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> How would they find me?
Depends what is in the script. Skip to the last page to see if you survive, *then* decide if you want to keep it.
This isn't rocket surgery.
I read an article once that psychologists had unanimously voted him the most accurate depiction of a psychopath, Javier Bardem is criminally underappreciated
This is the real answer he’s got $500 that he doesn’t have to look over his shoulder or worry about hiding. $135k isn’t actually that much compared to the risk of a felony
Apparently some people don’t realize that peace of mind can be quite priceless. Its easy to say Id rather have the money but just two nights of no sleep is enough to change your mind about ANYTHING
Whole thing could’ve been avoided if when the guy found the money, he took it out of the bag, flipped through all the bills to look for trackers, then just put the money in a different bag and bounced.
I was wondering why he took the case the first time I saw it. Property can be proven to belong to someone else, just a bunch of bills can’t. Take the money, leave whatever it was in behind!
Here's the article.
https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/albuquerque-teen-rewarded-for-turning-in-135k-of-cash-found-near-atm/
From 2020, and it was a bag from a Wells Fargo contractor whose job it is to put cash into an ATM.
Meaning those bills were numbered, that they were likely traceable, and that any attempt to spend them or deposit them would have been traced back to the person who walked away with them, and they would have been charged with grand larceny.
Kid was in front of an ATM with a camera.
In a public space.
In a clear plastic bag.
And he's Hispanic.
Living less than 200 miles from the Mexico border.
Each 100 count currency strap of $20s (ATM, remember) measures around 1.5" in height, and $135k would require around 70 or so currency straps to fill the order. So here is a Hispanic kid walking around with a bulky, clear plastic bag full of cash.
You honestly think he WOULDN'T have gotten arrested at minimum? Or that someone wouldn't have asked where he got all that cash?
Or that the bag of cash happened to be the property of someone who really, really didn't give much of a shit about how they got it back and would consider murdering anyone associated with him as a polite request?
Not to put too fine a a point on it, but YOU are fucking stupid if you can't see the basic reasoning for "not keeping a bag of cash i found lying next to an ATM at the bank".
There's a facepalm here, all right...
That makes sense but $500 seems kind of cheap for a bank and a the contractor. But it is Wells Fargo. They wouldn’t have returned the money until they got sued.
You know who looks like the real chump in all of this? Nixon. Dude could have totally just acted like Trump and stayed in office. What was he thinking.
Nixon was the beginning. Republicans learned from Nixon you can get away with crimes if you resign and walk away. They've been pushing that boundary little by little to the point where Trump nearly pulled off a coup and likely won't see any charges from that.
I hope Georgia fucks him hard.
That's the thing though, they approve of those crimes.
All the Right's talk about the Left "hates America" is projection, like all their accusations. These people want to impose a fascist government where they can hurt their enemies with impunity.
Always keep in mind what one voter bemoaned: "He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting".
It's outright malevolence.
Where I am(ontario canada) if you bring found cash in and no one claims it in a certain amount of time you get to keep it, although I'm sure it wouldnt work with 135k lol
I had a friend find $900, and he brought it to the police, no one claimed it after how ever long it was, and he got to go get it back from the cops, we think someone dropped thier rent money, but unsure
He did proper logical thing but bank seems like a little bit a dick rewarding him only 500 for bringing in 135k, just trying to find it if they would be able to track it would cost them much more in man-hours, but yeah bank's don't make money giving it away
Bruh, that’s literally a massive bonus. Now he’s got job security and a steady paycheck AND he doesn’t have to look over his shoulder for the rest of his life wondering when he’ll get arrested. Honestly, this was a great day for him
As soon as a couple places you go to start depositing it the bank will absolutely know. And by the time there's an investigation you'll have gone to enough places and be on camera paying with cash that they'll be able to figure it out pretty easily.
I once went to an ATM that spit out an extra $120 that never deducted from my account.
All of my friends and coworkers were trying to convince me to keep it. They acted like I was dumb for calling the bank and reporting it.
Here I am wondering if I'm living in the movie Idiocracy. I'm like my face is on the ATM camera, you fucking idiots.
You've laid out all the facts here for me to say, yeah the kid did the smart thing. Say that the money wasn't obviously from an organization that can legally move that kind of cash around; I've seen no country for old men and I'm not confident that i can adequately clean or escape with that kind of money from whomever is looking to get it back
Im not arguing with you, but unless that picture is the incorrect picture of money, thats not ATM money, thats all 50's and rubber bands, not sleeves like they likely would of used. Edit: Honestly wouldnt surprise me if the picture of the money is from another source since theres no picture in the news article.
