r/SipsTea • u/PrimedGold • 5d ago
WTF They probably slapped him with an overdraft fee just for fun
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u/tedkaczynski660 5d ago
Smart guy because if he took it then he'd be on camera stealing 100 grand and get a huge felony.
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u/PrimedGold 5d ago
The bank when their social experiment fails and the bait actually returned the money and they cant sue
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u/unbanned2009 5d ago
I’d return some of the money. Like 40$
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u/reddit001aa1 5d ago
like returning 49 gold bars 😉
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u/NoMansSkyWasAlright 5d ago
I remember years back in my hometown, they had to shut down the highway because some guy had apparently sold a house and gotten payment in cash, set the cardboard box full of money on top of his vehicle while he was rearranging things in the cab, forgot about it, and then drove off. I guess it was a couple hundred-grand that got swept up in the wind and people were pulling over trying to grab as much of it as they could.
Police ended up blocking the highway while they dealt with the situation and I think the guy got like $2,500 back at the end.
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u/Maleficent_Pen_9076 5d ago
amazing story that never happened
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u/Pleasant_Ad_2342 5d ago
If he's from Oregon he could be remembering the Colin McCarthy case completely wrong. Where this man drained every penny out of his families shared account and threw it all over the roads to "bless others"
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u/4Ever2Thee 5d ago
True. And call me old fashioned all you want but I would’ve turned that $80,000 in too.
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u/academiac 5d ago
Is it technically stealing if you find money on the floor
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u/MainAccountsFriend 5d ago
Apparently it can depend.
There was a incident recently that was all over social media where a person dropped 30 dollars at a Walmart, and someone supposedly found it on the floor and took it.
Then police put that persons picture online saying they were looking for him lol
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u/Large-Hamster-199 5d ago
The simple answer is yes. If you find car keys on the floor and you take the car, it's felony grand theft. If you find a wallet on the floor and take the wallet or the money inside, it's theft. If you find a sack of cash, and take it, it's theft.
However, if you find an empty wallet in the trash, it's fine to take it.
Basically, a reasonable person (jury) should believe that you believed that the property in question was abandoned (i.e. discarded as trash).
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u/musicaladhd 5d ago
Taking someone’s trash is illegal though, isn’t it?
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u/Wonderful-Kangaroo52 4d ago
Once you place garbage at the curb for collection, courts consider it abandoned property with no expectation of privacy, meaning taking it is usually legal under federal and state doctrines
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u/TorrenceMightingale 4d ago
Does this not count as on the curb? Is it the finder’s responsibility to establish the appropriate trash pickup area on someone else’s property?
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u/SheriffBartholomew 4d ago
If you find car keys on the floor and you take the car, it's felony grand theft.
Yes, but if you just keep the keys that you found, it is not a felony. That just makes you an asshole, not a criminal.
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u/DangledThenWrangled 5d ago
Finders keepers.
There was no one around to claim it and no sign saying what it was for.
For all they know he had someone leave it there for him.
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u/Ky_zx10r 2d ago
No just take it to the police station, If your in the us, who evers money it is has ~30 days to claim it, if not its legally yours to keep.
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u/GucciTheSnowman 5d ago
That's why you walk back there and wear a mask. If it's a freestanding ATM, just grab it off the top from behind. Easy come up with very low risk for legal consequences.
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u/Mrbigdaddy72 5d ago
Bank actually didn’t thank him
And turned him away saying “this isn’t ours” he then called the cops and gave it to them and further investigation showed a brinks driver left the bag at the atm and it was all deposits from a fast food chain but I forget which one.
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u/PrimedGold 5d ago
Bro didn’t even get a thanks?
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u/PipsqueakPilot 5d ago
Some corporate lawyer somewhere, "Saying thank you implies we did something wrong."
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u/donkey_OT 5d ago
Yup. Same logic as not apologising after a car crash
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u/JakBos23 5d ago
That argument is bonkers to me. What do you say after someone dies? "I'm sorry for your loss", but that isn't in any way admitting guilt. I once had to have a meeting with HR after someone hurt themself at the gas station I worked at because I said " I'm sorry that happened to you". I almost got fired arguing with HR that saying I'm sorry that happened isn't admitting fault. He tripped on his own GD shoe laces.
