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the painting in the van...


how is it still inside the van when being sold off at the used car auction?

they don't check the interior of cars before being sold off? lol

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because whomever was in charge of prepping the vehicles would've discarded the painting as nothing more than a 'tarp', just like customs did.


it is better to have a gun and not need it, than to need a gun and not have it

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^
that and perhaps items are sold as is

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Realistically there would be a risk that someone would have thrown the "tarp" out.

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Yeah, it's a dumb plot element. It would have been just as apparently worthless folded up and stored in the glove box. Or you could have walked off the boat with it in your bag, using it as a wrapping for some other stuff. No one would have thought anything of it.

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