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Hypothetical question.... imagine you found a bag. Not somewhere really busy like a city or on the underground. Lets say it was in a village. Lets say it was... I dunno.... in Scotland somewhere. Just lying there in a not-very-obvious spot. Just around the corner from the pub. And it contained £2.5 million in cash. Unmarked used bills. no big denominations. Non-consecutive serial numbers...

It's not your bag. You have your car with you.

So we've all seen films like No Country For Old Men..... but....what would you do?

Take £50k and hand the rest in

Id take it and spend on child care, doge and coke.

U ok hun?

Take it home and stare at it, wondering what tf to do with it.

I'd give it to the Police.

Option 7... Grab it and hide it at home/work/your mum's house. Bleed contents off slowly.

Sounds like the start of so many tv shows/movies and we all know how those end. I think we all know enough from those shows that its definitely a bad idea, let alone the fact now we're almost in a cashless society and there's cctv everywhere along with our movements tracked by our phones to within metres every moment of every day.

Take it home and get out the country with it within a couple of days and you might be golden?

Hypothetically, if someone was looking for a loan of cash to build a house, is that something you could now hypothetically offer as a service?

Get someone in retail to take you on as staff and run the money through their till, get it back as a salary. You'll lose some to tax and you'll have to give the business owner a cut but free money is still free money. You just have to hope you're subtle enough that no one gets suspicious

Just... walk... away.

duncs500 wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 4:27 pm Just... walk... away.

Hand it in to the police.. if no one claims it (unlikely as it’s obviously from nefarious activities), then they give it back to the finder if they can’t prove it came from dodgy dealings. Just don’t tell the missus/ex/kids

IanF wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 4:59 pm Hand it in to the police.. if no one claims it (unlikely as it’s obviously from nefarious activities), then they give it back to the finder if they can’t prove it came from dodgy dealings. Just don’t tell the missus/ex/kids

Worry about the criminal gang who have their claws into the local police and will very quickly find out who handed it in later yeah?

ZedLeg wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 4:22 pm Get someone in retail to take you on as staff and run the money through their till, get it back as a salary. You'll lose some to tax and you'll have to give the business owner a cut but free money is still free money. You just have to hope you're subtle enough that no one gets suspicious

Zedleg has redescribed money laundering.

It is missing an option: "donate £500k to the Tory party in return for a PPE/whatever contract worth £100m.". Money is now clean, good RoI and you're automatically cleared of any fallout as your new political pets dream up a distraction to take the focus away. Might fail the morality bit though.

How do you know it's £2.5m?

Take the money
Buy a Lamborghini
Get old and rich and become disalusioned with your choice years into the future.
Give £20 to a homeless man and feel better.
Coke and bookers death.

Dave!

V8Granite wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 8:13 pm Take the money
Buy a Lamborghini

.. Get an unexplained wealth order taken against you, etc

Option 7 obviously - small issue is weight.

Assuming £20 notes as per "no large denominations" it would weigh something like 125kg and if it was £10 notes double it and obviously quadruple it for £5 notes.

So somewhere between 125kg and 500kg to shift discretely and stash!

teacherboy wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 8:35 pm Option 7 obviously - small issue is weight.

Assuming £20 notes as per "no large denominations" it would weigh something like 125kg and if it was £10 notes double it and obviously quadruple it for £5 notes.

So somewhere between 125kg and 500kg to shift discretely and stash!

Take your "facts" and.....

Having considered this, I absolutely wouldn't want to do anything illegal.

If I happened to see that money and DEFINITELY DID NOT take it home, I'd probably change careers the following day, because I've always dreamed of running a hand car wash and a nail salon. They're low-cost to start up, and easy to run. I'd probably start one of each in the local area, turning them from dying businesses into highly successful operations over the course of a couple of years. Once turnover has exceeded a arbitrary target of... let's say £2.5m, I'd sell the businesses and move onto something else.

Would be great to find out if any ever did pick up that cash.