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Foreground My Ass

2012-01-19 09:32:12 AM

Jon iz teh kewl

2012-01-19 09:32:47 AM

9.8 trillion $0.001 cent hookers. or 1 $9.8 billion one

PJ-

2012-01-19 09:34:53 AM

I would buy and sell your sorry ass.

Freakin Rican

2012-01-19 09:37:37 AM

Foreground My Ass: [img221.imageshack.us image 640x348]

thats one of the funniest parts. hes just crying on gene's shoulder down in the bullpen.

Foreground My Ass

2012-01-19 09:39:50 AM

Best In The World:
I should have returned it 2 tha bank.

/20 american dollars is not worth any karma.....dont fret it.
//karma can only be bought with 3 figures or better,

Jon iz teh kewl

2012-01-19 09:40:09 AM

Best In The World: "A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun." - Thomas Caryle

How do yalls feel about this:

I was walkin by the ATM machine tha other day and there was a $20 laying in tha slot. Thurrr was nobody thurrr so I took the paper. Is that wrong? I feel kind of sordid about it 'n when I told 1 of my GF's about my luck she cast negative asspersians at me and said I should have returned it 2 tha bank. I told her tha bank was closed and thurr wasn't nobody around. Whut should I do? Did I done the right thang? Cuz fo reals, I don't needs no negative kharma.

What did you buy with that $20. a gay??

urban.derelict

2012-01-19 09:41:07 AM

I coulda shot my load all over the Boobies of this thread, but I just walked away from it.

Crotchrocket Slim

2012-01-19 09:41:30 AM

I wonder A. how much money one could pull out of the bank before they noticed? and B. how much buying a new identity would cost with such money? At least the guy in TFA sounds like a stand-up guy; can't blame him for being honest.

itsfullofstars

2012-01-19 09:41:32 AM

If you answered anything other than "alert the bank immediately", give some thought to how such an event would go, what is most likely

a) aw, that's okay, it was our mistake, Dont worry about that $x of the $y you spent
b) that was not your money, how will you be paying back that $x of $y you spent, now? or from jail?

GoldDude

2012-01-19 09:41:41 AM

Transfer it all to a country with no extradition treaties, immediately buy as much precious metals, diamonds and other high-value, low-volume items. Buy a remote island in the south seas somewhere, declare my own sovereign nation, and hire a huge private security force.

That's the dream.
The reality would be the same as this guy.

Marine1

2012-01-19 09:42:08 AM

Jon iz teh kewl: 9.8 trillion $0.001 cent hookers. or 1 $9.8 billion one

The blue pie slice shows the money we took in from doing deliveries. The green pie slice represents an eight dollar bank error in our favor.

Pelvic Splanchnic Ganglion

2012-01-19 09:43:31 AM

In the U.S., the guy would already be charged with bank fraud.

BEER_ME_in_CT

2012-01-19 09:43:54 AM

Checked my balance about 10 years ago to find 315,000 bucks in my account when there should only have been a few pennies and a piece of belly button lint in there. Decided to wait it out but knew I would get to spend it. It took Bank of America about a week to take the money back out. That was right about the time Office Space" was popular so I thought about converting it to travellers checks lol.

Kumana Wanalaia

2012-01-19 09:43:59 AM

Hello, Switzerland? I'd like to open an account.

SBinRR

2012-01-19 09:44:24 AM

Occam's Taser

2012-01-19 09:48:56 AM

theresnothinglft

2012-01-19 09:49:55 AM

SBinRR: Best In The World: "A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun." - Thomas Caryle

How do yalls feel about this:

I was walkin by the ATM machine tha other day and there was a $20 laying in tha slot. Thurrr was nobody thurrr so I took the paper. Is that wrong? I feel kind of sordid about it 'n when I told 1 of my GF's about my luck she cast negative asspersians at me and said I should have returned it 2 tha bank. I told her tha bank was closed and thurr wasn't nobody around. Whut should I do? Did I done the right thang? Cuz fo reals, I don't needs no negative kharma.

I would do the same thing that I would do if I found a $20 bill lying in the parking lot, or on the side of the road.

Or if it was sittin on Capitol Hill

jeanwearinfool

2012-01-19 09:51:15 AM

Jon iz teh kewl: Best In The World: "A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun." - Thomas Caryle

How do yalls feel about this:

I was walkin by the ATM machine tha other day and there was a $20 laying in tha slot. Thurrr was nobody thurrr so I took the paper. Is that wrong? I feel kind of sordid about it 'n when I told 1 of my GF's about my luck she cast negative asspersians at me and said I should have returned it 2 tha bank. I told her tha bank was closed and thurr wasn't nobody around. Whut should I do? Did I done the right thang? Cuz fo reals, I don't needs no negative kharma.

