The most cash I've ever carriedThere's nothing like carrying large amounts of cash to make yourself feel simultaneously like a lottery winner and an obvious target.
A friend went to buy a car for ten grand, panicked and stuffed it down his pants for safety. It was all a bit smelly by the time he got there and he had to search around for some of it...
Tell us the story behind the most cash you've ever carried.
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chthonic, Thu 22 Jun 2006, 10:39)
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About £125,000 in Polish currencyBack when I worked at a London Museum, somebody handed in a holdall that had been left lying around. On opening it up we found it was full of Polish Zlotys (unsure of spelling and too lazy to look it up. Mind I could have googled it in the time it took to write that. And that.)
I counted it out in the security office. Can't remember the exact number in Polish currency but when I did a quick check on an online currency converter, it worked out we had something like £125,000 in very used Polish notes.
So what did we do when someone came and reported losing their bag? Handed it back no questions asked.
It just seemed incredibly dodgy but the duty manager at the time thought nothing of it. Yeah right. An eigth of a million quid in used notes left in a scabby bag in a public museum and it didn't strike the security manager as dodgy? I must go back and nick stuff.
(, Fri 23 Jun 2006, 16:47, Reply)
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