Funny Money - Money Stories That Make You Scratch Your Head

[jeffrey]

Funny, weird, strange, peculiar or any other money stories you have come across can go here. One to start things off:

I'm not sure if he was smart or not? Story Here

Milwaukee police say a bank robber had a change of heart and returned to the bank he had just held up -- to return the money. But police were already at the bank, investigating the robbery.

Deputy Chief Brian O’Keefe says the alleged robber returned to ask if he could give the money back.

He banged on a window, and a teller tried to tell him the bank was closed. Then another employee recognized him as the man who had just held her up.

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Better late than never

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Stealing Clams - literally: Story Here

Two men were charged with grand theft Friday for allegedly stealing more than $41,000 worth of clams from an aquaculture farm in Cedar Key, officials said.

James Wesley Rains Jr., 22, and Samuel Garrett Rains, 21, both of Cedar Key, were arrested and booked into the Levy County Jail after a two-month investigation, said Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles Bronson.

The Rains also were charged with tampering with a witness and trespassing...

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I shalt not steal - Story Here (photo too)

A woman who stole $4.52 worth of fuel was ordered to stand outside the gas station Friday wearing a sandwich board sign that declared: "I was caught stealing gas."

Sherelle Purnell obeyed the court order, although by the time she arrived 90 minutes late to her noon sentence, the crowd of people that gathered to watch her had dispersed.

"There were parents who came with their children, wanting to teach them a lesson," said Jan Phipps, manager of Gordy's Tiger Mart, which pushed for the unorthodox punishment.

Purnell, 18, who was caught on surveillance tape speeding away from the gas pump, walked along the convenience shop's grassy storefront as passing drivers honked horns and made catcalls...

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Some People Have Money To throw Away - Story Here

City officials in Columbus, Ga., had to launder some money after a backhoe operator found $46,000 while moving garbage at a landfill.

They tried to clean the grody greenbacks so the money could be deposited in a bank.

But after the police were notified, police Lt. Gil Slouchick said the money was counted and stored at the Columbus Police Department.

Police said they were not immediately able to determine where the money came from, but that after 90 days it will become abandoned property and the city may be eligible to claim it...

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Cold-Blooded Thieves - Story Here

Thieves broke into the Lowcountry Reptile and Amphibian Expo in Ladson over the weekend and got away with loads of slithering and shelled creatures.

They made off with up to $40,000 in cold-blooded animals, including a couple of tri-colored hognose snakes, two albino Burmese pythons and four baby western pond tortoises worth $300 each.

"I'm thinking these people knew something about turtles," said George Ullman, owner of Turtle World in Arcadia, Fla.. He said thieves robbed him and his wife of as many as 60 turtles, including four hatchling pancake turtles that sell for $450 each. Ullman estimated his stolen turtles were worth at least $11,000...

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They Cost More Than They Are Worth - Story Here

Japanese police have been scratching their heads in bewilderment over the country's latest counterfeiting trend -- fake bills that cost more to make than their face value.

Experts estimate that it cost 1,000 yen ($9.10) to make each of the more than 400 bogus 1,000 yen notes that have turned up in vending machines in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, suggesting profit was not the motive, the Asahi newspaper's English-language edition reported Tuesday...

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Squirrel Colony With $50,000 Ring - Story Here

Treasure hunters have been warned to stay away from a colony of red squirrels after the Sun reported the rare creatures' nature reserve may be hiding a 25,000 pound engagement ring.

The diamond and platinum ring was thrown into the Formby Point nature reserve near Liverpool by the fiancee of 18-year old soccer star Wayne Rooney after a row, the tabloid said...

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Large Women, Small Clothes - Story Here

South African police are hunting a gang of large women thieves who raid stores, threatening staff with knives, and steal mostly small size clothing, a spokesman says.

"When they enter the store they do so in a large group and they intimidate the staff," Inspector Michael Read told Reuters on Tuesday from the port city of Durban where police believe they have arrested most of the gang of 10 to 15 women...

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And Your Thought City Parking Rates Were Bad? - Story Here

A South African woman mistakenly plunked a 100-year-old gold coin worth more than $1,000 into a parking meter while shopping without her glasses, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
"I can't believe I could have done something like that," said the woman, who asked not to be identified.

The woman said she also believed she had spent an 1890 sovereign, worth a small fortune, as small change, the Cape Argus newspaper said.

The woman inherited the gold coins from her mother, but they became mixed up with loose coins she kept in a container and were transferred to her purse by mistake...