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Woman turns in bag stuffed with $65,000
Boston Globe ^ | October 5, 2007 | AP

Posted on 10/05/2007 4:54:23 AM PDT by ninonitti

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. --A county garbage operations employee found a plastic bag on the road stuffed with $65,000 Thursday -- and immediately turned it in to authorities.

It turned out the money had fallen off a Loomis armored car half an hour before Debbie Cole found it near the Pinellas County solid waste operations facility where she works. First she thought it was a turtle in the road.

The 53-year-old Largo woman found the bag just before 7 a.m., full of enough $50 and $100 bills to pay her salary for two years. She immediately contacted a supervisor, who called deputies.

It's not clear how the bag fell from the truck, said Mark Clark, spokesman for Loomis, a Houston-based cash-handling company.

Cole's boss, Bob Hauser, said he can't give her a raise or a bonus for her good deed because she's a government employee. But maybe, he said, he can arrange some extra time off.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: Florida
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1 posted on 10/05/2007 4:54:26 AM PDT by ninonitti
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To: ninonitti
Why do I get the feeling someone from Loomis is about to lose his or her job?
2 posted on 10/05/2007 4:56:19 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: ninonitti
plastic bag on the road stuffed with $65,000

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

3 posted on 10/05/2007 4:58:24 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Hunter 2008)
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To: Larry Lucido
I hope it was the only bag that fell from that truck.

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4 posted on 10/05/2007 5:00:01 AM PDT by spectre (spectre's wife (Susan Estrich, "Hillary sucks all the oxygen out of the room".)
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To: ninonitti

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


5 posted on 10/05/2007 5:00:04 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: ninonitti

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.


6 posted on 10/05/2007 5:03:01 AM PDT by Fairview ( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
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To: ninonitti

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


7 posted on 10/05/2007 5:05:37 AM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: ninonitti

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....


8 posted on 10/05/2007 5:05:52 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Fairview
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!
9 posted on 10/05/2007 5:07:14 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

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.


10 posted on 10/05/2007 5:11:28 AM PDT by Fairview ( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
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To: rightwingextremist1776

LOL! Good one....


11 posted on 10/05/2007 5:12:41 AM PDT by Does so
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To: Does so

It would save the republic I tell you!


12 posted on 10/05/2007 5:14:33 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: rightwingextremist1776

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


13 posted on 10/05/2007 5:17:56 AM PDT by Paulus
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To: John Leland 1789

No, but th4ey are probably too cheap.


14 posted on 10/05/2007 5:25:58 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: rightwingextremist1776

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


15 posted on 10/05/2007 5:27:20 AM PDT by mcshot (Only your word and honor are truly yours - never go against either.)
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To: ninonitti
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..."

16 posted on 10/05/2007 5:34:04 AM PDT by econjack ("You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.")
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To: ninonitti

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.


17 posted on 10/05/2007 5:43:04 AM PDT by T.Smith
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To: T.Smith

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.


18 posted on 10/05/2007 5:46:38 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: ninonitti
"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.
19 posted on 10/05/2007 5:48:17 AM PDT by kenth
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To: MaryFromMichigan
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.

20 posted on 10/05/2007 5:49:41 AM PDT by ninonitti
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