Police seize Lego with street value of $300,000

[beschizza]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/04/12/police-seize-lego-with-street-value-of-300000.html

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[lorcan_nagle]

So… One fancy Super Star Destroyer?

[anon67050589]

LEGO, surely?

[anon87143080]

The ONE time where LAPD using LEGO minifig heads to blur the suspects would be appropriate.

[lewisxstoole]

they showed great restraint in not assembling them all together

[mr_raccoon]

Man, Lego takes the illegal builds thing very seriously

[euansmith]

Apparently, the criminals were cutting the LEGO™ with Generic Plastic Building Blocks. The monsters!

[L0ki]

Street value, huh?

[wazroth]

Please tell me in detail where I can find these purveyors of black market LEGO sold at significantly below retail, so I can be sure to assiduously avoid these locales.

[PaddyBeeSting]

Yeah, but you know cops always inflate the “street value” in these raids.

[generic_name]

“And it’s 99% pure too.”

“Huh?”

“We found a couple Duplo sets mixed in.”

[Brainspore]

[FGD135]

Well, those things are yuuuge:

[RickMycroft]

Did they have it appraised?