Posted on 06/13/2009 8:28:29 AM PDT by george76
“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...
I would donate it to the firefighters fund for job down well. Without them it would have never been found.
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.
Consider the firefighters one of those "God things"....and let the widower do a little donating...
And those are 1969 dollars, and the dollar was worth a lot more in 1969!
Sounds fair, I second it.
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.
And secrecy is the crucial tenth tenth.
-PJ
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