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City of Dallas keeps $2000 found by honest teen
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| May 10, 2011
| CRAIG CIVALE
Posted on 05/10/2011 9:54:00 PM PDT by NeverForgetBataan
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To: BigCinBigD
No, not stupid. Naive.
Were I to find money in that town I’d put up a flyer or something and wait for a believeable person to call me with the right amount. After a few days it would be mine unless properly claimed.
I sure would not involve the police.
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posted on
05/10/2011 11:44:01 PM PDT
by
Persevero
(We don't need Superman -- we have the Special Forces)
To: NeverForgetBataan
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posted on
05/11/2011 12:12:36 AM PDT
by
Outlaw Woman
("...; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,... "Hosea 4:6)
To: SIDENET
They will probably want to tax her for it as income.
To: NeverForgetBataan
Yes THAT is what government does. The kid should have kept the money.
To: JRandomFreeper
"If I find food, I was taught that it's best to test it on a politician or a dog, first." What have you got against dogs? Use a politician's family. They are a lower form of life than a dog, or some of the smarter bugs, and of far less use to society. They just BELIEVE that they are not leeches on the groin of humanity.
Anyone who would linger around the slug who runs for office, expecting to benefit from his/her/it's droppings, forfeits any respect.
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posted on
05/11/2011 2:32:34 AM PDT
by
jonascord
(The Drug War Rapes the Constitution.)
To: Persevero
I can’t believe it took 40 posts on FR before somebody got it right versus the general sense here that it be turned in. What sense does it make to risk turning it over, rather than report it, if the finder already knows he/she will have the integrity to do the right thing? In relinquishing control, they are further risking the rightful owner’s property.
Hopefully a young 15 year old just became a bit more conservative.
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posted on
05/11/2011 2:38:29 AM PDT
by
LittleBillyInfidel
(This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
To: fr_freak
The City OWNS you, your property, and every other person who lives within It's grasp. You don't think so? Try not paying your property tax.
You're renting your house, car and freedom from the City. They throw you a bone by letting you drink, flush and drive, AFTER they "pay" four times the actual cost, not including kick-backs, to build, to someone's brother-in-law, for water pipes and streets.
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posted on
05/11/2011 2:43:23 AM PDT
by
jonascord
(The Drug War Rapes the Constitution.)
To: NeverForgetBataan
How about to the party whose property it was upon? The shopping center?
To: NeverForgetBataan
On Tuesday, police said under a new city policy, the unclaimed money will go into Dallas' general fund not back to the person who found it, as in years past. A new city policy that was implemented on Monday
What a f'd up society we've become. Honest, law abiding, people get screwed again.
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posted on
05/11/2011 3:04:21 AM PDT
by
hattend
(Obama is better than OJ... He found a killer while on the golf course.)
To: NeverForgetBataan
The City will save on paperwork because no one will ever turn in anything again.
To: NeverForgetBataan
Maybe the ideal would be for 1000 City folks to bring in a penny they found on the ground and make the cops write up a report for each penny.
To: NeverForgetBataan
Here’s a news story. Sprinkle some $100 bills around the police station and see how many get turned in. Use a nanny cam to video tape for evidence.
To: rawhide
Government theft-—Nothing more, nothing less.
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posted on
05/11/2011 3:51:28 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: NeverForgetBataan; All
(I used this for obama in a prior thread, but this seems applicable too)
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posted on
05/11/2011 4:28:48 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(Let's apply the "reasonable man" standard to gun laws. How many would stand?)
To: NeverForgetBataan
Last year I found $200 in a parking lot of a hobby show. I reported the find (not the exact amount) to the show organizers and gave them my phone number. About an hour later I got a phone call and the caller was able to give me a very close estimate of the money lost. I sent them back the cash and they rewarded me with 3 very expensive model kits, easily worth 2/3rds of what they had misplaced.
I did not seek a reward, my thought was that I wanted to return the money to the rightful owner. Doing the right thing should be it's own reward and it is.
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posted on
05/11/2011 4:36:04 AM PDT
by
The Louiswu
(My new drink...The Osama...Two shots and a splash of tomato juice....mmmmmgoood)
To: NeverForgetBataan
In the eyes of government (local, state, fed; they are all the same) it doesn’t matter who found the money. All money is believed to be theirs.
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posted on
05/11/2011 4:37:22 AM PDT
by
comps4spice
(Liberalism is a threat to life and liberty in the USA.)
To: NeverForgetBataan
Lets just let them (greedy government) confiscate 100% of all our money and assets and be done with it- I for one welcome our Soviet masters..
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posted on
05/11/2011 4:49:06 AM PDT
by
JSDude1
(December 18, 2010 the Day the radical homosexual left declared WAR on the US Military.)
To: NeverForgetBataan
What an absolute idiot! I’m speechless....
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posted on
05/11/2011 4:49:50 AM PDT
by
DH
(When the tainted finger of government touches anything, the rot begins!)
To: NeverForgetBataan
At the rate of inflation that’s coming, it wouldn’t be worth the effort to bend over and pick it up anyway. They just didn’t want to disappoint her.
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posted on
05/11/2011 5:23:04 AM PDT
by
Theophilus
(Not merely prolife, but prolific!)
To: NeverForgetBataan
I once found a fat wallet full of cash in a parking lot — no I.D. of any kind. I went into the store and left my name with the manager. I said anyone asking for it would have to tell me the kind of wallet, the color, and what was in the wallet. After 30 days, I considered the money as mine.
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posted on
05/11/2011 2:10:27 PM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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