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50,000 stolen from front garden

  • 25-11-2012 9:44am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭


    A MOTHER was tied up and threatened at knife point by thieves who made off with €50,000 hidden in the family's front garden.

    The woman, who was in her 50s, was threatened by two men – one armed with a knife – after she returned to her home in Sutton, north Dublin.

    The men – one described as having a Dublin accent – may have had the house under surveillance for some time as they struck at 8.20am, just after the woman dropped her son at a DART station.

    After tying the woman up, they continued to threaten her, before locating money hidden by a family member in the front garden of the home.

    It is understood the amount of cash stolen was in the region of €50,000.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/raiders-steal-50000-hidden-in-front-garden-3304458.html


    Are people so afraid of lodging money in there banks that there burying it in there garden ? If in this case that is so why did they not bury it in the back garden ? Something strange about this case and it needs a bit more digging into.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    obviously they were trying to grow money trees, duh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    phasers wrote: »
    obviously they were trying to grow money trees, duh
    Obviously like


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,630 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    This sounds like a job for the Garden Siochana


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭SmilingLurker


    On an unrelated topic, I believe that people who evade tax have a tendency to hold a lot of cash.

    Disclaimer: I am not suggesting that these people have been evading tax, I know nothing about them, and they could be legitimate people who really like storing dangerous amounts of cash at home. They could have a legitimate well run business, which is paying all of its tax, and they thought it was safer storing it at home.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    Wait if money doesn't grow on trees then why do banks have branches ????


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    No one no matter how stupid keeps that kind of money buried in their front garden long term. I'd say the money wasn't there very long and the people that robbed her knew from family connections or the woman's son that it was there.

    I don't really have any sympathy for her, it's a ridiculous place to hide money no matter how much it was. If she had that kind of money in her garden then she could well afford a well hidden and secure safe in her house.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭mark renton


    Excellent place to put - who would think to look there?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭Kevwoody


    realies wrote: »


    Are people so afraid of lodging money in there banks that there burying it in there garden ? If in this case that is so why did they not bury it in the back garden ? Something strange about this case and it needs a bit more DIGGING into.



    I see what you did there :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Captain Commie


    realies wrote: »
    Are people so afraid of lodging money in there banks that there burying it in there garden ? If in this case that is so why did they not bury it in the back garden ? Something strange about this case and it needs a bit more digging into.

    I'm not sure, maybe they would keep it in THEIR bank


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    antodeco wrote: »
    This sounds like a job for the Garden Siochana

    Sure does, Special Branch.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭mark renton


    EoghanIRL wrote: »
    Wait if money doesn't grow on trees then why do banks have branches ????
    If banks have branches and trees have leaves, does this mean than money=leaves?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭Kevwoody



    I, not sure, maybe they would keep it in THEIR bank



    WTF?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Captain Commie


    Kevwoody wrote: »
    WTF?

    read what i quoted carefully, then it will make sense


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Daylight shruberry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Laneyh


    realies wrote: »
    A MOTHER was tied up and threatened at knife point by thieves who made off with €50,000 hidden in the family's front garden.

    The woman, who was in her 50s, was threatened by two men – one armed with a knife – after she returned to her home in Sutton, north Dublin.

    The men – one described as having a Dublin accent – may have had the house under surveillance for some time as they struck at 8.20am, just after the woman dropped her son at a DART station.

    After tying the woman up, they continued to threaten her, before locating money hidden by a family member in the front garden of the home.

    It is understood the amount of cash stolen was in the region of €50,000.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/raiders-steal-50000-hidden-in-front-garden-3304458.html


    Are people so afraid of lodging money in there banks that there burying it in there garden ? If in this case that is so why did they not bury it in the back garden ? Something strange about this case and it needs a bit more digging into.

    I think people, especially older people are afraid of keeping money in the banks. With all the coverage of banks going bust and the possibility of the collapse of the euro etc, they've no faith in banks. I know of a woman whose life savings were stolen from her house. She'd mentioned in a very typical conversation about the banks, the economy etc. that she didn't trust the banks. She must have said too much in front of the wrong person and got robbed.

    My own mother can be inclined that way as she is worried about having money in the banks. I hope she doesn't talk about it openly in public and when she takes money out I think she mostly deals in bankers drafts so its not so risky.

    She is also trying to think of ways to impart money to us ( her kids) without it getting taxed.
    I guess if you have it buried and undeclared you can drip feed it to family members whenever you like


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭kodoherty93


    A floor safe that is impossible to break into is only €900. Why would she store it in her front garden.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭Kevwoody



    read what i quoted carefully, then it will make sense


    I did read it and I do understand it!

    What I don't understand is grammar nazis like you!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,591 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    They must have been lawn sharks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Captain Commie


    Kevwoody wrote: »
    I did read it and I do understand it!

    What I don't understand is grammar nazis like you!

    meh, why do i even bother being humorous when muppets like you take it serious, this is AH, lighten up or GTFO!

    mod: banned.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭triple-M


    Laneyh wrote: »
    I think people, especially older people are afraid of keeping money in the banks. With all the coverage of banks going bust and the possibility of the collapse of the euro etc, they've no faith in banks. I know of a woman whose life savings were stolen from her house. She'd mentioned in a very typical conversation about the banks, the economy etc. that she didn't trust the banks. She must have said too much in front of the wrong person and got robbed.

