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Man returns bag of cash - gets fined

By T.K. Randall
July 2, 2011 · Comment icon 27 comments

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A man who found and returned a bag containing £10,000 was fined for lying about where he found it.
The 54-year-old discovered the bag next to a cash machine and decided to do the honourable thing and hand it in. He took the bag to his local police station but instead of being praised for his honesty found himself being fined £300 for lying about the specific location he'd found it.
You'd think that finding more than £10,000 in cash, in a bag next to a cash machine, and returning it to its rightful owners would be applauded. But for one man, all that it resulted in was a £300 fine. Robert Adams, 54, saw the bag full of money next to a cash machine with Chase Bank's logo on the side. Instead of taking advantage, the resident of Arlington Heights, Illinois, returned it to the bank in question.


Source: Yahoo! News | Comments (27)




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Comment icon #18 Posted by special 2011 13 years ago
Is anyone NOT surprised that this is in Obama's political state of origin. It should say a LOT about the mentality of the people who elected that moron. Which president would be praised as the perfect. You can continue to adhere to honesty,can also be into bad,just an idea of the transformation of lifetime.
Comment icon #19 Posted by UFO_Monster 13 years ago
ARE YOU KIDDING?! This kind of "thanks" will only encourage people to keep the money rather than turn it in! I'd take these jokers to court if I were put in this man's position! That burns me up, and I don't even know these cheapskates...
Comment icon #20 Posted by kitco 13 years ago
haha, well there pretty much telling us to steal, you heard them say it, "next time you find a bag of cash keep it or we will fine you" thats what I heard anyways... what about u? haha, well there pretty much telling us to steal, you heard them say it, "next time you find a bag of cash keep it or we will fine you" thats what I heard anyways... what about u? haha, well there pretty much telling us to steal, you heard them say it, "next time you find a bag of cash keep it or we will fine you" thats what I heard anyways... what about u?
Comment icon #21 Posted by special 2011 13 years ago
haha, well there pretty much telling us to steal, you heard them say it, "next time you find a bag of cash keep it or we will fine you" thats what I heard anyways... what about u? No wonder you upstairs the Monster so angry,it also has one side the justice,even it always had to be pushed a lot of buildings destroyed.
Comment icon #22 Posted by Trog 13 years ago
There is no explaining how the police think or work , and an Australian example of similar strange behaviour is a bush walker finding the body of a murder victim and reporting it to police and then the bush walker immediately being the main suspect in the murder . And from what I've read , being investigated for murder by any police force will totally disrupt your life , and inevitably your details get leaked to the media , which would not improve your standing in any community . But it would appear the law works in mysterious ways no matter where you live .
Comment icon #23 Posted by stormkeeper 13 years ago
More likly sounds from the movie 'Trading Places', in this one the banks didn't have pitty on him. Oh, the police talked about what cameras? A mystery maybe not! Just cold hearts and no mercy!!
Comment icon #24 Posted by Paranoid Android 13 years ago
I'm not surprised he was fined. Let's cut through the spin and propaganda. He was NOT fined for returning the money! He was fined for LYING to police in an active investigation. Whatever his reasons were, however misguided he may have been, this was a simple fact of Law. The fact that he lied in a case where he returned a large sum of cash is irrelevant. There is no logical leap to go from this incident to then saying that people are no longer going to return lost money in case they also get fined.
Comment icon #25 Posted by Flashbelieve 13 years ago
Speaking of returning money, several years ago a Florida Highway Patrol seen a car sitting by the road, I-4. south west of Orlando. He stopped, the man was slumped over on seat, dead. Sitting side of him in the seat was a wrinkled up paper sack with 40,000 dollars in it in small bills. Any idiot in law enforcement would recongnize it to be illegal gambling mony.The cop turned it in. The state of Florida kept the money.
Comment icon #26 Posted by Flashbelieve 13 years ago
The man worked for the Mafia in Tampa. When Castro took over Cuba in late 50's, The mafia moved thier Headquarters from Miami to Tampa. The money came from illegal gambling.
Comment icon #27 Posted by :PsYKoTiC:BeHAvIoR: 13 years ago
Which president would be praised as the perfect. None, but Bill Clinton atleast made things interesting in the media. LOL!


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