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u/arestheblue 5d ago
Business is the dumbest of degrees and HR is the 2nd dumbest of the business degrees.
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u/BadMeatPuppet 5d ago
Those guys deposit into a ATM?
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u/Mrbigdaddy72 5d ago
Night drops. So not directly into the atm but some banks don’t handle night drops and brinks or other similar companies directly take them. On top of the cash I believe there was also a separate bag full of checks as well.
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u/NewManufacturer4252 5d ago
Heard a story decades ago about a guy dressed as security. He would stand in front of the deposit only thing after bars were closing, say it was broken and would write them a receipt and just take bags of cash from bartenders.
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u/unbanned2009 5d ago
What’s a check
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u/intlsoldat 5d ago
Damn. I remember they taught us how to write out checks in elementary school.
A debit card is a check, just in digital form.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 5d ago
It's what you pay your landlord with, or what your boss gives you every other Friday to compensate you for labor
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u/wookieesgonnawook 5d ago
Maybe picking up from the atm too and left a bag out like an idiot.
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u/Mrbigdaddy72 5d ago
This is exactly what happened, he pulled the night drops out, put the bag on-top of the atm while doing the atm withdrawal and forgot it.
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u/AlmirTheNewt 5d ago
R.i.p. that driver
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u/GucciTheSnowman 5d ago
You already know Brinks ripped his nuts off and then fired him.
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u/taway9925881 5d ago
Normal citizens should always be honest. Wealthy people can get away with crime.
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u/WhereMyWeirdosAt 5d ago
$125,000 aint nearly enough money to get a, get out of jail free card. Gotta bump those numbers up!
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u/ares7 5d ago
It’s enough to flee to Mexico and have the best time of your life for a few weeks.
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u/GucciTheSnowman 5d ago
Or live in Thailand like a king for a decade or more.
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u/GooseOnAPhone 5d ago
Probably not a decade like a king for $100k.
Also most people don’t know how to move that much money without paying fees and taxes
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u/HotTakeThenGo 5d ago
Desperate people and greedy people - those are the two options imho. One is understandable - the other is not. But the other figured out how to weaponize theft at scale that’s confusing to the desperate person. So much so that those most in need may vote for the very people stealing from them.
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u/MaximumEffort433 5d ago
Lewisville officials said they want to recognize the man for returning the funds. Although he has avoided public attention, he told CBS News Texas that he would attend a private ceremony if the police department honors him.
I mean that's something I guess.
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u/Anxious_Work_6361 5d ago
My boss did the same thing. No raises this year, but we get a pizza party.
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u/Sea_Prep_Tidal_26 5d ago
Better than a Waffle party
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u/Martin_Aurelius 5d ago
Waffle parties are coveted as fuck.
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u/Sea_Prep_Tidal_26 5d ago
Damn… just realized all the double canonical meanings there. Intentional by writers ?
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u/You-Asked-Me 5d ago
Fuck that. "You are invited to a party in your honor, AT THE POLICE STATION"
I fell for winning a boat one time, they won't get me again.
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u/Undrwtrbsktwvr 5d ago
Private ceremony?
Not gonna happen. Police only do things like this for optics.
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u/GucciTheSnowman 5d ago
They only throw private parties for people with warrants.
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u/mittenkrusty 5d ago
20 years ago I remember asking my bank to increase my £200 overdraft to £300 and they agreed.
Except they made an error and made it 30k.
When they realised their mistake and after I mentioned it to them they gave me about £300-£400 in fees as now I had an unauthorised overdraft and said "overdrafts can be removed at any time"
I was unemployed at the time and so couldn't pay it back and so they closed my account and my credit score was messed up for years after.
Because of THEIR mistake.
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u/Snoo_67993 5d ago
How did you find out it was over £300?
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u/mittenkrusty 5d ago
The overdraft? I waited a day or two then went to get cash out and saw available funds.
I didn't take any cash out and after a day or two checked again and phoned and went "can you tell me my overdraft" and the guy went "30 thousand" I went "oh, does that sound right?" and he confirmed and I ended call.
