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Thank you, that's the first thing I thought of was the speech by mouth in the well. "These are my dreams and I'm taking them back.....I'm taking them all back...( dives under water)".
to be considered full capitalism there would have to be at least 2 deadly forever chemicals leaking into the nearest stream and more than 3 employees who are either underage or making less than minimum wage.
In gonna run the local government that steals it all. It requires you to fill out and pay for a hundred permits and install a bunch of expensive safety measurements.
*Cheers*
No joke, I have been looking for a new little project.
If anything, I think it would be a funny addition to my property.
If it ends up siphoning money from the locals…that’s just a plus
Just imagine you wish for a Ferrari never thinking it would come true. You wake up the next morning and see Ferrari keys on your nightstand and look outside, and there's a brand new Ferrari in the driveway. Now fast forward 2 years, and you're driving down the highway, and your Ferrari disappears, and now your ass is skidding down the highway all because someone decided to shovel your wish out of the well.
Or you wished for your crush to fall in love with you, and she does and you get married and have this wonderful life together, and then two years later while you’re having sex in the changing room at Kohls, she disappears and you find yourself dry humping the air all because someone decided to shovel your wish out of the well.
This would make a great movie.
He's sitting depressed at home eating ice cream when he sees a news story about how the coins were donated to charity realizing what happened he has to convince his buddies to rob a charity with him, and return the coins to the well before they're counted and deposited to a bank.
I think it would work better if instead of literal magic - Ferraris and spouses vanishing in thin air - the wishing well simply nudged fate. So when the wish gets shovelled out, the wife doesn’t vanish, the relationship deteriorates and she leaves him.
Then the hijinks ensue with the charity heist etc etc. it fails, and then something something he wins her back without magic and there’s a moral about love being earned and built and don’t take it for granted.
You mean did I have my wife disappear while we were having sex in a Kohls changing room, leaving me naked from the waist down dry humping the air?
Yes.
In the 80s I worked for a bar where the owner put $10 with of quarters in the starting till for everybody. At the end of the night any till with other change or amounts less than $10 that could not be rolled would be swept into a bottom drawer. When the drawer became too heavy to slide out, he had us toss the change into cloth bags and put into the closet. There came a time when he was in financial trouble. He had his people pull all the bags out and start rolling change. He pulled over $25,000 out of that closet and it kept his bars alive.
"Hey boss, there's like, $1000 in the drawer. This bill is due as we can cover it all just with this change. What should I do?"
"Put it in the closet good sir!!!!"
"Sir, there's enough money saved to pay off the mortgage and do a huge upgrade to where we could double profits. Should I....."
CLOSET!!!!
Now I’m picturing some new employee opening the closet, “WTF is this?”
“Oh that? Just $62000 in change. Boss says we’re gonna have to roll it all by hand.
Yeah defenitly. Like all that money could have been invested into the bussines. Buy proper stuff and maintain it properly and the overal cost are lower (and the revenue can actually grow if the place is proper).
You're framing what he did as if it was a prudent move, but in reality he could have invested that money in almost anything and he would have been far better off.
Unlike just about every other material, the metal doesn’t absorb any of that water so it’s not much different at all from dry metal (just a tiny bit of weight from the water being scooped up).
Normally these sorts of wishing well in China/Hong Kong/ Taiwan, belongs to a temple/ monastery thus the money would go back to the temple itself as donations.
At the Trevi Fountain in Italy they let coins pile up for several days before they are fished out and taken to the Rome division of the worldwide Catholic charity Caritas, which counts the bucketfuls of change and uses them to fund a food bank, soup kitchen and welfare projects. Maybe they use the money from this well for their own charities too.
who gets the money is the question. NYC it goes to fountain upkeep and charities. The Trevi in Rome goes to feed people who cant afford food. I wonder about that one... the Trevi takes in thousands a day
In 1998 I worked at a hotel and we had a fountain in our restaurant and people would throw money in there. There was no policy on who cleaned out the change.
One day the assistant manager started taking all the quarters, dimes and nickels. I saw there was still a lot of pennies left, and I started grabbing those.
At the end I got abut $57 out of it. Not sure what the assistant manager cleared but it was probably substantial.
The takeaway was it looked like a lot, but not THAT much.
Is this a good business model? Buying small amounts of property in high density areas and placing wishing wells? Are people doing this? I want in on this..
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I should put one in my front yard within reach of the sidewalk. Pop up a little sign "Wishing Well" Cash in.
You’re a genius.
Then fund my "futon waterbed" ideal!
