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Old 02-19-2014, 10:12 PM
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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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Old 02-20-2014, 08:00 AM
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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.
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Old 02-20-2014, 08:59 AM
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Old 02-20-2014, 09:03 AM
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Holy crap. Each stack is $250k I cannot even imagine and I thought I have a pretty vivid imagination.

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Looks like my piles.
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Old 02-20-2014, 11:07 AM
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Looks like my piles.
Pictures or it did not happen.
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Old 02-20-2014, 11:33 AM
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Pictures or it did not happen.
Dang, my camera isn't cooperating right now...
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Old 02-20-2014, 11:43 AM
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Dang, my camera isn't cooperating right now...
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.
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Old 02-20-2014, 11:55 AM
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$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.
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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.
I'm in this with you. Let's raid Swamp's house first -- CT isn't too far from MA.
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Old 02-20-2014, 12:11 PM
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$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.
Damn. I'm going to need a bigger truck.
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Old 02-20-2014, 12:11 PM
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I'm in this with you. Let's raid Swamp's house first -- CT isn't too far from MA.
I like how you think.
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Looks like my piles.
All due respect and all that, but the LAST thing I want to see is a picture of your piles Mr. Yankee.
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Old 02-20-2014, 12:48 PM
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I'm in this with you. Let's raid Swamp's house first -- CT isn't too far from MA.
RETREAT!!!!! RETREAT!!!!! Piles of unknown origins.
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$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.
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.
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Old 02-20-2014, 01:05 PM
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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?

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