Posted on 04/18/2017 3:50:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I don't agree with your statement at all. Not everyone with cash is a crook, and you always get the best deals when you walk into a dealership with cash. Getting a car at the best price is smart.
Oh horse shit! Why does everyone think that people that pay cash are doing anything illegal??? You need to travel out of NYC and see how the rest of the country lives!
The trick is to not advertise you don’t use banks. Just like people carry concealed. The best thing to do is keep it to themselves.
The only way for two people to keep a secret is if one of them is dead.
My dad paid cash for his cars.
I remember one time being in the office with him when he started pulling money out from all his pockets.
I was amazed. I was also just a kid.
Yep, and that amount is unchanged since it was put into effect in 1970. $10,000 would be around $60,000 today if it were adjusted for inflation.
When my son was 7 or 8, he found a wallet on the street with no ID and a couple hundred in it. We asked him what he thought about it and what we should do with it. We were proud that he thought the rightful owner could probably need the money and we should get it back to him or her. He figured out that he should turn it in at the police station (after some coaching). We walked him to the local police station where he turned it in himself and he was told to return in 30 days - if nobody claimed it, it was his. He was on pins and needles all 30 days and collected the loot. Great life lesson all the way around!
Bull Butter! Lots of folks pay with cash.....and plenty of it. Regretfully someday this will not be possible. I would guess within the next generation.
May God continue to bless you.
Those horrible white males! /s
I sometimes go gambling. I carry two wallets, my regular one with ID and another just for the large cash that is used for gambling, anywhere from 2 to 5 hundred. If I use it up, so be it, it's for entertainment. If lost, no big deal because I could have lost it gambling. But usually I bring back more than I started with, maybe because I treat it as entertainment and not a profit making endeavor. My main wallet with ID and credit cards is kept secure and safe, the second wallet is pulled out often, hence more risk of being misplaced.
Anyway, no ID, finder's keepers if someone else finds my lost wallet.
Really sad.
IIRC, on Hee Haw, the put the scarecrow in the cornfield to pay homage to him.
On another note, I was initially thinking while reading this story yeah the guy was a criminal, maybe selling drugs, etc.
Otherwise why all of the packets of (untraceable) hundred dollar bills?
Then I thought of Jack Whitaker, the guy who won that super lotto years ago.
He kept suitcases of cash in his car while parked in strip-club lots.
He got ripped off TWICE doing the same thing.
Then I thought, just plain stupid.
The guy is lucky that the finder was honest.
Apologies all around. I really took it on the chin on this one. This is my fourth apology so i’m sending it en masse :)
I see things through the WORST of NYC eyes.
Gangsters who ran vending businesses were always trying to steal my locations. And I was never sure if one or two guys were waiting for me somewhere on my collection day.
BESIDES that, I knew gangsters who robbed honest bending machine route owners as part of their business.
I had some very powerful associations but that wouldn’t do any good at midnight while I was getting clocked.
After the first time my big guy and another guy’s big guy had a sit down to discuss an issue me and this guy were having, THEN word got out that I wasn’t to be touched or the repercussions would be BAD.
That still didn’t mean that some cowboy who didn’t give a ### about anybody wasn’t a danger.
I ended up needing 3 sit downs while I had the route.
Also, I would fill with soda/candy and empty money from the gas station machines and some strip joints on 3rd avenue in Brooklyn at midnight, and there were more hookers and drug dealers/addicts than you can count.
It was too tough to park without getting a ticket during the day so I did it late. I had protection on me, but nothing like you guys carry.
The only people I knew who carried 5k or more were gangsters or vending machine/small business guys on collection day. Or drug dealers. At least in the areas I had machines.
There was a lot of money in bars and strip joints and gas stations and even bowling alleys in bad neighborhoods.
Nobody wanted them but their money was just as green.
So Yeah, on the south shore of Staten Island, I’m sure during the day you could send the 16 year old cashier from your deli and have her deposit 5k or more.
No one was gonna rob her because the mafia would find you and kill you.
Other than that, you had to be careful on a fourth of staten island, a bunch of brooklyn and parts of Manhattan and Queens, where obama’s and Puerto Rico’s sons and daughters lived.
My son thanks you for walking down our street 20 years ago. ;>)
I’m surprised that when they took it to the police station that it wasn’t just seized by them.
Fortunately, I've never lost my wallet. Unfortunately, about the only money I find on the street is at most a quarter (25 cents). No problem, I've been blessed to always find work in order to have money. My next door neighbor told me that one time he found a wallet with a lot of money in it, went to the address of the ID within, knocked on the door to return it. A man opened the door, said "Oh you have it!", grabbed the wallet and slammed the door. Without as much as a thank you. I think if I had my wallet returned I would be very generous with a reward. But some people are just not nice.
You and your son are nice people, and I commend you both for trying to return found money.
I totally believe that to be true, and would have done the same as this couple.
In my younger days, though, it would have been a challenge for me to do the right thing.
Years ago we were on vacation in Florida, and leaving a gift shop, found a $100 bill laying on the ground.
My wife (a little naive) wanted to go inside and leave the bill with a clerk in case someone came back to claim it.
I told her no way and that it would disappear into the clerk’s pocket as soon as we walked out the door.
However I did go back inside and talked to the manager. I gave her my card and told her that we had found something outside that someone would likely want back. And if anyone came in looking for something they lost, to call me and if they could identify it, I would get it back to them.
Never heard from anyone.
My daughter was little (9?) and was playing around on the bleachers while we watched her older brother’s game. She found an ear ring. It was a huge diamond - so big that I figured it must be fake. But she and I stopped into the Jewelry store to check - it was real! (It must have been two carats or more). So I made up some posters and drove back up to the stadium (like 20 minutes away) and put up a bunch. It rained a couple days later so I printed out some more and put them in plastic folders and went back up there.
Made phones calls to the soccer coach at the school to ask around.
I bet it was two weeks or more. Finally got a call from the coach at the school that said he knew the lady, and we could bring it to him and he could give it to the lady. I told him “Oh great. Well, our number is on the posters, so you can just have her call us.”
“WHAT!? You don’t trust me!! I’m trying to help here.”
“Oh, sorry. That has nothing to do with it. If it is her’s I’ll ask her to describe them and stuff. Just have her call. That will be easiest. Thanks.”
Well, she did describe it. She had just gotten done with a divorce. The ear rings were the only thing she had from her Grandmother, etc. (Not sure why she was wearing them at a kid’s soccer game?) Anyway, thinking they were lost on top of her other problems, having them found it REALLY cheered her up.
I had my daughter explain how she found them, and she gave them to the gal. The gal gave her a gift card and a very nice note. When we went to the store we checked to see what the card was worth before we went shopping for something special for her. $500!!
I have a recurring “meeting reminder” that comes up on the front screen of my phone - before the password and everything. It has my name, and call my wife’s number if found. The phone is probably 4 years old now, so probably not worth much on the street.
For a good (and true) story about a lost purse, I saw the following on FR awhwile ago. With Mike Rowe from “Dirty Jobs” reading the email he got from his mother. REALLY funny! About 10 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO_8qPpT8GE
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