Keep an eye on news headlines for
"Drug deal gone bad: Bank employee shot to death after trying to sell baking soda to drug dealers"

infecto said:Horrible idea. If someone is illegally opening the box or going against bank policy they are not going to report it and more likely to just take the goods and leave the cocaine.

Have you been paying attention at all or just showing up late and then annoying everyone else at the party?

The banks official policy and the state law of many states is 1 year of a person not going to a safe deposit box and then can drill it open. The bank may or may not even have to document that the attempts to contact the owner, which may have been nothing more than fraudulently filling in a log book stating "call attempted 9:14pm no answer"

If the bank is going into the boxes then theres going to be a lot of people and cameras around. Its not a dark alley in the middle of the night. The bank will have to contract out a locksmith to drill into the cylinders. The bank does not pay to have a locksmith on standby in the bank every day.

Do you really think the bank manager will let someone he is subcontracting out in the safe deposit room unsupervised? So now the bank manager, any other employees that happen to be around, and whoever is running the security cameras would have to all decide to trust the locksmith to not tell anyone about the cash, split it up equally, destroy the video camera records and keep it a secret?

Or do you think they would see the suspiscious bag, say "oh crap, dont touch it, its going to be evidence, call the police" and then the poice come, ask who the box holder is, run them through DMV, make contact and field test the white powder with a chemical reagent test, clear the person, and then give the person their stuff back.

If they really tried to get you for "distribution of a fake narcotic substance", I find it highly unlikely that a jury of my peers would convict someone with no criminal record, for having a bag of baking soda in a safe deposit box who is going on the record stating, "Well I was scared the bank would steal my stuff like I saw on the news so I put this bag of white powder in there to make sure they really investigated to find the owner instead of just auctioning off the stuff for profit."

Writing the word "Cocaine" on the bag was mostly a joke to catch people's attention on the initial post. The concept is very real, cheap and simple to implement, even if it only provides minor real world gain and I plan on implementing it if only as a placebo to help me sleep safer thinking theres another layer of protection for my safe deposit box.

Will go well with the bag full of hookers already in my safe deposit box!

I went into this thread with the boring idea that people had problems with money rotting or stinking away.... so they put baking soda in the box! Instead I got 5 minutes of pure humor and ROTFLMAO... thanks OP

I "lost" a finger due to an industrail accident....

The doctors wanted to throw it away as hazardous medical waste.... but I sued them and won. So I got my finger back.

It is now enclosed in Lucite.

I wrapped it in a pair of RED panties, and put a note on it that said "PERSONAL: Trophies!!", and put it into my safe deposit box.

Can I get into trouble if they search my SD box???

*J/K....*

This thread just reminded me of my favorite cocaine event on TV.

markwm said:jmackdaddy said:Do you have links to these stories about banks stealing from customers?California: 1 yearSounds just like SS, Medicare, and the socialized health care that is coming with the exception that safe deposit box seizures happen only to a very few people.

tripleB said: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.

It is just you. I prefer to store my thousands of dollars of cash in my interest bearing account.

fboyfboy said:tripleB said: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.

It is just you. I prefer to store my thousands of dollars of cash in my interest bearing account.

Many rich or people involved in fraud, stealing, drugs, or anything illegal keep cash in a safety deposit box in case something bad happens and their accounts are frozen or they need to flee from the government and not access any accounts.

timothy86 said:Many rich or people involved in fraud, stealing, drugs, or anything illegal keep cash in a safety deposit box in case something bad happens and their accounts are frozen or they need to flee from the government and not access any accounts.

When I lived overseas, we kept about $8k around in cash just in case. It would have been enough to buy two full fare coach tickets out of the country and a couple of hotel nights in case the flights were > $4k/ticket. When you're in the third world, it never hurts to be prepared. Now that we're back here we don't bother.

I'm sure there are lots of people here that have cash hanging around "just in case," though you should really keep the cash/etc with your guns, because there's not a lot of guarantee that you'll be able to get to your bank if the "just in case" event occurs. YMMV.