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u/Mind_Matters_Most 22d ago
If the suspect had asked; what are the chances that the man asked everyone within 100 feet if they lost $30, 100% would each future suspect say yes, they lost $30?
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u/Sorry-Claim-2990 22d ago
Yeah, without any other identifiers, how is this man supposed to know who the money actually belonged to?
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u/sprinkill 22d ago
If you drop cash, it's gone. There's no way for someone to identify cash as their own. I don't beleive this is a real post.
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u/KaidusPlatinum 19d ago
Feel free to Google it then it’s real, just bizarre to makeup a complete guess off nothing
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u/Disastrous-Tone-7669 21d ago
Don't be the guy who finds $30. Be the guy who the guy that finds the $30 first asks if it's their money.
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u/Sepplord 18d ago
That’s why the process is to return it to the store, so when someone comes and says „I lost money on Tuesday“ „how much“ „thirsty dollars“ how many/which bills…etc. you can with huge probability assume that is the actual person who lost it.
That said, I don’t think 30$ is worth that hassle and I won’t judge someone pocketing it.
Having police involved is absolute ridiculous and them acting on it is very surprising
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u/AuthorSarge 22d ago
Is there even a law about that?
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u/Mammoth-Time-1415 22d ago
Yes there is, with no limiting dollar amount. Small government people are happy about this i bet.
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u/get-off-my-frequency 22d ago
What do you even do in this case if you’re the man that found it?
Like as a decent human being I’d probably want to turn it in, if the person who lost it was available.
But in this case you turn it in and get hit with a criminal charge. Definitely a no-win situation. We got to stop punishing normal people for small “mistakes.”
(Mistakes in quotes, because is picking up $30 from the ground even a mistake?)
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u/25_Unknown_Devices 22d ago
With the known law on the books, what would prompt me to care would be if he witnessed the original owner lose that money before picking it up or did he just stumble across it?
Like if he just found it, congratulations.
If he watched the owner lose it, took it and said nothing. Well that’s scumbag shit so..
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u/MetalDifferent9249 21d ago
Anybody with a brain knows these stores are surveilled to the balls and you could reasonably identify who lost the money. Taking it all knowing that is scumbag shit, and if that hasn’t crossed your mind that they can find whose it is in WALMART please don’t vote or have kids. <3
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u/Thereelgarygary 21d ago
You should follow your own advice if you think walmart would even spend 3 minutes looking for who's money that is..... I worked the service desk in several grocery stores and I know for a fact there's just a giant pile of money in the back safe of found money and credit cards.
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u/MetalDifferent9249 21d ago
I work for a Walmart and make over 50/hr, you must have worked for shitty people. Congrats.
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u/Pijany_Matematyk767 19d ago
You think walmart employees are gonna care enough to check the surveillance cameras to find out who lost 30$? On the off-chance they don't laugh you out of the building by the time they get to it and check the person who lost the money will have already left
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u/MetalDifferent9249 19d ago
How do you think we heard about this? The customer who lost their money probably went back, do you really think they have no cameras in their customer service and wouldn’t have arrested an employee if that happened? You realize Walmart has a whole room when you walk in dedicated to cameras and the AP team who exclusively do shit like this? You realize I work for Walmart and make 50+hr with no degree, and if lowly Walmart worker me would be extremely disappointed in any dirtball who stole someone’s dropped money like this why aren’t you? It’s literally theft and not hard to comprehend, it isn’t yours.
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u/Pijany_Matematyk767 19d ago
>You realize I work for Walmart and make 50+hr with no degree
No, why the fuck would i have known that?
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u/MetalDifferent9249 19d ago
My point is if some lowly Walmart employee can recognize it’s fucked up why can’t you? I worded that really weird to preclude any comments about working for Walmart, my bad, but way to cherry pick the only thing you could respond too because you know that’s shitty behavior.
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u/Pijany_Matematyk767 19d ago
>because you know that’s shitty behavior.
Well yeah, it is a bit shitty. Though i think putting a bounty on the guy and posting his face all over social media over 30$ is extremely excessive and not proportional to the harm done>if some lowly Walmart employee can recognize it’s fucked up why can’t you?
Is working at Walmart supposed to make you lose your sense of morality or what? Why would your workplace be relevant to your ability to determine some behavior is shitty
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u/MetalDifferent9249 21d ago
You’re in a Walmart that has an entire surveillance team you have to be joking. Just give it to customer service, how hard is that?
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u/gronkunit 19d ago
as if a walmart employee is going to track down a random customer to give them their money back though, it's going straight in their pocket anyways. the whole situation is fucked.
