Originally Posted by
Skipjacks
Sounds like drug dealer drop money
Drug dealers don't like to be holding either money or product, so if they get stopped by the cops they can't be physically tied to anything.
Even on a transfer of cash to the higher level dealer some don't like to hand off the money since if someone is watching it implicates both people. So some dealers will dead drop money where someone else will come pick it up later. Then if that person gets caught with it they can plausibly say "I just found a bundle of cash. I have no idea where it came from....I was going to take it to the local police station but you stopped me."
I used to be an addictions counselor in a prison. Worked with a lot of dealers. Interesting people. Some are REALLY smart and extremely creative, to the point where police who were actively looking for drugs/cash won't find it if they were standing on it. Some are dumber than a bag of lopsided rocks and will dead drop money on a well traveled bike path where it gets easily found.
Either that or posting here that you 'found it' is just part of your cover story....
Yeah maybe. Not sure what it's like where you're from, but down under tradies have a habit of taking "cash in hand" jobs to avoid income tax/gst.
Our older eastern European and south east Asian residents also have a distrust for banking institutions and tend to have money hidden under the mattress (we have a pretty good aged pension).
Also could be ice dealers. A bit of that around of late. Where i found it though was in a gutter in a residential street, just in someones curbside gutter.