Safes, Cash Wash Up On Japan Shores After Tsunami

Safes, Cash Wash Up On Japan Shores After Tsunami

news.yahoo.com

OFUNATO, Japan – There are no cars inside the parking garage at Ofunato police headquarters.

Instead, hundreds of dented metal safes, swept out of homes and businesses by last month's tsunami, crowd the long rectangular building.

Any one could hold someone's life savings.

Safes are washing up along the tsunami-battered coast, and police are trying to find their owners — a unique problem in a country where many people, especially the elderly, still stash their cash at home.

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After a tsunami hits I expect a few things.

1) Walls of water coming crashing down on the mainland.

2) Dead bodies floating up onto other countries coastlines.

3) Billions of dollars worth of damage.

But money boxes?

Nope, never thought of that.

Guess I should have looked for work with the relief effort?

This is interesting to say the least/

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The best part about this story is people who are truly in devastation are still handing this money into the authorities... it tugs on the heart strings, if I or my family were in their position, I can't promise I would of been as honest.

TEPCO will probably tell the cops over there to impound them and they will eventually open them and use the money for their cleanup...TEPCO always stays one step ahead of the sheeple....Kind of like BP....

How do safes float???
I use to install them, they don't float.

reply to post by ChildoftheAnnunaki


Your not Japanese obviously

reply to post by Soldier of God


Did you actually try to float one then?

Originally posted by Soldier of God
How do safes float???
I use to install them, they don't float.

edit on 10-4-2011 by Soldier of God because: (no reason given)

Cars don't exactly "float" either..
Yet they still manage to "wash up".

Things don't need to "float" to "wash up".
(do seashells float?) Nope.

Also..
How would you know?

Did you ever attempt to drop one into a pool or lake?

Originally posted by ChildoftheAnnunaki
The best part about this story is people who are truly in devastation are still handing this money into the authorities... it tugs on the heart strings, if I or my family were in their position, I can't promise I would of been as honest.

I agree.

It shows honesty in the face of adversity.

Meanwhile, people are missing those safes, are those people honest or criminals?

Asia has always fascinated me and I've always wanted to go to Japan.

But not during the aftermath of a tsunami unless I am a relief worker.

Originally posted by Caji316
TEPCO will probably tell the cops over there to impound them and they will eventually open them and use the money for their cleanup...TEPCO always stays one step ahead of the sheeple....Kind of like BP....

I've never heard of TEPCO.

If it is anything like BP Plc I hate them already.

Enough said I guess on that due to the criminal malfeasance of BP Plc.

Originally posted by Soldier of God
How do safes float???
I use to install them, they don't float.

edit on 10-4-2011 by Soldier of God because: (no reason given)

I am sensing these safes are not standard metal safes.

More than likely they are hermetically sealed.

You do know certain things float no matter the weight if sealed properly right?

Concrete floats with certain mixtures.

How long did you install them for?

A year?

5 years?

10, 20, or 30 years?

Anything can float if the circumstances are right.

reply to post by Ahmose


I'm laughing pretty hard over here.

See my reply about hermetically sealed items floating.

Not to mention airpockets making buoyancy less of an issue.

Originally posted by Soldier of God
How do safes float???
I use to install them, they don't float.

edit on 10-4-2011 by Soldier of God because: (no reason given)

I am sure that job was a real brain teaser

Originally posted by tempesillest

Originally posted by Soldier of God
How do safes float???
I use to install them, they don't float.

edit on 10-4-2011 by Soldier of God because: (no reason given)

I am sure that job was a real brain teaser

And then some.

Installing safes is nothing compared to re-setting the inner locks.

Of course this is complex and much more information is coming in all the time.

Some fire safes do float nicely.
Some use foamed glass as a insulator.

Anyone know when the tsunami debris will start washing up on the US west coast.

The other day i heard a comment that over 1 million tons of plastic will be added to the pacific garbage patch from just this one Tsunami.

Plus they expect full homes, refrigerators and other idems may wash up on the US west coast

Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
reply to post by Ahmose

 

I'm laughing pretty hard over here.

See my reply about hermetically sealed items floating.

Not to mention airpockets making buoyancy less of an issue.

haha!
Good! So we both got a laugh!

and now I think about it,
you are absolutely right!

Plus they expect full homes, refrigerators and other idems may wash up on the US west coast

wow, that's crazy!
Imagine that..
go to bed looking at the coast and shoreline...
wake up staring at an entire home sitting there in the morning!

Moral character shows strongest when you want to abandon it. The Japanese have far stronger moral character and personal integrity than most of us barbarians in the USA. Returning a money box back to the proper owner reflects a few core character traits. The basic six are:

Trustworthiness
Respect
Responsibility
Fairness
Caring
Citizenship

I wish our leadership would display traits of responsibility instead of short-sightedness. We're broke from over-borrowing, so far the plan is to borrow more to keep on top of our mounting debts.

Wow, their keeping them for their owners. Here in America they'd have to send an army down to defend them. Shows the discipline of Japan.

Heres a link to the same story, but with a picture of the safes.

Solid. Metal. Possibly airtight.

Huffington Post

While thousands of Japanese homes were wrecked in the earthquake and tsunami, the metal safes in some of them are turning up in the rubble. Japanese police have been storing the safes and accepting money found in bags, boxes and furniture turned in by honest citizens. Some of the loot may never be returned to its rightful owners in a society known for stashing cash in your house rather than relying on banks. Stashing cash at home backfires in Japan tsunami zone, as the oceans receded from the tsunami triggered by the Japan earthquake. Countless metal safes washed from ruined houses were deposited at random in the clutter. Japanese police have been storing the safes and accepting money discovered in bags, boxes and furniture turned in by honest citizens. The drawbacks to hoarding cash in your house have been made clear as a great deal of the lost money might be extremely hard to return. These individuals might now be forced to take out unsecured loans due to the money they lost.