Hundreds of thousands of Fuente Cigars Stolen.

[Puros Y Vino]

10 minutes ago, ReelMan said:

And how big does the humidor have to be to house all of them???????

Just humidify the container.

[ReelMan]

19 minutes ago, bundwallah said:

Just humidify the container.

That is going to require a big freakin' Bovida pack !!!

[SteveH]

14 minutes ago, ReelMan said:

And how big does the humidor have to be to house all of them???????

40'x8'x8'6"

 

=)

[SloppyJ]

I laughed:

 

[rhcolbert]

This is crazy. Totally floored. Glad I'm not 22 year old me working at a cigar shop and having to explain this daily. 

[First Lady]

6 hours ago, PigFish said:

... been meaning to post this awhile now. I have a rather large collection of NCs to sell. Contact me and HitchTheBitchAndRunTrucking.com. We operate outta' Haiti. Just ask for Big Ray... We also have lovely girls for dating and marriage! -LOL

On a more sober note, when I was a kid I did some unpacking of these containers for a bicycle maker/importer. Losing a container is not as rare as one might think.

-Piggy

 

Oh Piggy you always make me laugh  

[Thomasdenaro]

wow that is quite crazy, surely that cant just be hidden in someones backyard, they have to be very well set up to pull off stealing a 40 foot container!

[Smallclub]

1 hour ago, rhcolbert said:

Glad I'm not 22 year old me working at a cigar shop and having to explain this daily. 

Uh? I'm sure the young cigar shops clerks are delighted to have a gangster story to tell to their customers…instead of talking BS about habanos…

[Andy04]

Running through this logically.

A standard 40ft container has 2,391 cubic feet.

A standard box of D4's is 27cm X 15cm X 5.5cm

Without going into confusing maths..... this would mean that at 100% capacity, there could be 30,075 boxes packed in the 40ft container.

That equals 751,875 cigars.  Assuming that with spacing etc of pallets, the container packed at 85% capacity, that would be 639,093 cigars.

 

Lets hope the sticks were boxed, if they were packed in bundles the number of sticks lost would be far greater.

[rhcolbert]

2 hours ago, Smallclub said:

Uh? I'm sure the young cigar shops clerks are delighted to have a gangster story to tell to their customers…instead of talking BS about habanos…

After about the 3x explanation I woulda been exhausted from it.

fuente part woulda been the worst.  Avid Customers for fuente products remind me of some of the horror stories of crazy 24:24 customers our leader has shed some light on.  A cargo container being sold would of turned into it somehow being my fault as a 22 year old clerk.  ?

[Fuzz]

2 hours ago, Thomasdenaro said:

wow that is quite crazy, surely that cant just be hidden in someones backyard, they have to be very well set up to pull off stealing a 40 foot container!

You'd be surprised. Unless there are obvious distinguishing marks on the container to identify it, you'd need to get up close to read the container number. One container looks just like any other container. In the area where I work, there are plenty of containers sitting on trailers. Who's to say which ones are legitimately parked there, or just recently pinched.

Hiding a container is relatively easy. Knowing which container to pinch is the real trick.

[DBNInc]

If stolen containers is such a common issue, why aren't there gps trackers using geofences in every container?  It would alert authorities and owners as soon as a container leaves a location or route.  Additionally, it would be very difficult to find without unloading the whole container, since it wouldn't have to be very large.

[Fuzz]

2 hours ago, DBNInc said:

If stolen containers is such a common issue, why aren't there gps trackers using geofences in every container?  It would alert authorities and owners as soon as a container leaves a location or route.  Additionally, it would be very difficult to find without unloading the whole container, since it wouldn't have to be very large.

Hijackers use signal jammers.

[DBNInc]

3 hours ago, Fuzz said:

Hijackers use signal jammers.

Thus the geofence.  The GPS jammer would set off the geofence alarm as soon as it's turned on, since the program suddenly wouldn't be able to tell where the container is.  Nothing is 100%, but such a large amount of product should have more layers of security to at least attempt to dissuade the baddies.

[Fuzz]

So as long as the container is within the geofence, then it's fair game? Truckie stops off for a bite late at night, a rigid box trailer pulls up right behind, crack the seal and unload quick as a flash. Depending on the commodity, you could be done before anyone notices. Even if the container had a security device to notify when the seal is broken, how quick would somebody be able to respond?

Sometimes companies think the cost of security devices just don't are not worth the cost, especially if they have never been hit. I've shipped hundreds of containers over the years, and have only lost one. And that was due to it falling off the ship.

[PigFish]

Logistics are logistics people. When in mortgage banking, I had a load of files crash and burn in an airplane once. Try explaining that to your customer. 

The Sherlock Holms in me says that if the Miami Police are involved, the rightful owner knows the where and when it was stolen. It could or should be assumed that it was tracked to Miami. Or it is just a requirement of insurance that the container be consider stolen and needed to be reported to the police.

Now whether is was lifted 'in transit,' the dock, from a bonded warehouse (these are taxable goods) or lost from the Casa Fuentes parking lot, no one mentions.

I know that a certain cigar monopoly is short of tobacco, not to mention afraid of competition; I just did not think that they would take it this far.... -LOL

-the Pig

[canadianbeaver]

Remember in the movie Goodfellas how they got hold of huge trucks filled with cigarettes or similar product? The driver just got out and walked away instead of conflicting with the bad guys.

Perhaps this is what happened.

[avaldes]

2 hours ago, PigFish said:

Logistics are logistics people. When in mortgage banking, I had a load of files crash and burn in an airplane once. Try explaining that to your customer. 

I have worked on many proposals to the US gov't. Typically they require a printed version delivered to their office by a certain date and time. I vividly remember one of my young engineers volunteering to take a cross country flight to deliver the proposal. He was stoked to get paid to goof off for a couple days. Then our boss said, "we are also sending Mary with a copy on another flight in case your plane crashes." The look on his face was awesome

[PigFish]

2 hours ago, canadianbeaver said:

Remember in the movie Goodfellas how they got hold of huge trucks filled with cigarettes or similar product? The driver just got out and walked away instead of conflicting with the bad guys.

Perhaps this is what happened.

... warped minds think alike!

First thing I thought of... -LOL -the Pig

[zeedubbya]

1 hour ago, PigFish said:

... warped minds think alike!

First thing I thought of... -LOL -the Pig

 

3 hours ago, canadianbeaver said:

Remember in the movie Goodfellas how they got hold of huge trucks filled with cigarettes or similar product? The driver just got out and walked away instead of conflicting with the bad guys.

Perhaps this is what happened.

Both of you better go to the first page of this thread and like my embedded Godfellas link....there's a competition now for most likes in a day (now that's warped)!  

[PigFish]

1 hour ago, zeedubbya said:

 

Both of you better go to the first page of this thread and like my embedded Godfellas link....there's a competition now for most likes in a day (now that's warped)!  

...oh, you again! I put you on my ignore list long ago!!! -LOL (not really)

You know, I suppose I saw that... The mind is the first thing that goes! Someone told me that once, or more, but I forgot who...

-Piggy

[PigFish]

1 hour ago, zeedubbya said:

 

Both of you better go to the first page of this thread and like my embedded Godfellas link....there's a competition now for most likes in a day (now that's warped)!  

...happy now!

Actually it was not the scene I was thinking of. I will just leave it at that. -tP

[PigFish]

... now that we have moved onto used cars and movie references...

*** Don't watch at work!

-Piggy

 

[luv2fly]

You are killing me Pig!  ZDB, great post!!

[PigFish]

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... I'm funny... funny how? How am I funny???

-Piggy