rats ate more than 50% of the bills, couldn't the cartel have donated the deformed bills to poor people to turn in and get new bills?

 

[senco78]

It is said that Escobar once burned US$ 2 million in cash just to keep his daughter warm while on the run. [6]


Some of Pablo Escobar's memorable quotations are:

"I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States."[42]
"I'm a decent man who exports flowers."[42]
"All empires are created of blood and fire."[42]
"I can replace things, but I could never replace my wife and kids."[42]
"Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is."[42]
"There can only be one king."[42]
"Sometimes I am God, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day."[42]
"There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men."[42]

 

[Bay Bud]

there is a great program on espn that has been run several times about the colombian soccer team and the connection to escobar. worth a look if you get a chance, along with the one they have about vlade divac, drazen petrovic and the yugoslavian basketball team.

 

[senco78]

seen the 1 about the soccer team. " 2 Escobars" or something...
but I thought the soccer player was his family... not true

 

[Mudcat]

You'd think he could have afforded some rat poison.

 

[fiveteamer]

Honestly, if you offered me that lifestyle and money or $70k/yr to sit in a cube, I'd take the cube.

 

[Archie]

You'd think he could have afforded some rat poison.

or just leave good food out for them, or build a vault in that basement

only white people are smart with money, muddy

 

[senco78]

I'd go nuts sitting in a cube all day

 

[senco78]

@ 60 million a day I doubt he gave a shit about a few million being nibbled on here and there.
whats a few bucks on rat poison compared to a couple million anyway.
chump change right???

 

[betplom]

I'd go nuts sitting in a cube all day

I never get tired of Cuba.

 

[Blitty]

or just leave good food out for them, or build a vault in that basement

only white people are smart with money, muddy

Well considering the amount spent on rubberbands, I am picturing multiple airplane-like hangars holding all the cash. Building basement vaults would be pretty tough for all that.

 

[senco78]

can rats not figure out how to get in a basement?

 

[Mudcat]

With the money we're talking about, you could hire a crew of grunts to sit inside the perimeter of the storage area and keep a constant watch and deliver flying elbow drops on any rats as they come in.

 

[Boner_18]

Honestly, if you offered me that lifestyle and money or $70k/yr to sit in a cube, I'd take the cube.

This is my job. Its pretty sweet except from the occasional crippling depresion that comes along with severly underachieving. Oh well!

 

[Matty]

This is my job. Its pretty sweet except from the occasional crippling depresion that comes along with severly underachieving. Oh well!

Put a ping pong table in the office. Good clean fun and underachieving becomes a healthy activity.

 

[Tron]

Boner what kind of top out pay are you looking at if you stay in the same cube?