Reward: One Oreo Blizzard
In what the Omaha Police Department is calling an attempted “robbery,” a man with a fake gun and camouflage paint on his face tried to enter the home of Warren Buffett last evening, uninvited. Police responded to a radio call about a disturbance at Buffett’s home at around 10:13 p.m. Astrid, WB’s wife, contacted the authorities after the man in question rang the front doorbell and had a “confrontation” with the estate’s security guard. Unfortunately, Nebraska police, never having dealt with a burglary, were a little late arriving to the scene, and missed the man by a good five minutes.
Anyone with any information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 402-444-STOP, or the Major Crimes Unit at 402-444-5657. Suspects include a jealous neighbor and the rocket scientists at Global Alpha, who lost a sizeable amount of money by, among other things, betting against Berkshire (and whose leader, Mark Carhart, tempted the gods by making fun of Buffett publicly). And John Carney, who was found earlier this week mowing the lawn and cleaning the gutters at Chez Buffett, the yardwork being unsolicited by the Buffetts themselves.
Comments
Nice one Bess!
Posted by: inIT4the$ | September 6, 2007 03:12 PM
maybe now he will move to a house befitting of the mega-wealthy like himself. or at least put up a fence or something.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 6, 2007 03:19 PM
I'm now not as unhappy with myself for not attempting to crash Buffett's house party the last time I was in Omaha.
Posted by: John Carney | September 6, 2007 03:47 PM
"*the estate’s* security guard"
umm, that guy probably sleeps on the couch in the den . . . on the estate . . . that's worth a whole $3.0MM
http://www.forbes.com/2001/09/28/0928home_3.html
Posted by: 2L | September 6, 2007 03:49 PM
seriously that place looks my the house of my uncle the opthamologist from detroit
Posted by: Anonymous | September 6, 2007 04:12 PM
You would think for $44b he could buy his wife a new fucking name. Astrid?!
Posted by: dan loeb | September 6, 2007 04:27 PM
Guess there's some validity to that WSJ story yesterday about the negative correlation btw CEO performance and mansion-building...
Posted by: herodotus | September 6, 2007 04:29 PM
What's wrong with 'Astrid'? Guess you haven't known many Scandinavians. With $44BB, he could more than pay you and all your buddies to tattoo her name on your peckers -- and like it. Hell, for a cool $1BB I'd do it.
Posted by: kurtosis | September 6, 2007 04:57 PM
$3 million in omaha is like... $300 million in manhattan. probably had to be custom built.
Posted by: omaha | September 6, 2007 05:02 PM
Buffett is a great guy and I hope he beefs up security. There are a lot of nuts out there... even in Omaha.
If you ever need attention fast in Nebraska just remember this little bit of info: In southern Nebraska there is a town n amed "Beatrice". One would think it's pronounced like the famous author of children's books. "BEE-a-triss".
But, no. If you pronounce it as such in public (in Nebraska) as "BEE-a-triss", everyone nearby will stop what they are doing, stand up, call the police and look at you from their cubes and one surly Nebraskan will walk up to you in front of the staring crowd and say tersly in a hiss, "It's pronounced "bee-AT-riss".
Posted by: Was In Omaha in the Early 1990s | September 6, 2007 05:35 PM
$1 BB ? I'd do it for a hell of a lot less than that!
Posted by: gab | September 6, 2007 05:36 PM
@ 5:35
that's kinda of how manhattan has HOUSE-ton instead of HUUSE-ton . . . no?
Posted by: 2L | September 6, 2007 09:09 PM
Just goes to show. Buffet doesn't know how to properly allocate his financial resources.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 7, 2007 12:36 AM
if you think THIS house is too modest for Buffett, the one he USED to live in with his former wife, Susan, was even worse -- total tract house / cookie cutter a la 60s suburbs across America .. seems that when Susan finally kicked (may she rest in peace), Astrid, his LONG time girlfriend, made him upgrade !
Posted by: CAV | September 7, 2007 10:12 AM
Hey. It's "bee-AT-riss" you out-stater!
Posted by: Runza Eater | September 7, 2007 10:19 AM
I am scandihoovian, motherfucker. With $44b, my wife would be a 5'11" sweet-titted and mute Asian woman that can cook. And her name would not be "Astrid" or Agnis, Alfhildr, Alfifa, Aslaug, Asta, or Aundur for that matter.
Posted by: dan loeb | September 7, 2007 11:23 AM
yeah, his old one was sold for somewhere from 350k to 500k, i think
Posted by: 2L | September 7, 2007 12:26 PM
Dan Loeb: For $44BB, you could aim higher, say... two such wives. And I still don't see your aversion to Astrid. You got some kinda Pippi Longstocking phobia?
Posted by: kurtosis | September 7, 2007 04:55 PM