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Offline smoe

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Found a $100 bill
« on: April 24, 2014, 04:49:11 PM »
I have a question that someone may have an answer to. I stopped at a junkyard to buy a set of used tire rims. After I had agreed to buy a set of rims and carried them to my car. I went back to the counter inside the junkyard office and found a $100 bill laying on the floor on the customer side. The junkyard employee was in the backroom and entered the customer counter area just after I picked up the $100 bill. I immediately told the employee that I found the $100 bill laying on the ground and it must have been dropped by a previous customer. The employee then notified me that the $100 was a fake and seemed to be the one whom had placed it there in the first place.

My question is: was this guy trying to pull a joke on me or something more sinister?


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Offline BluBerry

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Re: Found a $100 bill
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2014, 05:27:37 PM »
did you ask him why he would "put" a fake $100 on the ground? I woulda pocketed that and said peace biznitch.
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Re: Found a $100 bill
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2014, 06:38:20 PM »
Quote from: smoe on April 24, 2014, 04:49:11 PM
I have a question that someone may have an answer to. I stopped at a junkyard to buy a set of used tire rims. After I had agreed to buy a set of rims and carried them to my car. I went back to the counter inside the junkyard office and found a $100 bill laying on the floor on the customer side. The junkyard employee was in the backroom and entered the customer counter area just after I picked up the $100 bill. I immediately told the employee that I found the $100 bill laying on the ground and it must have been dropped by a previous customer. The employee then notified me that the $100 was a fake and seemed to be the one whom had placed it there in the first place.

My question is: was this guy trying to pull a joke on me or something more sinister?




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Offline JimmyC

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Re: Found a $100 bill
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2014, 07:25:57 PM »
I think basically if its not yours...
Well its not yours...
Finders keepers does not apply in law..
Dose not mean people dont just keep things but legally its theft
Saw a US police show on tv once where they left a fannypack full of cash at a public phone at the airport.
Some unsuspecting tourist arrived and thought it was his lucky day...an unofficial welcome to the land of the free...
Well he pocketed the cash....and bam ..the sting stung and he was frogmarched away..one cop said we dont want your sort here..we dont steal other peoples stuff...they deported the unlucky soul...I always thought it was totally unfair and entrapment and well out of order....if you saw a fannypack full of cash left in a public place what would you do....?
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Offline GScholz

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Re: Found a $100 bill
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2014, 07:33:22 PM »
Go to the police report the find and collect my 10% finders fee.
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Offline Dichotomy

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Re: Found a $100 bill
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2014, 08:43:51 PM »
Quote from: JimmyC on April 24, 2014, 07:25:57 PM
I think basically if its not yours...
Well its not yours...
Finders keepers does not apply in law..
Dose not mean people dont just keep things but legally its theft
Saw a US police show on tv once where they left a fannypack full of cash at a public phone at the airport.
Some unsuspecting tourist arrived and thought it was his lucky day...an unofficial welcome to the land of the free...
Well he pocketed the cash....and bam ..the sting stung and he was frogmarched away..one cop said we dont want your sort here..we dont steal other peoples stuff...they deported the unlucky soul...I always thought it was totally unfair and entrapment and well out of order....if you saw a fannypack full of cash left in a public place what would you do....?

try as best I could to find the owner. 
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Offline Brooke

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Re: Found a $100 bill
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2014, 09:46:24 PM »
Suspicious.

Regardless, counterfeit bills should be reported to the US Secret Service promptly:
http://www.treasury.gov/about/organizational-structure/offices/Treasurer-US/Pages/if-you-suspect.aspx


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Offline smoe

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Re: Found a $100 bill
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2014, 10:17:29 PM »
The $100 has writing clearly stating that it was "not a real bill." I don't believe the bill was intended to fool anyone, but more of a gag.

What I was suspecting is two things: One, he was trying to lighten my day by pulling a prank or two, he may have wanted me to try and use it to pay for the used tire rims and extort me somehow.
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Re: Found a $100 bill
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2014, 10:53:53 PM »
Quote from: smoe on April 24, 2014, 10:17:29 PM
The $100 has writing clearly stating that it was "not a real bill." I don't believe the bill was intended to fool anyone, but more of a gag.

What I was suspecting is two things: One, he was trying to lighten my day by pulling a prank or two, he may have wanted me to try and use it to pay for the used tire rims and extort me somehow.

OK . . . odd, but if that blatantly false, I wouldn't report it.
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Offline Rich46yo

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Re: Found a $100 bill
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2014, 04:05:07 AM »
Probably a joke, and a stupid one at that. Had he admitted to it with the Police there he could have been pinched for counterfeiting. Joke or no Joke.

Ive never heard of anyone getting arrested for finding money and keeping it. Even if they did theres no way there would be a conviction. Unless maybe the money was laying on PVT property and even then how do you prove there is an owner and without a victim there is no charge. But an airport? It sounds like entrapment.
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Re: Found a $100 bill
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2014, 05:50:31 AM »
If the bill is CLEARLY marked not to be genuine, it's not counterfeit, and not prosecutable. There are fake bills printed every day, and as long as they're CLEARLY identified as not genuine, they're ok.
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Re: Found a $100 bill
« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2014, 12:19:51 PM »
Quote from: Copprhed on April 25, 2014, 05:50:31 AM
If the bill is CLEARLY marked not to be genuine, it's not counterfeit, and not prosecutable. There are fake bills printed every day, and as long as they're CLEARLY identified as not genuine, they're ok.

You mean like big red printed words "THIS IS NOT REAL MONEY"? :huh
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Re: Found a $100 bill
« Reply #12 on: April 25, 2014, 12:47:27 PM »
Best gag I ever did was a little manila envelope with a picture of a rattlesnake and conspicuous bold letters "RATTLESNAKE EGGS"

Inside was a washer on a twisted rubber band, so when the envelope started to open, the washer would spin and make a flap-flap-flap noise real quick, and vibrate the envelope.

It's a good gag,  You're already on guard from reading 'rattlesnake eggs', then when stuff starts making noise and moving around it'd flat rattle some folks.  One guy I remember jumped so far back his cigarette fell out of his mouth. :banana:
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Re: Found a $100 bill
« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2014, 02:36:57 PM »
    People have too much time on their hands.  :rolleyes:

   We did some social experiments in the Casino, We would be sitting at the bar and would throw a quarter on the floor and try to guess who were the biggest losers in the place as they would be the ones scanning the floor for dropped money. Fun times.  :D
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