Are you curious to know what $22 billion in cash look like?
 

Holy crap. Each stack is $250k I cannot even imagine and I thought I have a pretty vivid imagination.

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That was the amount reported to have been found...I wonder how much ended up in a few pockets of the officials on sight.

While I find the embellishments on the weapons to be gaudy, they did have an impressive collection.

Like prohibition, the war on drugs is clearly not working.

Looks like my piles.

Pictures or it did not happen.

Dang, my camera isn't cooperating right now... :P :D

How convenient.

I still have a hard time imagining what it would be like to have a pile of money the size of a large king size bed. I have a pretty good imagination but the idea of having well over $22 billion in cash just boggles my mind. I could walk up to Jay Leno and buy his garage and contents with just one of those suit cases of money.

We need to form a group on here and find one of the other 27 houses like that one. They would never miss a few suit case full of cash. In - out. Boom boom boom. Real easy.

$100 Bill, Some Interesting Facts

$1M in $100 notes weighs about 20.5 pounds. So, 22,000 x 20.5 = 451,000 pounds or 225.5 tons

The Federal Reserve ships $100 bills overseas on pallets, each one stacked with 640,000 bills. That means each pallet is worth about $64 million.

I'm in this with you. Let's raid Swamp's house first -- CT isn't too far from MA.

Damn. I'm going to need a bigger truck.

I like how you think.

All due respect and all that, but the LAST thing I want to see is a picture of your piles Mr. Yankee.

RETREAT!!!!! RETREAT!!!!! Piles of unknown origins.

If these numbers are correct then that pile that was reportedly 22 Bil is way short of that. I have seen 50k lbs of paper on a truck so 451,000# would be ten truck loads. That stack looks closer to 5K than 451k. Or maybe T. Walg. can answer what house is built with a live load rating for 451,000# sitting in a corner.

I think you might be right. That pile of cash doe not look like it could weigh that much. May be the $22 billion referred to his entire net worth?

Either way, I want that pile of cash. I'm booking a ticket down to MX. who's coming?

Brushing up on my spanish right now,

Not going to be there that long. In out .... Boom boom boom. Back by lunch.

x2, also I feel like if over a billion dollars were seized in a drug bust anywhere, it would be sensational international news, let alone 23 billion.

I think the article is wrong, its gotta be 23 million instead. still amazing

This talk of the volume of cash and how much it weighs reminds me of the 1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in North Carolina. With a take of $17.3 million in mostly small bills, it was, at the time, the largest cash robbery on U.S. soil at the time.

1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in North Carolina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There is a very entertaining book written on the robbery called Heist by Jeff Diamant. I read it years ago and remember they underestimated the volume of money and had to leave MILLIONS BEHIND BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T FIT into the Ford van they used for the burglary. They also did about everything wrong imaginable after the heist such as driving from Charlotte to the Columbia, SC airport to fly to Mexico, only to find the airport closed when they arrived in the wee hours. They also conspicuosly spent loot on everything from velvet Elvises to mansions with no discernable source of additional income.

I did mention a few posts back that I might need a bigger truck. Do I get bonus points for that?

Ha-HA! Good luck getting through the strategically placed kids' toys/stuff traps! :sneaky::evilgrin::evil::evil3:

You guys are sick. The best part about winter is not having to pick up the dog piles. Or maybe they're not (or should it be they aren't?:confused:) the dog's... :P:D

That's probably not much compared to what the guys in eastern Europe have.

Ever wonder where all the stolen art goes?

There's no way that's 22 billon dollars, even if they're all hundreds.
In pesos, maybe. Snopes lists the original email that sent those pics around, dated to 2007 by the way, as claiming it to be 206 million. About 1/100th of 22 billion, which I'd bet is about right.
Maybe in another 7 years it'll be 220 trillion.:D

Pick your poison
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Not Harry Devert...

MV

Smokem' if you gottem boys...... Swamp's going down ..... RAMMING SPEED!!!!!!!

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He may have child locks, too, though... are you sure that can handle those?

I just rang up my friend Jeff Bezos. Swamp's getting a "package" tomorrow.

Child locks. Pft!


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Walter White would have been envious

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Clearly you have misunderestimated :P:D the amount of kids' stuff there is protecting the stash!
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My imaginary tank can kick the as of your imaginary cartoon. I'm not worried.

I'm wondering if that was just what they found in one room. There were the other pics of cabinets filled with cash.

I know they weren't burning the money in the photo at the end but I kinda wonder why they burned anything. I would think sell that stuff off. I can only imagine the Mexican govt. could use the money.

Since its Mexico I'm sure corrupt officials were fighting over who got what.

Sloride is completely correct. No way that is $22B.

Rgds,
Chris W.
'95 E300D, 413K

I'm doing some home grown math on this. With my calipers I get ten bills with a thickness of 1/32 inch. A bill is about 6 x 2 3/4 inches. So one inch could hold 320 bills.

OK, scratch that, apparently they're a bit thicker:
10 million C notes = $1b. That would be a stack 43,000 inches thick. That's 689,092.2 cubic inches / 1728 = 399 cubic feet approx. This would yield a cube about 7.36 feet per side. 22 of such bundles would yield a pile 5 feet tall and about 42 feet square. So yeah, the amount of cash in the picture is paltry, insignificant. I speet on that pile of money!

Phase 2:

The stack is 34 rows wide and 13 deep, if you count the shorter stack on the leading row. That's 88 3/4 inches wide and 79 3/4 inches deep. The main bulk of the pile is 1 3/4 high on my monitor, with bill width at 3/32". That gives me a height of about 48", yields 196 cu.ft.

If any of this is close, that would be $490 million in that pic.