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Kitkat wrote on 2013-02-10 06:26
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/good-news/casino-janitor-finds-10k-restroom-returns-owner-170939502.html
Quote from Yahoo News:
In December, an honest cleaning service worker found $13,000 cash in an iPad case at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida. He promptly returned it to its owner.
Last Friday, a janitor at Thunder Valley Casino in Lincoln, California, did the same.
Meuy Saelee found $10,000 in cash in the casino's restroom. Instead of quietly pocketing the money, she called her boss and turned it in.
Watch the news coverage at CBS13.
The casino used surveillance cameras to track down the owner, Linh Hoang, who gave Saelee a $500 reward.
"She said, 'Thank you,' that's all. Then, I walked back," said Saelee.
Hoang has made headlines previously — for leaving her young kids home alone so she could gamble.
Saelee gave her supervisor $50 of her reward.
This isn't the first time Saelee's returned a large sum of money. She previously handed in $15,000.
Saelee joins the long list of honest money-finders.
In September, a Las Vegas cab driver turned in the $221,510 left in his taxi.
In November, a Vienna bus driver turned in the almost $500,000 left on his bus. Earlier that month, an honest Singapore cabbie returned almost $1 million in cash.
People seem a bit uptight with all of the shootings going on, so here's a nice little bit of sunshine for you all. :>
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Ashikoki wrote on 2013-02-10 06:29
$13,000 cash in an iPad case
drug money
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Taycat wrote on 2013-02-10 07:11
How the hell do people misplace that much money.
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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2013-02-10 09:39
I can't say I would do the same. $250,000 would pay a lot of bills, get my car fixed, and maybe enough left over to have some fun.
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Nobelium wrote on 2013-02-10 15:11
Quote from Kitkat;1029816:
In September, a Las Vegas cab driver turned in the $221,510 left in his taxi.
In November, a Vienna bus driver turned in the almost $500,000 left on his bus. Earlier that month, an honest Singapore cabbie returned almost $1 million in cash.
That's a lot of money to return. I'm amazed the people didn't pocket it, I would have done so for sure. If you compare it to their wages, it is what, easily 4 years worth to them (for 200k) or more? Maybe they didn't know what was in the suitcases they returned.
Edit: Curiosity got the better of me...can't believe they actually knew it was that much. Or maybe that was precisely why, the sheer amount can be scary.
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Chihaya wrote on 2013-02-10 15:45
It's just that these people are on the "higher levels of morality" than anyone else.
Because of this, it just bugs their conscience if they simply pocket the money instead of turning it in.
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radionoise wrote on 2013-02-10 18:48
The last three are probably just common sense.
If you find $200k, $500k or $1m and pocket it, you know there's a good chance that someone very scary will come looking for it and you wouldn't be hard to find as a registered employee where the money was left. A bag full of THAT much cash doesn't exactly scream legal and the owner determined to find it could very well be a dangerous individual.
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Kitkat wrote on 2013-02-10 21:06
Quote from radionoise;1029980:
The last three are probably just common sense.
If you find $200k, $500k or $1m and pocket it, you know there's a good chance that someone very scary will come looking for it and you wouldn't be hard to find as a registered employee where the money was left. A bag full of THAT much cash doesn't exactly scream legal and the owner determined to find it could very well be a dangerous individual.
You seem to be forgetting that this was found in a casino. The person could have potentially won something.
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radionoise wrote on 2013-02-10 22:04
Quote from Kitkat;1030055:
You seem to be forgetting that this was found in a casino. The person could have potentially won something.
You misread my post.
I specifically said the last three incidents, and the article specifically states that for the last three incidents the bags were found in a taxi in Las Vegas, a bus in Vienna and a taxi in Singapore. Neither of those is a casino.
Obviously those three people had decent morals, but self-preservation and common sense definitely could've played a role there.
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Sebbies wrote on 2013-02-10 22:13
Oh wow, Meuy Saelee's a distant relative of mine. Glad she returned it. Also, you have to wonder just what kind of people can casually forget such large amounts of money like that. I mean I absolutely freak out when $20 goes missing.
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Aubog007 wrote on 2013-02-11 10:06
People that work in the postal service here are routinely FIRED AND HAULED OFF by the postal inspectors if they catch you stealing a dime.
It's quite hilarious when they inspectors bait people and leave wads of cash laying in strange places. You are not even supposed to touch it.
One such incident had someone grabbing it in, turning it in to the lost and found, the lost and found... Lost it, and the inspectors lost 1k for someone doing what they thought was a good deed.
Inspectors never expected someone to... Turn it in.
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2013-02-11 16:11
Quote from Aubog007;1030575:
People that work in the postal service here are routinely FIRED AND HAULED OFF by the postal inspectors if they catch you stealing a dime.
It's quite hilarious when they inspectors bait people and leave wads of cash laying in strange places. You are not even supposed to touch it.
One such incident had someone grabbing it in, turning it in to the lost and found, the lost and found... Lost it, and the inspectors lost 1k for someone doing what they thought was a good deed.
Inspectors never expected someone to... Turn it in.
Wow...that's just...
Working for the government must be hard with such inspectors baiting you like that.
Seeing money laying around would bug the shit out of me.
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otto wrote on 2013-02-11 16:37
If i saw that much money lying anywhere my first instinct would be to count it lmao. But i would most likely not even touch it, especially if it was found in a casino. I'd rather not get my ass kicked for even breathing on someone's money.
I found a $50 bill on the floor once at school and I just kept walking.
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Drizzit wrote on 2013-02-12 02:33
Quote from radionoise;1029980:
The last three are probably just common sense.
If you find $200k, $500k or $1m and pocket it, you know there's a good chance that someone very scary will come looking for it and you wouldn't be hard to find as a registered employee where the money was left. A bag full of THAT much cash doesn't exactly scream legal and the owner determined to find it could very well be a dangerous individual.
This so hard. I've seen No Country for old Men, and I wouldn't want that shit to happen to me.