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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: koods]
#23706306 - 10/04/16 10:21 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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wow, those are common cars. How interesting 
I wonder if they bought those common cars to blend in with the non-rich kids or if the parents just didnt wanna spend a ton on their kids car
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 1
#23706344 - 10/04/16 10:36 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Have u not read th news??
Apparently her smart phones were also stollen, with "very private" content!!
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: orison]
#23706372 - 10/04/16 10:48 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: zZZz]
#23706713 - 10/04/16 12:39 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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zZZz said: Sucks, but there are more important things to worry about right now, like peeps starving in 3rd world countries and what not..
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: Seriously_trippin]
#23706861 - 10/04/16 01:27 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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The article only mentions an "overnight watchman" wtf does that mean? Hotel security 
If you're that famous and traveling with millions in valuables, why would you not have security? Serious security, 2 guys shouldn't be able to reach you in your hotel room.
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: koods]
#23706876 - 10/04/16 01:35 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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koods said: It's weird. I grew up in a very rich area but wasn't a lot of ostentatious display of wealth. I never heard a a lot bragging and the bar mitzvas were pretty banal. Most Kids in high school had cars but they were pretty standard first cars. You don't see rolls or Bentleys. They even made one of those Real Housewives shows in my hometown, but I think it flopped because people don't actually behave like that.
When I was a teenager we moved out of the ghetto and into a neighborhood in the upper 2% of income, it had the most police per capita in the country one of those early years, there are houses going up to at least 16 million, some random celebrities live in the area.
The town comes off more middle class though, there are some nice cars, but nothing extravagant. Rich kids were driving Honda civics and the like
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: Repertoire89]
#23706908 - 10/04/16 01:44 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm a little ignorant on how a piece of jewelry that could fit on a finger can be worth that much. Precious metals aren't that valuable. Maybe a diamond, but really even the most expensive material holding the diamond on isn't anything but a place setting for the diamond, so it's not the ring so much as the rock it holds? Many small diamonds don't add up to that do they? I just don't get it. Who creates the values these things???
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: abltsandwich]
#23706917 - 10/04/16 01:47 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I agree that a tiny rock shouldn't have that kind of value
Its probably Hitler's old ring or somesuch-like, antique value
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: Repertoire89]
#23707327 - 10/04/16 04:00 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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So a superme court justice spoke out about the "robbery"
The way he did it was weird though almost joking about it
He is saying Kim Kardashians armed robbery might be a total fabrication according to a U.S. Supreme Court Justice ... who actually brought up the incident during oral arguments. The SUPCO was hearing a case on Tuesday where a guy from Cali is arguing it wasn't bank fraud when he drained someone's bank account ... because the bank's money is insured. Justice Stephen Breyer jumped on the opportunity to show off his pop culture prowess, saying ... "Even Kardashian's thief, if there is one, believes that all that jewelry is insured. So, it's not theft?" Breyer extended his metaphor, saying even if the Kardashian krooks posed as jewelry cleaners ... "Wouldn't you think that was fraud?" He went on to make a crack about her jewelry possibly being on loan, and not hers at all ... metaphorically speaking. The good news for Kim -- one of the 8 most powerful people, arguably, in America knows about your ordeal. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to buy it.
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: Repertoire89]
#23707363 - 10/04/16 04:15 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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koods said: It's weird. I grew up in a very rich area but wasn't a lot of ostentatious display of wealth. I never heard a a lot bragging and the bar mitzvas were pretty banal. Most Kids in high school had cars but they were pretty standard first cars. You don't see rolls or Bentleys. They even made one of those Real Housewives shows in my hometown, but I think it flopped because people don't actually behave like that.
When I was a teenager we moved out of the ghetto and into a neighborhood in the upper 2% of income, it had the most police per capita in the country one of those early years, there are houses going up to at least 16 million, some random celebrities live in the area.
The town comes off more middle class though, there are some nice cars, but nothing extravagant. Rich kids were driving Honda civics and the like
Most police per capita? You don't usually see a lot of cops in wealthy neighborhoods.
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: koods]
#23707376 - 10/04/16 04:22 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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That's interesting, its a low-crime neighborhood bordered by low-crime neighborhoods though.
