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After Hong Kong's "Money Drop", 2 Arrested For 'Picking Up' $2 Million

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As we reported Christmas Day, the streets of Hong Kong's Wan Chai district were awash with cash when a security van accidentally 'spilled' millions of dollars scattered among busy traffic. Onlookers rapidly 'picked up' the spilled cash but as RT reports, Christmas joy was short-lived for two people, who scavenged almost $2 million dollars in cash. "We found the money stored under the bed at their homes and they admitted they took the money on Gloucester [Road] after getting off the taxi they were in," Police Chief Inspector Addy Li Chi-kin said at a media briefing. The 'scavengers' were clearly not Keynesian economists who would have passed-by the money assuming someone else would have picked it up.

 

 

As RT reports,

Christmas joy was short-lived for two people, who scavenged almost $2 million dollars in cash after a security van’s faulty backdoor scattered money all over the road. The two have been arrested after piles of bills were found under their beds.

 

A 43-year-old businessman and a 36-year-old cosmetologist were passengers in a taxi that passed by Gloucester Road, near Hong Kong’s financial district, when an estimated sum of 15 million Hong Kong dollars (US$1.9 million) accidentally spilled on the highway on Christmas Eve. The security van transporting the cash contained a total of HK$270 million (over $34 million), according to police.

 

"We found the money stored under the bed at their homes and they admitted they took the money on Gloucester [Road] after getting off the taxi they were in," Police Chief Inspector Addy Li Chi-kin said at a media briefing, as cited by South China Morning Post.

At least 30 people have returned a total of HK$5.69 million ($733,299) to police officials.

 

Li added that police officials will arrest “as soon as possible” all those people identified picking the cash up on Christmas Eve.

 

Media reports state the van had a faulty rear gate, which led to piles of money falling out.

 

A witness told the South China Morning Post that most of the cash “was gone within minutes.”

 

“There were 20 or 30 people picking up cash from the road on Christmas Eve. They looked like school kids who knew they were being naughty, but thought: “ ‘This is once in a lifetime thing.’ Everyone had the same look on their face.”

 

The Bank of China (BOCHK) said the security service company G4S had promised to pay for all the losses.

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Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:08 | 5597671 db51
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Found it under their beds.  lmfao.   I'm guessing the two were frequent visitors to ZH.

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:17 | 5597699 A Lunatic
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They should have gone boating instead......

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:25 | 5597717 El Oregonian
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Yuan! Yuan! yuan faster before they catch you!

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:40 | 5597752 Ignatius
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Pigeons.

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:54 | 5597779 Arius
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so, based on the picture they can find where the person lives and all that ... now explain to my how those protest to overthrough the legitimate governor work like?

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 01:32 | 5598146 linniepar
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So much for "finders keepers losers weepers."

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 08:24 | 5598428 TahoeBilly2012
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That's why the New York Bankers don't have that "once in a lifetime look on their face"- it's a daily thing for them, ho hum.

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 10:13 | 5598557 giggler321
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It doesnt really matter - they can just print some morrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 10:18 | 5598570 Pure Evil
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The reality is they, the bankers, know its worthless that's why they're indifferent to it.

When you see pallets of bank notes every day it begins to look like toilet paper.

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 02:44 | 5598233 OldPhart
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If that "gift" happened to me I'd havd buried it in the nearest dry lake within the hour. You never keep 'found' money, you have to get rid of it.

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:17 | 5597695 kowalli
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Rofl, new normal - you can't own anything, but government can own you everywhere...

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:55 | 5597784 dirtyfiles
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isn't that what Feds does..dropping money from the heli?

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:19 | 5597698 stant
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Krugman is outraged

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 23:04 | 5597804 Peter Pan
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Time for a joke:

Two young bank robbers rob a bank and escape with a large plastic rubbish bag full of money.

When the get back to their house, the younger ones tips the money on the floor and asks the other one whether they should count it.

The other one is lying on the couch and answers, "no". 

The young robber asks, "why not?"

The older robber on the couch replies, "don't bother, they'll tell us on the news how much it was." 

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:24 | 5597716 SubjectivObject
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How did they identify and find the pickeruppers?

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:36 | 5597736 GoldForCash
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They got out of a cab that has numbers on it, someone was filming, called the cab company and asked where did those dumbass's ask to go to....just call me Sherlock

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:30 | 5597719 Urban Roman
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The 'scavengers' were clearly not Keynesian economists who would have passed-by the money assuming someone else would have picked it up.

Had they been Keynsians, they would presumably have thrown bricks through a few windows on the way home.

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:39 | 5597741 Berspankme
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Still punishing the savers. They should have spent it on hookers and blow to help GDP instead of saving it under the mattress

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:28 | 5597723 gimme soma dat
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I guess the finders could not be keepers. 

