Finding loads of money in the woods.
Poll: Finding loads of money in the woods.
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Discussion
Hypothetical scenario here.
Imagine you're out walking your dog/having a run/riding your bike and you discover a bag which is full of cash. Looks like tens of thousands of pounds.
It's early in the morning on a bridle path and there's nobody around. You're a few km from your car. You passed a few people walking their dog and a jogger a few minutes before you found the bag.
What do you do?
Imagine you're out walking your dog/having a run/riding your bike and you discover a bag which is full of cash. Looks like tens of thousands of pounds.
It's early in the morning on a bridle path and there's nobody around. You're a few km from your car. You passed a few people walking their dog and a jogger a few minutes before you found the bag.
What do you do?
I'd move it somewhere else in the woods and hide it, just to make sure there's no tracking device or similar in with the cash. Then after about a week I retrieve the money and hide it at home, and slowly over a period of years just feed it into my everyday household and living expenses, without buying anything outlandish.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
I'd move it somewhere else in the woods and hide it, just to make sure there's no tracking device or similar in with the cash. Then after about a week I retrieve the money and hide it at home, and slowly over a period of years just feed it into my everyday household and living expenses, without buying anything outlandish.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
I'd move it somewhere else in the woods and hide it, just to make sure there's no tracking device or similar in with the cash. Then after about a week I retrieve the money and hide it at home, and slowly over a period of years just feed it into my everyday household and living expenses, without buying anything outlandish.
Sounds like a sensible approach 
TwigtheWonderkid said:
I'd move it somewhere else in the woods and hide it, just to make sure there's no tracking device or similar in with the cash. Then after about a week I retrieve the money and hide it at home, and slowly over a period of years just feed it into my everyday household and living expenses, without buying anything outlandish.
Someone read/watched 'No Country For Old Men' and learned from the mistakes he made there!There was a long thread about this recently.
General opinion was that large unaccompanied bags of cash in out of the way places usually belong to people who would have little difficulty in rearranging your limbs or finding someone to do that for them.
Many thought about the 'hand it into the Police' option on the basis that it should be returned if the real owner does not come forward but just as many were of the opinion that the Police would refuse to give it back if unclaimed and would seize it as being highly likely to be proceeds of crime - not sure of their legal standing without anything to back it up other than big bag of money in the woods but would not surprise me if they had such a power.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
I'd move it somewhere else in the woods and hide it, just to make sure there's no tracking device or similar in with the cash. Then after about a week I retrieve the money and hide it at home, and slowly over a period of years just feed it into my everyday household and living expenses, without buying anything outlandish.
This. If there's less of my income going towards household expenses, it means my mortgage is being paid off somewhat sooner.Rude-boy said:
There was a long thread about this recently.
General opinion was that large unaccompanied bags of cash in out of the way places usually belong to people who would have little difficulty in rearranging your limbs or finding someone to do that for them.
They wouldn't know who you were....General opinion was that large unaccompanied bags of cash in out of the way places usually belong to people who would have little difficulty in rearranging your limbs or finding someone to do that for them.
P.S. Laughing at the outright leader
If it wasn't anonymous voting it would be quite different! 227bhp said:
Rude-boy said:
There was a long thread about this recently.
General opinion was that large unaccompanied bags of cash in out of the way places usually belong to people who would have little difficulty in rearranging your limbs or finding someone to do that for them.
They wouldn't know who you were....General opinion was that large unaccompanied bags of cash in out of the way places usually belong to people who would have little difficulty in rearranging your limbs or finding someone to do that for them.
P.S. Laughing at the outright leader
If it wasn't anonymous voting it would be quite different! el stovey said:
Hypothetical scenario here.
Imagine you're out walking your dog/having a run/riding your bike and you discover a bag which is full of cash. Looks like tens of thousands of pounds.
It's early in the morning on a bridle path and there's nobody around. You're a few km from your car. You passed a few people walking their dog and a jogger a few minutes before you found the bag.
What do you do?
Have a good look around for the hidden camera.Imagine you're out walking your dog/having a run/riding your bike and you discover a bag which is full of cash. Looks like tens of thousands of pounds.
