What Happens to Coins Thrown in Fountains 

With a sword magnet, don't forget the sword magnet

He was providing a public service by cleaning a fountain... does that make you feel better?

he’s not hurting anyone, so why should you care if he takes money people don’t want?

I think it's because one of the reasons people toss the money in is that they're assuming it'll end up going to either a charity or towards maintaining the fountain, not so some random can jump in and claim it all for himself. That's the way I've always seen it, so seeing someone go in to take the money for their own personal use is pretty close to stealing the way I see it.

Itsa me Mario!

That’s me. Diving into the biggest issues of the day.

@@JulianOShea you’re educating me on the things I didn’t even know I needed educating on :)

Let's hope the coins pay for the pool fencing and childproof gate you will also need.

@@3rdalbum 😂😂 good point!

The question is tho… is it gonna be legal for you to collect the coins from your own fountain?

Oh, thanks for the informstion! I was wondering why my FPS was lowering when the chunks loaded there.

@@Crinlask ohhh I get it now

I see

Ah nice - don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those signs.

Isn't throwing coins into any fountain a tourist thing anywhere on earth?

@@Emily-the_funny_guys yes but he is from new zealand and people from new zealand believe they are unique in every way

@@callummoloney8709 Because they are unique in every way! Just checking: are you Australian, do you even have authority to cast such dispersions?!

@@skullsaintdead from nz dawg

Yes. Would be funny to see what they say…

Exactly what I was thinking when I read that too

Yeah, that doesn’t seem to say anything about needing a permit to *remove* anything.

@@JasperJanssen Yeah, but you can't take anything out without putting yourself, part of yourself, or some object in to retrieve it.

@@timseguine2 what if you had a really strong magnet above the surface?

based

I came for this comment, brilliant Fore-thought Julian, excellent work as always

only Victoria and Queensland do according to the Theft By Finding Wikipedia page

I worked at a supermarket few years ago, two regular customers (really lovely mum and her teen son) found an envelope of cash in the foyer, unlabelled, totalling $10,000. They immediately came up to us and asked if the supermarket had lost any cash. The selflessness! It wasn't ours, but the store manager came out and took their deets & thanked them, as we all did (and debated amongst ourselves if we would give it back; I prolly would tbh). Ended up belonging to a butchers shop just across the foyer, the lady who dropped it was stressed cause it was the weeks/days takings. She'd dropped it en-route to the bank (just outside). If no one claimed it, after 2 months, the mother/son would get it, but the butcher shop had asked nearby stores if they'd found anything, inc ours. I was also there when the mother/son came back to be given flowers & a gift card from our manager and the thanks and appreciation of the staff. That was such a sweet moment. I cherish it. Generally, if there's a means to avoid the perception of deception, use it. So, $50 in the middle of a deserted street, take it. Conversely, in 2011, guy got a $500 fine in WA for picking up $200 from Burswood Casino while sitting at a bar, because the CCTV showed him concealing the notes with his shoes. Deception means intent to steal = theft.

Australia: has theft by finding law Pirates burying their treasures: My booty is safe! The Gov't is on my side!

Interesting! But I wonder if the money left in the fountain can actually be considered "found" if no one has lost it, if losing implies someting involuntary or accidental. If no one has actually lost the money, then the taker could just be taking and not finding it.

There's a law against everything here. Australia is such a killjoy of a country to live in.

(Except in the US, where it mostly gets nicked).

Yes a fat Italian Guy to spend at Monte Carlo casino.😂

They might be able to get scrap value for them!

Banks have to honor them, then the reserve bank will take back the damage coins and mint new ones to replace them

It's really easy to clean fountain coins.

Thanks mate! Please think of another good video idea.

Imagine if there’s like a digital fountain to throw coins at

Ch-ching!

My pleasure!

Not if they don't catch you

Make it a "Swimming pool"

Kafka-esque.

@@ZephyrysBaum loop hole!

If it's a swimming pool it may need to be fenced. Which would probably reduce the amount thrown in

Cheers, Nick!

More money = more luck.

@@JulianOShea exactly!

Charleston native here, shoutout to the pineapple fountain , swam in it a lot when i was little

And that’s where the coins end up.

Well no because ive been known to deposit at night then pull out...

Should have paid for moat stopped at a taxi and ate some maccas... talk about living dangerously!

cant make it out, can you link me?

What about dressing up as a coin (in foil) then going in, what would happen then

@@nolesy34 Great question. This is big brain stuff. Of course, foil is notoriously water tight and aluminium has a propensity to sink so, being at the bottom of a pond for several weeks until the cleaners come it to pick you up would be quite the underwater 'Roman Holiday' adventure! Only issue is that you also get heavily fined for urinating in the fountain, so unless we can implement a kind of swap deal of bags-of-urine-and-possibly-brown-matter for wet and, possibly, soiled aluminium, I think we're at an impasse. Any engineers in the chat?

#HumanityMarksItsTerritory

Yes but the upkeep vs flow is just waterfall chasing

My extra-long tongs and I will let you know

Good point.

Boppity boopity

6am rob bank $50 million 7am rob museum $ 100 million 8am, take coin out of fountain I think not

very likely.

This is a joke before the Australien police try to arrest me

They are... foundation of my beer fund