Advice -- Huge Bank Mishap

This story is very strange. The GF depositing the coins by mistake can be understood assuming that the OP doesn't tell her about the silver coins and doesn't communicate.

However, the bit about the coins being found in the dumpster (mostly in a very neat pile) behind the bank after hours indicates that something is very wrong. Parking a car behind the bank to do dumpster diving would certainly invite an inquisitive police car or two. Not to mention that the coins were there. Sounds like a teller was misbehaving. To say the very least someone had to be cahoots.

Something very fishy about the story. The outcome is good but this whole thing has the earmarks of a good drinking story. Totally unbelievable that it worked out this way.

If it is true it is best to let sleeping dogs lay and not to have a conversation with the bank.

If there had been a bank robbery over the weekend, how many crims would have thought of looking in a dumpster to find your silver stash?

For this period only, your silver would have been in the safest place!

Frankly, I am having a very difficult time believing this story. I have NEVER seen ANY bank teller not ever opening a container of any type with coins or currency inside and not count what was inside that container. The teller would then remove the coins/currency from that container and put the container in a small trash can under the counter. The tellers DON'T take their own trash out to the dumpster themselves, the cleaning service does that after hours. Even the bank's dumpsters are not even kept out in the open for just anyone to dive into since they would contain shredded financial documents. Even the amount of silver coins the OP had in that boxed changed from one post to another from some loose silver coins to five pounds worth. If the one box was actually inside the other as he said the teller would have definitely seen the silver coins unless he/she was blind as he/she was taking the one box out of the other.

Ed
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And on a very substantial steroid program to not notice a box full of silver weighs more than cardboard

So are you still ith the girl:) its been 2 years since this story was posted

I too am having a problem with this story. Of course banks may be different where people live, but by me, not a chance that this could happen. Every bank by me has so many cameras over the tellers windows, the entrances, front and back areas, parking lots, etc. And I too could not imagine a teller being able to dump anything in a dumpster without an armed guard at her side. Anything a person normally hands a teller is watched, filmed, documented, so just how could a teller just throw anything out. And too, I wonder just how fast the police would arrive if someone was dumpster diving by a bank.

Yea shredding of confidential materiel does not go in the regular bin