How is using the money people have tossed away considered stealing?
“How is using the money people have tossed away considered stealing?”
All your money belong to the government.
"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
-- Benito Mussolini
The government thinks all the money belongs to them, and therefore she stole it.
Was wondering the same thing. What’s the difference between loose change in a fountain, on the ground, a parking lot, etc?
Which one will the Government Bless?
If you look, many fountains now have signs that tell you the charity the money goes to, or that it becomes the property of the property owner to distribute charitably.
The fountain is technically private property, so whatever's in it belongs to the owner to distribute as he sees fit.
How is using the money people have tossed away considered stealing?
I don’t think she should have been cited, and probably wouldn’t have if she told the officer the truth, well maybe. Usually the money in fountains is collected and sometimes goes to charity or fountain maintenance and sometimes just into the city coffers. So is it stealing? maybe, but around where I live they never hassle anyone for stealing from our recycle bins on the street and that is supposed to offset our fees.
good question
found money lying on the ground, will you be arrested for picking it up?
On the same note would picking up and pocketing a coin(s) from a sidewalk or street be considered stealing?
Just like throwing out the trash. You lose all right to privacy. Unless there is some ordinance on the books and signs posted at the fountain to prohibit that activity, I would think that she was in her rights to take that which was freely discarded