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

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

Posted by msmash on Monday September 18, 2017 @06:40AM from the down-the-drain dept.

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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And nobody has asked by taustin · 2017-09-18 06:47 · Score: 4, Interesting

if it's maybe a failed test run by a currency counterfeiter?
Really?
1. Re: And nobody has asked by istartedi · 2017-09-18 08:01 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  Because he's an insider at the bank, working with his partners to test the bills. The insider was using the bank's counterfeit detection machinery to see which bills would work. These were detected, so he disposed of them.
  
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  For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Re:Support by AmiMoJo · 2017-09-18 07:27 · Score: 4, Interesting

There was a spate of incidents a few years ago where someone in Japan was leaving 10,000 yen notes (worth about â60) in bathrooms, with a note expressing the hope that they brought whoever found them happiness. I don't know if they ever caught the person behind it.

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Re:Is that a normal denomination? by TechyImmigrant · 2017-09-18 07:32 · Score: 4, Interesting

We often see $100 bills used in our store.
My personal observation is that the people using them are always old, as in clearly past retirement age. I have no clue why this is the case.

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One possibility: by John+Jorsett · 2017-09-18 08:21 · Score: 4, Interesting

nasty divorce. People do all sorts of strange and illogical things when they're embroiled in a divorce battle, including burning down houses, crushing cars, etc.