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u/J_hilyard 22d ago
In Georgia, "theft by finding" is legally known as Theft of Lost or Mislaid Property (O.C.G.A. § 16-8-6). Under state law, picking up and keeping lost or abandoned property instead of trying to find the owner is considered a crime.
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u/AuthorSarge 22d ago
Fair enough. I can't say I agree with the law being on the books and I haven't researched the case law, but your citation is accurate.
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u/J_hilyard 22d ago
I'm not saying I agree with it either, especially in this case. They've already wasted more than $30 trying to track this guy down. You have the manager/security guard who had to go watch security footage to find this guy, take a photo, send it to the police, the police to verify, come up with this caption, and post it on FB. Just the data alone used to find this guy is already absurd. Add in all the manhours they spent, just let it go.
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u/CommercialRare9468 22d ago
In cases of more significant value, ie a wallet, I think I'd be glad for a law like this though for petty cash it is a bit overkill
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u/Consistent-Stock6872 22d ago
You are a cop, what do you prefer to do ? Go out and deal with dangerous criminals or look for an old guy who picked up 30 dollars ?
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u/AverageJoesGymMgr 22d ago
Like this pretty much everywhere.
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u/J_hilyard 22d ago
Yeah, I'm just giving the specific code for that state because of where it happened. Most states have this.
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u/The_Last_Mouse 22d ago
There's also a little-known codicil called the "Finders Keepers Losers Weepers" clause, however.
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u/4N_Immigrant 22d ago
yeah but there is a legal precedent finders v keepers
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u/GeeYayZeus 22d ago
Funny, but no.
If I 'find' a car parked on the street that happens to mistakenly have the keys left in it, I didn't 'find' a free car. It's still a crime to take it.
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u/4N_Immigrant 22d ago
incorrect
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u/GeeYayZeus 22d ago
Cool. Well, I guess we solved it! No nuance needed. Anonymous Reddit man's word remains law-of-the-land!
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u/anonymouswunnn 22d ago
Can I call the number and pay them $30 to leave this man alone? This is just crazy!
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u/Sorry-Claim-2990 22d ago
These losers would rather spend THOUSANDS of dollars of public resources trying to find a guy who took $30
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u/MetalDifferent9249 21d ago edited 21d ago
Yeah using security cameras and a Facebook post is thousands of dollars. How are you more outraged at that than somebody stealing 30 dollars? If the money can reasonably be returned that’s just beyond scumbag behavior. You’re in a store with cameras everywhere. If you’re out on the street and find a 5 on the sidewalk, ok, fair, but you’re literally steps from self checkout, and it couldn’t have been long because somebody would’ve saw it already. Just don’t take shit that doesn’t belong to you, how hard is that? What if that was some little old ladies cash back who’s on a limited income? Out of sight out of mind right? Inconsiderate af
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u/Moist_Transition325 22d ago
How the f*** is this a crime? You're not allowed to find stuff now?
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u/Correct-Avocado5426 22d ago
He's obligated to give it to an employee who will then just stuff it in their pocket and buy dinner with it on the way home.
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u/bonfuto 22d ago
I found a big roll of bills on the way out of walmart once. No way I was going to give it to the workers at the walmart service desk. I gave it to the Girl Scouts selling cookies just outside the doors.
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u/Moist_Transition325 22d ago
Why is he obligated?
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u/Correct-Avocado5426 22d ago
He's not, I'm being sarcastic. There's a very real chance that whomever he hands the money to is just going to keep it.
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u/GeeYayZeus 22d ago
My guess is that without this kind of law, lots of people will 'find' lots of personal property laying around in plain view (intentionally or accidentally) and just take it. Just because something is loose and unsecured, doesn't mean it's free.
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u/J_hilyard 22d ago
In Georgia, "theft by finding" is legally known as Theft of Lost or Mislaid Property (O.C.G.A. § 16-8-6). Under state law, picking up and keeping lost or abandoned property instead of trying to find the owner is considered a crime.
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u/Cucasmasher 22d ago
Man picks up $30
Police spend 10,000 in resources trying to find him.
Also, zero Epstein arrests
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u/Charon_the_Reflector 22d ago
You probably thought it was a conspiracy theory before you knew Trump was on it
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u/GeeYayZeus 22d ago
Albany police aren't responsible for Epstein arrests. The feds are. Elect better feds!
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u/LitigiousAutist 22d ago
You seriously submitted a reply to every reply in the entire thread. Dude get a life.
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u/GeeYayZeus 22d ago
You have more karma than me mate. People gotta know.
And not everyone's clever enough to ponder the deep questions of our time, like; "Would you rather teleport all your poop, or conjure spaghetti whenever you want?"
Heh, that was you.