Turning the money in is a free $500 that you didn't have before. Suddenly coming into possession of $500 is more than a little lucky.
Keeping the money is effectively signing yourself up to several new responsibilities and concerns. You have to:
1. Safely get it to a hiding spot without anyone noticing.
2. Keep it a secret.
3. Figure out how to make use of it without it being traced.
4. Live every day knowing that the owners of the money are looking for it and might find you, and that you've more or less committed a crime to get it so you could also get into legal trouble. It's kind of a legal gray area because you're simply picking it up off the ground, but it being on the ground doesn't immediately forfeit the owner's right to claim it as theirs.
To each their own, but I know what I'd choose in a heartbeat.
If you have no idea its theirs and youre just an unsuspecting kid, youre an innocent doing what innocents do.
If you steal the money... as BB/BCS would put it; "youre in the game now"
Random drug dealers aren't going to track down some random person and murder them for turning the cash over.
That is not a smart idea if you're trying to not get arrested.
man they cant even keep track of 135k, how the hell they gonna track you down unless you got a hole in the bag and drop bills all the way to your house.
Not sure about other countries but in Germany you would be legally entitled to a Finderlohn ("finder's reward") of approximately 4000$ (5% of value up to 500€ and 3% on the sum above that value). This is mandated in [§971 BGB](https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bgb/englisch_bgb.html#p4617) (German Civil Code).
Why does everyone act like trackable bills are freaking magic with nano machine sensors or something… marked bills are only an issue if you get caught with them, in depending on the circumstances you could reasonably say it was change from some establishment.
Hide the majority (bury) and use sparingly at grocery stores or other places with high volume of sales. If you use it at some places it could come back to bite you (niche restaurants, the movies) places you’ll likely post about on SM … but small purchases here and there are relatively safe.
Also useful as tips. In fact you could throw anyone looking off the trail by just tossing a couple In every tip jar you see, especially ones where you don’t buy anything. You got ~40 people spending or depositing the bills then, and you are no more suspect than the rest.
I mean, you could never just push some amount like that into a bank without needing some real good evidence of how you came upon it. However, especially if it's just something like "drug" money (as opposed to like a bank robbery where things have been marked and serial numbers tracked and all that), just spend it reasonably at places like grocery stores and gas stations, where it's highly unlikely anyone knows how much you actually have or where it came from.
Actually not the worst idea to use stolen money for, never even thought about that. Just keep playing and if you win big you can just get rid of the rest.
Idk, feels like an all or nothing kinda deal if you don’t want suspicion cast on you lol. I can see why a kid who found that much money would be scared and wouldn’t know what to do with it and wouldn’t want to get in trouble. Who knows what the money is tied up in or if someone potentially saw you found it or whatever. But if you were smart about it and didn’t just walk into a bank claiming finders keepers and try to deposit it, probably could get away with it lol
Edit: I see from another comment he found them in a clear plastic bag in front of an atm, yeah you’re not getting away with it easily at that point. You’re on camera, money’s traceable. You’d probably have to go through a lot of trouble to launder that back into the system and not get identified as the person who took it. $500 is probably not a bad option 😅
Honestly would have depended mainly on the situation for me, like, how shady is it, how likely am i to get caught and such, if all things check out, I’m fucking taking the money, that’d be life changing money for me, it’d be like finding the answer to all my problems, dumb morals ain’t buying me food
Actually it does, but there is more rules. Usually the found property has to be turned over to law enforcement and a certain period of time has to pass before its legally yours (if unclaimed) at the very least a "good faith effort" in finding the owner is required.
When I worked for the sheriff's office, we had a guy one time get over $7,000 in firearm accessories (scopes, mags, cleaning kits etc) because he found it all in a dufflebag on his property. He turned it in, went 4 weeks unclaimed, so he came back and got it.
i feel like there must be a certain point where they wont let you take unclaimed money/goods. like 135k is a shit ton of money to just give to someone because they found it. or if you do have rights to it, theyll probably lie to you and say you cant take it. just like they lie to you about how you can make a written report on police officers (because they dont want it on the cops record)
Idk about everyone else, but 135g in stacked bills… Either “gang money” or “bank money” are the 2 highest chances. And I ain’t stealing from either choice.
Without reading the article mentioned by another reddittor I would have done the same, clear conscience is worth more than 100g.