It's early in the morning on a bridle path and there's nobody around. You're a few km from your car. You passed a few people walking their dog and a jogger a few minutes before you found the bag.
What do you do?
el stovey said:
227bhp said:
Rude-boy said:
There was a long thread about this recently.
General opinion was that large unaccompanied bags of cash in out of the way places usually belong to people who would have little difficulty in rearranging your limbs or finding someone to do that for them.
They wouldn't know who you were....General opinion was that large unaccompanied bags of cash in out of the way places usually belong to people who would have little difficulty in rearranging your limbs or finding someone to do that for them.
P.S. Laughing at the outright leader
If it wasn't anonymous voting it would be quite different! I'd sit on it for a while, if anyone came looking i'm thinking that just handing it over would save my fingers.
anonymous said:
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Blimey. Someone's got an imagination and a half. Difficult one, I'd like to think I'd make off with the lot but who would know until you're in that situation.
Quite a few years ago I was helping some plumbers out installing central heating in an ex scrap dealers house. We were questioned quite a few times by the owners if we needed to get behind the bath panel but said we had no need to. Until I managed to skillsaw through the feed to the bath. Easy repair but when I whipped the bath panel off the whole, and I mean every spare piece of space under and behind the bath was packed solid with rolls of cash. Twenties, fifties. Must have been tens of thousands. Probably more. The lady of the house went f
king spare that both me and the plumbers had seen it, she took three bin liners of cash out of that bathroom and put into her wardrobe. Don't know if it was the proceeds of crime or just cash from his old business hidden away from the tax man. Owner of the house was a crooked old
. Used to get his walking sticks out to catch the bus into town to sign on, claiming all sorts of disability he was. He'd get home then put the sticks away and go off out playing golf for rest of day. Fit as a fiddle he was. We debated it all the way home that night the things we should have or could have done, bearing in mind it was probably "illegal" cash. But at the time honesty won through.
anonymous said:
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Blimey. Someone's got an imagination and a half. Difficult one, I'd like to think I'd make off with the lot but who would know until you're in that situation.
Quite a few years ago I was helping some plumbers out installing central heating in an ex scrap dealers house. We were questioned quite a few times by the owners if we needed to get behind the bath panel but said we had no need to. Until I managed to skillsaw through the feed to the bath. Easy repair but when I whipped the bath panel off the whole, and I mean every spare piece of space under and behind the bath was packed solid with rolls of cash. Twenties, fifties. Must have been tens of thousands. Probably more. The lady of the house went f
king spare that both me and the plumbers had seen it, she took three bin liners of cash out of that bathroom and put into her wardrobe. Don't know if it was the proceeds of crime or just cash from his old business hidden away from the tax man. Owner of the house was a crooked old
. Used to get his walking sticks out to catch the bus into town to sign on, claiming all sorts of disability he was. He'd get home then put the sticks away and go off out playing golf for rest of day. Fit as a fiddle he was. We debated it all the way home that night the things we should have or could have done, bearing in mind it was probably "illegal" cash. But at the time honesty won through.
there was another thread about this- it was surprising what people have picked up.
I can only add:
I know a plumber friend who found tins of gold krugerands under a bath. mentioned it to the householder who said nothing.
I've watched a few drugs deals go on: not just dealers handing bags out of their audi/bmw car windows, but foil wrapped parcels being left in public bins only for someone to pick them up seconds later.
I myself, found a wallet containing a 4 figure sum of money, under the floor boards of a house I'd just bought.
I'd owned it 18 mths by then and had I not been changing all the central heating myself, would have never known about it, or would have lost it to a plumber.
I can only add:
I know a plumber friend who found tins of gold krugerands under a bath. mentioned it to the householder who said nothing.
I've watched a few drugs deals go on: not just dealers handing bags out of their audi/bmw car windows, but foil wrapped parcels being left in public bins only for someone to pick them up seconds later.
I myself, found a wallet containing a 4 figure sum of money, under the floor boards of a house I'd just bought.
I'd owned it 18 mths by then and had I not been changing all the central heating myself, would have never known about it, or would have lost it to a plumber.
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