Jim, Et al, Recently I heard the retelling of a 'verbal memo' given contracted security folks at Miami International Airport concerning spotting people with 'excessive cash'. Besides the racist profiles and the cues of buying a ticket with cash, destinations were high on the list and Las Vegas was the most often mentioned destination for a 'good collar' (ie. cash confiscation). The feds are offering a reward of a percentage of what is confiscated to the informants, in this case ticket sellers, baggage handlers and local security providers (contractor and local police). Seems that bring more than 4 -5 K worth of green to gamble with is an excuse for confiscation with no charges ever being made. The operative mode here is an assumption that they'll snag some wise guys and they won't freak and try to regain their bucks....bad assumption and bad intentions. This is the kind of citizen vs. citizen activity that the East Germans and their Nazi mentors were master in establishing and effecting. The best way to destroy trust is to a profit incentive to poke your face into your neighbor's garbage can and report the droppings to the collectors of irrelavant information at the ministry of injustice.