Police ask public to return money after Brinks truck dumps cash on I-70 - Sensationalist Headlines

Police ask public to return money after Brinks truck dumps cash .. A chaotic scene unfolded around 9:00am on westbound I-70, near Holt Road, when the back security door on a Brinks truck came open. Troopers at the scene initially said up to $600,000 had flown across the interstate, but police later said the exact amount was not known. The Brinks truck driver told state police that another driver waved at him and pointed to the back of his truck, and that's when he realized the door was not secure and had opened. It's not known whether the incident was the result of mechanical failure, or human error, police said. Troopers say people were jumping over fences from the adjacent neighborhood to stuff their pockets with money. McCooe said taking money from the scene was considered theft. In particular, police say they are looking for a school bus driver who stopped to grab cash before driving the bus away from the scene. They are also looking for four individuals in a white pickup truck, pulling a utility trailer, who made off with one of the bags of money. ISP says they are already getting tips with license place numbers from people who stopped to pick up the money. “If you’re willing to, in good conscience, turn it back in, there’s amnesty, there’s no real questions asked if you’re willing to give it back," McCooe said. Get rich or die tryin while crossing road I guess?

Gotta be honest here i would have ran to get some just like op said its get rich or die trying

Honestly if I saw that happening I would just dismiss it as a YouTube prank.

What are the odds of people returning lol, isn't it non traceable after all? I'm sure the armoured car's loss was insured anyway

Each note that was in the truck was accounted for by serial number. If they wanted to, they could catch the people who took the money, but it'd be trivial and questionable. Who's to say the person they catch with it is the person who stole it?

Yea, might had changed hands so many times it wouldn't be the same guy or gal

I have to assume that these truck drivers are insured against this kind of thing? If so those premiums must be ridiculously high when they are transporting half a million plus dollars.

Just knowing a few fat handfuls of that cash could pay my rent for months.

It could pay it for way more than months if you got caught.

The one day I don't do service on Indys West side!

Precisely why you won't see them go after anyone who ends up with this money. It'll literally cost more than they lost to put everyone away lol

Pick up a bag full of money, return a bag 2/3 full of money, say the rest got blown in the wind. Who's going to say otherwise, some grainy camera?

Just spend your free money on groceries for the next few years instead of a massive tv

This reminds me of that guy in NY who made off with a bucket of gold flakes just sitting on the back of an armored truck, wonder if they ever nabbed that guy.

Imagine picking up a sack of cash off the road and just driving away. My money is on one of the guards not securing the back door properly. I have many doubts it was a mechanical issue. Yeah they caught him in South America a little over a year ago.

Aren't these money trucks basically safes on wheels? Most of trucks I've seen in Dublin - They have one way-rotating door in back (not big sized), they put money box in, press button and it rotates in and pushes money box into truck and that's the end of it, it's stored.

Or how about returning it all because that's the right thing to do.

I'd go for the neutral evil choice and take a bunch out the bag before handing it over to police.

While I'm not gonna go out of my way to injure a corporation, if they have money fly out of a truck and right infront of me I'm not going to say no.

I think if I were in that situation, I couldn't take the money not because of like, a moral issue, but because I would be way too paranoid that its some kind of trap or something

Finders keepers

Well I mean I guess we don't all go by the same morality, so fair enough. It is stealing, though. It could be argued that the company should give some form of compensation, depending on the circumstances of course - if we're talking more "I found the money and returned it" and not "I picked it up in an area the company was aware of and could've easily retrieved the money from themselves".

Im broke nigga! Im broke!

My money is on mechanical failure. Going by someone I know who has worked as an armored car guard for two big name companies in the US - their vehicles are left to fall apart and are barely maintained so they can continue to drive. My friend and his partner would have to fight over who drove and who didn't drive, because the driver would have to deal with their door flying open constantly while driving because it was broken. The company refused to fix it and told them to deal with it. And it's not like they just got unlucky, all of the vehicles have these sorts of problems.

I don't think it'd be particularly amoral to keep some of the money; this is a bank after all, not individual people who are struggling to get by. That said, all the serial numbers are recorded and you would get tagged pretty quickly when trying to spend it.

What kind of logic is this? So stealing from and bank or company is actually a completely amoral action? I mean, they got insurance, so it's like it's individual people... I agree that stealing can be justified if you're starving or whatever, but come on, I doubt that's the case for most of this thread or the people on that road.

Some people may think its different stealing from a faceless entity than it is a human being.

Yeah sure, that doesn't make it okay, though.

Grabbing a fistful of cash that a bank somehow dumped all over the freeway isn't exactly a bank robbery. It's hard for me to rationalize the idea that someone picking up loose, insured cash abandoned by a gigabank is something only terrible people would do. The money is insured; it doesn't cost the bank anything and the insurance company is still turning a profit. It's just not really that big of a deal.

Funny how I never mentioned bank robbery - I asked you if thievery from companies was alright with you, and I guess you sorta have answered that, so fair enough. I'm not saying you're a terrible person, either, so please lay off the hyperbole. But I do wanna ask how and why you find this is dissimilar from, say, grabbing a few bank notes from Walmart as a cashier, for example? Or maybe a bit of shoplifting? You're stealing a fairly insignificant sum from a mega corp, after all.