Umm, it is normal enough thing to do. Here are some other cases, found by searching just for &quot;$15,000&quot;:<p>&quot;The Catholic priest took $15,000 in cash to Skid Row and doled it out to hundreds of the city&#x27;s most down-and-out residents outside the Fred Jordan Missions&quot; - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;bayarea&#x2F;article&#x2F;Priest-turns-90-handing-out-cash-on-Skid-Row-3247525.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;bayarea&#x2F;article&#x2F;Priest-turns-90-handin...</a><p>&quot;Dr. Berlin took $15,000 from the cash received in wedding gifts, leased an examination room in another doctor&#x27;s office and worked nights and weekends over the next decade to build a thriving private practice all his own.&quot; - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1993&#x2F;09&#x2F;28&#x2F;us&#x2F;clinton-s-health-plan-some-doctors-see-peril-others-are-unworried.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1993&#x2F;09&#x2F;28&#x2F;us&#x2F;clinton-s-health-plan-s...</a><p>&quot;“Once you’re in Cuba – as an American – everything has to be paid in cash.  American credit and debit cards do not work — hotels, meals, taxis AND the cost of the footage all had to be paid for in cash.  We took $15,000 in cash.  To make things more difficult, we could not pay in $U.S. for the footage.  We had to transfer our dollars to Cuban pesos.&quot; - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.documentarytelevision.com&#x2F;sweet-spots&#x2F;fidel-castro-case-study&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.documentarytelevision.com&#x2F;sweet-spots&#x2F;fidel-castr...</a><p>&quot;During the criminal trial, Chatfield testified that Brown had met with her several times and lured her to his house, hinting that it might be for sale. Chatfield said she brought $15,000 in cash as a possible down payment on June 15, 2012.&quot; - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.claimsjournal.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;midwest&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;12&#x2F;253190.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.claimsjournal.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;midwest&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;12&#x2F;253190....</a><p>&quot;Baltimore Woman Posted a Stranger’s $15,000 Cash Bail To Get Him Out Of Jail&quot; - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.barstoolsports.com&#x2F;dmv&#x2F;woman-posted-a-strangers-15000-cash-bail-to-get-him-out-of-jail&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.barstoolsports.com&#x2F;dmv&#x2F;woman-posted-a-strangers-1...</a><p>&quot;The woman’s $3000 Louis Vuitton handbag was stolen with $15,000 inside while she was waiting for a green light on the corner of Chesterville Rd and Bernard St at 2.15pm on Monday. ... the woman reported the money as “business takings”.&quot; - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.heraldsun.com.au&#x2F;leader&#x2F;inner-south&#x2F;louis-vuitton-handbag-with-15k-cash-inside-stolen-from-car-at-cheltenham-traffic-lights&#x2F;story-fngnvli9-1227298274252" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.heraldsun.com.au&#x2F;leader&#x2F;inner-south&#x2F;louis-vuitton...</a><p>These are just cases where one person had the money in public. I left out places where an organization raise $15K in charity, or someone won $15K in cash from a raffle ticket, or people found $15K in someone&#x27;s home after they died, or in one case in Australia where the husband put $15K in the oven and the wife, not knowing that, turned on the oven to preheat it.<p>And of course you don&#x27;t hear about all the normal cases where nothing notable happened.