The Twilight Zone: The Rip Van Winkle Caper (1961)
Season 2, Episode 24
On the off chance you're in a position to try this at home...
19 July 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Here's a short list of things to consider...

1 - find out what the statute of limitations is on the crime of ruffieing an entire train and robbing it of the gold its transporting.

2 - also find out the statute of limitations for boofing that sleeping beauty in the club car - you know you're going to want to...

3 - set your suspended animation machine for maybe a year or two after said limit

4 - ask yourself - do you really need glass on the top of your suspended animation machine?

5 - look up at the ceiling whilst pondering

6 - ask yourself if a motor vehicle would be operable in the time you plan to wake. A motor vehicle that needs oil, gas, coolant and air-filled tyres that's been sitting in a hot desert cave?

7 - pack hand trucks - with solid tyres - for everybody and an extra for just in case

8 - on second thought pack some mountain bikes - why schlep all that gold when you can pack a bar each, cycle to the nearest town and get yourself a chrome-plated hover-truck from The Future

9 - pack plenty of bottled water - I think Apollonaris was one of the brands you could get in 1961.

10 - on the off-chance some nimrod finds a way to manufacture gold... steal some silver and/or platinum and if you see some gemstones, you might as well load up on them. Vintage currency should have a market in the future. Even that American-made transistor radio that sleeping beauty was listening to could fetch a boodle on eBay nowadays if you think to take out the batteries... What you've never heard of eBay Mister 1961? Oh right...

If everything you swiped is now worthless, don't lose heart. You'll still clean up once people find out YOU INVENTED A WORKING SUSPENDED ANIMATION MACHINE.

What? They have those now? Ahh crap. Oh, just write a book about your exploits and go on the holographic talk show and interstellar-lecture circuit.
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