Silver Smoking Jacket Guns Gold and Barbie Fishing

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Man uses Barbie fishing rod to make record catch
"Barbie" rod produces record catfish3:32 am August 24, 2008
It began with a simple trip to the bathroom.. . It ended with a state-record catfish.. . "We were just trying to do a little fishing that evening,"...

July 12th

Associated Press
One year ago: A Bush administration assessment said Iraq had achieved only limited military and political progress toward a democratic society; Iraqi leaders responded by insisting they were making progress. The House of Representatives voted to withdraw U.S. troops by spring 2008 despite a veto threat from President Bush. British soccer star David Beckham and his wife, Victoria (of Spice Girls fame), arrived in Los Angeles to begin their new lives in the United States.


2006 Israel invades Lebanon in response to Hezbollah's kidnapping of Israeli soldiers

1996 Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million

1993 Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Sunset Promenade" opens in London

1992 Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St. Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert

1970 Blues-Rock singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky

1543 England's King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.

Suitcases of gold may solve Brink's-Mat robbery

Like good fiction it has it all millions of pounds worth of missing gold bullion, intrigue, underworld figures, murders, panic among the international gold market and a 25 year old robbery.

Trail of gold grains offers £8m clue to mystery of Brink's-Mat robbery

Source: guardian.co.uk
Mark Townsend, crime correspondent
The Observer, Sunday June 8 2008

Detectives believe bullion found in suitcases could be breakthrough to solve crime after 25 years

It is one of the most enduring mysteries of British criminal folklore. But now the riddle of what happened to the millions of pounds worth of gold bullion stolen during the Brink's-Mat heist may have been solved after quarter of a century.

Scotland Yard detectives last week found six suitcases crammed with gold inside a London deposit box. They could help solve a crime so spectacular it panicked the international gold market, reconfigured London's criminal map and left a trail of murders in a gangland feud over the whereabouts of the missing bounty. Read more