Best Buy Employees Find $10,000 Hidden In Computer Tower

By cwalters May 28, 2009

A man in St. Louis dropped off his computer for repair at the area Best Buy, but apparently forgot that he was also using it as a bank. “Employees at a Best Buy store in South County discovered about $10,000 cash inside,” writes the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

According to the article, the employees called the police, “who ran a background check on the owner and checked the serial numbers on the bills stashed inside the tower.” Nothing suspicious turned up, so they returned the money.

What kind of person stashes his savings in his computer tower and then forgets about it? The same kind who takes his computer to Best Buy for repair. Hooray! We were wondering how to spin this into something snarky and we managed to do it!

Pete, who sent us the tip, notes that there’s an important lesson here: “Before you take your computer in for repairs, please remove your money.”

“Best Buy employees find cash inside computer” [St. Louis Post Dispatch]
(Photos: karindalziel, AMagill)

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  1. banmojo says:
    May 29, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    A friend of mine once taught English in S Korea for a couple of years. He saved up a good sum of money, and on the day he was scheduled to leave to return to the states, on the way to the airport, carrying 4 bags, he accidentally left his knapsack on the metro, containing 25,000 usd in traveller’s checks, his passport, camera, and airplane tickets. 9 hours and 3 cans of maalox later a police office paged his Korean buddy, whose # they found in the address book in the bag – some high school girl had found the bag and had taken it immediately to the police station. He got back everything, minus a few pictures the cops took of themselves (which he treasures actually). True story. And he’s not a lame brain – people get distracted and can forget nearly anything!!

  2. GeekSquadagent says:
    May 29, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    1. The computer was incredibly old, heavy, and a double stack tower. Not likely to be a theft item if someone were to break into his house.
    2. The computer hadn’t been powered on in years. Therefore wasn’t a fire hazard.
    3. The employees there were by themselves.. where there is no cameras, or customers to prove that they discovered the money. This should prove major ethics!
    4. The customer had no way to prove that the money was in there, why would he be pissed when it was returned to them?
    5. The customer was not sure of the amount of money in the computer..but DIDNT count it when it was returned to him and was requested that he counted it to verify how much money was found.
    6. $10,400. $8,400 of it was in one hundred dollar bills, $2,000 of it was in fifty dollar bills.
    7. The police were called because that is what was instructed to the employees by corporate HR.

  3. redkamel says:
    May 30, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    sometimes I hide 1′s and 5′s in my clothes so I can find them later. This must be the same thing.

  4. diangelo says:
    May 31, 2009 at 2:42 am

    What confuses me most about this is that a computer would be one of the first things a thief would grab so why put your money in that over something thats unattractive to run off into the night with…

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