Originally posted by: wrldstrman
Interesting, Not asking for to many details but im curious did you have the cart in your collection and just noticed. was it in a lot off ebay, flea market find, yard sale ?. I would also guess the money was from some illegal activity.
was a good find, if the money has been in there since the 80s it is probally long forgotton about, my concern would be if you bought it from ebay or straight from a individual from craigslist or the seller knows who you are, i would probally sit on the money. wouldnt be worth getting hurt over it. If found at a yard sale, flea market, good will etc, i wouldnt worry about it.
Not to be a downer but being in law enforcemnet, i could see a wife, mother, sibling, seeing a pile of games thought to be forgotton about, selling them then the owner saying wheres my old games, well i sold them to this guy. Ive seen people shot over a few grams of weed so 5 grand probally would be missed.
bottom line is there are many different reasons why the money was in there, best case is the person was just hiding money and forgot about it.
I would have kept this quiet. How many peopel hid 5k in a nintendo game? This is likely going to end up all over the internet (like the stadium events sale) and increase a lot more scrutiny. Hopefully wehoever put it there is dead and gone, but why take the chance. In any case, awesome find and good luck with it! My best find was this summer. I paid $1,000 for an oriental rug that has been appraised for $20-25,000. Not as exciting as 5k in cash, but still a great find.
