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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: BreakingBad on April 25, 2014, 12:39:28 PM
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An earlier post about a found $100 made me think about the times I've found money, how nice it is. Here are my best in order:
1. Park City Utah 1998: Sat at barstool and looked down to find $80 of 4 folded $20 bills. Place was packed, dark, smoky and loud.
2. Old Dallas Cowboy Stadium 2006: In line for a hot dog, looked down and found a $50. Left with more money than I came in with.
3, Dallas Farmers Market 2008: Saw a real old guy with shaky hands fumbling his money while paying in front of me, and dropped a $100. He didn't realize it until I told him.
4. O'Fallon, Il, 1978: First find, a $5 just sitting on the snowy pavement. Had to share it 50/50 with my friend walking with me who claimed to see it at the same time. ok fine...
5. Every fall I leave a fiver in one of my short pockets so I can find it again in the spring.
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Found a penny in the middle of a street yesterday. :aok
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Finding cash money... Pha! Peanuts! I found a woman that's subsidizing me for 10 years now... :devil
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800 dollars in gold and silver coins found in attic at my current apt.
gf spent them at face value a couple of years later to buy alcohol.
easy Congress easy goes.
semp
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Found a $100 laying on the ground in front of a convenient store...walked right inside and bought enough beer and fuel for whole weekend :rock :cheers:
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Also...wife and I were leaving casino about 2 weeks ago flat busted...she found a $20 in the parking lot...I apparently walked right over it as she was behind me...Can anyone say Denny's? :banana:
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Not a lot of money but I was walking out back of where I work and it's all blue stone, I look down and see a round shape the same color as the stone. It was a US 1898 half dollar, 98% silver I think. looked it up and they can go for hundeds but this one maybe 20 bucks due to being tumbled in blue stone for who knows how long.
Looked again several times but never found any more. :cry :bhead
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Found an envelope with $1246.34 (remember it like it was yesterday) outside the grocery store. Picked it up and ran it downtown to the police station. Then went back to the grocery store and let them know that i found it, and that it was at the police station if someone came in claiming they lost it, he took my name and number just in case no one claimed it.....finders keepers rule :D
Next day i get a call from the officer I left the envelope with, come to find out it was an elderly woman that dropped the envelope that contained her Social Security money. The lady called me later that day, and said she wanted to give me a reward.....i refused, but she insisted..... My reward? 4 dozen home made chocolate chip cookies that were to die for!!!!!
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Finding cash money... Pha! Peanuts! I found a woman that's subsidizing me for 10 years now... :devil
I hear ya Lusche! Been Mr Mom for longer than I can remember,is that 110 or 220,whatever it takes..... :devil
:salute
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Found an envelope with $1246.34 (remember it like it was yesterday) outside the grocery store. Picked it up and ran it downtown to the police station. Then went back to the grocery store and let them know that i found it, and that it was at the police station if someone came in claiming they lost it, he took my name and number just in case no one claimed it.....finders keepers rule :D
Next day i get a call from the officer I left the envelope with, come to find out it was an elderly woman that dropped the envelope that contained her Social Security money. The lady called me later that day, and said she wanted to give me a reward.....i refused, but she insisted..... My reward? 4 dozen home made chocolate chip cookies that were to die for!!!!!
<S> to you, Mr. Bailey! You saved that elderly lady a great deal of pain, and the home-made cookies for that are worth their weight in gold!
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Found a penny in the middle of a street yesterday. :aok
If it is heads up, you keep it for good money days ahead, heads down leave it. Old saying.
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Found an envelope with $1246.34 (remember it like it was yesterday) outside the grocery store. Picked it up and ran it downtown to the police station. Then went back to the grocery store and let them know that i found it, and that it was at the police station if someone came in claiming they lost it, he took my name and number just in case no one claimed it.....finders keepers rule :D
Next day i get a call from the officer I left the envelope with, come to find out it was an elderly woman that dropped the envelope that contained her Social Security money. The lady called me later that day, and said she wanted to give me a reward.....i refused, but she insisted..... My reward? 4 dozen home made chocolate chip cookies that were to die for!!!!!
