How would you spend £40 million?

[Bruce Wayne]

This week saw the largest bank robbery Britain has seen in many years with the looters running off with £40 million. The tricky thing now is to spend that money without getting caught.

How would you spend it?

[PrincessPerky]

err I couldn't even come up with a way to spend 1million....

[Ima saver]

I wouldn't spend it, I would save it. Wow, that would be lots of different accounts.

I would spend every last dime of it. The money is hot, after all.

[Lostsoul33]

I'm with you Ima, I would save it too.

[jmjj215]

Where you put it to save it? The avg bank robbery take-away is $3k. These guys must have been pretty good.

[Ima saver]

I would spend my days opening up savings accounts!! That would be fun to keep track of.

how do you respond when the teller asks why you have a suitcase full of sequentially marked bills?

[Ima saver]

I live in Georg1a. I took some dollar coins in, and the teller thought they were funny quarters. When I talked to one of the bank managers about mutual funds, she had never heard of them. suitcase with bills, no problem!

[Snoopy2645]

ya you hardly see those $1 coins anymore I remember my grandma had tons of those.

Well I have a feeling these guys will get caught before they get a chance to spend it at least I sure hope they get caught.

[zakity]

Well, if they work their normal jobs and just use little bits of the money at a time, no one would notice. You pull the money out and unsequence it. You don't run out and buy a new car, you start sending in a little extra on the payment that you have now. You go out to eat a little more often (like maybe once or twice more a month). You put a little in the bank each month (like $50 to $100), something that someone could save in a month. You take a nice vacation every few years, but not too flashy.

[PrincessPerky]

If you are the sensible type, or you could pack up for a little country and buy it!

hmm I would like to buy a country, write out a nice libertarian constitution, open up some schools, that would be fun!

[Ima saver]

It might be nice to buy your own little Island.

[Lostsoul33]

An island would be so cool!

[Duchess37]

There are plenty of ways to "launder" money here in the US, and I would imagine it would work the same in the UK.

Open up a few small accounts in different banks (not branches, but banks). The IRS would not notice them as long as they are kept to a small amount and each bank doesn't know about the others.

Loan money to friends and have them loan it to you. You can always use that as an answer when someone asks how you got that new car. Of course they are loaning each other stolen money, but who else knows?

Buy real estate. If you buy small amounts and put it in different family member's names (wife and children, for example), it may never blip on someone's radar.\

Just a few thoughts and no, I won't tell you where I learned about this!!

[akaivyleaf]

put away for my legal defense. Has to be a crooked lawyer about who would successfully win my case and be willing to be paid in hot money.

Sharon