Baking Soda in a Safe Deposit Box!

I recently started storing a ziplock bag full of baking soda with the word "Cocaine" marked on the bag in marker.

Several recent news stories of various banks stealing safe deposit box contents to auction them have scared me. The banks make no effort to find the owners of the box as its in their best interest to not to. Many of us store thousands of dollars of cash in safe deposit boxes as well as gold bullion. It would be financially devastating to find my box drilled and raped by the bank.

If they open my box and find a potentially illegal substance, it will spark a criminal investigation. The FBI will find me, and return my items as part of their investigation. It will also keep the box free of unpleasant odors.

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Lol, That's Awesome!

That's actually a somewhat clever idea, but you might want to have a bit of a chat with a lawyer first. You might be charged with something like distribution of a fake controlled substance. It's very unlikely, but do you really want to find out the hard way that this was a bad idea?

Great idea, unless the person who pops it to steal your money just takes the bag as well!

Why bother labeling it? You don't think the cops will bother testing it (and realizing it ain't cocaine) eihter way?

Ok...

You take a can of old school shaving cream and freeze it...
When frozen, take out and cut top off...
Place in someone's trunk or drawer in office...
Shaving cream thaws and well you can imagine...

I'm just sayin...

Ok what if the guy who busts into your deposit box is a coke head, decides to snort or worse inject himself with the baking soda, gets himself in some medical problem, and then the ambulance chasers will be lining up to sue you on behalf of the "grief-stricken" family

PS: I love your idea though, green from me!!

if they see gold and lotsa cash, will they not throw away your "coke" and get on with selling your stuff?

what if the bank tries to sell your "COKE" around the street corner?

p.s. name it talcum or all purpose flour....that will make it more suspicious than naming it 'cocaine'. naming it cocaine will be a giveaway.

Green for the laughs

newbietx said: Ok what if the guy who busts into your deposit box is a coke head, decides to snort or worse inject himself with the baking soda, gets himself in some medical problem, and then the ambulance chasers will be lining up to sue you on behalf of the "grief-stricken" family

PS: I love your idea though, green from me!!

Beckles said: Also, if the bank was "stealing" your safety deposit box, why would they call the cops if they find something illegal in there?

In fact, they might call *you* instead to blackmail/extort you (not knowing it's not cocaine).

write on it "NOT Cocaine - DO NOT STEAL"

What about have play dough, wires, a watch, and a radio with a red button painted on?

cowboyBill said: jlbmw2002 said: What about have play dough, wires, a watch, and a radio with a red button painted on?

Great. The bomb squad will just blow up the box including all your valuables.

Put your cash and gold in a mini fireproof box within the safe deposit box with the play-dough bomb on top. When bomb squad blows it, it will make the news so you will know about it right away. Your valuables will be secure in the fireproof box. After the forensic residue comes back as negative for explosives, you will get your fire box returned to you from the evidence locker.

If they try to charge you with terrorism, then claim that the play-dough bomb was a gift made for you by a child you cared for as part of the Big Brother program who died of cancer and its the last thing you have to remember him by, and that it was never meant to be used for terrorist purposes, and in fact the only person authorized to open the box was you, and the bank illegally entered it after failing to attempt to contact me.

Brilliant op.

jmackdaddy said: Do you have links to these stories about banks stealing from customers?

The link is already here. Its the button labeled 'search'

FrugalGuy1 said: That is the great thing about cocain. You always know it is cocain because it is labeled as such. I hate when my coke dealer gives me an unlabeled bag. I always write "COCAIN" with a sharpie so I don't forget when I pull it out of my safe deposit box 8 weeks later.For some reason, when you put that misspelling in large CAPS, I see "McCain"

That sounds like it would cost more than having a Safe Deposit Box...

So do I put this bag of baking soda on top of my bag of cocaine?

jmackdaddy said: Do you have links to these stories about banks stealing from customers?

California: 1 year
Video of the above report
Wisconsin: 1-5 years

This guy got busted with drugs in his safe deposit box but they found the drugs with a search warrant, not when his box went unclaimed.

tripleB said: cowboyBill said: jlbmw2002 said: What about have play dough, wires, a watch, and a radio with a red button painted on?

Great. The bomb squad will just blow up the box including all your valuables.

Put your cash and gold in a mini fireproof box within the safe deposit box with the play-dough bomb on top. When bomb squad blows it, it will make the news so you will know about it right away. Your valuables will be secure in the fireproof box. After the forensic residue comes back as negative for explosives, you will get your fire box returned to you from the evidence locker.

If they try to charge you with terrorism, then claim that the play-dough bomb was a gift made for you by a child you cared for as part of the Big Brother program who died of cancer and its the last thing you have to remember him by, and that it was never meant to be used for terrorist purposes, and in fact the only person authorized to open the box was you, and the bank illegally entered it after failing to attempt to contact me.

of course, then sue the police and bank for ruining your last memory of the dead kid... which is of course worth tens of millions of dollars.

They are just going to try snorting it and get pissed off when they find out its not coke.