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2.7 million yen in cash found floating down a river in Tokyo

March 28th, 2007 by James

Yet another bizarre case of a huge sum of cash being found in an unlikely place:

Police used fishing nets and their hands Wednesday to scoop up 2.7 million yen (US$23,000; €17,230) in mysterious cash floating down a Japanese river, an official said.

A passer-by notified police after seeing the bank notes drifting down the Sakai River on the border between Tokyo and Kanagawa prefecture, a Tokyo police official said on condition of anonymity, citing protocol.

Police managed to catch 270 soggy 10,000-yen (US$85; €64) bills, Japan’s biggest denomination, the official said.

Police are still investigating how and why the money was dumped.



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4 Comments »

Comment by Roaf
2007-03-28 23:12:21

The real mystery is why people always tell the police when they find these large sums of cash.

 
Comment by varble
2007-03-29 01:13:47

Makes me wonder how many go unreported. The hell with the lotto, I am going to start poking through peoples stacks of newspapers and garbage on big garbage day. Only a matter of time before I make a strike.

 
Comment by Koroke
2007-03-29 20:21:20

Varble, yeah i know what you mean….one of those yen must hell big bucks

i wish i was there, i’ll just in the water,,,, to get the money!

 
Comment by Gabriel
2007-03-30 18:08:49

I am with varbie on this one. I would definitely collect the money then wait 2 months before start spending in case Yakuza is trying to trick the unsuspecting gaijin. Now all I have to do is live life and try to be in the right place at the right time in order to stumble upon a couple million yen.

In fact, I bet there is some strange correlation between the cases of money just being dumped/found and suicide rates/missing people. I say some yakuza feels the heat to close and then dumps the cash, then disappears or jumps on the train tracks in front of a train.

 
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