What did you buy with that $20. a gay??

it certainly wasn't a dictionary.

DonkeyDixon

2012-01-19 09:52:42 AM

Step 1: Withdraw all funds in bearer bonds and close account
Step 2: Flee to country with no extradition treaty
Step 3: Get the power
Step 4: Get the women

special20

2012-01-19 09:59:11 AM

DonkeyDixon: Step 1: Withdraw all funds in bearer bonds and close account
Step 2: Flee to country with no extradition treaty
Step 3: Get the power
Step 4: Get the women

FTFA: They insist the funds were "uncleared" and could not have been withdrawn even if Saha had tried.

No chance.

BunkoSquad

2012-01-19 10:01:57 AM

Relax. I'm sure the bank will pay a penalty commensurate with the fee they would have charged him if the situations were somehow (though, frankly, I can't imagine how they might be) reversed.

the7dead

2012-01-19 10:04:24 AM

Just like the last time I chimed in when someone found 10k and I said I woudn't return it, same rules apply. This is supervillain money! Anyone has a problem with it, I can beat them with stacks of 100$ bills till they see it my way.

pxsteel

2012-01-19 10:14:51 AM

Crotchrocket Slim: I wonder

A. how much money one could pull out of the bank before they noticed?

Late 70's early 80's. someone openned and account at First National under the name Z. Zimmerman. A program was written that it would move 1/2 a penny to the last account each month. They had about 20 million accounts. They believe the account was open for about 7 years. The funds transferred to an offshore account and were never recoverred.

estimated take: 6-10 million

and B. how much buying a new identity would cost with such money?

Did not need one. they were never identified

ZAZ

2012-01-19 10:36:22 AM

pxsteel

I think that scam would leave a trail these days thanks to post-9/11 ID requirements and computer record keeping.

Pelvic Splanchnic Ganglion

2012-01-19 10:39:50 AM

pxsteel:
Late 70's early 80's. someone openned and account at First National under the name Z. Zimmerman. A program was written that it would move 1/2 a penny to the last account each month. They had about 20 million accounts. They believe the account was open for about 7 years. The funds transferred to an offshore account and were never recoverred.

estimated take: 6-10 million

I saw that movie. The only reason they caught onto him was because he drove his Ferrari to work.

Hawnkee

2012-01-19 10:42:15 AM

That's like 19600 chicks at the same time.

sexy-fetus

2012-01-19 10:59:18 AM

MythDragon

2012-01-19 11:12:38 AM

For the rest of my life.

stuffy

2012-01-19 01:24:13 PM

Travelers checks, cash, disappear, HOOKERS & BLOW

Pelvic Splanchnic Ganglion

2012-01-19 02:03:10 PM

stuffy: Travelers checks, cash, disappear, HOOKERS & BLOW

The kind of people with $9.8 billion to lose are not the kind of people who stop looking when it vanishes, and they're not about to let silly things like borders or extradition treaties get in their way.

KrispyKritter

2012-01-19 02:35:16 PM

he's a teacher at $700 a month. education is pissed on in many countries.

spawn73

2012-01-19 03:42:17 PM

I'd withdraw as much as possible every day, and hide the cash somewhere safe (doing so under the expectation that I were under survelliance).

With some luck it would take them a while to notice, depending on what had caused the number to be in my account.

I'd do the jail time, and hopefully have enough cash hidden away that I was set for life in some other country. Good luck collecting the fine :)

brantgoose

2012-01-19 05:17:02 PM

Isn't that typical? The Indian guy is already a hundredaire in American dollars and he has all the luck instead of some poor person who lives on 75 Rupees a day.

Life is not fair.

And if somebody accidentally gave me $9.8 billion dollars, I wouldn't be either. Bang! Zoom! Straight to the nearest unextraditable money dump without stopping to buy a toothbrush. With that kind of walking-around money, you could pull a Mr. Burns and set yourself up in a Palace in the Cuban hills (Leeward of the hurricanes).

Look with your eyes, not with your hands.

Good advice to be given liberally to all and sundry.

Have you any idea how much stuff nearly ten billion dollars can buy (assuming you're not a government)?

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