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Re:Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US by rsync on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:24PM (#16329931)
"How likely would it be that you could get that quantity over the border going South? Is luggage checked?"

I can only speak from personal experience, but ...

As someone who has driven into, and through, Mexico many, many times (one trip was Colorado to El Salvador and back) I can tell you that it's all smiles and waves and thumbs up as long as you are driving south.

As long as you're driving south, nobody cares what you're doing or what's up or where you're going or who you are.

The moment you turn around and point north everyone cares.

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Re:Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US by prawn on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @11:44PM (#16330246)
I assumed as much. I suppose he would've wanted to have done it quickly before his photo was out there. Maybe stash half and risk carrying the other half.

Or, as I said, get to a more remote area, make friends, rent a room cheap, befriend the landlord and try to borrow their car for cash, and then slowly develop a lifestyle where you can make careful use of the money without divulging your identity too much.

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