Gold Bullion at Heathrow

[truck71]

Arrived via Lufthansa cargo carrier at 607 stand an hour ago. From where though?

[cbmotorsport]

Finally it's arrived! I thought I'd been ripped off.

[ecsrobin]

Planning on stealing it?

[FourWheelDrift]

Keep an eye out for 3 minis.

[FourWheelDrift]

cbmotorsport said:

Finally it's arrived! I thought I'd been ripped off.

That poor fella, nobody would take his money so he left it all in his apartment - http://mashable.com/2017/04/17/nigerian-cash-stash...

[belleair302]

Possibly NY as Germany is now moving its gold reserves back to Germany, possibly via the Bank of England.

[twister]

Flightradar shows a Lufthansa Cargo MD11 arriving at Heathrow at 10:30 from Stockholm...

[JC29]

Hi Chaps,

Airports are delivery points for bullion and dore - most big ones will have vaults of the stuff.

Could be from anywhere really

[SimonTheSailor]

Where did you take the photo from ? Were you on a step ladder behind a fence ?

[truck71]

SimonTheSailor said:

Where did you take the photo from ? Were you on a step ladder behind a fence ?

No, I work airside right next to stand 607. Lots of law about created some excitement and a bit of patience led to the photo.

[eglf]

Why are the 2 men to the left of the folklift, airside and not wearing hi vis.

Edited by eglf on Saturday 22 April 11:51

[trickywoo]

eglf said:

Why are the 2 men to the left of the folklift, airside and not wearing hi vis.

Edited by eglf on Saturday 22 April 11:51

Because they know what colour the boat house is.

[48k]

eglf said:

Why are the 2 men to the left of the folklift, airside and not wearing hi vis.

Reminds me of a conversation I had at Southend once when I went to pay my landing fee.

"Please remember to wear your hi vis when you walk across the apron"

"I was wearing my hi vis"

"No you weren't"

"How can you tell?"

"Because I could see y....dont' try and be clever"

[Black can man]

When i used to work for Securricor we often stored 100's of gold bars , mainly for the US government . They move them around for some reason.


300 or so gold bars loose on little steel pallets in the vault but the overtime cabinet was under lock n key.

[Monkeylegend]

truck71 said:

SimonTheSailor said:

Where did you take the photo from ? Were you on a step ladder behind a fence ?

No, I work airside right next to stand 607. Lots of law about created some excitement and a bit of patience led to the photo.

I am surprised you are officially allowed to take and post these sort of photo's on an open forum when working airside with all the security issues surrounding places like Heathrow.

[bitchstewie]

Monkeylegend said:

I am surprised you are officially allowed to take and post these sort of photo's on an open forum when working airside with all the security issues surrounding places like Heathrow.

I'm rather guessing he isn't. Be careful especially when so much metadata is embedded in every photo you post online these days.

[Monkeylegend]

bhstewie said:

Monkeylegend said:

I am surprised you are officially allowed to take and post these sort of photo's on an open forum when working airside with all the security issues surrounding places like Heathrow.

I'm rather guessing he isn't. Be careful especially when so much metadata is embedded in every photo you post online these days.

That was my point in a roundabout way

[lbc]

Monkeylegend said:

I am surprised you are officially allowed to take and post these sort of photo's on an open forum when working airside with all the security issues surrounding places like Heathrow.

Definitely not allowed, and the OP is at risk of losing his pass and job.

[Viperzs]

I really wouldn't have thought that would get him in trouble. It's no different to if i had taken the photo from a Terminal lounge.

[FourWheelDrift]

And there is no metadata in the photo, no EXIF info no GPS location logged.