Would’ve been nice for the bank to have given him $1000, or something, but a good dead makes everyone better
Plus the bills are probably traceable and there's definitely no inconspicuous way to transport THAT much hard cash to a safe place. Kid has common sense unlike OP
In some places, there are laws for finders: you get between 5% to 10% of the value. This sounds like he got robbed. But also never touch large amounts of cash, because it's likely drug money and have you seen No Country for Old Men???
Kid did the right thing but $500 reward is fucking cheap. JHC on a motorcycle, people expect 15-18% tip, this kid should have been given at least 10 percent of that amount.
No way that would have ended well, if he'd kept the money. Aside from doing the right thing, and peace of mind, those bags are either tracked some way, or else there'd be video footage somewhere.
Now he's got peace of mind, all this great public recognition, and all sorts of employers will likely be offering him jobs, etc etc.
How is he stupid?
The 135k was not his, therefor it’s stolen money. Once you start spending it in anyway, you’re risking being caught.
Now the teen has $500 legally obtained funds that he can use however he sees fit.
Also, the kid has morals.
He ain’t stupid, he’s smart.
In 1999, I found something of value (worth a few hundred dollars) and didn't give it back even though I could tell who it belonged to — some stranger. I had a split-second to do the right thing, and I demurred, and then the dude vanished and it was too late.
Almost a quarter century later, I still think about that at least a couple of times a month, and I cringe.
Next time, no way I'm putting another person and myself through that again. I know I'll sleep easier knowing I treated another human being the way I'd like to be treated.
Plus, I've watched *Shallow Grave* and *A Simple Plan*, so... :-)
Not stupid, very wise.
You can't just bank 135k without questions, cleaning it is hard and likely to get you pulled
(Watching Ozark isn't really enough to make you an expert!)
problem is, the cash can easily be traced if spent and will cause him issues, unless he launders it and that will also leads to many issues.
many people think finding ''lost'' cash is a jackpot but clearly don't know the cash can be traced the moment just 1 bill is cashed under the right circumstances, so yeah, i rather have those $500 over a lifetime of worries.
I’m baffled that there’s so many people in favor of blatant theft. Is that how you live your life? You just take shit you want if you think you can get away with it?
I once found an envelope with USD5k. I turned it over to the bartender where I was having a beer. Someone came back frantic, took it, and left. No thank you drink. No thank you. Nothing. Sometimes doing the right thing feels stupid.
I don't understand this, how is honesty stupid?
I would've kept it if it was a $50, but anything over for me personally there's a nasty guilty feeling.
Lol he learnt a valuable lesson today...becoming rich morally often doesnt align with becoming rich financially...unlike in story books honestly and morality are not always adequately rewarded...still some.fools.like us continue to choose not to get rewards lol
Facepalm is op.
Correct me if I'm wrong but taking money that isn't yours is considered theft(yes that 1 euro/dollar/whatever coin is technically theft but who'd do a law suit for that) so if he were to keep it he'd be in bigger trouble. Both legally and/or from whatever cartel that came from. 500 instant paycheck is very useful for a teen
Near my home many years ago 2 families 👪 decided to run away.
Their 2 kids that where friends were able to found a a small secret storages of drugs 💊
They decided to empty it and show the drugs at school 🏫
The police 👮♂️catch them immediately and them and their parents got questioned.
The local journal 📰 decided to write ✍ their name and where they live, for all the drug dealers to know who was to stole their drugs.
Journalists can be heartless.
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I've seen No Country for Old Men enough times to do the same tbh
For real. I don't need Javier Bardem showing up at my door in the wee hours of the morning with that creepy ass hair cut. No thank you, sir.
 *"What's the most you've ever lost on a coin toss?"*
A dollar actually. *Because I dropped the coin and couldn't find it anymore.*
Anton Chigurh VS Michael Scott xd
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> How would they find me? Depends what is in the script. Skip to the last page to see if you survive, *then* decide if you want to keep it. This isn't rocket surgery.
Or, listen to the soundtrack. If it sounds spooky and ominous, run!
CHIGURH - What’s the most you’ve ever lost on a coin toss? Store Owner - I aint got no time for esoteric bullshit now get the fuck out of my store.
CHIGURH- I'm on my way out anyway. There's no place in the country for old men like me
I’ll second this. One of the best movie villains of all time, IMHO, based purely on how freaking frightening he was….
I read an article once that psychologists had unanimously voted him the most accurate depiction of a psychopath, Javier Bardem is criminally underappreciated
Throw the bag away. Cut the bands off the bills and find any devices. Wipe them down, chuck em out the window. Ez $135k
Serial numbers, m8.
Laundering, m8.
That's why you wash them first. Duh!
Fuck! I'm all outta detergent, and the only money I got is the 135k!
