Posted: 6/12/2010 12:19:18 AM EDT
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well a few years back one of our snior citizens saw a suspicious bag on the side of the road.
He called the police and it turned out to be over $5 million in cash just sitting there. I always told myself if this happened to me I would check every bag I see. Well yesterday I saw a bag and went back for it. It turned out to be an empty backpack with a towl in in. It was a damned nice Eastpac and I will put it to use somehow. Maybe a small get home gab in the back of the car, Oh the thoughts that went through my mind. |
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well a few years back one of our snior citizens saw a suspicious bag on the side of the road. He called the police and it turned out to be over $5 million in cash just sitting there. I always told myself if this happened to me I would check every bag I see. Well yesterday I saw a bag and went back for it. It turned out to be an empty backpack with a towl in in. It was a damned nice Eastpac and I will put it to use somehow. Maybe a small get home gab in the back of the car, Oh the thoughts that went through my mind. It was really 5.5 million when the cops picked it up 
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Quoted: One time I found a stolen bike, reported it to the cops and after 30 days I got to keep it.... think they'd do that with the $5mil??? next question is... if you found the $5mil would you keep it? No Country for Old Men? I would return all $4M to the police so that it may be placed in the custody of its rightful owner. |
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Quoted: Quoted: One time I found a stolen bike, reported it to the cops and after 30 days I got to keep it.... think they'd do that with the $5mil??? next question is... if you found the $5mil would you keep it? No Country for Old Men? I would return all $4M to the police so that it may be placed in the custody of its rightful owner. what money? it was empty....after i got done with it. screw that. if i found that kinda money, shiiiiiiiiii no tellin what i might do. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: One time I found a stolen bike, reported it to the cops and after 30 days I got to keep it.... think they'd do that with the $5mil??? next question is... if you found the $5mil would you keep it? No Country for Old Men? I would return all $4M to the police so that it may be placed in the custody of its rightful owner. what money? it was empty....after i got done with it. screw that. if i found that kinda money, shiiiiiiiiii no tellin what i might do. No kidding. I would have the most awesome hermit bunker that I would build.  |
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A good friend of mine told me once when he was a teenager he was driving home from work one night and saw a bag on the side of the road through his headlights.
He didn't think it was anything so he kept on driving. Next morning on the news they reported a bag was discovered on the side of the road with about $25k in it. He was pretty upset
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First of all, no one is going to claim a missing bag with $5M in it.....why?
No one 'loses' a bag like that. It's not some wallet with a few hundred that falls out of a pocket. Just how many people carry around $5M in cash, in a backpack, and accidentally leave it somewhere? And assuming I did find something like that....I'm not touching the cash. The likelyhood is that it belongs to someone who would be willing to kill for it. If the police held it for 30 days and released it to you there will at least be a blurb in the local paper if not a story on the evening news about it. Thereafter you'd be looking over your shoulder....forever. No thanks...not worth the hassle. |
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First of all, no one is going to claim a missing bag with $5M in it.....why? No one 'loses' a bag like that. It's not some wallet with a few hundred that falls out of a pocket. Just how many people carry around $5M in cash, in a backpack, and accidentally leave it somewhere? And assuming I did find something like that....I'm not touching the cash. The likelyhood is that it belongs to someone who would be willing to kill for it. If the police held it for 30 days and released it to you there will at least be a blurb in the local paper if not a story on the evening news about it. Thereafter you'd be looking over your shoulder....forever. No thanks...not worth the hassle. can 5mil in $100 bills even fit in a backpack? i think it would take more like a wheelbarrow |
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Did the guy get to keep the cash? Was it claimed? A percentage of the money went to the Sheriffs Dept and the rest was destroyed...yeah right. There were rumors going around that it was a drop made by big local drug runners intended for the police to find. It was supposed to be a payoff to the police to turn a blindeye so the drugs being transported would go unnoticed at that time. I know I would have kept that $5 million and took my chances |
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Quoted: Quoted: Did the guy get to keep the cash? Was it claimed? A percentage of the money went to the Sheriffs Dept and the rest was destroyed...yeah right. There were rumors going around that it was a drop made by big local drug runners intended for the police to find. It was supposed to be a payoff to the police to turn a blindeye so the drugs being transported would go unnoticed at that time. I know I would have kept that $5 million and took my chances Reported as, "I found 2 million," then if someone comes forward, "Oh, yeah, SOB I didn't notice this before." I found a backpack last year. Just looked in it enough to see if identification was there (at the beaches, you find all kinds of crap). There wasn't any so I took it to the Police department. There was freaking no one there on a Saturday!!. I rang the bell, rang the bell, then finally wrote a note and left the backpack there. I fully expected the hear about he bomb scare the next day on the news, but there was nothing. |
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Walking the beach of San Diego Thursday with my niece and found an Apple phone on the sand. Turned it in to the surfer savers or whatever the life boys are called. The guy said he would put it in their lost and found, I suggested he call one of the numbers and have them tell the friend where to find the phone.
He lit up like the cartoon character's with the light bulb going off over their heads. |
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one million in $100 bills http://ttoes.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/image0033.jpg?w=266&h=254 How much is this then? 
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The question is where did 5 Mil come from? No theif getting away with 5 Mil cash.
My luck they'd be sitting there watching the bag for whoever was supposed to pick it up and my ass would pull up in a Toyota Corolla. 
I'm going to start stopping more. My dad saw a rifle box lying in a ditch once so of course he stopped. No rifle in it though. You have to stop! A UPS driver around here once was delivering a handgun to a shop and sit it in front of him so he didn't forget to detour to hit that stop on his way home. He went around a curve on a gravel road and the box slid off, took one bounce and went right in a small branch of the river. They ended up finding it later on but it was toast. |
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well a few years back one of our snior citizens saw a suspicious bag on the side of the road. He called the police and it turned out to be over $5 million in cash just sitting there. I always told myself if this happened to me I would check every bag I see. Well yesterday I saw a bag and went back for it. It turned out to be an empty backpack with a towl in in. It was a damned nice Eastpac and I will put it to use somehow. Maybe a small get home gab in the back of the car, Oh the thoughts that went through my mind. Always know where your towel is
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Did the guy get to keep the cash? Was it claimed? A percentage of the money went to the Sheriffs Dept and the rest was destroyed...yeah right. There were rumors going around that it was a drop made by big local drug runners intended for the police to find. It was supposed to be a payoff to the police to turn a blindeye so the drugs being transported would go unnoticed at that time. I know I would have kept that $5 million and took my chances You ain't kidding !!!
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Billions (just a guess). |
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Turn it into the police and they will claim that it is drug money and try to keep it.
Similar situation happen in the Dallas area a few years ago when an older couple found a bag containing a few thousand dollars. They did what they believed was the right thing and turned the cash into the police. No one came forward to claim it and the police tried to claim it as drug money. Couple took them to court and got it back. |
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one million in $100 bills http://ttoes.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/image0033.jpg?w=266&h=254 How much is this then? http://fugitive.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/f110-1.jpg Billions (just a guess). 100 million+ |
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