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    What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    Mystery money in Japan appears in mailboxes, falls from sky

    by Miwa Suzuki Sun Jul 29, 6:32 PM ET

    TOKYO (AFP) - A mystery gripping Japan over anonymous cash gifts has taken a new twist. For those who want the next batch of giveaways, the place to look is in their mailboxes -- or even right at their feet.
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    Residents of a Tokyo apartment building are baffled after a total of 1.81 million yen (15,210 dollars) was found in 18 mailboxes by Saturday, a police spokesman said.

    "The money was in identical plain envelopes, which were unsealed and carried no names or messages," the spokesman told AFP.

    But residents became "spooked" rather than pleased with the anonymous gifts -- and were too upright to pocket the money secretly.

    "Some people initially suspected they were fake bills. When they realised the bills were real, they reported them to us," the spokesman said.

    The predominantly middle-class apartment building in Tokyo is not alone. An envelope with one million yen was left in the mailbox of a 31-year-old woman in the western city of Kobe on Wednesday.

    Police admit they have no idea who is leaving the cash -- whether a few people are behind the bizarre giveaways or if Japan is witnessing a craze of copycat benevolence.

    Since June, dozens of city halls and other public buildings across the country have reported finding neatly packaged envelopes full of cash in men's restrooms.

    The bathroom money has come with identical letters asking people to do good deeds -- leading to speculation that the benefactor may be a public servant trying to cheer up his profession or perhaps a member of a new-age religion.

    Japanese cash dropoffs are not always so neat.

    On Wednesday, bills worth 960,000 yen were inexplicably seen "falling" in front of a convenience store.

    "We can just say the money came from the skies," a puzzled police official said. "There were other passers-by outside and customers in the store but the incident caused no confusion," he said.

    "People thought it was too eerie to touch."

    A man who contacted police saying his daughter had dropped the money had his claim rejected as groundless, the official said.

    The largest single dropoff so far was in the ancient city of Kyoto on July 23, astonishing a 67-year-old woman who found an envelope containing 10 million yen of stacked bills in her mailbox.

    But mystery money does not always reach police intact.

    A woman walking on a bridge over Tokyo's Sumida River told officers that she saw bills falling at her feet from an elevated expressway above on July 6.

    She believes 30 to 40 notes fell but police managed to collect only six notes worth 46,000 yen by the time they arrived.

    "Some people were picking the money up on the bridge," the Tokyo Shimbun quoted the woman as saying.

    No one can say if more people have collected money and not told police.

    Media tallies suggest more than four million yen, including some found last year, has been found in the public restrooms.

    Dutifully, police are holding most of the money in case the rightful owner eventually decides to reveal their identity.
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    Strange but commendable morals

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    But residents became "spooked" rather than pleased with the anonymous gifts -- and were too upright to pocket the money secretly.
    I thought that said "too uptight" at first.

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    I still think it says "too uptight."

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    Now, I might have reported it if I got an envelope, but money falling from the sky is fair game.

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    atm I'd buy a plane ticket if money fell from the sky...

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    Id keep it. :D

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    Quote Originally Posted by Intense
    Id keep it. :D

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    Fuck the rest of yous. I'm going to buy bitches.

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    Sony bribing people to buy a PS3?

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    I'd do two chicks at the same time.

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    I'd donate it. I pretty much have the shit I need already.

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    id say i yeah im going to have to keep and and buy something nice

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    Quote Originally Posted by dabis
    I'd do two chicks at the same time.
    Good answer.

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    In my city (Houston) there was recently a case where two guys driving down the road found a box with $100,000 cash in it. They returned it, turned out it had fallen out of an armored car.

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    Quote Originally Posted by divisortheory
    In my city (Houston) there was recently a case where two guys driving down the road found a box with $100,000 cash in it. They returned it, turned out it had fallen out of an armored car.
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    Money from the sky? I would definitely snatch and run. Money is money is free motherfucking money.

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    I think you're saying that the cases are not comparable since finding it on the street is not the same as it falling from the sky? Seems the same to me, in either case it was money out of nowhere with no possible knowledge of who the owner might be. They just turned it into police, turns out a bank had filed with the poliec that $100,000 had been lost/stolen from one of their trucks.

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    No, I think they're comparable. I'm "facepalming" the fact that someone turned in $100,000 that they FOUND ON THE STREET.

    But that raises the question in my mind of how easy it was to open a case that fell from an armored fucking car.

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    Quote Originally Posted by -Omni
    No, I think they're comparable. I'm "facepalming" the fact that someone turned in $100,000 that they FOUND ON THE STREET.

    But that raises the question in my mind of how easy it was to open a case that fell from an armored fucking car.
    Good question, lol. But perhaps driving 70mph and it falling out and rolling along the side of the street damaged it sufficiently to where it was either already partially open, or not that hard. I mean a lot of the stuff in armored car are just moneybags that you could open with a pocket knife. So it probably wasn't that secure.

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    If they forgot to close the doors on the armored truck, maybe they forgot to lock the box, too.

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    Re: What would you do if money fell from the sky?

    I'd do a barrel roll

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