I lost $1.2 million today....
 

Crap. I was out shopping and I lost my briefcase. I remember I had it in an Italian restaurant, but now I can't find it.

My wife is gonna be pissed.

Australian police are looking for a good explanation of why someone would walk into a Sydney eatery, exit in a seeming panic--and leave a suitcase containing more than a million dollars behind.

The seemingly inadvertent money drop occurred at an Italian bistro named Café Marco. On Tuesday morning a causally dressed man entered the establishment, and didn't really settle into the Café Marco experience before heading back out the door--minus the suitcase "full of money."

Investigating officers in Sydney report that the luggage in question contained "a significant amount of cash"--roughly $1.28 million in $50 bills. However, police have not yet arrived at a full estimate of the suitcase's cash content--for the simple reason that they're still counting it.

Detective Inspector Ian Pryde told reporters that witnesses described the man as Asian, and his age around 30. He was wearing surfing shorts and a wrestling singlet when he walked into the café. Witnesses reportedly told the cops that the man appeared "to get spooked" and left without the money.

At first, the two owners of the café thought the suitcase was a bomb and moved it out of the way of customers until the police arrived. Police say they now have in custody a 49-year-old man fitting the general description--and that they're preparing to question him about the case of the abandoned cash.

(news link)

It was a drug transaction gone wrong

Or a dead kidnap victim somewhere.

Your funds are in motion.

He was going to take it to the laundromat next door but forgot it.

Something isn't right. People don't carry $1.2 million in cash in a suitcase.

1.2 million is a lot of 50'2 must have been a decent sized briefcase...although..aussie money is plastic so you can fit more in there..lol

thanx for the money finders keepers

I see the story too,about the mising briefcase in Australia!Interesting story!

"He was wearing surfing shorts and a wrestling singlet when he walked into the café."

WTF lol...

Someone has probably spent all afternoon chopping his daughter up into jiffy-bag sized pieces now.

It wasn't supposed to be a carbon copy.

Your briefcase only had $38,000 in it.

Tag line of the day:
#It wasn't supposed to be a carbon copy :winkwink:

thats sucks , some one is driving new Jaguar now...

guess the race

Who the hell uses 50's? Are they popular in Oz?

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ADG

True story. :thumbsup

Sounds like mayonnaise?

I could not use a 50 or 100 in the US - most shops did not have enough change for anything more than $30.

$50 notes are popular here - most ATMs spit them out or $20 - never ever $100 / $10 or $5 notes from an ATM.

http://www.news.com.au/national/suit...-1226203222545

Says the money was not in $50 only - it was in all denominations of notes.

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Best place to do the deal
 

George V Higgins
"Bomber's Law"
Beats a 7-11 parking lot any day

Also wrote "Friends of Eddie Coyle."

Huh? That can't be right.

It is not, he's a moron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknot...tralian_dollar

1gram per $100 note - so 10kilos or 22 pounds. It was a mixture so probably 15 kilos or there abouts.

All your pics and links redirect to your front page for many of us. I very some are good.

They do? I have both gofuckyourself.com and gfy.com in my .htaccess. Are there more?

Remember it is Australian dollars - $50 note = .955 grams so 40 odd pounds or so.

They did say it was a mix of all notes - so could have got close to 30 kilos.

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Yeah, this had to be some illegal thing going wrong.. No way would someone have that much money on him.. And if he did, i sincerely doubt he would forget it anywhere :)

50 euro is the most commonly used banknote in the EU.

Chris Mallick ?

I read this before, but can't remember where.

Check! :thumbsup