oleorunM to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish • 8 months agoCouple finds safe stuffed with $100,000 cash while magnet fishing in New Yorkwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down11
arrow-up1151arrow-down1external-linkCouple finds safe stuffed with $100,000 cash while magnet fishing in New Yorkwww.theguardian.comoleorunM to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish • 8 months agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•edit-28 months agoNo crime attached yet. — New York police
minus-square@chemical_cutthroatlinkEnglish18•8 months ago“Hey, Farva. What’s that thing you like to do where you take possession of property that isn’t yours without having to charge the owner with a crime?” “Civil forfeiture?”
minus-square@gorysubparbagellinkEnglish15•8 months agoVery likely someone who earned that money illegally that left it there and they very likely know now that they have it.
For a couple of weeks maybe.
How so?
No crime attached yet.
— New York police
“Hey, Farva. What’s that thing you like to do where you take possession of property that isn’t yours without having to charge the owner with a crime?”
“Civil forfeiture?”
Very likely someone who earned that money illegally that left it there and they very likely know now that they have it.