Archived comment by whosenameismud:
I know this guy, always getting money from his Dad, but notes so beautifully graffitoed, with such brilliant gems of dirty poetry on them, he can't bear to spend any of it.

Archived comment by Arlene:
That's okay. So are the people in LA.

*ducks*

Archived comment by Saint:
When I was in LA, I had so much trouble breathing, I couldn't even think about snorting anything. Between the smog and the air pressure, it felt like trying to breathe underwater. (I live at around 6,000 ft; sea level air is just so dense)

Archived comment by Arlene:
You heard what all the people in LA said when it snowed there?

"It's free, it's free!"

Archived comment by Saint:
I heard an estimate somewhere, that over 75% of the dollar bills in LA have coke residue on them (having been used as a straw at some point). Can't possibly throw all that cash away. So, if you are worried about where your money has been, my advice is, "Get over it."

Archived comment by Sheep:
Sure, but you really should have asked last year when I lived next to that sorority house. :)

Archived comment by Jim:
So, Sheep, if we donate to the fund will you take requests for what kind of pictures we want? And what if we don't really want pictures of you? Could we request some of your neighbors instead?

[I just want to know what my options are]

Archived comment by Sheep:
Well sure you can! And everyone else can too.

Who cares about starving kids in Ethiopia or war orphans in Afghanistan or crack babies in Colombia... think about who's really needy around here!

Archived comment by gwendolyngirl:
Sheep, if I donate to that fund will I get a picture of you and your story sent to me by mail?

*On a side note, my 13 year old sister once donated her allowance ($10) to help the starving child of a Pygmy tribe. She did receive a picture and a letter from the boy her money benefitted. She became very attached to her Pygmy friend and continued to send money whenever she could, UNTIL...
One of her friends decided she wanted to sponsor a Pygmy child too. And her friend got the same picture and the same letter. My sister was ticked. I couldn't blame her.

Archived comment by Sheep:
Anyway, I donated it to the most worthy cause I could think of... Sheep's Empty Savings Account Fund. : )

Archived comment by Sheep:
Well, by all accounts, the United States is the easiest place IN THE WORLD to launder money, so I figure most of the money we'll ever see has been involved with drugs at some point in its existence.

Plus, what am I supposed to do, leave it on the ground? Turn into the cops? Buy drugs with it? Sheesh.

Archived comment by CAM2:
Was it (the $5, not the $100) found in a pretty little flowerbed of white gerdenias?

Archived comment by Hoss:
The notion that drug money (or "$activity money" where $activity is something illeagle) is inherently tainted, and shouldn't be touched, much less used, is flawed.

If you want to argue that a person should not do biz with, or accept any payment/goods from, another person whom you know to commit illeagle/immoral acts -- because the proceeds used to do biz with you were obtained illeagally -- that's one thing, which makes total sense, because if LOTS of people live by that code, then it devalues the goods/money that "bad people" have in their possession, because they can't spend it as freely as someone else ... it isn't worth as much.

But to argue that money which is lost/stolen from a "bad person" who gained it through illeagle ventures is tainted, and shouldnt' be used ... that, in essence, takes that money out of circulation. The last thing that money was used for was "evil" and it can never be used to "redeem itself"

At worst, you should spend that money -- get it back into the economy where it can do some good. At best, you should spend it on something that you know will help to directly counteract the harm it did when it became "tainted" in the first place (like donating it to a rehab clinic)

Archived comment by Jon:
If it's drug money, is it like Monopoly money, in that you can only buy drugs with it? 'Cause there are a few people I've been meaning to call...

Archived comment by Obsidiana:
*goes out to buy a "this money was used to procure illegal substances" stamp*

Archived comment by Katie:
The Little Old Lady from Pasadena

Archived comment by dave:
They only got $5 for granny? That's a bit cheap.

Archived comment by Mike:
*sigh*
I just don't have it in me to tell the drug money story right now.

Archived comment by dfresh:
No,no, its drug money, and therefore wrong to keep it. Send it to me, and I will turn it in to the proper authorities. And yes, much of the money out there has been used for drug transactions, so send it all to me, I will sort it out for you.

Archived comment by guy:
i dont care where the moneys from, moneys money, its not like it has "this money is drug money" stamped on it, hell, if that were the case half of all money in america would proably be stamped as such

Archived comment by molli:
psh, i'd have no problem.

Archived comment by davey:
dude, you know that's drug money right? i hope you can live with yourself...

Archived comment by Noyock:
Yep, that would be about the only circumstance that would enable me to pronounce that.

Archived comment by Sheep:
How ;bout...

"HOLY @#*@)@$ @(!!!"

- me after finding $100 in the gutter at a bus stop in El Cerrito (no joke)