Ever seen $200 million in cash?

BaggedLancer
BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
edited July 2007 in The Clubhouse
Police have found $206 million in cash tied to drug smugglers who imported chemicals used to make methamphetamines. The money was piled inside a mansion in a wealthy Mexico City neighborhood.

1 small box of that money and I could be happy for a while. :D
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited March 2007
    Hey! Who said you could take a pic of my 'storage room' in my second house!

    Oh, wait...the cops found it? Oh no...
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    Jstas wrote: »
    Simple question. If you had a cool million bucks, what would you do with it?
    Wonder WTF happened to the rest of my money.
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  • SLOCOOKN
    SLOCOOKN Posts: 704
    edited March 2007
    That is sad!....I wonder how many lives have been destroyed to horde that kinda' money... :(:(:(...Every thing from drug abuse..family abuse..theft...murder.. and all the other evils...sad sad sad
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited March 2007
    " Look what I found Sarge! 206.....er.....205 million dollars!":D
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited March 2007
    wingnut4772 wrote:
    " Look what I found Sarge! 206.....er.....205 million dollars!":D


    Exactly, if I was the officer who found that I can assure you a few million would be missing and no one would notice. ;)
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    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited March 2007
    BaggedLancer wrote:
    Exactly, if I was the officer who found that I can assure you a few million would be missing and no one would notice. ;)
    LOL! I am just joking of course but who here believes that that pile started out as 206 million?...in Mexico?
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited March 2007
    wingnut4772 wrote:
    LOL! I am just joking of course but who here believes that that pile started out as 206 million?...in Mexico?
    maybe 260, but definatley not 206 :D

    Looks like that first row is missing quite a bit lol.
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  • beardog03
    beardog03 Posts: 5,550
    edited March 2007
    wingnut4772 wrote:
    LOL! I am just joking of course but who here believes that that pile started out as 206 million?...in Mexico?


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    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited March 2007
    beardog03 wrote:
    Eggs-Zachery !


    I had eggs this morning for breakfast...with hash and toast....yum.:D
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  • BIZILL
    BIZILL Posts: 5,432
    edited March 2007
    i would have snagged a minimum of a few hundred thou myself. pull some 'training day' action.

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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,574
    edited March 2007
    From fast and the furious...

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  • beardog03
    beardog03 Posts: 5,550
    edited March 2007
    just think of the gear you could get with that pile `o green ..!!

    I would buy the ultimate rig and tell `em.."now build a house around this"!!
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  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited March 2007
    Damm thats somthing to see.
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited March 2007
    beardog03 wrote:
    just think of the gear you could get with that pile `o green ..!!

    I would buy the ultimate rig and tell `em.."now build a house around this"!!
    LOl. That's such an obnoxious commercial. :D
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  • DarqueKnight
    DarqueKnight Posts: 6,765
    edited March 2007
    When I was in Mexico City I wondered why the cops drove such nice cars and lived in really nice houses.:p

    That picture would make a great recruitment poster for the Mexico City police department: "Sign up and GET RICH QUICK!":)
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  • liordra
    liordra Posts: 152
    edited March 2007
    DarqueKnight wrote:
    When I was in Mexico City I wondered why the cops drove such nice cars and lived in really nice houses.:p

    That picture would make a great recruitment poster for the Mexico City police department: "Sign up and GET RICH QUICK!":)


    I'd say its a great recruitment for Mexico city drugs business. "IMAGINE HOW MUCH MONEY THE POLICE NEVER FINDS!"
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  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,335
    edited March 2007
    liordra wrote:
    I'd say its a great recruitment for Mexico city drugs business. "IMAGINE HOW MUCH MONEY THE POLICE NEVER FINDS!"

    This pile of cash was probably more than $1B before the "officials" started taking their cuts!
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  • DarqueKnight
    DarqueKnight Posts: 6,765
    edited March 2007
    Ok, now I understand why members of Mexico's law enforcement, judiciary, and political establishments never migrate north in search of a better life. Thanks for the clarification.;)
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited March 2007
    beardog03 wrote:
    just think of the gear you could get with that pile `o green ..!!

    I would buy the ultimate rig and tell `em.."now build a house around this"!!
    I'm with you on that one. And I certainly wouldn't be getting my gear from CC:D .
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  • MSALLA
    MSALLA Posts: 1,602
    edited March 2007
    If you were the cops who made that raid, would you even report any of it to your bosses?
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited March 2007
    This is really sad. Who knows how many people have been endangered due to that money.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited March 2007
    The only thing sad is that ain't in my bank account.:eek:
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  • SLOCOOKN
    SLOCOOKN Posts: 704
    edited July 2007
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,290520,00.html
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  • WilliamM2
    WilliamM2 Posts: 4,771
    edited July 2007
    Must be small bills, that's an awful big pile for 206 million.
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  • bobman1235
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    edited July 2007
    WilliamM2 wrote: »
    Must be small bills, that's an awful big pile for 206 million.

    It is? How do you know this?

    I would assume when you see those bundles groups of 100 dollar bills they're in bundles of 100, or 10,000 dollars, right?

    It would take 20,000 of those bundles to make 206 million dollars.

    From that picture, let's say it's nine rows deep and 33 rows wide, which means there's 297 piles.

    20000 bundles in 297 piles would be 67 bundles per pile. Even if a bundle is only an inch, that's over five feet per pile.

    Seems reasonable to assume those are all hundreds.
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited July 2007
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    It is? How do you know this?

    I would assume when you see those bundles groups of 100 dollar bills they're in bundles of 100, or 10,000 dollars, right?

    It would take 20,000 of those bundles to make 206 million dollars.

    From that picture, let's say it's nine rows deep and 33 rows wide, which means there's 297 piles.

    20000 bundles in 297 piles would be 67 bundles per pile. Even if a bundle is only an inch, that's over five feet per pile.

    Seems reasonable to assume those are all hundreds.


    wtf....the fact that you even spent the time to figure that out.......:eek:

    Nice math skillz tho :D
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2007
    Well, I was curious :)

    It seemed like an absurdly large stack to me too, so a little counting and dividing later and now we all know :
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  • polktiger
    polktiger Posts: 556
    edited July 2007
    Looking at the picture, those tiles are about 12 x 12; a US bill is just over 2.5 inches wide.

    That is a big stack of money. Also bands of 100 bills or $10,000 in 100s is closer to half an inch i think. So 2.5 feet high instead of 5 feet high makes more sense given the hight of the stacks relative to the size of the tiles.
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  • WilliamM2
    WilliamM2 Posts: 4,771
    edited July 2007
    It seemed like an absurdly large stack to me too, so a little counting and dividing later and now we all know :

    You are right. I thought it was huge, and calculated it out as you did, but I dropped a zero!:o
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