    My own mother can be inclined that way as she is worried about having money in the banks. I hope she doesn't talk about it openly in public and when she takes money out I think she mostly deals in bankers drafts so its not so risky.

    She is also trying to think of ways to impart money to us ( her kids) without it getting taxed.
    I guess if you have it buried and undeclared you can drip feed it to family members whenever you like
    generally speaking when you call someone your mother we can assume that you are one of her kids no need for this ->(her kids)
    ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,169 ✭✭✭rednik


    Lawn enforcement is not what it used to be !!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old



    meh, why do i even bother being humorous when muppets like you take it serious, this is AH, lighten up or GTFO!

    You haven't got a funny bone in your body!!

    Geddit??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    antodeco wrote: »
    This sounds like a job for the Garden Siochana

    Special branch.

    Edit: flippit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    The stupidity! Just as bad as, say, leaving your wallet lying on a table in the library. Begging to be stolen.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭bluecode


    Reading between the lines we can guess that someone in the house deals in cash and this was known to the raiders. They could be a bookie for example or run some other business that handles large amounts of money. Because of this putting the money into the bank isn't always convenient.

    The raiders knew there had to be cash on the premises so whether it be in the garden shed or under the mattress they knew it was there. It wouldn't matter if it was in a safe because a knife to the throat will scare most people into handing it over.

    Actually there is a certain logic to hiding money short term in the garden. If a burgular breaks into the house he's hardly going to go digging in the flowerbeds too. So it's not actually stupid. The robbers clearly had no clue where the money was just that it was there somewhere.

    What a lot of people do in that situation is to split the money into several locations and hand over the smallest amount.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭Kevwoody



    meh, why do i even bother being humorous when muppets like you take it serious, this is AH, lighten up or GTFO!


    Wow I hope comedy is not your day job


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    How can someone have the smarts to accumulate 50 thousand in this climate and then be retarded enough to store it there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,085 ✭✭✭OU812


    This was obviously seed money for a future business, but I doubt the revenue will leaf it alone now, they'll want to make sure the tax was pruned off beforehand.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭JustAddWater


    They must have been lawn sharks.

    It's obvious here that somebody grassed her up...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Maybe it was a hedge fund.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    Laneyh wrote: »
    .....She is also trying to think of ways to impart money to us ( her kids) without it getting taxed.
    I guess if you have it buried and undeclared you can drip feed it to family members whenever you like

    Do a bit of research on prize bonds.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Maybe someone might grass on them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    These guys will be caught, you don't get that sort of green without someone grassing you up


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,630 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    WindSock wrote: »
    Maybe it was a hedge fund.

    Yaaay! You finally got one in :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    antodeco wrote: »
    Yaaay! You finally got one in :D

    Lets celebrate with a jubilant hoe-down!

    *shakes arms and legs*


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,562 ✭✭✭eyescreamcone


    All that was left was an emptyhole in the front garden. Media reports have said that the gardai are looking into it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 936 ✭✭✭st1979


    A floor safe that is impossible to break into is only €900. Why would she store it in her front garden.

    I dont think a safe in the house was going to do much good. The woman was threaten at knife point to reveal the location of the cash. So in reality the hiding place was good its just the owner was forced to hand it over.
    She could of even had it in the bank and if the robbers threaten the family in a tiger style kidnapping she may of withdrew it from the bank


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,630 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    I can never understand when its a claim of X money. 10k may have been stolen, but they just said 50k. I wonder would they be covered by any form of insurance?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    some of the best puns seen in AH for a long time in this thread.

    well played. really cheered me up on this dull Monday morning!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Maybe it was just a sneaky way of getting her garden dug. Fifty grand sounds about fair for that. Although she might have been hoping they didn't find it so she could recover it and plough it into some new investment. Or get a tractor mortgage.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    antodeco wrote: »
    I can never understand when its a claim of X money. 10k may have been stolen, but they just said 50k. I wonder would they be covered by any form of insurance?
    Insurance usually has a limit on cash, up to €500 or something. And wouldn't cover cash buried in the garden.

    I'm going to go with drugs or paramilitaries. The wording of the story is very specific. Some scrote buried 50 grand in his mother's garden to hide it from someone. "Someone" watched him leave, then broke in, threatened his Ma and took his money.
    If they had done it while he was there then he would have known who did it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭WildWater


    WindSock wrote: »
    Maybe it was a hedge fund.

    Or was she just hedging her bets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    WildWater wrote: »
    Or was she just hedging her bets.

    Maybe she shorted it too much and all was revealed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭Laika1986


    Surely the suspects must be gnome to the gardai


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭franktheplank


    This country badly needs some lawn and order.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    WindSock wrote: »
    Maybe it was a hedge fund.

    So it was money lawndering you say? That puts a whole different picture on the economic landscaping.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭franktheplank


    It's obvious here that somebody grassed her up...

    There must've been a mole.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭Laika1986


    There must've been a mole.

    They're weeding them out as we speak


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭Mahou


    ¨Everyone be cool, this is a shrubbery¨


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    EoghanIRL wrote: »
    Wait if money doesn't grow on trees then why do banks have branches ????
    You still haven't cottoned on to what money is made from ?


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