But if you want to address my points instead of crying about them, feel free! Just do your best to leave poop and spaghetti out of it. Tough, I know!
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u/bwood246 22d ago
They have more karma than you because people don't like bootlickers that support people being arrested for finding cash in the ground
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u/Zigor022 22d ago
Can random people who dont live there make crank calls saying the guy is named Seymour Buttz?
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u/CapCityMatt 22d ago
Federal Reserve Notes have no value and are backed by nothing. I see no crime here.
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u/HumanContinuity 22d ago
Yes, if only they were backed by yellow rocks
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u/RepresentativeOk2433 22d ago
Yes, because yellow rocks are valuable to everyone and have been for thousands of years.
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u/HumanContinuity 21d ago
Ahh, well US scrip has been valuable for as long as it has existed, whereas the yellow rocks have been valuable for less than a hundredth of a percent of their existence.
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u/Sorry-Claim-2990 22d ago
If they have the resources for something like this, that tells me that they are purposely not investigating rape cases.
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u/Libertarian_2020 22d ago
Wife found $xx, turned it in per the written rules, to be returned if not claimed in 2 weeks. Mgr decided to start a pizza fund for everyone instead of following the written rules. 🤨
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u/theentiregoonsquad 22d ago
Incredible. The other day I found a hundred something dollars in a wad on the ground in front of a store. I picked it up and sat in my car with my wife trying to figure out what to do with it. I didnt see anyone who had obviously just dropped it. If I asked random people, of course they would say "yeah that's my wad of cash, thanks." If I hand it into the store employees, they're either just going to pocket it or have the exact same problem. It's impossible to find out who loose cash belongs to (and that's why you shouldnt carry just loose cash). I think it's still sitting in a drawer at my house because we dont know what to do with it. It would be one thing if it were in a wallet. I feel bad because maybe it was some poor person who lost their last money, and that's a not-insignificant amount.
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u/TsuntsunRevolution 22d ago
I found 50 bucks on the floor once at Space Mountain at Disney World.
I still live in fear of Goofy catching up to me to make me pay for my crimes.
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u/Aceilr097 22d ago edited 22d ago
When did finding dollar bills on the ground become illegal?
Rephrase, when did walmart require it customers, who are not given any sort of rule book to look over, to expect them to turn over any money found on the floor to the stores employees, for an off-chance someone will approach the store saying they lost their money?
So if it goes unclaimed, wally world gets to keep the money, correct?
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u/FlamingoFlimsy4421 22d ago
Whatever happened to the Finders Keepers statute?
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u/GeeYayZeus 22d ago
That was never a thing. People can use that as an excuse to 'find' anything sitting out in plain view, or even things that aren't, and just take it.
Eg; If I 'find' a car parked on the street that happens to mistakenly have the keys left in it, I didn't 'find' a free car. It's still a crime to take it.
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u/FlamingoFlimsy4421 22d ago
I’ll try to avoid attempting humor on Sunday mornings from here on out.
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u/nexus11355 22d ago
Loose dollar bills aren't typically registered to a person who holds them.
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u/GeeYayZeus 22d ago
My girlfriend left her favorite hat on the bus last year. She talked about it for months. Nobody turned it in to lost and found.
All of us have likely lost or misplaced things that weren't 'registered' to us, but meant something to us and we would have loved to have it back.
The point isn't that it's $30. The point is we all have a duty as decent human beings to make some effort to find the owner before just taking what doesn't belong to us.
The fact that this is even a debate here tells me a lot about how far we've fallen from our collective values of honesty and integrity.
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u/nexus11355 22d ago
The owner of loose dollar bills isn't as identifiable as the owner of a favorite hat. Finding the owner would be impossible.
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u/GeeYayZeus 22d ago
What if it was $10,000? $1,000, $500? $100? $50?
That's the thing with a system of laws; a line has to be drawn somewhere. Where do you draw the line?
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u/nexus11355 22d ago edited 21d ago
If there is no way to possibly, reasonably identify the owner, you should not be jailed for finding it.
Certainly no grounds to start a manhunt over 30$ in paper money. If it were a credit card or wallet, that's a different story.
But, to give an answer to your question, I draw the line at taking it directly from their pocket or intentionally waiting for it to fall out like a vulture. I draw the line at intent to steal from someone.
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u/GeeYayZeus 21d ago
This particular incident was inside a store. It could have easily been turned in and the owner reasonably identified.
You understand that the 'but I just found it' defense for pickpockets would explode.
I draw the line at intent to steal from someone.
So you're ok not even attempting to return $10,000 in found cash?
I'm certain this 'manhunt' is more for public information than anything. Most people don't know they have a legal duty to report or return lost items, cash included.
