$500,000 gone from tsunami-cracked bank vault

[JanDutchy]

Source: AP - WHEC

$500,000 gone from tsunami-cracked bank vault
Posted at: 03/22/2011 8:06 AM


(AP) TOKYO - The earthquake and tsunami that pulverized coastal Japan crippled a bank’s security mechanisms and left a vault wide open. That allowed someone to walk off with 40 million yen ($500,000).

The March 11 tsunami washed over the Shinkin Bank, like much else in Kesennuma, and police said between the wave’s power and the ensuing power outages, the vault came open.

"The bank was flooded, and things were thrown all over. It was a total mess. Somebody stole the money in the midst of the chaos," said a police official in Miyagi prefecture, where Kesennuma is located.

The bank notified police on Tuesday, 11 days after the disaster, said the official, who spoke on customary condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.


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[Demeter]

1. Nice Work If You Can Get It

[GKirk]

2. So much for no looting...

...but in the grand scheme of things a bank missing money in this devastated area is an insignificant news story.

[rfranklin]

3. It was probably the banksters who took it...

they believe that all money is theirs.

[fascisthunter]

10. was about to post that

[Auntie Bush]

12. Beat me to it!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. 40 million yen?

I thought there were only 39 million yen here. Let me count it again.

[katsy]

5. No chance that that kind of water power

dispersed the money?

None at all? Just asking because the damage from the tsunami, as I see it on teevee, really makes it look impossible to tell how anyone can tell a theft from natural causes. The tsunami damaged the bank and vault but left the money intact? How much money was left behind?

Okay. Whatever.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Exactly. So 11 days later, the anonymous bank person says "someone" took the money.

Wink wink, nudge nudge?

[katsy]

11. Exactly.

Maybe the bank was underinsured who knows.

But they couldn't get to the bank for 11 days and yet they KNOW that particular amount of money is stolen.

This smells. And considering the loss of life, the nuclear emergency, who really gives a shit. Why is this news except to exploit a banking "situation". I mean maybe an insider had stolen the money months ago!

[Phoonzang]

6. Eh, good for em. It's insured. Hopefully. nt

[JNelson6563]

7. Someone kept their head in the crisis.

[notesdev]

8. The easiest way to rob a bank

is to own one


just sayin'