Japanese Toilet Money
Posted on 14. Jul, 2007 @ 8:55 pm by harvey in Humor
Japanese Toilet Money…
I thought that was an appropriate post title…
Someone is hiding money in toilets in the men’s rooms of city hall around Japan.
In true Japan spririt, get this.
Despite the fact that we’re talking about cash here… And the money has letters accompanying it instructing the lucky joe who finds it to, “Please make use of this money for your self-enrichment,” The Yahoo News article ends with this sentence.
“Packages turned over to police were to be kept for a time in case someone claimed them.”
Turned into the who?
Now… Don’t get me wrong. I’m a nice person. However, if I came across one of those envelopes, I really don’t think I would be brining it to the police station. Wait… Let me think… Nah. I wouldn’t.
Now, if only someone would return the chunk of gold that was stolen a while back…
Speaking of toilets, here’s a trip from JapanNewbie past and the gorgeous toilets post.
- Harvey
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Jul 14th, 2007
at 21:57
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Alex
Jul 15th, 2007
at 11:33
The horror of it all! The money-giver strikes again!
You’ve got to love the people who turn the cash into the police. It really makes you confident that if you lost your camera on the yamanote train, you’d actually get it back.
Joe
Jul 15th, 2007
at 20:21
Your cynicism disappoints me Harvey. I found a 500 yen coin once, and promptly turned it in to the nearest koban. Nobody ever came to claim it, so 2 1/2 months later I took my copy of the report and went to the police station and got the money legit.
Not only that, it was the exact same 500 yen coin that I turned in! Or at least, a similar looking coin of the same year of mintage.
Billy
Jul 16th, 2007
at 14:39
I lost three hundred dollars in Bic Cammera and had it promptly returned with a complimentary “I am so very humbly sorry for this inconvenience.” I love this country.
harvey
Jul 16th, 2007
at 23:15
Huh lost 300 bucks in cash, how did they find you to return it? That’s incredible! This place is nuts!
I mean, this place is very very nice!
Godzilla
Jul 20th, 2007
at 13:47
I lost a six month teiki with nearly five months time left on it once. Was worth over 50,000 yen. A day after I lost it, a JR official called me to tell me someone had found it and turned it in. Now I know why they make you enter your phone number when you create it…