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After Hong Kong's "Money Drop", 2 Arrested For 'Picking Up' $2 Million
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.
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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#Christmas comes early to #HongKong, folks grab cash after bank truck spills http://t.co/gizhLv31Yv via @CoconutsHK pic.twitter.com/pW32Kmo2cR
— Coconuts Bangkok (@CoconutsBangkok) December 25, 2014
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Found it under their beds. lmfao. I'm guessing the two were frequent visitors to ZH.
They should have gone boating instead......
Yuan! Yuan! yuan faster before they catch you!
Pigeons.
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?
So much for "finders keepers losers weepers."
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.
It doesnt really matter - they can just print some morrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre
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.
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.
Rofl, new normal - you can't own anything, but government can own you everywhere...
isn't that what Feds does..dropping money from the heli?
Krugman is outraged
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."
How did they identify and find the pickeruppers?
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
Had they been Keynsians, they would presumably have thrown bricks through a few windows on the way home.
Still punishing the savers. They should have spent it on hookers and blow to help GDP instead of saving it under the mattress
I guess the finders could not be keepers.
Throw money at the banks and you're a genius.
Pick it up off the street and you're a criminal.
Was the security company fined for littering?
Wasn't Singapore.
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.
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
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
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.
"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
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.
WanChai is the whorehouse of HK. I wonder how much of this cash ended up with Flip hookers?
Imagine something like that in America... Now THAT would be entertainement!
If there was a policeman and asked the people not to pick up the money, then they should be prosecuted. Otherwise, get lost.
Phew, thank goodness for cellphone tracking.
Otherwise that money could have been lost forever!
What is the penalty in HK for picking up litter?
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.
We'll teach those fuckers!
Are you replying to yourself?
You bet your fucking ass. I'm drunk!
Are you done yet?
I dunno. Wanna smoke a blunt?
D'uh!
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....
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.
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.
a failed and too late delivery for umbrella revolutionaries of NED?
They should have offered the cop at the door half, but they were too greedy to share.
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