Secret compartment in the floor of old church was used to house each week’s offerings.
Man stashes cash in oven. Wife preheats it to cook chicken nuggets. Burns $15,000.
Moral of story: Don’t stash cash in an oven!
Shoebox full of cash
(Source: cloudmoose, via megarachne)
OFUNATO, Japan - There are no cars inside the parking garage at Ofunato police headquarters. Instead, hundreds of dented metal safes, swept out of homes and businesses by last month’s tsunami, crowd the long rectangular building.
Any one could hold someone’s life savings.
Safes are washing up along the tsunami-battered coast, and police are trying to find their owners - a unique problem in a country where many people, especially the elderly, still stash their cash at home. By one estimate, some $350 billion worth of yen doesn’t circulate.There’s even a term for this hidden money in Japanese: “tansu yokin.” Or literally, “wardrobe savings.”
X-ray of car with cash stashed in secret compartment
Security glass advertisement - filled with cash. There was a security guard close by in case of someone doing something dramatic, like attempting to run over entire display with a large vehicle.
