Hidden Cash in San Francisco

[i.b.nora]

Hidden Cash in San Francisco and beyond.

Someone is hiding cash all over San Francisco and giving clues where it can be found. On TV it said it will go all weekend.

https://twitter.com/HiddenCash

 

[i.b.nora]

http://news.kron4.com/news/video-hiddencash-leaving-100-bills-around-s-f-and-oakland/

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) –Someone is leaving $100 bills around San Francisco and Oakland and then tweeting about it. KRON 4′s Charles Clifford tries to get to the bottom of this social media mystery.

 

[i.b.nora]

Hidden Cash says he/she will be in Los Angeles next weekend.

 

[i.b.nora]

This is all over the national news this morning.

 

[Dr. Know?]

Have you read about the Weed Fairy? Yelp. Depositing pot around WA. lol

http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2014/05/26/weed-fairy-posting-signs-with-free-pot-around-seattle/

I'm watching both. Now what could I put all over town? lol

 

[zwiebel]

Crowds descended on a Burbank shopping mall Thursday, after the mystery cash dropper tweeted a clue that 'sounds like somewhere an eagle or robin might keep their money'.

Traffic ground to a halt and people were going through trash cans, searching for the envelopes stuffed with cash. $210 was found by a young teen girl, who is going to use it to help her ailing grandmother.

The cash dropper is going to stay in LA over the weekend, but says all the second batch of cash has now been found and he/she?? will be hiding more later.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014...gives-first-clue-for-second-money-drop-in-la/

ETA - I'd never have got that clue - 'birdbank' sounds nothing like 'burbank' to me!

 

[Melanie]

I'm sorry - I'm all for good intentions, but he's causing problems. Traffic coming to a halt, police needed to control crowds. Now this is dipping into taxpayer funds as he's taking police away from what they could be doing otherwise.

If he wants to give money away, great! Go down to any street corner and find someone down on their luck. I hope he doesn't come to San Diego.

Hundreds of other hopefuls meanwhile swarmed bus stops as police made sure no one got out of control in the area. Another man took to Twitter, writing a brief thank you to the man behind the social media scavenger hunt.

Source: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014...gives-first-clue-for-second-money-drop-in-la/

Just my opinion.

Mel

 

[zwiebel]

He's dropping money all over LA tonight, and this is catching on all over the nation - Dallas to DC.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/05/30/hidden-cash-dc-la-san-jose/9774449/

He also plans to make a big announcement soon, but no idea what that is.

There was an elderly lady in England who did something kind of similar, but in a way where she wasn't around to get any of the glory.

The sweet thing arranged that when she passed, people from a neighborhood she lived in decades and decades before, would be sent some cash by her attorney. It was really sweet beause a lot of them were seniors and it really made a difference. And they remembered her, and were really touched, not just by the cash, but that she'd kept them in mind......though a few were a little worried I think, that they'd been sent money by mistake at first.

I'll have to see if I can find the story.

 

[zwiebel]

Yikes! Having trouble finding it! There are a few people in England sending cash through the mail in England, apparently!

http://metro.co.uk/2014/04/16/the-c...-can-solve-the-riddle-of-who-sent-it-4701631/

 

[zwiebel]

Aahh, and now I've found one about a donation to an MS Non-profit, of thousands of dollars, being posted by mistake and being handed in.

http://www.trurodaily.com/News/Local/2014-05-02/article-3709263/$2,000-mystery-envelope-of-money-solved/1

I don't think I'm going to find that original story I was thinking of. But I do think the postal service is a better method for anyone wanting to give money to others.....I'm just not sure how much 'fun' it is for people to be searching through trash cans for cash?

 

[zwiebel]

Look out Hermosa Beach. 36 envelopes hidden there now. There are going to be traffic problems......

ETA: In Angry Birds! I wondered what the heck they were when I saw them on twitter!

http://ktla.com/2014/05/31/hiddenca...ry-birds-may-be-hidden-at-santa-monica-beach/

 

[i.b.nora]

Identity of man behind @HiddenCash revealed


PALO ALTO, Calif. — The identity of the man behind the @HiddenCash scavenger hunts that set off a social media frenzy last month has finally been revealed.

KTVU was there when @HiddenCash hid envelopes of money in the South Bay. He has been identified as Palo Alto real estate millionaire Jason Buzi.

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On Friday, Buzi tweeted a message to his @HiddenCash followers telling them to stay tuned for details of a San Francisco event this weekend.

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Buzi is not stopping with the just the @HiddenCash scavenger hunts; he has also created the new Twitter account @TravelFunder.

He said he wants to give people a free trip of their choice and encourages people have to follow @TravelFunder to find out how.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/identity-man-behind-hiddencash-revealed/ngGXF/