This was the "suicide note" clasped in the hand of Daniel Whitworth, a 21-year-old trainee chef from Kent whose dead body was found slumped against a churchyard wall in Barking, east London, in September last year.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Farnan Jr. temporarily halted the trial in December, after Daimler suddenly produced 67 pages of notes crafted by the hand of Gary Valade, Chrysler's ex-chief financial officer.
Some have, hilariously, pointed out that one is not actually supposed to eat bank notes, while other jokers have offered to take the notes off the hands of anyone upset by this bombshell.
Others reached up and pressed notes into the hands of one journalist hanging out the window.
"I regard not having the notes in the hands of people as maybe the greatest handicap the E.C.B. has had in gaining confidence of the people at large," Mr. Duisenberg said in an interview.
My mother's father, on the four or five times we would visit them a year, would thrust 10 shilling notes into the hands of me and my brother, which was a considerable amount of money.
The response from the Bank was a campaign and a target to increase the number of £5 notes reaching the hands of shoppers.
He noted how the hands of China, in its bid for global influence fuelled by a relentless appetite for "money, money, money", are "spreading to all five continents".
(NOTE: That's me kissing the hand of my darling daughter Summer at her wedding this past Saturday.
Tawakol says they recognize this is a social experiment and people need to get used to the idea of being recorded and putting the note taking into the hands of technology.