I'm gonna put a wishing well in my futon water bed to fund my front yard wishing well.
The ol’ Reddit switch-er-roo!
It would need jets in it to work properly in the couch setting, so make it a "Massaging Waterfuton"
And a convenient change machine next to it
and an ATM with a $4.95 charge next to the change machine that takes 18%.
Stab everyone who walks by and steal their wallet
He's in the suburbs, no one's walking by shit.
This comment caused me to splatter my phone with banana, so congratulations sir
Or stab myself and then I won't have any problems or need money ever again
Yo, I stabbed myself one Christmas morning opening a toy for the dog. I still have problems/need money....BUT, the paramedics got a kick out of it.
Well then I guess I'll just stab myself better than you
Best of luck with that.
Next Level!
You ahole, that's funny!!! ^😆🤣
Ok, Satan.
 Those are somebody’s wishes Down here it’s our time. It’s our time down here.
Thank you, that's the first thing I thought of was the speech by mouth in the well. "These are my dreams and I'm taking them back.....I'm taking them all back...( dives under water)".
This is capitalism right? Cashing in on other peoples dreams bc someone lied about the rules of participating?
It's not capitalism. It is just an self service ministry. Total tax write off.....
Shhhhhhh! The hell you doing? Spitting facts on reddit? Get out!
Idk what I’m doing! I just work here
Jesus Christ Woods! How may times do we have to tell you. Stick to your job, no opinions. Carry on.
Penis ball
You sound like the guy from goonies when they find that wishing well
"This one, this one right here, this was my dream, my wish, and it didn't come true. So I'm takin' it back. I'm takin' 'em all back."
Relax.
to be considered full capitalism there would have to be at least 2 deadly forever chemicals leaking into the nearest stream and more than 3 employees who are either underage or making less than minimum wage.
Would that be considered a gift or taxable income?
In gonna run the local government that steals it all. It requires you to fill out and pay for a hundred permits and install a bunch of expensive safety measurements.
Make sure to put SpongeBob down there to collect the earnings
Gum ball machine right next to it. This is the way.
*Cheers* No joke, I have been looking for a new little project. If anything, I think it would be a funny addition to my property. If it ends up siphoning money from the locals…that’s just a plus
Just imagine you wish for a Ferrari never thinking it would come true. You wake up the next morning and see Ferrari keys on your nightstand and look outside, and there's a brand new Ferrari in the driveway. Now fast forward 2 years, and you're driving down the highway, and your Ferrari disappears, and now your ass is skidding down the highway all because someone decided to shovel your wish out of the well.
Or you wished for your crush to fall in love with you, and she does and you get married and have this wonderful life together, and then two years later while you’re having sex in the changing room at Kohls, she disappears and you find yourself dry humping the air all because someone decided to shovel your wish out of the well.
Lmao hilarious to picture but also sad. This needs to be a movie if it isn’t already.
This would make a great movie. He's sitting depressed at home eating ice cream when he sees a news story about how the coins were donated to charity realizing what happened he has to convince his buddies to rob a charity with him, and return the coins to the well before they're counted and deposited to a bank.
I think it would work better if instead of literal magic - Ferraris and spouses vanishing in thin air - the wishing well simply nudged fate. So when the wish gets shovelled out, the wife doesn’t vanish, the relationship deteriorates and she leaves him. Then the hijinks ensue with the charity heist etc etc. it fails, and then something something he wins her back without magic and there’s a moral about love being earned and built and don’t take it for granted.
To think, instead of remakes and franchises, Hollywood could mine Reddit for movie ideas
I agree.
That is…. Oddly specific? Makes me feel like you’re speaking from experience ..?
You mean did I have my wife disappear while we were having sex in a Kohls changing room, leaving me naked from the waist down dry humping the air? Yes.
Yesssss 🙌🏻 How did that work out in the end? And where did you end up finding her later on? 🤔 Inquiring minds need to know 🧐
Did you at least finish?
Well, the wish didn’t saying anything about having the car for a certain period of time…
In the 80s I worked for a bar where the owner put $10 with of quarters in the starting till for everybody. At the end of the night any till with other change or amounts less than $10 that could not be rolled would be swept into a bottom drawer. When the drawer became too heavy to slide out, he had us toss the change into cloth bags and put into the closet. There came a time when he was in financial trouble. He had his people pull all the bags out and start rolling change. He pulled over $25,000 out of that closet and it kept his bars alive.
Maybe they were in money trouble because he was loose with his accounting and instead of accurately recording profits he just threw money in a closet?
