The most cash I've ever carriedThere's nothing like carrying large amounts of cash to make yourself feel simultaneously like a lottery winner and an obvious target.
A friend went to buy a car for ten grand, panicked and stuffed it down his pants for safety. It was all a bit smelly by the time he got there and he had to search around for some of it...
Tell us the story behind the most cash you've ever carried.
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chthonic, Thu 22 Jun 2006, 10:39)
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Raw SilverOne job I had in the military in the mid-80's was Silver Recovery. The white parts of x-ray film is where the silver was washed away, most of that silver is recovered from the film processors by special equipment.
I was in charge of removing the silver from this equipment at a large hospital facility. I collected 4 times a year, and transported the silver across town to a precious metals recycling office. It was a bitch of a job -- the stuff gets very heavy, and the process smells like rotten eggs.
Every 3 months I'd haul around 90 pounds of 99%+ pure silver across town in a van. This went on for 3 years, then some commander on the base found out that I was doing this. From then on I was followed by an armed guard on my collection rounds, and the silver traveled by armored car.
I'd never done the math, but turns out that 90 pounds = 1440 ounces, @ $7.00/ounce = $10,080.00 (~6000 GBP)
(, Mon 26 Jun 2006, 6:49, Reply)
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