oleorunM to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish • 7 months agoCouple finds safe stuffed with $100,000 cash while magnet fishing in New Yorkwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down11starcopymore-verticalflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
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 • 7 months agomessage-square20fedilinkstarcopymore-verticalflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•7 months agoHow so? arrow-up11arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•edit-27 months agoNo crime attached yet. — New York police arrow-up125arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@chemical_cutthroatlinkEnglish18•7 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?” arrow-up119arrow-down11file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@gorysubparbagellinkEnglish15•7 months agoVery likely someone who earned that money illegally that left it there and they very likely know now that they have it. arrow-up115arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
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.