It’s been interesting listening to all the rumour and speculation about the “runaway squillionaires,” especially answers the questions what you would do if you found yourself the windfall winner of a ten-million dollar bank error in your favour.
Which reminded me of an old architect’s joke.
Q: What would you do if you won a million dollars?
A: I’d keep practicing architecture until it was all gone.
[Insert laugh track here.]
So what would you do?
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Reminds me of Richard Branson's comment that the easiest way to become a millionaire was to be a billionaire and then get into the airline industry.
A million New Zealand dollars? Put a deposit on a flat in London - yep, you are talking bugger all money really.
I would immediately give it back ..(and think those saying they would trouser millions of dollars of stolen money and do a runner should be ashamed of themselves)
give it back, because i am a goody-good.
Look who's talking? Elijah, have you paid the money that you promised DenMT ?
Well, it happened to me once, and I did give it back.
(Was a good deal less than 10 million -- $9,920,000 less, in fact -- but 10 mil wouldn't be worth the trouble...libertyscott's right)
This is not monopoly. It isn't yours.
I'd put it in a high interest deposit account for a few weeks, I think I can stall the Bank that long, give the money back and keep the interest.
I'd get a bionic arm and x-ray vision.
wv = depant. yep, that's what the xray vision is for.
There is an 'Undue Enrichment' clause with Bank accounts I'm afraid - so you cannot claim interest on it. Lineberry is right. It's stolen money -- ie theft.
Whoa!! Ruth is in agreement with this liar Elijah Lineberry?????
and think those saying they would trouser millions of dollars of stolen money and do a runner should be ashamed of themselvesThis is not monopoly. It isn't yours.Thing is, it isn't anybody else's, either, so I can't see my way to pretending it's "stolen". Stolen from whom, exactly?
The only problem I have with the idea of legging it, really, is that you'll spend the rest of your life on the run, so there'd have to be a lot more money involved before I'd consider it worthwhile. For 100 million, maybe...if I could figure a way to get that much out of the banking system without raising any alarms. [Could probably keep most of that intact...with only 3.8 mil or whatever it was these guys ran off with, they'll probably only clear 10-15 cents on the dollar in the end anyway (unless they spend it all fast). Seriously not worth it]
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