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:42 | 5597758 ebworthen
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Throw money at the banks and you're a genius.

Pick it up off the street and you're a criminal.

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:45 | 5597760 Ginsengbull
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Was the security company fined for littering?

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:49 | 5597771 FredFlintstone
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Wasn't Singapore.

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:47 | 5597765 holdbuysell
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If this happened on Wall Street, it would have simply been thought of as a tangible form of Quantitative Easing.

AND NO ARRESTS WOULD BE MADE.

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 22:48 | 5597769 Fuku Ben
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The globalists want to give those Honk Kong fueys an Agenda 21 hoot to not pollute

So they're bringing Woodsy Owl out of retirement (Like Weird Al Yankhiscock for his Illuminati parody)

Woodsy will be hosting the awards ceremony at Bohemian Grove where they'll be blessing the returned money and sacrificing the thieves in a fiery death ritual you all know as the cremation of care

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 01:22 | 5597817 stant
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So Krugman is laid up now drunk in Japan singing ala the stones " it's those honky kong women that give me the honky kong blues" with a cat

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 23:52 | 5597935 WTFUD
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Just goes to show that if you divided ALL the wealth up equally among the 'folks' it would 'miraculously' jump back into the hands of the 'few'.
Drop me off at the BIG GREEN DOOR WITH THE FLASHING BULBS ALL AROUND IT; AND THEY NEVER TIPPED THE CABBIE.

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 00:46 | 5598074 turnoffthewater
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"security service company G4S had promised to pay for all the losses".

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/john-grayson-and-adri-nieuwhof/ten-reasons-to-vote-for-g4s-as-worlds-worst-company

Wonder where they will get the currency from.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=GFS.L+Key+Statistics

Maybe they can just ask their friends to print more. What's a little more peper and ink amongst friends

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 07:31 | 5598397 YHC-FTSE
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Well done for spotting G4S. They have been the butt of consecutive jokes ever since the British govt awarded them prison contracts, the Olympics (2012), and anything else that needed doing for lucrative kickbacks and shareholder income. There was a rumour going around that the best way to get a job with them is misspell your name on the application.

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 03:13 | 5598263 heywood2
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WanChai is the whorehouse of HK. I wonder how much of this cash ended up with Flip hookers?

 

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 04:15 | 5598304 Quantum Darwinism
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Imagine something like that in America... Now THAT would be entertainement!

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 05:06 | 5598337 Panic Mode
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If there was a policeman and asked the people not to pick up the money, then they should be prosecuted. Otherwise, get lost. 

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 05:50 | 5598357 theprofromdover
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Phew, thank goodness for cellphone tracking.

Otherwise that money could have been lost forever!

What is the penalty in HK for picking up litter?

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 08:17 | 5598417 Dazman
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Poor bastards. I mean c'mon FFS. Isn't the money supposed to be making it into the hands of the public anyway so we can all spend? Perfect opportunity to increase the "velocity of money".

Oh that's right, the greedy bankers didn't get to skim the top. Oh well fuck that then - let's declare war on at least 5 nations with asia, muslims populations and those of "dark skin color". This must not go unpunished. The banksters must NEVER been cut out of the cycle.

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 08:16 | 5598418 Dazman
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We'll teach those fuckers!

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 08:17 | 5598419 Dazman
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Are you replying to yourself?

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 08:18 | 5598420 Dazman
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You bet your fucking ass. I'm drunk!

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 08:20 | 5598423 Dazman
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Are you done yet?

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 08:21 | 5598424 Dazman
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I dunno. Wanna smoke a blunt?

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 08:21 | 5598425 Dazman
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D'uh!

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 09:11 | 5598467 Fix It Again Timmy
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Poor smucks!  If they were "esteemed" bankers they could have gone before CONgress and picked up $Trillions and they would be applauded and be designated as saviors as they left with the loot.  Bad things happen only if you have the shitty end of the stick....

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 10:01 | 5598540 Pumpkin
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Normally when someone removes paper and trash from along the roadway, they are commended.  It is weird how the Satanists like things upsidedown and backwards.

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 10:24 | 5598580 Pure Evil
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There's a reason they like things upside down and backwards, it makes things easier when it's "Giuliani Time".

Always giving the stick without the carrot.

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 10:34 | 5598598 Jano
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a failed and too late delivery for umbrella revolutionaries of NED?

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 12:17 | 5598796 Conax
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They should have offered the cop at the door half, but they were too greedy to share.

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 12:28 | 5598822 NuYawkFrankie
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PBOC Quantitative Easing: Cash From Clunkers

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