Posted on 12/19/2015 8:52:20 AM PST by Hojczyk
Lost my wallet at a public bus stop. It was returned to me $23 and all. I was so happy I did not have to replace all my cards. This was in pre-Somalia Minneapolis.
No kidding. How freaking stupid do you have to be to do that. Stupid should hurt.
A pretty good bet.
Of course, he will have to pay income tax on the $32,000 he found. And then he will have to pay a gift tax on the $32,000 he gave away. So he now owes $64,000.
“He just said that he did it because it was the right thing to do and he didn’t want the right thing being overwhelmed by anything else,” Hellyer said.
And he would be on camera stealing it and accussed of theft if found out.
"Underscoring the waiter's honesty, Hellyer said there was no surveillance camera in the area where the family left their money."
The money was returned to the family only after a detective determined it was obtained legally. The cash came from rental properties and a Mexican restaurant the family operates in the San Francisco Bay Area town of San Jose.
“You know how some people don’t use banks, I think they’re that type of person,” the police spokesman said.
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Really? At the very least, illegal aliens are involved, but that doesn’t count in CA or Obama’s America.
The family left a canvas pouch stuffed with $32,000, all in hundred-dollar notes,
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Good move turning it in. It could have been the Corleone family.
I dropped my Money Clip at Costco. It held a whopping $8.
I noticed it at my next stop and went right back. Someone turned it in and the money was still in it.
I can’t imagine keeping something that didn’t belong to me.
I have an issue with the Police State checking to se where the money came from. They certainly didn’t do it with the Clinton Foundation.
I'm guessing you never owned a metal detector.
Nope, and I don’t own any Plaid Shorts either.
Pretty much describes my everyday life. ;-)
I found a little velvet bag of very nice jewelry once at the Ritz Carlton. I turned it in at the front desk. Two days later I called to see if it had been claimed. They had no record of it being turned in. Their security department was very interested in who at the front desk I gave it to and exactly what time I turned it in.
Lol.... or black socks.
Yeah, I forgot about those. It completes the Ensemble. LOL
It was a tip, I tell ya!
I can’t imagine keeping something that didn’t belong to me......I used a found bank envelope as a good lesson on right/wrong for my GF’s grandson. He and I were walking in a parking lot and I noticed a bank envelope. I picked it up, opened it found not only $1,500 but a withdrawal slip with thegirl’s name on it. Grandson said ‘Wow Bruce! Your’e lucky!!” I explained to him we could not keep it, because we knew where it came from and who belonged to. I ALSO explained if that same bank envelope did NOT have any way of verifying whose it was, you could rightfully keep it. He said “Why don’t people take it into the store?” I explained there was no way to tell who ended up with the money. I am not wrong.
My bank once deposited $100,000 into my bank account by mistake. The next day I went in to the bank and pointed it out to them. I hardly even received a thank you from them.
Just like using a Metal Detector, if there is no way to trace the Owner you have a point.
I believe they have Laws in place where something surrendered to the Police will be given to the Finder if nobody claims the Property within 90 days or so. Then again, I’m becoming a bit jaded.
I know some of those Firearms that Idiots turn in at those Buyback might end up in a Cops Collection, not a Blast Furnace.
If I ever buy a Lake and find a Cache of Firearms at the bottom, I’m keeping them. LOL
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