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Pablo Escobar burnt £1m in cash to keep warm on the run Telegraph [U.K.], by Staff
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Posted By:PageTurner, 11/4/2009 2:24:19 AM
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| The infamous cocaine baron is said to have lit a bonfire using wads of US dollars at a mountain hideout while he was being hunted by authorities. Sebastian Marroquin, who has changed his name from Juan Pablo Escobar, claimed his father burnt the notes when he realised his daughter Manuela was suffering from hypothermia. |
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
rowbear, 11/4/2009 2:30:57 AM (No. 5998056) I read a few years back, they were making so much money in illegal drugs that they had to weigh it, counting took too much time.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PageTurner, 11/4/2009 2:33:17 AM (No. 5998059) His brother's memoirs say that Pablo lost about 10% of his cash to rats gnawing at it. Pablo wrote it off as a cost of doing business.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
gg, 11/4/2009 2:39:15 AM (No. 5998062) They say you can't eat it. Apparently rats are a different story.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Orion, 11/4/2009 4:16:43 AM (No. 5998096) You tear the bills in half and only feed those fragments into the fire. Then when you're rescued you turn the other half(s) in to the Federal Reserve. By law they have to replace the damaged bills for free.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LoveGW, 11/4/2009 4:29:04 AM (No. 5998106) Are you sure that wasn't Nancy Pelosi??
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lizzee1, 11/4/2009 6:10:10 AM (No. 5998161) Obviously ahead of his time.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rumblehog, 11/4/2009 9:50:19 AM (No. 5998747) He'd make a good Democrat.
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