{"id":15811,"date":"2020-06-03T15:39:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T19:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=15811"},"modified":"2020-06-03T15:39:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T19:39:28","slug":"why-are-protesters-stealing-millions-of-dollars-of-rolex-watches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=15811","title":{"rendered":"Why are protesters stealing millions of dollars of Rolex watches?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Looters Steal $2.4 Million In Rolex Watches From New York Store<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/note-rioters-why-looting-gun-store-isnt-such-great-idea\">we warned looters<\/a>\u00a0why they shouldn&#8217;t waste their time stealing luxury watches like a Rolex (same goes for fancy Apple products): in summary, it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re easy to trace (gold, diamonds and other jewelry, on the other hand, can usually be fenced via a crooked pawn shop owner). But if you take a Rolex to a pawnshop, chances are that you&#8217;ll be arrested and the stolen goods seized as soon as the pawnbroker shows the watch to a dealer for an appraisal.<\/p>\n<p>But apparently they didn&#8217;t listen, because the NYPD reported that one jewelry store in midtown lost $2.4 million in Rolex watches last night as looters broke into a store in SoHo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Rolex store is empty,&#8221; a police source told the NYPost. &#8220;They stole like $2.4 million in Rolexes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the looting has gone viral.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ASB_Breaking\/status\/1267413697611390976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1267413697611390976&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fwatch-looters-reportedly-steal-24-million-rolex-watches-soho-store<\/p>\n<p>However, a spokesperson for the store told the Post that no watches were stolen, claiming that the store had been emptied of its merchandise long before the looting began.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were simply windows broken and some vitrines smashed.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/watch-looters-reportedly-steal-24-million-rolex-watches-soho-store\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/watch-looters-reportedly-steal-24-million-rolex-watches-soho-store<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looters Steal $2.4 Million In Rolex Watches From New York Store<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}