Posted on 04/02/2021 9:16:02 PM PDT by Rabin
A Tri-Cities resident, while inside the Circle K located at Steptoe St and Gage Blvd in Kennewick found a plastic bag that had $7,000 in it on Thursday night. He turned the money over to the store clerk. The clerk safeguarded the money until police were able to arrive. Officer Sheppard with the Richland Police Department was close by and stopped to assist. Officer Sheppard and Kennewick Police Sergeant Littrell counted the money. Through the review of store video, Sergeant Littrell was able to determine the owner of the money who was extremely happy with the character of the Tri-City resident!
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R.
Go Bless him! Honesty is a wonderful reward.
That is a great story! Thanks!
I wonder why he was transporting $7,000.00 in a plastic bag rather than a cashiers check? Just wondering!
At least the finder was honest!!
Is it illegal to carry $7000? Why do you wonder; STASI agent wannabe?
Police will deem it drug related and the police chief will geT an all expense Gulf vacation. 10-20-1000-7000 the police deem it drug related.
Nowhere in the story and title/headline/author do you know what state this is from?
Another example of a pisspoor writer/station doing a bad
imitation of the old “Ted Mack Amateur Hour” show, in print. Or just a lazy bunch of staff across the board.
It is Washington State - but I only know that because I live here. Another thing I’ve noticed on the internet is a lot of news stories don’t have the date on them - manly video news stories iirc.
Or Facebook pages. Some gun club will be promoting their big shooting contest and nowhere does it say what city or state the club is at!
Perhaps the headline should have included the state, but the story is from a local TV station and intended for a local audience.
No, but it’s stupid and risky as evinced by leaving it in a store.
One rainy Thanksgiving afternoon God caused me to hit an errant drive while golfing deep into thick rough ( a friend and myself we’re the only two nuts out on the course). In that rough I found a $15,000 Rolex watch. I ended up finding the owner who was ecstatic because his dad had given him the watch in the past year and then died. The watch fell out of the man’s golf bag.
I agree 100% (was thinking the same thing).
When it mentioned Richmond, I figured Virginia, but another poster said Washington. (I’ve never heard of Richmond, Washington, so I would have never guessed it..)
Strange, isn't it?
Another question is, "Who is so careless with $7,000 in cash, and why"?
Way back in public school English Class, we were taught the basics of a proper 'news' story; Who, What, When, Where, Why and How (5Ws&H). It was also taught that the first 4 Ws were essential but likely condensed for that arcane and dated concept of 'print space' while the latter 2 could be considered the dividing line between 'reporting' and 'journalism'.
Interesting how the absence of the 'print space' constraint has, evidently, made the rest of this 'standard(s)' equally absent! Of course the absence of copy and proof editors shows as well.
Progress? I don't think so!
Somewhere along the way, I learned to value truth.
Leftists in America have never learned this--or if they have, they have forgotten it. Truth to them is whatever they can convince people to believe--or can convince themselves to believe.
Contempt for truth--truth for its own sake--is the evil most fundamental to the decadence that is destroying America and will lead to her downfall unless the American People wake up--and fast! and get honest fast! (The leftists are hoping that they won't, and they've received considerable encouragement, especially from the "news media".)
Business bank deposit. Most businesses do not take checks anymore so a deposit would be all cash. I have stuffed my own business bank deposits in a plastic bag many times so that it is inconspicuous when carrying it across parking lots. Far too many have fallen for the brainwashing that all large sums of cash are immediately drug money.
Actually in the 1990s it was illegal to transport large sums of cash without supporting paperwork. It could be seized on the spot and you might face years trying to recover it.
I don’t support such legislation but it is best to be aware and take precautions.
“I wonder why he was transporting $7,000.00 in a plastic bag rather than a cashiers check? Just wondering!”
When I was a teenager I had a wreck. While I was at the hospital getting sewed up I remembered I had lift the day’s receipts from my father’s restaurant under the seat. It was around $4000 in the middle 70’s. I think that’s equivalent to about $3.7 million now. Obviously, I managed to get to the wrecker yard and get the money or I wouldn’t be telling the story.
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