You really should be more careful!
When Mrs. Nott was a bank teller, occasionally a roll of valuable coins would pass through a teller’s drawer (a roll of silver quarters, for example,) and the teller would notice in time to buy the coins out of the till. They could only guess they came from a theft, but usually there was no way to trace a few rolls of coins.
This is great (in a depressing way):
Show’s how useful the recycling program is.
Long ago, I used to work in a convenience store and on at least a few occasions, one of the neighborhood hoods would come in with some silver coins. I figured at the time that they had raided their old man’s coin collection, shrugged, and made a 1 for 1 exchange for the coins. Many, many years later, it suddenly came to me that there was a very high probability that these coins were the results of a B&E and that I should probably have checked with the local police. I dunno why it didn’t come to me sooner except that I guess I was a lot more innocent in those days.
How so? Someone put a roll of metal into a newspaper recycling bin. The non-newspaper contents were sorted out and disposed of. What’s depressing about the recycling program working?