Ever seen $200 million in cash?

[BaggedLancer]

Police have found $206 million in cash tied to drug smugglers who imported chemicals used to make methamphetamines. The money was piled inside a mansion in a wealthy Mexico City neighborhood.

1 small box of that money and I could be happy for a while. :D

[audiobliss]

Hey! Who said you could take a pic of my 'storage room' in my second house!

Oh, wait...the cops found it? Oh no...

[SLOCOOKN]

That is sad!....I wonder how many lives have been destroyed to horde that kinda' money... :( :( :(...Every thing from drug abuse..family abuse..theft...murder.. and all the other evils...sad sad sad

[wingnut4772]

" Look what I found Sarge! 206.....er.....205 million dollars!":D

[BaggedLancer]

" Look what I found Sarge! 206.....er.....205 million dollars!":D

Exactly, if I was the officer who found that I can assure you a few million would be missing and no one would notice. ;)

[wingnut4772]

Exactly, if I was the officer who found that I can assure you a few million would be missing and no one would notice. ;)

LOL! I am just joking of course but who here believes that that pile started out as 206 million?...in Mexico?

[BaggedLancer]

LOL! I am just joking of course but who here believes that that pile started out as 206 million?...in Mexico?

maybe 260, but definatley not 206 :D

Looks like that first row is missing quite a bit lol.

[beardog03]

LOL! I am just joking of course but who here believes that that pile started out as 206 million?...in Mexico?

Eggs-Zachery !

[BaggedLancer]

Eggs-Zachery !

I had eggs this morning for breakfast...with hash and toast....yum.:D

[BIZILL]

i would have snagged a minimum of a few hundred thou myself. pull some 'training day' action.

[VR3]

From fast and the furious...

"We aint hungary no mo bra"

[beardog03]

just think of the gear you could get with that pile `o green ..!!

I would buy the ultimate rig and tell `em.."now build a house around this"!!

[Fireman32]

Damm thats somthing to see.

[wingnut4772]

just think of the gear you could get with that pile `o green ..!!

I would buy the ultimate rig and tell `em.."now build a house around this"!!

LOl. That's such an obnoxious commercial. :D

[DarqueKnight]

When I was in Mexico City I wondered why the cops drove such nice cars and lived in really nice houses.:p

That picture would make a great recruitment poster for the Mexico City police department: "Sign up and GET RICH QUICK!":)

[liordra]

When I was in Mexico City I wondered why the cops drove such nice cars and lived in really nice houses.:p

That picture would make a great recruitment poster for the Mexico City police department: "Sign up and GET RICH QUICK!":)

I'd say its a great recruitment for Mexico city drugs business. "IMAGINE HOW MUCH MONEY THE POLICE NEVER FINDS!"

[schwarcw]

I'd say its a great recruitment for Mexico city drugs business. "IMAGINE HOW MUCH MONEY THE POLICE NEVER FINDS!"

This pile of cash was probably more than $1B before the "officials" started taking their cuts!

[DarqueKnight]

Ok, now I understand why members of Mexico's law enforcement, judiciary, and political establishments never migrate north in search of a better life. Thanks for the clarification.;)

[ben62670]

just think of the gear you could get with that pile `o green ..!!

I would buy the ultimate rig and tell `em.."now build a house around this"!!

I'm with you on that one. And I certainly wouldn't be getting my gear from CC:D .

[MSALLA]

If you were the cops who made that raid, would you even report any of it to your bosses?

[Serendipity]

This is really sad. Who knows how many people have been endangered due to that money.

[ND13]

The only thing sad is that ain't in my bank account.

[SLOCOOKN]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,290520,00.html

[WilliamM2]

Must be small bills, that's an awful big pile for 206 million.

[bobman1235]

Must be small bills, that's an awful big pile for 206 million.

It is? How do you know this?

I would assume when you see those bundles groups of 100 dollar bills they're in bundles of 100, or 10,000 dollars, right?

It would take 20,000 of those bundles to make 206 million dollars.

From that picture, let's say it's nine rows deep and 33 rows wide, which means there's 297 piles.

20000 bundles in 297 piles would be 67 bundles per pile. Even if a bundle is only an inch, that's over five feet per pile.

Seems reasonable to assume those are all hundreds.

[BaggedLancer]

It is? How do you know this?

I would assume when you see those bundles groups of 100 dollar bills they're in bundles of 100, or 10,000 dollars, right?

It would take 20,000 of those bundles to make 206 million dollars.

From that picture, let's say it's nine rows deep and 33 rows wide, which means there's 297 piles.

20000 bundles in 297 piles would be 67 bundles per pile. Even if a bundle is only an inch, that's over five feet per pile.

Seems reasonable to assume those are all hundreds.

wtf....the fact that you even spent the time to figure that out.......

Nice math skillz tho :D

[bobman1235]

Well, I was curious :)

It seemed like an absurdly large stack to me too, so a little counting and dividing later and now we all know :

[polktiger]

Looking at the picture, those tiles are about 12 x 12; a US bill is just over 2.5 inches wide.

That is a big stack of money. Also bands of 100 bills or $10,000 in 100s is closer to half an inch i think. So 2.5 feet high instead of 5 feet high makes more sense given the hight of the stacks relative to the size of the tiles.

[WilliamM2]

It seemed like an absurdly large stack to me too, so a little counting and dividing later and now we all know :

You are right. I thought it was huge, and calculated it out as you did, but I dropped a zero!:o