I saw this on Yahoo 2day and thought id post it here for laughs.

by Miwa Suzuki Sat Jul 28, 10:34 PM ET

TOKYO (AFP) - A mystery gripping Japan over anonymous cash gifts has taken a new twist. For those who want the next batch of giveaways, the place to look is in their mailboxes -- or even right at their feet.

Residents of a Tokyo apartment building are baffled after a total of 1.81 million yen (15,210 dollars) was found in 18 mailboxes by Saturday, a police spokesman said.

"The money was in identical plain envelopes, which were unsealed and carried no names or messages," the spokesman told AFP.

But residents became "spooked" rather than pleased with the anonymous gifts -- and were too upright to pocket the money secretly.

"Some people initially suspected they were fake bills. When they realised the bills were real, they reported them to us," the spokesman said.

The predominantly middle-class apartment building in Tokyo is not alone. An envelope with one million yen was left in the mailbox of a 31-year-old woman in the western city of Kobe on Wednesday.

Police admit they have no idea who is leaving the cash -- whether a few people are behind the bizarre giveaways or if Japan is witnessing a craze of copycat benevolence.

Since June, dozens of city halls and other public buildings across the country have reported finding neatly packaged envelopes full of cash in men's restrooms.

The bathroom money has come with identical letters asking people to do good deeds -- leading to speculation that the benefactor may be a public servant trying to cheer up his profession or perhaps a member of a new-age religion.

Japanese cash dropoffs are not always so neat.

On Wednesday, bills worth 960,000 yen were inexplicably seen "falling" in front of a convenience store.

"We can just say the money came from the skies," a puzzled police official said. "There were other passers-by outside and customers in the store but the incident caused no confusion," he said.

"People thought it was too eerie to touch."

A man who contacted police saying his daughter had dropped the money had his claim rejected as groundless, the official said.

The largest single dropoff so far was in the ancient city of Kyoto on July 23, astonishing a 67-year-old woman who found an envelope containing 10 million yen of stacked bills in her mailbox.

But mystery money does not always reach police intact.

A woman walking on a bridge over Tokyo's Sumida River told officers that she saw bills falling at her feet from an elevated expressway above on July 6.

She believes 30 to 40 notes fell but police managed to collect only six notes worth 46,000 yen by the time they arrived.

"Some people were picking the money up on the bridge," the Tokyo Shimbun quoted the woman as saying.

No one can say if more people have collected money and not told police.

Media tallies suggest more than four million yen, including some found last year, has been found in the public restrooms.

Dutifully, police are holding most of the money in case the rightful owner eventually decides to reveal their identity.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070729/od_afp/lifestylejapancharitymysteryoffbeat

Whats your guys take on this ?? I mean anyone think some of this money is laced with some toxic chemical just not all of it so that its harder to notice??

If that happened to me, I would poop my pants and pay off my car. In that order.

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well wouldn't that make for a nice day. Id def be weirded out massively tho

I would probably have the money tested for any toxins who knows it could be terrorists
trying to spread some kind disease like Anthrax or something the money could be laced. And if the money is clean i would probably buy some stock and make my fortune in the stock market.

that is often a way to launder money. something similar happened to someone i know. he was advised to turn the money in beacuse usually immediatly after the money is spent or otherwise put back into the system the mob comes knocking......

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that is often a way to launder money. something similar happened to someone i know. he was advised to turn the money in beacuse usually immediatly after the money is spent or otherwise put back into the system the mob comes knocking......

S'ok! I got a black shirt with the number "1" on the back. Every mobster knows to watch out for Ichi!

Seriously tho'.....

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yeh but what about the part where the money was falling from the sky and stuff?? mean if there laundering money why would they drop it from the sky and i don't think the mob can keep track of all the money when you look at the amount and at how many places this has happened.

Meh. I mean, ultimately it's your decision whether to keep it or not... but I'm glad that a lot of citizens were like, this isn't my money. I'll turn it in.

If it's some huge sum of money... and you didn't earn it, I think you'd feel bad about spending it. ^_^

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Meh. I mean, ultimately it's your decision whether to keep it or not... but I'm glad that a lot of citizens were like, this isn't my money. I'll turn it in.

If it's some huge sum of money... and you didn't earn it, I think you'd feel bad about spending it. ^_^

You've never been poor have you? I used to eat rice and beans every night for dinner when I was a kid and I wore a lot of my older cousins clothes.

A few years ago I had to sleep in my car and ate out of vending machines for weeks. Free money is spent as far as I'm concerned!

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Argh, man I want that into my box.
Make me rich, so damn rich that I turn corrupted!
Oh yeah, being a saint never pays off.

yah i dokno. i would prolly keep the money without spending it for a while. you know, keep my armour and hatchet blade shoes on. just in case. 😀 after that its mine.

Can't read >_<

I guess that Robin Hood still exists at this time...The money sure is tempting. 🤣

Looking for seijin genre, like: 1+2=Paradise, Manga Bangaichi and Lemon People.

haha, this kinda remind me of Liar Game

What is the liar game? Can we play? Set it up in games forum!!!

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nods Yeah, it does. Too bad there's no video tape and some lame masked man telling you you'll enter a 100 million debt, hahaha

@vinceasuma Liar Game's a manga and has a drama adapted from it.

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