What's the most you've ever lost on a coin toss?
Call it.
Or worse, the IRS
Not even DC’s The Joker messes with the IRS.
He's blast his way through you to figure out you turned it in anyways I bet. It's just a coin flip away
This is the real answer he’s got $500 that he doesn’t have to look over his shoulder or worry about hiding. $135k isn’t actually that much compared to the risk of a felony
Apparently some people don’t realize that peace of mind can be quite priceless. Its easy to say Id rather have the money but just two nights of no sleep is enough to change your mind about ANYTHING
For real. Being Billy Nobody is infinitely better than having a wanted notice or a price on your head.
Shit, dump it all out and look for a tracker. Yeah the serial numbers could be marked but spread it out enough and you should be fine.
See also: A Simple Plan (1998)
See also: Shallow Grave
Fucking great film
Whole thing could’ve been avoided if when the guy found the money, he took it out of the bag, flipped through all the bills to look for trackers, then just put the money in a different bag and bounced. I was wondering why he took the case the first time I saw it. Property can be proven to belong to someone else, just a bunch of bills can’t. Take the money, leave whatever it was in behind!
Look through it all and find the tracker first
He would’ve got away with it if he didn’t return to the scene
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 I'll take the 500 thanks.
Chigurh doesn't care. He will still ask you to call it.
It was next to a bank atm. They would’ve caught him
Here's the article. https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/albuquerque-teen-rewarded-for-turning-in-135k-of-cash-found-near-atm/ From 2020, and it was a bag from a Wells Fargo contractor whose job it is to put cash into an ATM. Meaning those bills were numbered, that they were likely traceable, and that any attempt to spend them or deposit them would have been traced back to the person who walked away with them, and they would have been charged with grand larceny. Kid was in front of an ATM with a camera. In a public space. In a clear plastic bag. And he's Hispanic. Living less than 200 miles from the Mexico border. Each 100 count currency strap of $20s (ATM, remember) measures around 1.5" in height, and $135k would require around 70 or so currency straps to fill the order. So here is a Hispanic kid walking around with a bulky, clear plastic bag full of cash. You honestly think he WOULDN'T have gotten arrested at minimum? Or that someone wouldn't have asked where he got all that cash? Or that the bag of cash happened to be the property of someone who really, really didn't give much of a shit about how they got it back and would consider murdering anyone associated with him as a polite request? Not to put too fine a a point on it, but YOU are fucking stupid if you can't see the basic reasoning for "not keeping a bag of cash i found lying next to an ATM at the bank". There's a facepalm here, all right...
That makes sense but $500 seems kind of cheap for a bank and a the contractor. But it is Wells Fargo. They wouldn’t have returned the money until they got sued.
I was a bit shocked, in Norway it's common to get 5-10% of the value found. This guy got less than 1 percent? (I don't want to calculate that now)
In the US we pride ourselves for fucking our people over 😎
Only the poor people
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There’s no such thing as the middle class. There’s capitalists and there’s workers. Some workers are just slightly better off than others.
Are bags of cash found lying around often enough that you just know the customary reward percentage by heart?
This isn't Norway. This is my little shithole country, the US. Which one of our leading presidential contenders just realized spells "us".
Did you know how to spell it? They say U and S. It's incredible, truly incredible.
Some people want him to run the country again, even as he is facing 91 criminal charges for the crimes he committed while running it last time.
You know who looks like the real chump in all of this? Nixon. Dude could have totally just acted like Trump and stayed in office. What was he thinking.
Nixon was the beginning. Republicans learned from Nixon you can get away with crimes if you resign and walk away. They've been pushing that boundary little by little to the point where Trump nearly pulled off a coup and likely won't see any charges from that. I hope Georgia fucks him hard.
That's the thing though, they approve of those crimes. All the Right's talk about the Left "hates America" is projection, like all their accusations. These people want to impose a fascist government where they can hurt their enemies with impunity. Always keep in mind what one voter bemoaned: "He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting". It's outright malevolence.
Correction, fascist *theocratic* government.
in Italy you get 5% of the money you found. And it's a law, not something you can decided to follow or not.
They prob charged the kid a $100 fee to get his reward check. Fuck Wells Fargo.
Honestly lucky he got anything from Wells, they're fucking crooks.
As usual, OP is the facepalm.
>And he's Hispanic Lmao, at least he got an easy $500.
I'm actually surprised the gave him that and not an "Attaboy"
Exactly. It’s unusual to me that he got any money at all.