I think they want to keep it that way
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: abltsandwich]
#23707833 - 10/04/16 07:11 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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abltsandwich said: I'm a little ignorant on how a piece of jewelry that could fit on a finger can be worth that much. Precious metals aren't that valuable. Maybe a diamond, but really even the most expensive material holding the diamond on isn't anything but a place setting for the diamond, so it's not the ring so much as the rock it holds? Many small diamonds don't add up to that do they? I just don't get it. Who creates the values these things???
DeBeers artificially creates the value for these things by hoarding a majority of the diamond's collections, the reality is diamonds aren't rare nor valuable.
Plus, nowadays you can get a 6-karat moissanite lab-made diamond for $200, and it's not like anybody who sees it is going to be able to tell the difference between a lab-made diamond and a real diamond.
Have you ever heard that saying--it only looks fake if you look poor. Meaning, some guy wearing ostentatious baggy clothing and gold chains in a ghetto in Philly carrying a Louis Vuitton... even if it's a real Louis Vuitton, and even if his gold chains are real 24K gold, everybody around him always assumes it's a fake simply because of his image. He just doesn't look like somebody who can afford a real Veblen good.
Now contrast this to somebody who is slim, well-groomed, wearing a suit and tie in a wealthy suburban area. When he wears or carries fake diamonds or faux-fur or knock-off brand name items, it looks real on them.
So, interestingly enough, the highest consumers of fake knock-off merchandise tend to be rich girls, according to the people who sell these products. Truly good fakes are still very expensive though. A truly high-quality imitation replica should still cost hundreds of dollars. Because they need to be using the best leather, or platinum, or whatever other expensive materials it costs to make such a thing. Shitty fake replicas you can get for $30-$50, but you can always tell from a distance by the material or the cheap printer they use that it is fake.
Now that I think about it, almost every rich person that I know carries a selection of fakes on them. They're practically indistinguishable from their real collection.
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: Seriously_trippin] 1
#23707841 - 10/04/16 07:15 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Seriously_trippin said: I was hoping asomeone would think it's an inside job but today she was seen with 10 new security vehicles and 25 new body gaurds. Also recently this dude ran up and literally kissed her ass days before . Her bodyguard took him down but it was after he got the kiss . It's possible someone saw that and said "she has one security guard?maybe they don't stay there all night?"(Plans robbery).
It's entirely possible that this is true though because they are Vastly rich and don't need the 10 million they stole .
I want to know how she got out
they stole mostly jewelry, all of that stuff is insured(you don't buy a 4 million dollar ring without taking out insurance on it)so they'll get the money back.
I actually feel real bad for her. I dislike her, but celebrities are people too, and that would be traumatic for anyone to go through. Fuck, I got held up at gunpoint and they ended up taking like 60 bucks and my phone and I was pretty shaken by that, to be confronted by a few gunmen and bound and gagged would be horrible.
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: abltsandwich]
#23707879 - 10/04/16 07:30 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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abltsandwich said: I'm a little ignorant on how a piece of jewelry that could fit on a finger can be worth that much. Precious metals aren't that valuable. Maybe a diamond, but really even the most expensive material holding the diamond on isn't anything but a place setting for the diamond, so it's not the ring so much as the rock it holds? Many small diamonds don't add up to that do they? I just don't get it. Who creates the values these things???
probably a number of things, its likely made my a designer as well, platinum metal, custom made.
Diamonds can get stupid expensive. If u seen the instagram photos, that diamond is HUGE and VERY clear. That type of diamond (Large and super clear) are super rare. And super rare means super expensive. Suppply and demand.
I bet that diamond was like a 20 carrot. Most diamond rings are half a carrot to 1 carrot.
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: koods]
#23707882 - 10/04/16 07:31 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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koods said: It's weird. I grew up in a very rich area but wasn't a lot of ostentatious display of wealth. I never heard a a lot bragging and the bar mitzvas were pretty banal. Most Kids in high school had cars but they were pretty standard first cars. You don't see rolls or Bentleys. They even made one of those Real Housewives shows in my hometown, but I think it flopped because people don't actually behave like that.
I believe it. I've seen some rich people in certain areas, and if you never visited their mansions you'd never know they were rich. They drive normal cars and wear jeans and T-shirts and like to go fishing, I guess it's because they grew up that way.
I don't know why Southern California is so egregious with their ostentatious displays of wealth. It's probably directly correlated to the amount of plastic surgery and the number of movies that are produced out here. The culture is so vapid.