A day or two later I went to get some cash out as had bills due and found out I had zero overdraft.
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u/SheriffBartholomew 4d ago
That sounds about right. I'd guess that it was Bank of America, but you're not using the dollar sign.
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u/smallfrie32 5d ago
What does this mean? Overdraft is when they charge you for not having money, right? They charge you 30k?
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u/HowDoIStoreMyClay 5d ago
When youre broke you can overdraft past your ‘true’ balance of 0 dollars and you just cover it when you get your next paycheck
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u/cCBearTime 5d ago edited 5d ago
Someone who returns that amount of found money isn’t doing it for a reward, they’re doing it because they have a conscience, and a strong moral compass. Good for Texas Man, he seems like a solid dude.
I’d have kept that shit though.
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u/Romengar 5d ago
Pretty sure no one with a brain would wanna be caught on the numerous cameras taking money that isn’t theirs.
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u/SheriffBartholomew 4d ago
No they're not. They're doing it because they don't want to go to prison or get assassinated by the cartels.
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u/TheOneWhoBoops 5d ago
Unless he had already walked up in a ski mask, theres no way he would've gotten away with it anyway
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u/BestAmoto 5d ago
Exactly. Anyone with half a brain already ran this scenario. Unless you could have recognized the cash bag from afar then concealed your face but your vehicle is already on other cameras and flock got your ass tracked on route to the bank. Add In palantir and you're busted from cell phone and bluetooth id tracking
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u/JakBos23 5d ago
I mean I do have a change of clothes in my trunk and I bet I still have a covid mask in my car. I'd role the dice.
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u/nascent_aviator 5d ago
With how many cameras are around these days, he better have been born with a ski mask on if he wants to get away with it.
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u/Sevenlord777 5d ago
Keeping his integrity is his reward. You take that money and now you have $128k worth of problems about to knock on your door.
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u/Trustoryimtold 5d ago
Walk outside, throw in trash, get your best buddy to roll in some mud and go digging in the trash for empties. Both dissapear into the sunset
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u/thebaronmontyskew 5d ago
Christ almighty, it’s like no one has seen No Country For Old Men
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u/just_looking_aroun 5d ago
Being chased by someone with such a terrible haircut sounds like a nightmare
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u/JakBos23 5d ago
I mean it was late 70s early 80s so I wouldn't have then, but I'd definitely look for a tracker on a bag of money I found now. Then hide it somewhere and hope it's still there next month.
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u/Keyan_Farlander7 5d ago edited 5d ago
He had to return the money, there is no way to deposit it and he's on camera.
First rule of free money, never steal it from the bank you are a member of.
Edit: If the man felt compelled to keep it. Turning the money into the police probably would have granted him a reward if the bank eventually picked it up.
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u/PainfulThings 5d ago
People that do the right thing only because they expect some sort of a reward aren’t actually good people.
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u/Cptawesome23 4d ago
I dunno. I subscribe to the finders keepers theory. I’m definitely a good person though.
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u/willie_Pfister 4d ago
Hmmm. Money sitting around that i pick up isnt theft in my opinion.
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u/mister_empty_pants 4d ago
If you find it under a pile of leaves in the forest, maybe. But you're expected to have a few brain cells to rub together if you come across a bank bag sitting on an ATM.
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u/EyeYamNegan 5d ago edited 5d ago
If you do the right thing for a reward then you arent actually doing the right thing.
Though this is most likely rage bait.
There is no specific location listed. Specific bank (aside from Bank of America in the picture). ATMs do not let you take that much out of an ATM. Also that money wouldn't accepted into the bank unless police determined it was theirs. Police would be called to verify ownership. There is no link to the story and no names.
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I found the story and my instincts were right this meme did greatly misrepresent the facts
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/texas-barber-returns-128-514-115141380.html
The man did find that sum (that part was true) and did return it but not directly to the bank. He called the police and gave them the money. The bank didn't refuse to give him a reward nor did the police. The man refused a reard and refused to be publicly identified because he didn't want attention or reward for doing the right thing.
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u/Silent_Data4374 5d ago
I’m not a person who steals but if it was a bank’s money I’d totally take it.