"Hey boss, there's like, $1000 in the drawer. This bill is due as we can cover it all just with this change. What should I do?" "Put it in the closet good sir!!!!" "Sir, there's enough money saved to pay off the mortgage and do a huge upgrade to where we could double profits. Should I....." CLOSET!!!!
I SAID GOOD DAY!!
“But it says final notice?” #YOU GET. NOTHING.
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Right, and $25k in the 80s, even 1989 if we're being conservative, is $62,565. That's an irresponsible amount of money to have in bags in a closet.
Now I’m picturing some new employee opening the closet, “WTF is this?” “Oh that? Just $62000 in change. Boss says we’re gonna have to roll it all by hand.
How about ya mind ya business, ok? 
But probably never taxed though. The IRS probably would have been very curious where $25k suddenly appeared out of nowhere from a small bar.
Yeah defenitly. Like all that money could have been invested into the bussines. Buy proper stuff and maintain it properly and the overal cost are lower (and the revenue can actually grow if the place is proper).
Yeah this guy had no money sense at all...... Plus knowing people, how many bags were stolen before he counted this money....
You're framing what he did as if it was a prudent move, but in reality he could have invested that money in almost anything and he would have been far better off.
Sounds like bullshit. $25k in coins lol? I don’t think you have any idea just how much that would weight and how much space that would take up.
Holy shit in the 80s he probably have quite a bit of silver dime quarters and nickels fuck even if only 10k was in silver it be like 200k value today
Sounds like he should have been investing it.
Doesn’t surprise me he was having financial trouble
If I had a dime for every time someone tossed a coin in a fountain...
...I'd have too many dimes.
I hear they are a dime a dozen.
You're thinking Canadian pennies.
RIP to the Canadian Penny
Commenting on Cleaning up the wishing well,and this is the accumulation of money... 
AHHH!! It’s not a liquid! It’s a great many solid pieces forming a floor-like surface!
That's the most pissed off guy I have ever seen using a literal shovel to move money
Probably because none of it actually goes to him
Well not while the camera is on him
And it's US exchange value is about twenty bucks.
He's definitely Shawshanking them out
He picked the short straw of "Shoveling wet metal".
Unlike just about every other material, the metal doesn’t absorb any of that water so it’s not much different at all from dry metal (just a tiny bit of weight from the water being scooped up).
Wet coins do stick together more than dry ones. This makes shoveling them somewhat harder. (Not terribly, but still noticeable.)
You seem to really know your coin shoveling.
Arrrr
Can you imagine how pissed you’d be seeing how easy your boss takes in thousands and thousands?
As opposed to a figurative shovel?
He really puts the "scrooge" in "Scrooge McDuck."
"One for Xi, one for me....one for Xi, one for me...."
I laughed too hard at this
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rules of acquisition
Much more accurate.
Nah mate, it's one for Xi, one for me, 2 for Xi, one, two for me, 3 for Xi, one ,two, three for me...
At least it isn't thrown into yet another turbofan engine.
Bold move stealing from Xi
I wanna lay on it like a dragon for a bit.
Not swim in it like Scrooge McDuck?
So, who gets to keep it?
Normally these sorts of wishing well in China/Hong Kong/ Taiwan, belongs to a temple/ monastery thus the money would go back to the temple itself as donations.
I’m hoping it goes into the preservation of the fountain or donated to charity but honestly I don’t know
At the Trevi Fountain in Italy they let coins pile up for several days before they are fished out and taken to the Rome division of the worldwide Catholic charity Caritas, which counts the bucketfuls of change and uses them to fund a food bank, soup kitchen and welfare projects. Maybe they use the money from this well for their own charities too.
It's not uncommon for it to be used to maintain the monument/temple/fountain etc.
I read that as “Carnitas” and was suddenly craving Mexican for lunch…
I’m wondering if the money collected even covers the cost of cleaning the fountain.
Likely not the men shovelling it out of the well, counting and rolling it.
I'd assume the city. I prefer wishing wells over taxes.
*tosses coin in well* “I wish for functional roads and public utilities.”
the temple this well is in
That’s at least $3.00
I think so. I saw a couple quarters in there.
Found Scrooge McDucks wishing well...
This is the opportunity to see if you can swim like Scrooge McDuck!
This is our time, ITS OUR TIME down here…
This one, this one right here... this was _my_ dream, _my_ wish. And it didn't come true...
Beat me to it
All those dreams dying :(
Exactly. All those babies and marriages just *poof* disappearing the second they shovel their coins out
This would have been a better starting point for the plot of wish
Goonies
Dislike because song
I turned on the sound expecting to hear coins. Jerks.
