Pocket change

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I know that to me pocket change is maybe a few dimes, pennies and maybe one or two quarters you get back after buying a soda from a gas station....where after we get home it goes in a jar in hopes to save enough for a vacation or now a days an extra tank of gas. lol  But for some rich fella or madam in Japan pocket change is  over  10,000 dallors!! 

I know alot of people if your anything like me absoluty hate links so I jsut copied the story I read on yahoo that totally peeked my interest. Anyways enjoy...it looks like we kinda have a modern day robin hood (cept i dont think hes stealing the money)




TOKYO (AFP) - An unemployed man in Japan had an unexpected windfall in his mailbox when he found one million yen (10,000 dollars) in cash from an anonymous benefactor, police said Friday.

The 61-year-old man discovered the wad of cash last week along with a slip of paper with the message, "Please make use of this in your everyday life," written with a black ballpoint pen.

But instead of following the advice, the jobless man in the ancient capital of Nara in western Japan turned over the gift to police.

The sender has until June 27 to claim the money or the unemployed man will get it.

Along with the letter, the envelope contained a partial photocopy of a map of nearby Osaka without any address marked or further explanation.

"He has absolutely no clue who it is," a police official said.

Japan has seen a string of cases in which large sums of cash have been left anonymously in people's mailboxes or public restrooms.

The largest single drop-off so far was in the city of Kyoto last year, astonishing a 67-year-old woman who found an envelope containing 10 million yen of stacked bills in her mailbox.