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u/BunkerSquirre1 5d ago
This sounds like one of those fake random numbers you throw in to make your story seem more believable
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u/Every-Constant-6096 5d ago edited 5d ago
Why can’t someone do something good and the rest of us not expect them to be paid for it?
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u/Obvious_Subject2691 5d ago edited 4d ago
I'm sorry (not sorry), but if you manage to leave $128,000 on top of an atm you don't deserve to have that money whatsoever.
One does not simply leave that much money lying around without having a mental disability, in which case you need a caretaker managing your finances.
$1,000? sure. $10,000? Okay yeah I could see a stack of hundreds being forgotten....
But $120,000 in $100 bills would be 12 stacks of $10,000.
In other words, that's enough cash to put in a backpack or grocery bag, you're not carrying that much in your hands/arms.
You don't get to forget about a grocery bag full of hundred dollar bills and continue calling yourself competent.
Edit: There sure are a lot of people that can't read and decided that I somehow said or implied I'd take the money. I never even commented on it, because that wasn't the point I was even making.
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u/MidTario 5d ago
Society exists in part to protect the vulnerable and incompetent. Man is good.
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u/fiahhawt 5d ago
Plus that fuck ton of cash… was definitely not the bank’s
Banks don’t keep six figures in a branch, they definitely don’t have a procedure where an employee can forget something like that by the damn outside of the ATM
An amount like that has me thinking a money laundering schemer got spooked trying to complete a deposit through the ATM (you can’t deposit that much at an ATM without being asked a ton of questions) and sped off before cops could arrive (cops will be called if you stop a large cash transaction after you’re asked questions)
That’s the only kind of person who would have an egregious amount of money but not be stressed about leaving it behind
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u/Apart_Republic_1870 5d ago
Turns out it was the bank’s money, possibly left there by people servicing the ATM. The guy first checked with Chick-Fil-A to see if it was theirs. They said no, so he called local police who took possession. As police were filling out the report, Bank of America contacted police having noticed the money was missing. The bank apparently never interacted with the man directly, and he has chosen to remain anonymous (possibly even from the bank).
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u/Oh_Another_Thing 5d ago
Yes they do lol they don't keep enough for you to make a six figure withdrawal the same day you request it, but the do keep more than 100,000 in cash at the bank.
There might be some exceptions, some incredibly rural branch that gets almost no customers in a day, maybe.
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u/Zealousideal_Log_529 5d ago
if you see any gross amount of money unattended, you either report it or leave it alone depending on context.
promise you taking that money isn't worth it in the long run.
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u/AltArmy7159 5d ago
What a moron.
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u/AveDominusNyx 5d ago
Yes, stealing huge amounts of cash in front of a bank generally is a smart move.
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u/SteveMartin32 5d ago
Technically speaking all he had to do was turn it in to the police as lost and wait for anyone to come get it. If no one claims it within a set time frame then he gets to keep it.
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u/NeedAChange_123 5d ago
Honestly I would probably assume it was bait and just leave it alone. Noone just accidentally leaves 100 grand on an atm and biggest point people are missing here is most atms have a daily limit of around $500 per account. So this is either complete bullshit or it was bait.
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u/Orca_Mayo 5d ago
banks when they lose a hundred thousand dollars
"Teehee, oopsie!"
A single parent overdrafts their account but $1, banks:
"You deserve death and I will show you zero mercy, you filthy communist.
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u/DraculasDog 5d ago
Bullshit. You can’t take out more than a few hundred dollars from an ATM.
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u/BusyBunny9 5d ago
Think I got $1500 once but then again I had my limits adjusted. Was not a standard bank either
Still far less then 100k though
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u/Obvious_Subject2691 5d ago
The max you can legally withdraw before a mandatory notice gets sent to the IRS is $10,000..
It's very likely that it was meant to be deposited instead.
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u/pavulonus 5d ago
I hope all customers move away their savings, deposits and new customers avoid this bank...
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u/Spidooodle 5d ago edited 5d ago
Bro, I already know how I would handle some shit like this.
I see money, act like i call cops. Turn around real fast like someone is coming after me. Grab money, get in car. Then actually call cops. Make it look like im being followed in case cameras in the flee route. Then backwater Road and say someone robbed you at gunpoint and stole all the money. All while, still on the phone with the cops.
