Girl in Dallas finds $2000, turns it in. Owner can't be found, so the city keeps it - Polidicks

A new xbox for $100? :what:

[QUOTE=27X;29759541]You realize this is the same state that denied a man his lottery winnings because an attendant clerk at the gas station kept his ticket after he confirmed it and then moved back to Nepal [B]and the ticket buyer proved it in court[/B], and they still won't give him his money. The only reason to give a shit about Texas is BioWare, Gearbox and Id, and Billy Bob's in FW. See Also: Texas board of education.[/QUOTE] But Bioware is Canadian.

I found a £2 coin on the floor today but somebody stamped on my hand before I could get it and almost broke my fingers, woe is me :saddowns:

[QUOTE=Stopper;29759272]Am I like the only person that would keep the cash? I find it weird how everyone says they'd give it back to it's owner or turn them in in a police station.[/QUOTE] Do you have any idea what it feels like to lose a large amount of money like that I'd turn it in because keeping it for myself would be a serious dick move on my part

If the girl wanted the money she should have kept it. Pretty simple.

[QUOTE=SnakeHead;29760952]If the girl wanted the money she should have kept it. Pretty simple.[/QUOTE] In almost every other state in the US if you turn it into the cops and they can't find the owner, IT'S YOURS. In this case the state just took it, the least they could do is put it through the school system

[QUOTE=Squad;29759213]The government still needs money to operate so giving it to a charity isn't really necessary. It might have been nice, but still. The girl or her parents should get some tax credit though.[/QUOTE] The government shouldn't need to take other people's money for themselves in order to operate [editline]11th May 2011[/editline] Also, when I find money on the ground I take that shit for myself.

Retarded. I know a few stories of kids who had turned in lost money to the PD and after no owners took it they gave it back to the kid and gave them an award for honesty or some shit.

You'd need to see if they have an actual law about this. If it's like every other state, they basically stole it from her. It wasn't hers anymore than it was theirs, but she found it.

Im sorry.. but if I found 2k in an envelope... I would keep it... finders keepers..

[QUOTE=5killer;29759270]I hope you guys realize that finders keepers isn't a real legal precedent.[/QUOTE] Why is that? I mean, if i find an object like a phone or whatever i'd have to almost force the police to take it. But when it's money they gladly take it.

I've come to the conclusion Texas is fucking shit. They could have at least split it.

How is this the biggest decisions of her life? Seriously, she's being melodramatic.

[QUOTE=Jo The Shmo;29762394]How is this the biggest decisions of her life? Seriously, she's being melodramatic.[/QUOTE] She's in high school, it isn't like she's made too many major decisions in her past. It's a pretty big choice to decide between keeping $2k you found and turning it in.

I thought the US was 'free country'. The idea being that if you find an oil deposit in your back yard, that oil is yours. Same with money.

[QUOTE=borisvdb;29762651]I thought the US was 'free country'. The idea being that if you find an oil deposit in your back yard, that oil is yours. Same with money.[/QUOTE] Difference being that the oil is in YOUR land, and therefore you bought the oil too when you bought the land.

This is just one of those things that make me happy I don't live in Texas.

[QUOTE=Soleeedus;29762869]This is just one of those things that make me happy I don't live in Texas.[/QUOTE] You'd rather not find $2K?

Moral of the story: Charity gets you fucked over.

Hopefully that money is donated to the education board, budget cuts are fucking everything up.

Seeing as it's texas, it will be used to power some biased political party or some shit.

Well, as they say...no good deed goes unpunished.

[QUOTE=johan_sm;29764068]Seeing as it's texas, it will be used to power some biased political party or some shit.[/QUOTE] I don't think you realize that not everyone here is a power-craving god-worshiping caveman. We get shit from the crowd because stupid things are done by stupid people, and that stupid person is immediately misinterpreted as the community in whole and influences people to hate us.

Hmmm... new TV for some teenager, or going toward fixing some roads. I know which is more useful to ME. Sucks to be her I guess?

[QUOTE=EXoDUSFLT;29764401]I don't think you realize that not everyone here is a power-craving god-worshiping caveman. We get shit from the crowd because stupid things are done by stupid people, and that stupid person is immediately misinterpreted as the community in whole and influences people to hate us.[/QUOTE] If that stupid person is a head of a political party, then we may interpret that as the stupid voice of the whole stupid community (that supports that political party).

[QUOTE=EXoDUSFLT;29764024]Hopefully that money is donated to the education board, budget cuts are fucking everything up.[/QUOTE] It was said in the article that the state kept it, schools get jack shit from state money

[QUOTE=soapyy;29759431]But that is like 70 steam games worth of money! Just kidding, but yeah the city will probably use it to pay for school supplies or something..[/QUOTE] Like the RailWorks DLC.

[QUOTE=lulzbocksV2;29759173]What else is to be done with it? She gave the money to the city, and they couldn't find the owner. Maybe the local school can get some new computers with this or something.[/QUOTE] Too bad all the schools in the DFA area got new dell monitors/keyboards and Mac minis this year

[quote]"I'm happy that she did what she did, but the way it ended? I wish she didn't find it in the first place, because it certainly didn't teach her the right thing," her father Ben Donaldson said.[/quote] I want to know what lesson he wanted his daughter to learn from this. Sounds to me like he just wanted in on the money too.

Hah! Silly girl, being honest will get you nowhere in this world. Always keep the money.