Inside an old safe: hidden cash, open feud

Globe ^ | June 13, 2009 | Peter Schworm

[Ecliptic]

“Somebody needs to learn to keep their mouth shut.”

Really!!! Why on Earth would anyone go around telling everybody? I find money all the time but never turn it in (never more than $50)........

Finders keepers unless you hear of someone losing it and they can identify specifically where and how much...

[Orange1998]

I would donate it to the firefighters fund for job down well. Without them it would have never been found.

[Vermont Lt]

Somebody is an idiot for talking. When you find money, you quietly put it in your pocket and skulk away.

No good deed goes unpunished.

[Sacajaweau]

It goes to her widower. They worked for it.

Consider the firefighters one of those "God things"....and let the widower do a little donating...

[Arthur McGowan]

And those are 1969 dollars, and the dollar was worth a lot more in 1969!

[Orange1998]

Sounds fair, I second it.

[SunkenCiv]

Amid all the competing claims, the police department has had enough. Last week, the department filed a petition seeking to have Essex Superior Court take the money and determine its rightful owner.

Obviously the rightful owners will be the attorneys representing the various claimants -- $178K is tip money.

[cynwoody]

Possession is 9/10s of the law.

And secrecy is the crucial tenth tenth.

[Political Junkie Too]

How would this be resolved if the safe were found on a ship sunk in the ocean? Regardless of who found it, wouldn't the original country claim the treasure as its own?

-PJ