oleorun@real.lemmy.fanM to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 7 months agoCouple finds safe stuffed with $100,000 cash while magnet fishing in New Yorkwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down11
arrow-up1151arrow-down1external-linkCouple finds safe stuffed with $100,000 cash while magnet fishing in New Yorkwww.theguardian.comoleorun@real.lemmy.fanM to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareFester@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·edit-27 months agoNo crime attached yet. — New York police
minus-squarechemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·7 months ago“Hey, Farva. What’s that thing you like to do where you take possession of property that isn’t yours without having to charge the owner with a crime?” “Civil forfeiture?”
minus-squaregorysubparbagel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·7 months agoVery likely someone who earned that money illegally that left it there and they very likely know now that they have it.
How so?
No crime attached yet.
— New York police
“Hey, Farva. What’s that thing you like to do where you take possession of property that isn’t yours without having to charge the owner with a crime?”
“Civil forfeiture?”
Very likely someone who earned that money illegally that left it there and they very likely know now that they have it.