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Flush With Cash: Swiss Toilets Mysteriously Stuffed With 500-Euro Bills (npr.org)

Someone in the Swiss city of Geneva has been trying to flush tens of thousands of euros down toilets. From a report: The bathrooms at a branch of the UBS bank in Geneva, as well as in three nearby restaurants, had pipes stuffed with 500-euro bills that had apparently been cut up with scissors and flushed down the toilets. The mysterious misplaced funds were first reported by a Swiss newspaper, and local authorities have confirmed the incident to multiple media outlets. Each individual bill is worth nearly $600. Collectively, the destroyed bank notes were worth tens of thousands of dollars. The Geneva Prosecutor's Office tells Bloomberg it has launched an investigation into the bathroom bills. Switzerland is not in the European Union, although it is entirely surrounded by EU member countries, and the nation's currency is the Swiss franc.

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  1. Support by vjg · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is a bathroom bill I could get behind.

    1. Re:Support by sinij · · Score: 4, Funny

      Caught to thank them?

  2. News for.. by leathered · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...turds?

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    For all intensive porpoises your a bunch of rediculous loosers
    1. Re:News for.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Stuff that splatters

  3. TP of the gods. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well now we know what rich people wipe their asses with.

  4. You excrete what you eat by dlleigh · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like the food in the UBS company cafeterias is too rich.

  5. Re:Bills worth nearly 600 dollars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    For god's sake man, this is Slashdot.

    "Each individual bill is worth nearly 0.149111 bitcoin."

  6. Re: And nobody has asked by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 3, Funny

    If he got cold feet, he should have burned the cash for heat.

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    Ezekiel 23:20
  7. Re:Quantitive easing. by aphelion_rock · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sylvester Stallone - Cliffhanger
    "it costs a fortune to heat this place"
    Feeding $100 notes into a fire to keep warm