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Old 10-05-2007, 02:20 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A county garbage operations employee found a plastic bag on the road stuffed with $65,000 Thursday — and immediately turned it in to authorities.

It turned out the money had fallen off a Loomis armored car half an hour before Debbie Cole found it near the Pinellas County solid waste operations facility where she works. First she thought it was a turtle in the road.

The 53-year-old Largo woman found the bag just before 7 a.m., full of enough $50 and $100 bills to pay her salary for two years. She immediately contacted a supervisor, who called deputies.

It's not clear how the bag fell from the truck, said Mark Clark, spokesman for Loomis, a Houston-based cash-handling company.

Cole's boss, Bob Hauser, said he can't give her a raise or a bonus for her good deed because she's a government employee. But maybe, he said, he can arrange some extra time off.

Woman turns in bag stuffed with $65,000 - Yahoo! News (broken link)
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Old 10-05-2007, 02:30 PM
 
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Haha, she should have kept it. Loomis has insurance!
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Old 10-05-2007, 04:17 PM
 
Location: The Conterminous United States
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I absolutely think she did the right thing. I would have done the same. It's someone else's money.
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Old 10-05-2007, 04:19 PM
 
Location: MN
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First the guy with the $100,000 in his attic, now this lady.
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Old 10-05-2007, 05:00 PM
 
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That would have been tough but I would like to think I would have done the same....temptation but doing the right thing is always the best.
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Old 10-05-2007, 05:30 PM
 
Location: Jax
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First the guy with the $100,000 in his attic, now this lady.
Exactly! What is wrong with these people? You find $65k, $100k, you keep it folks!

Geez, I should be finding this money - I know exactly what to do with the cash.
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Old 10-05-2007, 06:00 PM
 
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Exactly! What is wrong with these people? You find $65k, $100k, you keep it folks!

Geez, I should be finding this money - I know exactly what to do with the cash.
I have to agree, I would keep it. Of course if I found a million dollars and it belonged to a poor person, I would give it back.
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Old 10-05-2007, 07:04 PM
 
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Macguy, I agree with you 100%. LOL
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Old 10-05-2007, 07:44 PM
 
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I absolutely think she did the right thing. I would have done the same. It's someone else's money.
Its probably dirty money.

I would have kept it.
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Old 10-05-2007, 08:30 PM
 
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It'd be mine, all mine....
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