There handing this dude a very very large check for defamation and malicious prosecution unless they took it out of a wallet given that it's completely legal to keep found loose money without looking for the owner.
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Who would actually turn him in though?
There’s also Luigi Mangioni to consider. Those McDonald’s employees made public the fact that rewards for turning people in, don’t happen, the majority of the time.
Even if the “crime” is more egregious than picking up $30 blowing in the wind, who would bother?
What happened? They didn't get anything?
No, last check.
I’ve not tried to claim one, but the reported info from people who look for people using OSINT to try to claim rewards is that it’s complicated.
Some read “if convicted” as a contingency. “Up to” can be in the wording. Which agrency posted the reward? Is that who you called? Did you talk to someone and get supervisor approval (my favorite) before giving info on someone?
Who does that, by the way? What if they say no, not in the budget any more, and then you decline to give info, now are you guilty of something chargeable?
You have to wonder: How did this come to anyone's attention in the first place? But it could be that the person who lost the money asked Walmart for help, and the cameras caught the story.
So this may not be as baleful a sign of our times as it at first seems. But how much effort do police departments make for stolen bicycles? It's definitely an example of the cops taking a crime seriously, not because the crime is serious, but because the case is easy.
How did this come to anyone's attention in the first place?
A cop had recently been dumped by someone who was in the vicinity of the dropped $30.
I once had the cops find my stolen bike, because the state required you to have a registration number.
I never picked it up since the reason they recovered it is because they saw a black guy riding it and figured it must be stolen.
Why would you not want your bike back?
I mean they where right this time and why wouldn't yiubgetnit back.
But who cares its 30 bucks. If youblost it yiubkost it.
If they don't know where he is, how do they know he kept it? Perhaps he's taking the long way round to drop it off.
Genuinely, in the U.S, what is the crime here?
For fucks sake: its money. Why would you turn it in?
There is nothing identifiable about it. It makes no sense. Besides at the rate the US is going it will have halved in purchase power in the next week anyway.
I'm assuming our law enforcement is long accustomed to the spoils of asset forfeiture, and believe they are entitled to every bit of loose cash or liquidatable valuables they find, including in your wallet, in your car or on your property during an unlawful search.
Surveillance experts have been warning about the mission creep of mass surveillance since before the Snowden reports.
This can't be real. Unless he took it from a wallet he found on the ground, there is no crime. This feels like ragebait. Does anyone have a credible link?
It was real. The cops got shit for it, but they claim the guy saw a lady drop it. In the end, he gave the money back.
Albany authorities said the man saw the woman drop the money at the store and could have faced charges in the case. However, because he returned the $30, charges would not be filed.
Said. Huh. They have him on video picking up the money, but not him seeing it...
With the trustworthiness of GA PDs, not sure I'd trust them "saying" anything.
Thanks for the link!
And I am sure they track the woman down and gave her back the 30? How much money did it cost tax payers for all this policing?
There was "operation lucky bag" where the NYPD would purposefully leave a backpack, and arrest people who picked it up
There's other coverage out there too.
The police are not a force for good.
"This can't be real" is what other countries say whenever they see trump saying/doing anything so its really doesn't have the weight it used to.
I don't have a link, but I do remember reading the article about this about a week ago. I think it happened in a Walmart, and the article didn't really go into details about what the actual crime was.
Plot twist: he also said something mildly disparaging about Ice or Charlie Kirk on the internet. Get 'em, boys!
Naturally, we should spend all of our money on cops and not social services. /s Fuck cops.
Albany, GA folks. That small ass town has gone viral more than a couple times
LET THE MAN KEEP IT. HE BENT OVER, PICKED UP DISCARDED THINGS AND FOUND PURPOSE FOR IT. NOT ONLY IS THAT CLEANING UP LITTER ITS RECYCLING. THATS WORTH $30
Alleged criminal: "Uh, I didn't actually spend the $30. Here, you can have it back."
Police: "The media circus is already on, buddy. You're going to do 20-to-life now!"

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