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German kids hand out lost 15,000 euros in playground
Yahoo/AFP ^ | 10/4/2009 | Staff

Posted on 10/03/2009 10:13:12 PM PDT by Saije

Edited on 10/03/2009 10:14:34 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Children in a school in Germany had a day to remember this week when four pupils found around 15,000 euros (22,000 dollars) and then handed it out to their friends in the playground, police said Friday.

The four, two boys and two girls aged between 10 and 13, found the bundle of cash stuffed in a dirty brown envelope on the way into their school in Frankfurt on Tuesday morning.


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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: afghan; germany; kids; money; sharingiscaring
The kids might have missed a few lessons on returning property to its rightful owner but at least they seemed to have learned the importance of sharing. Kind of wonder about that Afghan man and the dirty brown bag full of cash and the visa to China though.
1 posted on 10/03/2009 10:13:13 PM PDT by Saije
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Germany definitely isn’t as uptight about this as the US would have been. Here, it would be GONE as “presumed drug money.”


2 posted on 10/03/2009 10:18:07 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Saije

very strange indeed


3 posted on 10/03/2009 10:39:14 PM PDT by BBell
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To: Saije

At that age the first thing that would come to mind is CANDY.


4 posted on 10/04/2009 4:51:15 AM PDT by Vaduz
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