Thursday, December 28, 2006

LOT$ of CA$H!

Today I was a bit surprised to see a lot of policemen, professional security personnel and strange looking people with many armored trucks in front of the drama theatre. After a short while the hamster in my head started spinning the wheel and the typical mafia movie scene got totally logical: The car exit of the Slovenian central bank vault is located there and it is time to get all the "Slovenian" euros to the banks... But unfortunately, the hamster over spinned the wheel so I started asking myself useless, but amusing questions:

  1. How rich would you have to be to have all your property carried by an armored van... if you were stupid enough to change it all to 100 euro banknotes? Well, they usually pack banknotes into packs of hundred, then ten of these are packed into a bigger stack which is around 5 cm thick. Then they use these "bricks" to create a moneybox. I guess they can fit two of these into a van ( two square meters) so if we skip all the boring math, lets estimate they can neatly and safely pack around 60 million euros in 100 euro banknotes into an armored van. ( I stand here to be corrected). Which means much of the Slovenian elite ( for example the current Ljubljana major) would have room for their mother in law as well )
  2. So how many vans would the guy, who had a lot of stocks in the worlds most lucrative monopoly, need? According to Forbes Gates is worth around 50 billion dollars which is 38 billion euros... and it would take a convoy of 630 vans to carry it all. And I do hope the guy isn't too stingy to buy his mother in law a private vacuum sealed van.

So how many vans do you feel like filling in your life? ;)

1 comment:

x said...

I'm a very modest person, just 2/3 of a van. :)