Classy move. :rock
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I was behind a guy at an ATM on a Friday afternoon, I was about 19, and pretty much broke but for about fifteen pounds, this guy had withdrawn three hundred pounds and left it there in the slot of the machine, taken his card and walked away. I took the cash and followed him into the store, tapped him on the shoulder and gave it him back.
He was about 60 years old and wearing filthy overalls, he looked absolutely exhausted.
He never said a word to me, just stood there looking shocked as I walked away
Feel good about that to this day :old:
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If it is heads up, you keep it for good money days ahead, heads down leave it. Old saying.
First I've gotten musta been heads down. :headscratch: That explains why I haven't found anything above a dollar in the last 10 years. :cry
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A very large amount I wont disclose in the glove compartment of a vehicle once, the owner already in critical condition in an E.R. .
Turns out it was all legit, no drug dealer or anything. The family was ecstatic the father survived and their lifes savings were brought into the Hospital and inventoried for them to retrieve later. I refused an award and would have even if regulations allowed it.
I dont keep things that dont belong to me in general.
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Next day i get a call from the officer I left the envelope with, come to find out it was an elderly woman that dropped the envelope that contained her Social Security money. The lady called me later that day, and said she wanted to give me a reward.....i refused, but she insisted..... My reward? 4 dozen home made chocolate chip cookies that were to die for!!!!!
If you're ever in Connecticut, look me up. It would be an honor if you came to dinner sometime. :salute
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Mine was similar to Rich.. found an envelope with over 3300 in it. I had to think twice but stopped by the local police department and handed it in.
I left my name number and all the normal info. At day 29 I get a call from the Sargent saying there was a lady there to see me.
Come to find out it was her income tax return and she was using it to buy a better vehicle for her and her kids. She offer me a reward but I refused it. Even though I was on hard times I didn't need the money. All I asked for was a thank you and I was happy.
She tried to get me to take the money but I refused. I told her instead of giving me the money donate it to the local food bank so people have a chance to eat.
She agreed... and I think I made her week... sometimes instead of paying you back ..it's better to pay it forward.
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When I was 10 I found a wallet...I had a look and saw 5 bucks....the old man owned a dairy so gave him the wallet...guy came in and gave me a reward of 5 dollars....a few weeks later I heard the old man talking to someone about it....it had 800 dollars in it....freakin cheap skate hahaha
and just the other day was on my way to the lunch bar for a feed and found 50 dollars..... had an extra big feed and bought myself a couple of fish for my tanks...bonus
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$100,000 in a Nordstrom shopping bag left on the X-ray machine at an airport screening point. Spent the night recording serial numbers.
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Closest I've come to significant found money is I once got couriered somebody's paycheck(!) who had the same name as I did. I was a poor student at the time, and could've used the three grand, but I figured it was the universe testing me, and no possible good would come of it if I tried to cash it, so I just contacted the company to rectify the error.
Used to get the occasional call from creditors looking for that other guy too.
Wiley.
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I hear ya Lusche! Been Mr Mom for longer than I can remember,is that 110 or 220,whatever it takes..... :devil
:salute
Found myself in the same position, she earns the big bucks. I earn the pocket money flying planes and the rest of the time I'm Mr Mom for my two boys. :aok
As for finding money, only the other day I found twenty Euro while walking to the store! I soon converted some of it into beer.
Another very windy day I saw some banknotes flash past me. Someone has just lost their money and I looked around but there was no one. Then I looked down and saw they were coming out of my pocket. :eek: After a mad dash I got most of them back except the one that blew into the sea. As it was a stormy day I wasn't about to follow it. :cry
My best though was when I found my own money. I was picking something up from the floor in my rather messy room when I noticed cash beside the leg of a table. I picked it up and counted it. It was the equivalent of a thousand US dollars. I couldn't think how it got there. Then I remembered how I'd won it betting on the horses months previously and left it on the table. It must have fallen down the side and I'd forgotten it. Imagine forgetting that much money? I guess I had plenty at the time. Not any more!
But the best money found story didn't happen to me. A crooked property developer went bankrupt. He lost his business and his house. When the house was sold (for €3 million) the new owners decided to fit a new bathroom and the builders found €200,000 ($277,000) under the old bath. The crook said it wasn't his and that the cops planted it! Sadly the government go most of it but the builders got 10k and the owners 5k which they gave away because they're millionaires anyway. Now that's a nice find. :aok