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Easy explanation:

To avoid getting stopped by cops who'd "confiscate" it just because carrying so much money is suspicious and drug-dealer-like.* Or, what amounts to the same thing: To avoid losing such an amount of money in a mugging.

* http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/st...




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