I mean, would you do it? Me...... well, I don't know. That much cash lying around, so tempting to just keep all of it but I think I would return it. Maybe after sleeping on it, smelling it, rolling around it in a week. Maybe. Just maybe.
What kinda security guards forget to check their bags? Jeez....(//vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/e021.gif)
[FONT size=6]Student finds $10,000, returns cash to owners[/FONT]
HALIFAX (CP) — For any student who has struggled to pay for tuition while dining on macaroni and cheese, finding an abandoned wad of cash would be too good to be true.
But when Jaime Hawkins stumbled upon a "loaf-of-bread-sized" stack of $20 bills next to a bank machine at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, the student immediately decided to return the cash.
The $10,000 stack was mistakenly left behind by two security guards who were refilling the machine in the student union building.
Hawkins, who handed the money to a student union employee, says he "feels good" about his decision, though he now finds himself strapped for cash.
Last month, about a week after he found the loot, the 29-year-old discovered his New Brunswick student loan had been reassesed, meaning he'll receive nearly $6,000 less than he initially thought.
However, Toronto-based Group 4 Securicor, the firm that misplaced the money, says Hawkins and the student union worker will each receive $500 rewards.
"It's nice to know there's honest people in the world with integrity, whose mother raised them right," said company spokeswoman Robin Steinberg.
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good for him, but $500 reward??? what a cheap ass company. add an extra zero to that amount.
That's my initial thought too, kingy. $500 is like a slap in the face compared to the $10,000 he could have pocketed.
Why the hell should the student union worker be rewarded also?
Whomever found it should've taken it to the police at least, instead of the student union office.
Oh Lise, you couldn't have kept it BTW.
You would've been caught on camera. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Teasing/1.gif)
If I found a wad of cash in that great of an amount, it would go straight to the police. I know that if no one claims it within so many weeks/months, then, it's yours.
I wasn't going to keep it Raging Poodle, just roll naked on the $$$ for a week before handling over. Heck, if I couldn't keep the notes then I sure as hell am going to do that.
And the camera can watch me do it.
LOL Lise. Bless!
If I had found that money I would donate it to charity and take the tax right off
I'm a student I'd need the cash but I'd take it to the police first then if nobody claims it I'd take it, and pay my college debt off.
keep it, wait for it to be announced on the news, then collect the reward.
Once again, proof that honesty pays, but not nearly as much as crime.
I would do it, cause it was me! lol
Jaime
SD:
I'm a student I'd need the cash but I'd take it to the police first then if nobody claims it I'd take it, and pay my college debt off.
I'm curious as to how you could have college debt, when you haven't been to college yet. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/konfus/a015.gif" border=0]
Hmmm. Interesting. Do explain, SD.(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/20.gif)
Me thinks that he might have forgotten to start the sentence off with the word "IF... I was...."
*shrugs shoulders*
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[FONT face=geneva,arial size=1]- By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer
[/FONT][FONT face=geneva,arial size=-2]Wednesday, February 7, 2007
[/FONT] (02-07) 20:43 PST NEW YORK, (AP) -- Never mind diamonds- a New York cabbie was a Texas girl's best friend. The driver returned 31 diamond rings he found in his cab after dropping off the passenger, who had left him with a 30-cent tip on a $10.70 fare.
"All my life, I tried to be honest," said Osman Chowdhury, a native of Bangladesh. "Today is no different."
But the 41-year-old cabbie from Queens did have a message: "I'm proud of what I did so that people know New York taxi drivers are honest."
What he did started on Monday evening, when he picked up the woman at a hotel in midtown Manhattan and drove her to an apartment building several blocks away. She gave him $20 to pay the fare and asked for $9 back.
Hours later, at about 10 p.m., three other passengers with luggage discovered the woman's suitcase when Chowdhury popped the trunk open for them.
Chowdhury first drove to the building where he had dropped off the woman. But he had no idea in which of the many apartments she might be and didn't want to cause a disruption by knocking on doors.
He took the suitcase to the Manhattan headquarters of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a drivers' advocacy group to which he belongs. He and the alliance president looked inside and found two display cases with 31 diamond rings inside.
"I saw flashing, and I said, 'Oh my God! Diamonds!'" Chowdhury recalled. "I was shocked. I was trembling."
They also found a small luggage tag with a Texas telephone number they called — the home of the woman's mother in Dallas. Meanwhile, she called the number, too.
The woman, who said she was a jeweler, got back the gems on Monday when she arrived at the alliance office around midnight — incredulous at her luck. She offered Chowdhury a reward — a check for $100.
"I cannot take a penny for being honest," he said, but he reluctantly accepted the money to cover the fares he lost while trying to track her down.
He said it never occurred to him to keep the diamonds.
"I'm not going to take someone else's money or property to make me rich. I don't want it that way," said the soft-spoken cabbie, who was a contractor in Bangladesh until he came to the United States 15 years ago.
He does not own a cab but rents one.
"I enjoy my life. I'm satisfied," said Chowdhury, who is single.
He didn't even mind the meager tip.
"I think some people might be broke," he said. "Or they're distracted."
The woman from Dallas asked that her name not be made public.
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$100?? Sheesh. That's fracken cheap of the lady.
Anyways, I thought you could trace diamonds?