Elderly Couple Can Sue SFPD, Federal Agents Over Missing $200,000

SF Weekly ^ | March 1, 2012 | Erin Sherbert

[Boogieman]

Well, 9/10 times that someone has a machine gun in their home, they are a gang banger or a drug dealer. Does that mean the feds can seize any machine gun they find, without bothering to establish that the person is unlawfully in possession of it?

I doubt you’ll carry your logic to the point of saying “Viva la war on guns!”.

[Boogieman]

“If you’ve got $200,000 in paper money stashed away, you’re either an idiot or a criminal.”

Maybe, but being an idiot is not illegal.

[Boogieman]

Yes, 2000 hundred-dollar bills would weigh 2000 grams, or roughly 4.4 pounds. A stack of 50 bills is 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches high, and I figure no more than 0.43 inches tall, if you double the actual height of the individual bills to account for lack of compression. A men’s shoebox is 10.125 inches wide, 14.75 inches long, and 5.625 inches tall, so you could fit 4 x 2 x 13 stacks in a shoebox, or 5200 bills in it.

So, if the bills were all hundreds, it wouldn’t even fill half a shoebox. You could fit $200k in fifties in a shoebox easily as well.

[kiryandil]

Only an Idiot keeps 200k in cash, or a criminal. In all likelihood, these folks are just making it up.

Well, then - I guess it's OK in your Fascist little mind for the security forces to steal it...

[kiryandil]

There's a HUGE difference between cash and precious metals. Cash doesn't gain value, metals do. If you've got $200,000 in paper money stashed away, you're either an idiot or a criminal. Gold and bullets are a FAR better investment than stuffing 20s in your mattress.

Change the subject when you're looking like an idiot. Thumbs up!

[dalereed]

“$200,000 in cash, in your house? Who does that?”

I personally know 2 people that probably have at least that much cash on hand!

[Shadowstrike]

oh c’mon now, we've got to overlook South Hawthorne, they're from Pennsylvania...they just can't help themselves. ;)

[4yearlurker]

My wife's uncle is 88 years old and a WW2 Navy vet. He worked his whole life in a South West PA Steel Mill. Never married or had a mortgage. He has his brothers trunk that he used in a CCC camp. This trunk has a large amount of cash in it. Money he earned over the years. He wants to keep it in a trunk,then that's his business. He is not a criminal or an idiot I assure you.

[End Times Sentinel]

Well, then - I guess it's OK in your Fascist little mind for the security forces to steal it...

Show me where I said that. Throw up a straw man to distract from your idiocy. Thumbs up!

[jmc813]

I doubt you’ll carry your logic to the point of saying “Viva la war on guns!”.

I wouldn't be surprised. Most drug war advocates have no problem with the BATFags taking away scary guns, justified or not.

[Boogieman]

Well, on FR, especially considering his handle, I’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt.

[MSF BU]

People who don’t trust banks. People who have memories of or are familiar with financial controls during the depression. People who have studied what went on during the collapse in Argentina. People who want to live under the radar for whatever reason. I can think of many types of people who do this as well.

[MSF BU]

Correct. The only question I have is why the couple didn’t have it in a concealed safe, and of course I am assuming they did not. There are many companies now that specialize in the installation of small safes for just this purpose; they are very good at what they do and the likelihood is that the safes will never be found.