Honestly I'm a cheap person, I'm the type of person that always has to get a value out of something. If somebody bought me a diamond ring I'd probably go on a tirade about how stupid they are for blowing that kind of money on a rock, and how they should have bought a lab diamond for a fraction of the price instead.
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: Crystal G]
#23707888 - 10/04/16 07:33 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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If somebody bought me a diamond ring I'd probably go on a tirade about how stupid they are for blowing that kind of money on a rock, and how they should have bought a lab diamond for a fraction of the price instead.

I sold one of me kidneys for that stone
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#23707903 - 10/04/16 07:39 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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abltsandwich said: I'm a little ignorant on how a piece of jewelry that could fit on a finger can be worth that much. Precious metals aren't that valuable. Maybe a diamond, but really even the most expensive material holding the diamond on isn't anything but a place setting for the diamond, so it's not the ring so much as the rock it holds? Many small diamonds don't add up to that do they? I just don't get it. Who creates the values these things???
probably a number of things, its likely made my a designer as well, platinum metal, custom made.
Diamonds can get stupid expensive. If u seen the instagram photos, that diamond is HUGE and VERY clear. That type of diamond (Large and super clear) are super rare. And super rare means super expensive. Suppply and demand.
I bet that diamond was like a 20 carrot. Most diamond rings are half a carrot to 1 carrot.
Yeah, I was guessing around 20 karats too. A 1 karat ring costs roughly $10,000 from Tiffany's, just for comparison.
But, certain diamonds, depending on the cut, clarity, and color, are worth a lot more. I forget which one it was , there was some pink or purple diamond that Princess Diana wore that was super valuable, 1 karat was worth $100,000 or so.
But like I said. Nobody can tell the difference except an appraiser looking at it close up. So there's no reason to buy them. You don't want cubic zirconia either though, because those start looking cloudy over time, and those look REALLY fake.
Interestingly enough, perfectly clear diamonds actually look more fake, at least when an average person wears them. I learned that from Pawn Stars, you want to see a yellow tint reflecting off a diamond.
It's very likely that Kim K has one of the few real "flawless" diamonds out there though, and that's probably why her ring costs so much. Usually only royalty and celebrities carry those kind of perfect diamonds.
Another thing that's interesting, is that one way jewelers and appraisers were being able to tell the difference between lab diamonds and real diamonds, is because the lab diamonds was too perfect whereas real diamonds had imperfections in it. So what the lab diamond makers started doing, was they started adding imperfections into their diamonds, and it became a LOT more difficult for appraisers to tell the difference between the two. I don't know how they tell the difference anymore between a really good lab made diamond, and a real one.
Edited by Crystal G (10/04/16 07:45 PM)
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: Crystal G]
#23707923 - 10/04/16 07:46 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thats interesting.
I wonder how they control the "brilliance" factor? cause i know it varies. Color, clarity and brilliance (aka sparkle/fire effect).
I saw her ring, it does look fake cause its so perfect, looks like a perfectly clear piece of glass
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#23708007 - 10/04/16 08:20 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I don't think they control for it, I think however the diamonds come out is how they end up coming out. At least for real diamonds, anyway. I actually have no idea how they make lab diamonds, I can only imagine they use high pressure vacuums to transform carbon into a diamond.
I mean, just look at this. You can get a 4 karat moissanite for $1,000. If you were to buy this at a jeweler, it would cost $50K to $100K easily. This is a REAL diamond, the exact same material, the only difference is that it's made in a lab, instead of coming out of the ground. Just take notes for when you plan on buying jewelry one day: https://www.amazon.com/TransGems-Moissanite-Diamond-Solitaire-Wedding/dp/B01LEROCFG/ref=cm_wl_huc_item
Edited by Crystal G (10/04/16 09:01 PM)
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Re: Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint and robbed of almost 10m [Re: Crystal G]
#23708043 - 10/04/16 08:31 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yah, ive read about the lab diamonds, like at this website i checked out awhile back: http://www.brilliantearth.com/lab-created-diamonds/
The prices do get close to real diamonds depending on the quality and realism of the lab diamond.
Butt he best part is that it isnt fueled by African slavery and diamond mines that cause a lot of deaths. But having the real thing thou....its hard to match. Imperfect diamonds make them awesome and unique. Lab diamonds are just too perfect....
But they have their appeal and market so...it aint so bad.
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