Couple finds safe stuffed with $100,000 cash while magnet fishing in New York
Couple finds safe stuffed with $100,000 cash while magnet fishing in New York
James Kane and Barbie Agostini pull up safe in Queens park with bundles of $100 bills inside and are told by police they can keep it
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If this happened to me, nobody is hearing about it, there’s not gonna be a single news story about it. I didn’t find a goddamn thing.
Never pay for gas or groceries ever again
The couple said they contacted the New York police department about the find and said they were told there was no crime attached to the cash and there was no way to identify the original owner of the safe, meaning they were allowed to keep it.
It worked out for them at least.
For a couple of weeks maybe.
How so?
No crime attached yet.
— New York police
"Hey, Farva. What's that thing you like to do where you take possession of property that isn't yours without having to charge the owner with a crime?"
"Civil forfeiture?"
Very likely someone who earned that money illegally that left it there and they very likely know now that they have it.
I would only report something with a verifiable ownership. If that safe had an ID in it, you would be damn sure that the rightful owners would get the entirety of their $50,000 and not a penny less.
The world needs more upstanding citizens like you. I can't imagine how relieved they'd be to get back their $25,000
Who wouldn't return the $15,000 to the rightful owners! It's their $10,000 after all!
You've got to wonder why someone would dump a chest with $400 in it
I appreciate your guys' honesty but I honestly wouldn't bother to return the $100
Agreed, just like wining the lottery. You STFU!
A hundred k could get you noticed, but then if you're in the US there's significant risk in reporting it to the cops
I'd feel safe handing it to the police here in Australia as we have strong law about lost property, and it certainly would revert to your ownership if no owner could be found