Comments | pkt_lightboy: Ever seen $40 million in cash? I have.

pkt_lightboy

Ever seen $40 million in cash? I have.

Dec 06, 2006 03:14

So...an interesting thing happened to me at work today. I was waiting for my last flight to unload when an armored truck backed up to the belt loader. They started offloading lots of little plastic packages, and, my curiosity getting the better of me, I went in for a closer look. As it turns out, they were full of $20 bills. Now, never having ( Read more... )

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silent_five December 6 2006, 11:44:15 UTC

Sweet tap-dancing Jesus.

Does this happen often?

pkt_lightboy December 6 2006, 22:00:57 UTC

It was the first time I'd seen it, though I talked to someone else that has seen it a couple of times. They were doing it again today. Two day total of $96 million, I was told.

skinnybill December 6 2006, 19:07:32 UTC

Dude, you know what we could do with $40 million bucks?

WHATEVER WE WANTED

40 mil gomi_no_sensei December 7 2006, 23:22:58 UTC

Did they have someone counting it when it came off?

Re: 40 mil pkt_lightboy December 8 2006, 22:14:14 UTC

Yep. There were four guys involved, in addition to the two Delta employees in the belly of the plane: one that counted each package and clicked a little clicker in his hand, one that took the bags off the belt and put them in the truck, one that stacked them in the back of the truck, and one in the truck that never left the driver's seat. All of these men had guns. Well, not the Delta guys.

And, of course, the expected crowed of gawkers that millions and millions of dollars is sure to draw.