ITT: [spoiler]Post holes[/spoiler] and why you're digging them>Water catchment for arid area
>>2835805DIGBURY ME
My mom is kinda busy and also has those townsfolk / women ideas about a lawn and all that. She always gets burnt spots in the meadow in summer and her stupid dog habbit doesnt help the situation. It's erosion from there. So I installed her a sprinkler system. For that I trenched through the meadow at her house in a grid pattern. Lots and lots of meters of trenching in the summer sun.I made sure to run large tubing and several circuits on the main approach to the valve block. I still feel like I'd like bit more pressure so I could put larger nozzles in. Good thing is I only had to dig deep enough for those things to end up flush.
>>2835805The last time I dug a hole was to shit in the woods
>>2835805My favorite larp fantasy, by far, is finding places in the woods to bury things. Every time I see some rich people getting busted, my first thought is that they should have buried millions of dollars in the woods as an insurance policy.If you’re a criminal dealing with large sums of money, burying physical cash (or gold, though I’m not sure about the exchange back into currency) is probably the safest way to hide it. Take this 1/10 crypto sex kitten for example. Her and her crew purchased around $100 million in property, including the $35 million mansion they used as their HQ. Any one of them could have hidden a few million in cash in the woods, but it’s highly doubtful that they did.Instead, they hid it in bank accounts and other paper-trail digital ledgers. The thing is, no matter how good they are at finding financial loopholes, there’s an actual, literal army whose sole purpose is to find them. There are entire teams of men with decades of experience all working together to find these hidden accounts.But the woods? No one’s even looking. No one knows you’re there. They would have to be actively following you every second of every day to know where you are. They would literally need a drone to follow you into the woods, for several hours, and film you. It can be done, sure. But it’s much less likely that Bernie Goldenstein at the IRS just sending some emails to find out that you tried to hide it in Switzerland.
>>2836129This is not what being rich works like. You're probably too used to the image of (((musicians))) flaunting measly amounts of cash at the camera.Most rich people I know and I know a few, are absolutrly stripped for cash. Far more than the average joe. They are also. running as much of a deficit as the bank will allow them and shift from one maxed out account to the other while haggling for another loan for the next piece of real. estate.
>>2836134I’m not talking about rich people, I’m talking about criminals dealing with large sums of cash.
>>2836129It's not that easy. As you already described, the wealth of rich people is often tied up in assets. It would leave a paper trail if you tried to turn those into money. Having large sums of money laying around is impractical to begin with. It will always raise suspicion if you buy expensive stuff in cash, and there are often laws in place limiting the amount of cash you can spend in one go. Sure, you could buy a used car. But a house? Don't think so. The end result is that you would have a million bucks innawoods that would be practically useless.
>>2836129you'd basically have millions in grocery and gas money. which is better than nothing, but without a way to launder it you'd have trouble spending it all
>>2836149>As you already described, the wealth of rich people is often tied up in assets. Yes, because they think it’s safe. It’s not. Ask sex kitten Caroline Ellison.>It would leave a paper trail if you tried to turn those into money. And? “What did you do with that $2 million in cash?”“I lost it gambling, I spent it on drugs and hookers, it fell off a boat, O ate it…”Or just don’t say anything.>Having large sums of money laying around is impractical to begin with. It’s not laying around. It’s buried in the woods.>It will always raise suspicion if you buy expensive stuff in cash, and there are often laws in place limiting the amount of cash you can spend in one go. Banks file a CTR with the Treasury Department on transactions over $10k. There are no laws limiting how much cash you can spend. >Sure, you could buy a used car. But a house? Don't think so. The end result is that you would have a million bucks innawoods that would be practically useless.Are you saying it’s better to have $0 than it is to have $2 million in cash? Are you fucking retarded?>>2836171You might be thinking in terms of being wealthy; it’s a huge sum of money, but you can’t use it to pay cash for a house. That doesn’t make it worthless. “It won’t make you exceeding rich so it’s not worth doing” isn’t a very well thought out argument. Literally everything but big purchases can be made in cash. Mexicans do it all the time. Even weird shit like insurance will take cash. I know a guy who used money orders to pay his car note. Currency transaction reports are only for sums over $10k. And the BSA only requires SAR’s to FinCEN for seriously suspicious stuff, like multiple large withdrawals that together would be more than $10k. What is worthless though is any property you owned that’s now in possession of the federal government. Its value to you would be $0.
>>2836172>Ask sex kitten Caroline EllisonIs it really necessary to ask sex kitten Caroline Ellison? I don't know what sex kitten Caroline Ellison could tell us that we don't already know about sex kitten Caroline Ellison. But I guess that's what makes her sex kitten Caroline Ellison.
>>2836129I did this when I was younger with mid 6 figures of cash and gold(probably closer to $1m if you factor appreciation of the gold over the time). Went to prison and when I got out I found they built condos on the land I buried about half the cash/gold on. Someone either found it or it got hauled off the site somewhere to use as full dirt. The other fraction of the money I used to start a legitimate hard scape company and I’ve stayed clean and happy
>>2836171I bought trucks/machines/equipment to start a business. I’m pretty sure this happens frequently and my story isn’t as rare as you may think, another local guy bought a restaurant and bar with money he hid. His crimes were more white collar stuff where mine were a bit of it all
>>2836225How long ago was this?
>>2836172>Are you saying it’s better to have $0 than it is to have $2 million in cash?No, I'm saying that it wouldn't allow you to have a millionaire's lifestyle. If you want to live off the grid innawoods, having money stashed away will surely help. But if you start living beyond your means, it will be an automatic red flag. That's how a lot of criminals get caught, and that's also why money laundering is a thing.
>>2836172>Are you saying it’s better to have $0 than it is to have $2 million in cash? Are you fucking retarded?/out/ does /biz/
>>2836171If you're willing to survive flying under the radar a large amount of physical cash is a huge windfall.My biggest expenses are food, housing, and vehicle maintenance. I can get all three for cash. With working a simple low wage job somewhere remote to build up funds in the bank for "official" purchases, you could be quite comfortable.
