I can’t stop thinking about all the unguarded cash in the flooded city. Bank vaults, cash registers, lockboxes, etc. How much do you think there is? $5 million? $50 million? $500 million?
Less than your life is worth.
And that ain’t no stage joke, neither.
Note to Mods–the above is not a threat, but a honest warning of the NO situation.
Melodramatic, much?
Maybe so, but what about my life? :dubious:
I could see risking my life for $500 million. Not that I would of course, that would be against the law. :rolleyes:
The thought never even occurred to me. I guess I’d make a terrible crook.
I’m sure plenty is there but how is someone going to find it. Safety deposit boxes are pretty hard to break into and the area that they are kept is secured as well. You could go house to house like some looters are doing. How do you know where the cash is though? It could be underwater.
Cash registers were almost certianly emptied out before store owners evacuated.
Most of the money is in the bank. Cash is easily portable so most people took it with them when they evacuated.
Let me ask you: "Do you keep $1000 or more in cash at your house? Why do you think people in NO would as a general rule?
How about ATM machines?
Cool idea - a team of scuba divers travelling around all the banks looting away.
OK, forget cash registers and private residences.
Does anyone have a rough idea how many ATMs are in the city? How many bank branches? How much cash is in the average ATM or bank branch?
There’s a branch of the Federal Reserve in New Orleans. Does anyone know how much cash and/or gold bullion is usually stored there?
You could ask the gators & the Cottonmouths for their PIN numbers.
:rolleyes:
You might get cash out of one of those cash-o-matics they put in gas stations but even that takes tools and work. Banks and the federal reserve are as secure as they always were. It is not bank personnel that keeps people from robbing the vaults. You can’t get into them even if their is no one around.
Really?
For the record, I am not asking anyone to help figure out a way to steal unguarded cash from New Orleans. What has happened there is a disaster, and I sympathize completely with the victims.
I hope that no one takes advantage of the fact that there may be millions in unguarded cash available, though, knowing what I do of human nature, I imagine it’s inevitable that someone, somewhere, has drawn up plans or is currently actively pursuing a plan to do so.
I am simply curious as to whether anyone has any idea how much there is. I know it might be too much to ask for, but I was hoping for something like this:
There are approximately 300 ATM machines in the area. ATM machines typically carry about $5,000 in cash at any one time, so that’s about 1.5 million. There are approximately 100 bank branches. Bank branches tend to have about $50,000 in cash on hand, so that’s about 5 million. I’d guess that the Federal Reserve branch in New Orleans generally carries about 10 million in its vault alone. Figure about $500,000 in miscellaneous loose cash. All in all, that’s about 17 million dollars.
Lets not be hasty, you can get into them even when there are people around. Its just harder. When they are not around, you have the benefit of having all the time you need, which makes the job much, much easier. Depending on how far away the other roving gangs of armed thugs are, you may not even have to worry about noise.
Well, there were those guys in Brazil three weeks ago.
Well, you certainly can’t use their methods in New Orleans right now (or even before). Gangs of looters don’t have the skills and tools it takes to break into bank vaults. Those things are designed to protect against drilling, shooting, explosions, and everything else they might try. A group of experts with the right tools might be able to do it but not gangs of looters.
So we’re all in agreement then? $17 Million? And it’s safe from gangs of looters?