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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Chris_ on July 03, 2013, 09:42:37 PM
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Man who found $150K in garden dies
A McHenry County man who found $150,000 in his garden has died just days before he was due to collect a portion of the cash, causing some to wonder if his elderly neighbor was right all along.
She said the money was cursed.
Wayne Sabaj, 51, was an unemployed carpenter when he reported finding the bags of cash while picking broccoli in August 2011. He was due to enter into a settlement in court on July 11 that would have split the windfall between him and the neighbor, said his lawyer, Robert Burke.
The neighbor, Delores Johnson, whose daughter had also made a claim for the money on her behalf, also died before the mystery was settled. Johnson, who had dementia and died in December at 87, told her daughter that "she had gotten rid of the money because it was cursed," said Burke, quoting court records.
"Apparently, she was right. The money is cursed," Burke said.
Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-man-who-found-150k-in-garden-dies-20130703,0,980465.story)
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I think I would risk it.
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I think I would risk it.
My garden, my property. Say nothing. STFU.
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My garden, my property. Say nothing. STFU.
All right all right...get the gun out of my face!
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The only way to get rid of cursed money is to spend it.
I wonder if ghosts know about money laundering.
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The only way to get rid of cursed money is to spend it.
I wonder if ghosts know about money laundering.
Or zero turn radius lawn mowers?
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The only way to get rid of cursed money is to spend it.
I guess, if you believe in curses. I'd spend it over some time period, anyway.
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Tony Soprano had some money stashed in his "garden".
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Tony Soprano had some money stashed in his "garden".
yes, and how did that work out for him when he was a the diner? :wink:
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yes, and how did that work out for him when he was a the diner? :wink:
Carmella needed some mad money.
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Carmella needed some mad money.
A few years ago when we still had a few phone booths around some old drunk calling for a taxi down by the water front found an envelope with $30-40 K in it and brought it home.
When he sobered up and checked the envelope he went nuts. Paid all his bills, lent money to his friends and bought rounds for the house for a few days.
Unfortunately he told a "friend" about the windfall and when he refused to split the money his "friend" went to the police.
It became a mystery on why the drunk was arrested, the Police would give no details except the money had been claimed by people that could show they were the owners but requested they not be named.
Weird part is the drunk was charged with theft of the few thousands he gave away and sent to Jail for 24 months.
We of the area that enjoy a good conspiracy theory and have heard all our lives of smuggling and corruption on the water front had a lot of fun wondering who owned the money that the public was not to be informed of and what kind of Court Judge would put him away.
Norfork Va. A woman in public housing with 2 boys found a trash bag in their closet containing $150,000. The boys told her they had found the bag in the woods. The mother went to her Pastor to ask what she could do. He told her to turn it in as in one year if not claimed the money would be theirs.
She did so and a year later went to collect the money to be told the money had been STOLEN from the police evidence room.
What would I do if I find what I consider Ill Gotten Booty, First hire a lawyer, second sell my house,
third, try to figure out how to spend the cash without raising suspicions. Take money from sale of house and buy a good size RV, get a mail drop send my mail to family post marked some where in Australia.
And YOU, what would YOU do ?????
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Smell that? Think we stepped in something. Smells like bullshit.
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I do smell something.
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I can't see it, but I'll take your word for the smell.
IF he had done what I suggested (keep the ca$h and STFU) he'd at least have had a good life before he checked out.
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I'd have to turn it in. My luck it would be marked bills from a kidnapping/ransom gone bad where the victim was killed and I would end up in the pokey for life.
Hell if I hit the lottery I would get struck by lightening on the way to the lottery office.
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I'd have to turn it in. My luck it would be marked bills from a kidnapping/ransom gone bad where the victim was killed and I would end up in the pokey for life.
Hell if I hit the lottery I would get struck by lightening on the way to the lottery office.
Don't worry too much about that. Your lottery winnings will be lightened substantially before you can get you hands on them.
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I'd surrender the money but photograph the serial numbers. If I knew the cash was from criminal activity, I'd put it in Salvation Army kettles, or help people directly but I'd get no pleasure from keeping it
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I'd have to turn it in. My luck it would be marked bills from a kidnapping/ransom gone bad where the victim was killed and I would end up in the pokey for life.
Hell if I hit the lottery I would get struck by lightening on the way to the lottery office.
"Officer, I found it in my garden. Finders keepers. I have no idea of where it came from."