• GorGor@startrek.website
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    3 months ago

    my kid was playing on a swing in a community park in a neighboring town (an expensive place to live). She found a big baggie of cash, looked like mostly singles, but it was maybe 2" thick. I told her to put it back and not mess with it. Maybe it was someones birthday money, maybe it was some other nefarious source. no matter what I don’t need that in my life, I definitely don’t need my kid dealing with it.

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      3 months ago

      You did the right thing. Wait until that local dealer gets more successful and starts leaving larger sums at that dead drop.

  • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    I know because this already happened to me, I returned it. The owner was very surprised that the money was not missing when I gave him the wallet but didn’t even pay me a coffee, no regerts tho.

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    A month or two ago I found $40 someone had taped up to the bus stop with a sticker. You better believe I snatched that shit up. Who am I to question the ways of people who go around leaving money at bus stops with stickers?

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    I would fulfill my legal obligation by reporting that cash as missing to the police, if not claimed I get to legally keep it (the only reason why I would do this is because that sort of money tends to come with severe problems)

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    3 months ago

    A wallet like that doesn’t belong to someone that calls the police. I’d just keep walking.

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    3 months ago

    Look for an ID. Return it. Or give it to the cops.

    I seen that money. No way I am keeping a sus wad of cash tyvm.

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      3 months ago

      No way that wallet is anything but a fucking trap. I’d be looking around for the asshole with the camera pranking people

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    3 months ago

    Check for ID; if none, count and photograph it before turning it in to the police department.

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    3 months ago

    It’s just like Jesus said: “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and render unto me all of that cash in that inexplicably bulging wallet over there.”