Trunk myths

[mrerick]

I used to help support banking operations in Chicago. One of the people I worked with at the bank had a side business of cleaning out houses after an estate had taken all the valuables they wanted.

He used to hire high school students for the physical labor. The deal was that he got a fee and anything he removed from the homes.

On one job, his worker told him that there was a bag of tire chains out in the garage that was heavy... When he finally got around to checking it out, he found that he was the proud owner of about 5,000 silver dimes...

Ka Ching...

The only better story was one of my students'. He bought a recently built home, becoming the second owner after the one that had it built passed away just a year after moving in. About a year after they bought the house, they were doing a thorough cleaning of the kitchen, and found an absolutely brand new unfired M1991 Colt pistol on top of one of the kitchen cabinets.

He took his CCH class, and earned his permit which allowed him to lawfully transfer the handgun to his possession (sheriff permits are required in North Carolina).

Not in a trunk, but almost as good.