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Old 12-04-2025, 17:36   #9
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Re: Plausibility of a villain's scheme

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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh View Post
For example, GoldFinger. Would irradiating all the gold in Fort Worth really help him destabilise the gold market and create a huge profit for him.Would flooding Silicon Valley corner the chip market?
Unlikely, as I don’t believe there’s very much gold in Fort Worth………


But if you are meaning Fort Knox, remember what Jeremy Irons in Die Hard 3 says after breaking into the US Federal Reserve in New York…….

“$140 billion! Ten times what's in Kentucky. Fort Knox? Ha! It's for tourists.”
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