Peck's Korean Oddity

[beezer]

I had my wife, who is Korean, take a look at the blog post and it looks like the poster is a pipe smoker who is trying to figure out best practices for storing pipe tobacco in Korea. The apartments in Korea are tiny and space is at a premium, so the guy was trying to find a way to cellar tobacco efficiently. It seems there is a small pipe smoking community over there and like us they are trying to prepare for the tobaccolypse. The poster called Peck's stash the most amazing collection of pipe tobacco and marveled at it.
The part I found most interesting was a subsequent blog post my wife clicked on where a poster, presumably the same guy, apparently paid a pair of Chinese teenagers in Beijing to find out the physical address for Peck's stash via a sophisticated computer network operation. The Korean was hard to read, but the man apparently purchased a plane ticket to Vancouver and is linking up with ten other Koreans living in some place called Coquitlam, Canada where they will plan out an Ocean's 11 style heist of Peck's stash and use false flag merchant ships to transport it to Pohang, South Korea where it will be convoyed up to Apgujeong dong in Seoul. Due to the sheer volume of Peck's stash it will need to be stored in 113 different apartments judging from this guy's calculations.
There probably isn't anything to worry about Peck. This guys sounds like a freaking amateur.

 

[mranglophile]

but what I want to know is, how in the hell did you find this Korean post??

+1
Exactly what the wife asked.

 

[misterlowercase]

Google alerts work well for such sleuthing...
https://www.google.com/alerts
:puffpipe:

 

[huntertrw]

"Red" alert...coincidence? I don't think so!

 

[mcitinner1]

I am so blind...for 18 months now, I have thought Peck's avatar was a picture of Gregory Peck. Same last name right? Then not long ago I saw in a post that he mentioned Robert Downey Jr. So old slow poke here got out the magnifying glass, and you know what I saw. I'll catch up with everybody eventually.

 

[wyfbane]

It's all good Mcitinner. I miss stuff on here sometimes and I'm only 43.

 

[plugugly]

Peck sits atop his vast tobacco hoard confident in his great power as an attorney/master of the Western art of attack -- ISue!

But throughout the lands on Middle Canada jealous eyes are cast at Peck's realm; the storied redoubt of "old barn" where generations of Carpenters and Handymen have labored to construct ever more elaborate shelving to hold safe his wealth of tins. Should he weaken - or even slacken his vigil- the armies of the North Lands will descend! The Drillers of Alberta, the Natives of Nunavut, the Cowpeople of Saskatchewan and the Taxmen of Ontario! All stand ready to reave away what is his. And were this not enough for our hero Peck? Are these not sufficient woe for for any man? I say Yes!, but the fates say NO! For now from across the vastness of the sea Peck faces a new aspirant to ownership of his hoard. The Covetous of Korea they are called and their danger now revealed! Wow unto Peck! Woe I say! For as night follows day with this much tobacco to be had; peace there cannot be! At the gates of Peck's Old Barn all shall meet to battle for what is his! The Battle Of Five Armies!

 

[huntertrw]

"...the Cowpeople of Saskatchewan ..."
That sounds like it could have been the title of a cheap science fiction movie by Ed Wood!

 

[mranglophile]

I am so blind...for 18 months now, I have thought Peck's avatar was a picture of Gregory Peck. Same last name right?

Well I hope not to bum you out more McTinner but I am pretty sure the name refers to Peckinpah the movie Director and all round classy guy...wink wink.

 

[mcitinner1]

Oh yeah, I knew that...wink wink.