I used to fix and reload ATM’s. They would have a stash of cash in them for reloading but there was a maximum limit. One time my partner and I (It was always two people) found $80k in a machine. We were required to report it because it was too much.
But most (but not all) of these machines shared a wall with an actual bank branch. You never even had to visit the customer facing area.
To be clear, we never brought money with us. That was someone else’s job, and it looks like the “someone else” is who screwed up here.
To be a tiny bit fair, when you work with cash this way, you don’t see it as money. You see it the same way a vending machine owner sees the pop cans he’s stuffing into his machines.
At least, you had BETTER see it that way. If you get hung up on the sheer quantity of money you are handling, you really need to find another job, for your own well being.
Problem is, you find that you don’t respect it as much as someone else would, and you might accidentally leave a bag of it hanging around. ;-)
Joseph "Joey" Coyle (February 26, 1953 – August 15, 1993) was an unemployed longshoreman in Philadelphia who, in February 1981, found $1.2 million in the street after it had fallen out of the back of an armored car and kept it. His story was made into the 1993 film Money for Nothing, starring John Cusack, as well as a 2002 book by Mark Bowden, Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million.Coyle passed out some of the money, in $100 bills, to friends and neighbors. He was arrested later in 1981 at JFK Airport while trying to check in to a flight to Acapulco; police found $105,000 of the cash in envelopes taped around his ankles. He was tried, but found not guilty of theft by reason of temporary insanity. The armored car company, Purolator Armored Services, eventually recovered around $1 million of the original amount.
Coyle struggled with drug addiction for most of his adult life. He committed suicide by hanging in his basement on August 15, 1993, about one month before the film Money for Nothing was released.
sounds like these guys need to find new jobs too