oleorun@real.lemmy.fanM to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 5 months agoCouple finds safe stuffed with $100,000 cash while magnet fishing in New Yorkwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkCouple finds safe stuffed with $100,000 cash while magnet fishing in New Yorkwww.theguardian.comoleorun@real.lemmy.fanM to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squaredohpaz42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoFor a couple of weeks maybe.
minus-squareFester@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-25 months agoNo crime attached yet. — New York police
minus-squarechemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 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-squaregorysubparbagel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 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.