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The dozy old ****! <doh>

Heathrow passenger's £70,000 cash found in lost property

A bag containing £70,000 worth of foreign currency reported stolen by a coach passenger has been found in lost property at Heathrow, police said.

The cash went missing on Tuesday after an 81-year-old man believed he had loaded his black bag in the hold of a coach at the airport.

When the National Express coach arrived in Portsmouth about three hours later, he discovered the bag was not on board.

Police said CCTV footage revealed the man did not put the bag on the coach.

PC Howard Day, based at Heathrow Airport, said: "It is not every day someone leaves behind a bag containing such a large quantity of cash at the airport.

"Thankfully we were able to trace it and will get it back to the victim who was relieved to hear it had been found."

The man had brought the money, made up of Australian dollars and Thai baht, over from his home in Thailand to buy a property in the UK.

Police said they were making arrangements to reunite the owner with the cash.
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skalpel said:
I didn't think it was legal to bring that much money into a country. Don't people get arrested for that sort of ****?
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I thought so too. Maybe nobody has explained the concept of bank accounts to him. As if he'd just load it into the back of a coach too?! If I had a bag with £70,000, even £7,000 I'd tie it round my neck!
 
I know it sounds mad but I'd rather we didn't get European football next season,keep our good players get rid of the dross and add to it push on for Europe the season after with a much stronger squad i.e. good back up players not the likes of perch,guthrie,smith etc.
 
The Secret Ingredient said:
I know it sounds mad but I'd rather we didn't get European football next season,keep our good players get rid of the dross and add to it push on for Europe the season after with a much stronger squad i.e. good back up players not the likes of perch,guthrie,smith etc.
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Coloccini agrees with you. I dunno though, if we have a good January transfer window and the prospect of more additions to beef up our squad in the summer I'd have no problem with an extra competition next season.
 
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