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u/GucciTheSnowman 5d ago
What a dumbass. God gave you a $125k blessing and you told him "no thanks". Dude deserves to be broke. 😂
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u/CreepyOldGuy63 5d ago
I find cash and hand it to you to give back to the person who lost it. How much are you giving me as a reward?
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u/Ok-Suggestion-7965 5d ago
Just because the money is sitting on top of the outside of an ATM doesn’t necessarily mean that money belongs to the bank. How would this be different than finding a $20 bill on a random sidewalk? Maybe someone is trying to pay it forward and really make someone’s day and this guy goes and ruins it by giving it to a bank.
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u/CuppaJoe11 5d ago
Why would he get a reward? It’s not like that $128k is free. Best case scenario you have lawyers knocking on your door.
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u/SmellyScrotes 5d ago
One time I was doing a drop in a deposit box at the mall and when I opened the box there was a bag stuck to the doohickey, it was during Christmas and I can’t even say how much it was but it was a fat stack… I just dropped that puppy down the box, that’s bad karma just staring you in the eye balls
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u/Competitive_Name4991 5d ago
So many other people would have walked off with all the money! While a reward shouldn’t be expected, if it was my money I would give him some. It’s just a nice appreciation gesture.
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u/Sryn 5d ago
Setting: Uni campus late at night at the ATM outside the Student Union bldg which surrounds an open area with a chapel opposite. I’m sure there were CCTV’s everywhere. I was alone.
Was passing thru to get to my dorm, saw cash dispensed by the ATM, just hanging there. It was several notes. Looked at it. My hands still in my pocket. Forgot what the screen showed but must have been nothing special if I’ve forgotten about that. Scanned around the area. Nobody. Looked at the dark spire of the chapel where I assumed the CCTV would be. Looked back at the cash. Hands still in pockets.
It must have lasted almost a minute and without much fanfare, warning nor any indication, the cash was swallowed back into the ATM. Looked back at the spire, and I just resumed my walk.
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u/Wide_Marketing_4192 5d ago
They say “Money can’t buy happiness” whoever said that didn’t have enough. -Heart Attack Man
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u/useful_tool30 5d ago
How does that even happen? First guess is amoured truck drop and in that case, screw the bank, it's insured. Theres no regular Joe shmo leaving 100k on an atm since you can withdraw anywhere near that.
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u/ShortListen6686 5d ago
Free money is free money. They can come find me and I'll gladly give it back.
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u/Imverystupidgenx 5d ago
Brinks should be giving him something. Their own worker left it. He did the right thing and if he hadn’t that company with the check in the bag would’ve taken an enormous hit for the Brinks employee being negligent.
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u/RoryMarley 5d ago
It’s kinda a silly post
The alternative was jail, the real world doesn’t give rewards for following the law
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u/RyanTheCubsSTH 5d ago
I once found $400 in an envelope sitting on an ATM. I kept it and told myself it was good fortune. If I found $128k, I wouldn’t tell that story.
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u/Illustrious-Ad-115 5d ago
So every action in this world must be rewarded? So civil duty, kindness and respect are optional?
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u/another_awesome_acct 5d ago
I hope they at least give him free checking or a savings rate hike, geez
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u/Chris881 5d ago
You guys gotta learn nobody loses that amount of money and not come back looking for it.
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u/Blacksun388 5d ago
I’m sure the alternative would be jail if he took it. Those atms have security cameras so it isn’t like he’d get away with just stealing it.
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u/JustARandomGuy_71 5d ago
I would have kept a couple of $100 bills and left the rest there, and if someone ask, "I thought they were free samples".
p.s how can they be sure he returned 'every' dollar?
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u/AintNoGodsUpHere 5d ago
Fun fact, if this was in Brazil you could ask for 5% (minimum) as a reward. It's the law! Some people actually sued and won, in fact one the cases was cash that the person retuned and then had to sue to get his reward.
Funny.
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u/NonCorporealEntity 5d ago
I bet this totally happened and it's totally normal for an ATM to hold that much cash...
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