Millions Of Dollars Worth Of Gold Bars Fell Out Of A Cargo Plane While It Was Flying Over Russia
Moscow Times- A reported 200 bars of gold and other precious metals have scattered across an airport runway in Russia after a cargo plane door broke off upon takeoff. Strong winds blew off the Nimbus Airline An-12 cargo plane door upon takeoff from Yakutsk Airport, airport officials told Interfax on Thursday.
After the incident, the plane crew made an emergency landing in a village airport some 12 kilometers from Yakutsk. The local YakutiaMedia news website cited witnesses as saying that they spotted gold bars, as well as diamonds and bars of platinum across the runway. Police arrived to the scene and cordoned off the area surrounding the runway, YakutiaMedia reported. At least 172 bars of gold weighing 3.4 tons have been recovered from the area, an Interior Ministry source told the state-run TASS news agency. The Mash news Telegram channel calculated the value of the gold to be 21.6 billion rubles ($378 million).
If you live anywhere near the fall radius of this plane, you have to leave work, buy a metal detector, and hunt for treasure for the rest of your life, right? I can’t imagine how many people in the Yakutia region pray to God every single day to save them from the frozen hell they live in, only to have riches literally fall from the sky. I feel like if you find one gold bar, you can live like a king in Russia for at least a year. If you get a few gold bars, some platinum, and a diamond or two, you can probably become neighbors with Vlady Putin, or better yet, leave Russia altogether.
Whenever I see a Brinks truck with nobody in the cab, I start dreaming that sweet dream of hot wiring that bitch and taking it to Mexico. Shit, whenever there is one of those pictures of a beer truck spilling thousands of cans on a highway, we all dream that magical dream of becoming rich like Homer.
That isn’t just the American Dream. That is the Human Dream. Which is why I will be extremely disappointed if that airport isn’t being stormed by Russians right now. Who gives a fuck if you instantly get five GTA stars for storming an airport? 1/10th of a gold bar probably buys every Russian cop within 1000 miles. A quick journey in freezing cold temperatures can change your life and the lives of the next 10 generations of your family forever. No guts, no glory.
Also, I would say that whoever loaded that plane is having an all-time bad day at work. But there is no way he/she isn’t dead as fuck right now. Fucking with a rich Russian’s gold is like fucking with the money of Big Worm and Terry Benedict. It’s very bad. Yeah I could have used like 10 million other pop culture examples, but the thought of Big Worm and Terry Benedict hanging out and talking about their assets made me laugh.