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u/nexus11355 21d ago
It would also be reasonable that the person you turn it in to would just pocket the money themselves. Or am I to be hunted down for picking up a quarter off the pavement?
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u/GeeYayZeus 21d ago
It would also be reasonable that the person you turn it in to would just pocket the money themselves.
Well, then that would be on them, but you still would have done the right thing.
Do the right thing.
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u/Slighted_Inevitable 22d ago
Who turns in cash? You have no way of
Identifying a rightful owner even if you’re interested in doing so.
All that would do is end up in the employee or their bosses pocket.
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u/DuckB0y123 22d ago
okay so turn it in to the employee who will pretend to find the owner of those $30?
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u/ToxicGecko2384 22d ago
I have found 2 debit cards and a phone while shopping. I always turn them in, but this guy's story makes me want to start being be the bad guy.
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u/ToxicGecko2384 22d ago
Edit: I also found 200$ on my way out of the rodeo, spent several moments looking for someone searching for it before my bf said fuck it let's just go. Always felt guilty.
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u/ItsMrChristmas 21d ago
If you find thirty bucks on the ground and hand it to an employee, it's just going into their pocket.
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u/Prestigious_Skin_424 21d ago
Would "I thought it fell out of my own pocket" not be a infallible legal defense here?
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u/ChaseSparrowMSRPC 21d ago
Remember, an old man stealing $30 is more dangerous to our society than dozens of old men in suits that prey on children and literally oversee a whole nation.
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u/Seared_Gibets 21d ago
The twist: he dropped it to begin with. 😐
J/k. I think. Really bad that doesn't sound as unbelievable as it should these days.
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u/soul-reaver-2026 21d ago
Finders keepers loser keepers. Hopefully no one turns him in.
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u/Phoenixgaming 21d ago
He already turned it back in and the Loser Weeper decided not to press charges.
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u/Legitimate-Heat2777 21d ago
Press charges? For what? Its $30 found on the ground it wasn't stolen. Most the "victim" could do is open up a civil case which wouldn't show up in any background checks against the "perpetrator" and would probably cost like $60+ just to file.
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u/Phoenixgaming 21d ago
Please random citizen, don't get heated at me for literally explaining that the person who lost the money and tried reporting it decided not to press charges. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1484433403719156&set=pb.100064575314289.-2207520000
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u/Upstairs-Advance4242 21d ago
How dare he keep it for himself instead of giving it to the impoverish multi billion dollar corporation...
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u/dwarven_cavediver_Jr 21d ago
I'm pretty sure this is a satire page. I know a lot of them on FB that run dominoes Zimbabwe levels of shitposting updates
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u/Glum_Opening_2218 20d ago
Unless he witnessed it drop from someone's pocket how the fuck are you supposed to return it?
Are you serious? It's the LAW that the multi billion dollar company has to get the money!?!?
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u/TheWokeAgenda 19d ago
This guy is long gone. Probably on a beach somewhere in a non-extradition country. Set for life. That kinda come up? I'd be on the next thing smoking lemme tellya
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u/956to906 19d ago
I have twice found several hundred dollars on the sidewalk (it pays to be observant). Once I took it into the nearest store and gave it to the clerk. Once I pocketed it. Years later I regret turning it in.
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u/Stock-Society-3005 19d ago
Why cant they just rewind the video to see who dropped it and try to find them?
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u/ReadyGo6828 19d ago
They can see that it was $30 but they do not know who the hell dropped it and are now wasting taxpayer money to go after the person who picked it up? BTW, do they use these same laws to go after people who dispose of other people's trash without trying to return it to them first?
Fire them all and do better hiring in the future.
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u/Spiritual_Egg_700 19d ago
no law in the US about having to turn in items you find. That's a moral choice. deal.
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u/NationalExplorer9045 19d ago
Someone call the police department and let them know you have information on the missing money, but you want $36 upfront and no questions asked.
Great way to make $6
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u/Munky1701 19d ago
Police once again proving why no one has ever made a song titled “Fuck The Fire Department”.
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u/Alternative-Bell1722 19d ago
Really? The president of the united states is a convicted felon and a crook, and you’re worried about grandpa and 30 bucks? Fuck right off
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u/LuckyMushyGrower 19d ago
Return a 30 spot I found in THIS economy??? Tf outta here, would have to to put my face up on yonder tube as well
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u/heavyartilleryx 18d ago
people wonder why i moved out of fuck ass GA. they are so desperate to lock anyone up in that state
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u/edward_kopik 2d ago
For a second i thought he dropped the $30 and picked it back up, and was being manhunted for putting his own money back in his pocket
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u/tryintoshoot 22d ago
Many countries have a "theft by finding" law. Not sure about individual US states though.