Woman turns in bag stuffed with $65,000

Boston Globe ^ | October 5, 2007 | AP

[Man50D]

Why do I get the feeling someone from Loomis is about to lose his or her job?

[Larry Lucido]

plastic bag on the road stuffed with $65,000

Hope they used heavy-duty plastic, and that it was firmly zip-locked.

[spectre]

I hope it was the only bag that fell from that truck.

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[MaryFromMichigan]

Nice story!
Pleases me that the reason she stopped was to help a turtle cross the road!

[Fairview]

If I found $65K in drug money, I promise you no one would be writing news articles about how I stupidly turned it in to the government.

[John Leland 1789]

Is it illegal for Loomis to give this woman a reasonable reward?

[rightwingextremist1776]

Why can’t I find a bag full of money! Of course, I’d donate it to Hitlery (I’m sure she would find SOME way of accepting it) and then turn myself in....

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

So your price is only $65,000 and about the only way you would know it was drug money was if you or a friend was involved!

[Fairview]

Vet, the dateline on this story was FLORIDA. Your average solid citizen isn’t throwing plastic bags full of hundreds around. Why, are you suggesting that this was Grandpa’s pension money? Be serious. You’ll notice that prior to this discovery there were no public screams from lovely suburban people crying that they had lost $65 thousand they’d saved up painfully through years of hard toil. Yes, I’m sure it was drug money.

[Does so]

LOL! Good one....

[rightwingextremist1776]

It would save the republic I tell you!

[Paulus]

Well, there is enough there to account for both her and my part of the national debt.

[Blood of Tyrants]

No, but th4ey are probably too cheap.

[mcshot]

LMAO after squirting coffee all over - almost drowned. “-)

[econjack]

It turned out the money had fallen off a Loomis armored car half an hour before...

I can hear W.C. Fields saying:

"Ah, yes...the old $65,000-fell-off-the-armored-car trick..."

[T.Smith]

Unless it was stone cold obvious where the money came from, I don’t think I would have turned it in. I just can’t see myself handing $65k over to the government.

[AD from SpringBay]

I would have a very difficult time giving found money to the government. If I found that much I think I’d hang on to it myself and conduct my own search for the rightful owner by simply keeping my eyes pealed for stories about someone bag of money being missing.

[kenth]

"It turned out the money had fallen off a Loomis armored car"

Off, not from or out of, but off; sounds like someone set the bag on a bumper, fender, etc. (top is probably too high to be convenient) and forgot about it. The worst I've done is the occasional soda.

Though I suppose it could have been intentional, hoping to retrieve the fallen bag later.

[ninonitti]

Pleases me that the reason she stopped was to help a turtle cross the road!

I guess virtue is it's own reward but I'd have trouble turning down the $65K kicker.