The police, some gubmint agency, whoever is relevant.
Was turning this aroung in my head the other day. Figured if I used $400 per week to pay for groceries, eat out, buy stuff, it would last me 50 years. During which I would be able to put a great deal more of my legit income into savings.
I’m pretty comfortable, but the idea of having $400 per week every week to spend however I like sounds like quite a bit to me. I guess I’m a cheap date… 
I thought about this, but when I totaled up everything I can easily pay with cash like gas, groceries, restaurants, clothes, and random other things like a dentist or plumber visit it was less than 800 dollars a month. Even if I decide to start splurging on new electronics like an xbox, flatscreen, or sound system, I’d still say it would average out to less than 1,000 per month. Those things last many years.
That’d be only $360,000 for the next 30 years of my life. I’d still have over $600,000. As an old man I’d be sorely disappointed with that result. You’d still have the original problem of spending 1 million dollars unnoticed. I suppose you could leave it to the next generation, but unloading this problem onto them seems more like a curse than a blessing.
I still think that this strategy would work best if you spent some chunk of money at deep discount / bulk stores on a regular basis, just to bolster your rep for being thrifty.
From what I understand, they case neighborhoods looking for homes or apartments that frequently have UPS boxes sitting outside after 4:00 PM or so.
Once 20-30 years have passed, you can take the lot to the bank, saying that your children have finally persuaded you to deposit your savings. And if you’ve rotated the money, it’s all varied.
Hmm… in America, you have a Statute of Limitations, don’t you? Would that apply here? So after 6 (?) years, you’d be home and dry anyway.
If anyone out there has $600,000 laying around that you just can’t bear to keep any longer, I will be more than happy to take it off your hands.
A local guy found a bag containing £10,000 hours after a bank robbery. He handed it into the bank and got a £100 reward. £10,000 isn’t a vast sum of money, I’ve turned down more in normal life, so it may not have been a life-changing amount but it was certainly a day-changing amount. Even ten years later though this guy regretted handing it in, and was bitter about the reward being so small.
If I found a bag of banknotes that I was unable or too afraid to keep, I would go to a poor area and disperse it in the wind or from a height.
I doubt it. I don’t know for sure about larger bills but I’ve seen stacks of new ones with nary a crease in them. They’re a pain in the ass to count because its so easy for them to stick together. Getting stacks of 5s and 10s that equal $100 they usually vary in condition from pretty new to ready to be burned.
I’m not sure what you’re getting at. These are bills that are going out for a ransom or a drug deal, or are they just regular new bills? The only relevant group is the former, I am not suggesting that ALL bills come out used, as that simply is not true. I was speculating that some LE agencies may use distressed ones, as it is less obvious that they are consecutive or otherwise marked.
That was pretty shitty of the bank. One would expect 10% as a finder’s fee. If 1% is the standard, no way am I going to be returning any bags of cash any time soon.
Or visit the visitor’s gallery of a stock exchange and see people worth millions scrambling for twenty dollar bills.
I see. THat’s possible. I wondered about markings not seen by the naked eye that might show up uner ultra violot light or something.