[agere_contra]

"I was like ‘just bring the bag,’ not thinking twice about it,” said Graves. “I was thinking ‘oh we could find a receipt in there,’ and possibly go back to the phone company Verizon."

Exactly what anyone of us would have done. This police scheme is demented.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I was in agreement with you on this until the people said they ran right by a police officer and noticed him but didn’t hand him the bag.

I suppose if they are really really late, that could make sense.

But it’s hard to imagine someone thinking they’d rather go through the hourse of hassle of tracking down the owner and bringing the bag back, when all they had to do is hand the bag to a police officer and say “I found this sitting over there, gotta go”.

My guess is they were thinking that if they couldn’t identify who owned it, they’d keep it. A lot of people think the law allows finders to be keepers.

Still, since the law allows them 10 days, there’s no way these arrests should stick up in court.

[conservativehusker]

Agree that is what most people would do....then a couple of other thoughts:

If you let the cop know there will be paperwork and delays...

If you tell the cop he might think it’s a bomb and shut down everything..

If you give it to the cop how do you know it will get back to the rightful owner???

[arthurus]

It makes for pretty statistics about “criminals” taken off the street.

[TankerKC]

Exactly what anyone of us would have done.

It is exactly what some of us would have done, and exactly what others of us would have claimed we were doing.

Still, there's no reason for the cops doing this.

[AppyPappy]

Nah, you don’t pick up strange bags in a subway and then jump on a train.