And its gone..

[Dick_Stabber]

"At approximately 10:25 AM yesterday, a plane originating in Dallas landed in Philadelphia and delivered an undisclosed number of $100 bills that had not yet been put into circulation. Between the time the plane landed and the money was supposed to arrive at the Federal Reserve Building in East Rutherford, New Jersey the money disappeared. Now the FBI wants to know what happened to it.

In one of the more entertainingly vague notes from the FBI we've seen, the investigative agency says "a large volume" of money was stolen "from this particular plane" but they don't give many details.

We do know the money wasn't supposed to go into circulate next year and a courier reported the money missing. Does this mean the plane landed, the courier transported a package, and when it got to the Federal Reserve (we'd guess the origin was the Dallas Fed) in New Jersey they realized "Oops, the money is gone!"

Probably not a fun day for that courier. If you see the bills above call the FBI. Everyone else have fun parsing the statement, printed below, and try to figure out what the hell happened:

Subject: Philadelphia Airport Heist!

On Thursday, October 12, 2012, at approximately 10:25 am an Airplane arrived into Philadelphia from Dallas. From this particular plane, a large volume of money was stolen.

The theft was reported at approximately 2:00 pm yesterday, by a Courier Service when the money arrived at the Federal Reserve Building in East Rutherford, NJ. Attached to this correspondence is a copy of one of the $100 bills which were stolen. These $100 bills are not scheduled to be released into circulation until next year. All merchants please be on the lookout for these bills.

At this point, the FBI is following all leads and all potential subjects are being investigated. Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI at 215-418-4000."












http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Missing-Money-173945391.html {0}

[Ponce]

What's so hard about this case?, the pilot, copilot or and security guard put a parashute around the bundles and sent them airborne over some wooded area to be picked up later......review all security videos from that day and see if any of those in the plane went in with a LARGE package...that would be the parashute.........next?

[Libertytree]

What if the $$ never made it on the plane in the 1st place?

[midnight rambler]

(we'd guess the origin was the Dallas Fed)

Treasury has their most modern printing plant located near Alliance Airport in Ft. Worth.

[osoab]

This currier must use the same security protocols as the Petagram.

[drafter]

"All merchants please be on the lookout for these bills."

Oh that's a hoot. As often as they change the look of the funny money these days, how the hell is anybody supposed to keep track of what they look like? All anybody does is swipe their little pen across it and if that looks right, then they put it in the til. If they printed monopoly money on the right paper you'd probably have people circulating for a while before anybody noticed these days. The fact that these are actual reserve notes will just complicate matters. As long as the people that took these aren't stupid enough to take them to a bank, they could move around and live off these for a while by using them at appropriate places and breaking them down into "change" as quickly as possible.

[General of Darkness]

Who's to say the money ever existed to be begin with? Say we printed X, someone stole our X, and the X is just wired to some black ops group. Hey, just saying because anything is plausible with these cockholsters.

[Horn]

they could move around and live off these for a while by using them at appropriate places and breaking them down into "change" as quickly as possible.

The fact that they tell everyone "it wasn't supposed to be used till next year", suggests it never existed.


And now they will just claim them from normal people who have a $100 saying it is counterfeit/stolen (not valid), Sorry.

[vacuum]

The link says the total was $98 million, and of that only $20k was stolen.

[Horn]

The link says the total was $98 million, and of that only $20k was stolen.

Strange huh?

Only 2 stacks, not even a fistfull.

I would have at least gone for 4, if trying at all.

[Dogman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrLbY4-Q99A


I am supprised that this thread made it this far, without this being posted!

[Half Sense]

Obviously, the thing to do is hang on to it until next year when there are millions in circulation.

[Serpo]

Obviously, the thing to do is hang on to it until next year when there are millions in circulation.


And by then its value has been cut in half........hahaha