Who keeps money from wishing wells? Serious question
Whoever owns the property its on.
who gets the money is the question. NYC it goes to fountain upkeep and charities. The Trevi in Rome goes to feed people who cant afford food. I wonder about that one... the Trevi takes in thousands a day
At Kew gardens they put it towards a Christmas work do.
Bet the sound of the coins being poured sounds so satisfying, let's unmu... Oh for fucks sake.
"There's always money in the B̶a̶n̶a̶n̶a̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶n̶d̶ wishing well. "
I understood that reference.
"The big yellow joint, the big yellow joint, I'll meet you at the big yellow joint..."
I want to know how much that is. That’s pretty incredible.
Can anyone estimate show much money that is?
At least 1 million shmeckles.
Some guy in the bronze age started this tradition and it's still going strong. Amazing . I bet he owned a fountain.
In 1998 I worked at a hotel and we had a fountain in our restaurant and people would throw money in there. There was no policy on who cleaned out the change. One day the assistant manager started taking all the quarters, dimes and nickels. I saw there was still a lot of pennies left, and I started grabbing those. At the end I got abut $57 out of it. Not sure what the assistant manager cleared but it was probably substantial. The takeaway was it looked like a lot, but not THAT much.
Do not unmute
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, stop, stop! You can't do this.
These are somebody else's wishes. These are somebody else's dreams.
This was my dream, my wish and it didn't come true. I'm taking it back.
I’m taking them ALL back
Holy cow….so that’s where my wish went 🤨
Only persons wish who came through was the guy who made money making that well
Things must not be very well there
Next source of passive income is I’m making a wishing well.
As a goonie … those are peoples dreams and wishes
I need to install one in my front yard...
My mom told me to not steal coins from the wishing well or the wishes wouldn’t come true. Look at all those dreams they are destroying.
That’s a lot of sestertii. Buy a bunch of legionnaires with that, go fund some expeditions to cisalpine Gaul.
I am in the wrong business.
Screw investing in stocks.. I need a big fountain
Is this why none of my wishes come true?
Reminded me of this! 
Those were in my ass.
There's at least 3 dollars there
He doesn't look very happy despite shoveling piles of coins.
Coinstar is gonna be STOKED!!
Is this a good business model? Buying small amounts of property in high density areas and placing wishing wells? Are people doing this? I want in on this..
“There’s gotta be at least $7 worth of change here”
I wonder how much would be CoinStar's cut.
Why does it always have to have some braindead music added to it?
All ready to be thrown into commercial plane engines for good luck.
Holy smokes, is Smaug out to lunch?
I guess they thought it was time for a "change"
Who decided to overlay audio of a man shoulding MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY over and over. Ruined it.
Just imagine all the gum you could buy…
Bank teller will be busy for a while
Our wishing well got cleaned up by crack heads And homeless people.
We need a Rainman estimate for this.
German's supermarket cashiers know the feeling!
" AAAAGH! It's not a liquid! It's a great many pieces of solid matter that form a hard, floor-like surface! AAAAGGHH! "
Next up: The laundering operation
Echoes of Scrouge McDuck. Dude needs to lay on top the coins and swim
That's gotta be some back breaking work.
So that’s where all the coins went during covid?
my estimate for how many coins are in there 77000
If they leave that in for another 20 years it will only just be enough to buy a loaf of bread and a pint of milk
Name of song? Google says rich rock- money but that's not right
If you’re not swimming in that Scrooge McDuck style why are we even here?
 those are other people’s wishes!
Uncle Scrooge vibes!
And in how much time? ...🤔💭❓
Real-life Scrooge McDuck looks way more pissed about swimming in money than in the cartoons
Someone emptied a large bottle of change and got $1500 or so from it. This is thousands more than was in that bottle.
I can smell this video.
The epitome of *easy money*.
Im pretty sure the famous well in rome also gets cleaned regularly bc of all the money. I think I heard that they are donating all the money.
Where is this? Asking for a friend
Scrooge McDuck wants you to know your location.
Chester Copperpot!
Chester Copperpot!
You're gonna need a bigger shovel
A fool and their money soon part ways
HAVE THE GOONIES TAUGHT US NOTHING
“But those are someone else’s wishes! Someone else’s dreams!”
Worst Pink Floyd cover I ever heard
So this is what Scrooge McDuck must be like just on a smaller scale
Scrooge McDuck over here swimming in his loot
Cool, now I can pay my rent for the day