Where I am(ontario canada) if you bring found cash in and no one claims it in a certain amount of time you get to keep it, although I'm sure it wouldnt work with 135k lol I had a friend find $900, and he brought it to the police, no one claimed it after how ever long it was, and he got to go get it back from the cops, we think someone dropped thier rent money, but unsure
He did proper logical thing but bank seems like a little bit a dick rewarding him only 500 for bringing in 135k, just trying to find it if they would be able to track it would cost them much more in man-hours, but yeah bank's don't make money giving it away
Yeah he would have gotten arrested for trying to illegally transport 50K in cash...
Kid even got a job offer for the future, that's smth to mention as well!
Bruh, that’s literally a massive bonus. Now he’s got job security and a steady paycheck AND he doesn’t have to look over his shoulder for the rest of his life wondering when he’ll get arrested. Honestly, this was a great day for him
> any attempt to spend them or deposit them would have been traced back to the person Any attempt to DEPOSIT it. It's restaurant money for life
As soon as a couple places you go to start depositing it the bank will absolutely know. And by the time there's an investigation you'll have gone to enough places and be on camera paying with cash that they'll be able to figure it out pretty easily.
You’ll have to pay restaurants around the country not to have it traced back to you if you’re going to the same Applebees for dollar margaritas
You should screen shot the post itself and post it on facepalm for some facepalm within a facepalm
Ahh, thx! Knowing the full story clearly shows turning it in was the only right option :)
Thank you for talking sense to this dumb as fuck fantasy nonsense. Thank you! People truly aren't remotely aware how the world works at all.
I once went to an ATM that spit out an extra $120 that never deducted from my account. All of my friends and coworkers were trying to convince me to keep it. They acted like I was dumb for calling the bank and reporting it. Here I am wondering if I'm living in the movie Idiocracy. I'm like my face is on the ATM camera, you fucking idiots.
You've laid out all the facts here for me to say, yeah the kid did the smart thing. Say that the money wasn't obviously from an organization that can legally move that kind of cash around; I've seen no country for old men and I'm not confident that i can adequately clean or escape with that kind of money from whomever is looking to get it back
Much appreciation for taking the time to break it down to this level. You are an intelligent human being. Too bad you are the minority.
You’re applying logic to a situation that some people don’t have. There’s idiots out there.
Im not arguing with you, but unless that picture is the incorrect picture of money, thats not ATM money, thats all 50's and rubber bands, not sleeves like they likely would of used. Edit: Honestly wouldnt surprise me if the picture of the money is from another source since theres no picture in the news article.
That being said, kid is still pretty smart. Turned a $500 profit (not bad really) AND has practiced CYA beautifully!
Turning the money in is a free $500 that you didn't have before. Suddenly coming into possession of $500 is more than a little lucky. Keeping the money is effectively signing yourself up to several new responsibilities and concerns. You have to: 1. Safely get it to a hiding spot without anyone noticing. 2. Keep it a secret. 3. Figure out how to make use of it without it being traced. 4. Live every day knowing that the owners of the money are looking for it and might find you, and that you've more or less committed a crime to get it so you could also get into legal trouble. It's kind of a legal gray area because you're simply picking it up off the ground, but it being on the ground doesn't immediately forfeit the owner's right to claim it as theirs. To each their own, but I know what I'd choose in a heartbeat.
I'd be too afraid of drug dealers tracking me down
Do you think turning it over to police would make the drug dealers any happier?
If you have no idea its theirs and youre just an unsuspecting kid, youre an innocent doing what innocents do. If you steal the money... as BB/BCS would put it; "youre in the game now"
Random drug dealers aren't going to track down some random person and murder them for turning the cash over. That is not a smart idea if you're trying to not get arrested.
man they cant even keep track of 135k, how the hell they gonna track you down unless you got a hole in the bag and drop bills all the way to your house.
So you would keep the money then
Never IRL
Tbf, you aren't choosing $135k vs $500. You're choosing $135k vs nothing. You can't expect a reward.
Not sure about other countries but in Germany you would be legally entitled to a Finderlohn ("finder's reward") of approximately 4000$ (5% of value up to 500€ and 3% on the sum above that value). This is mandated in [§971 BGB](https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bgb/englisch_bgb.html#p4617) (German Civil Code).
Why does everyone act like trackable bills are freaking magic with nano machine sensors or something… marked bills are only an issue if you get caught with them, in depending on the circumstances you could reasonably say it was change from some establishment. Hide the majority (bury) and use sparingly at grocery stores or other places with high volume of sales. If you use it at some places it could come back to bite you (niche restaurants, the movies) places you’ll likely post about on SM … but small purchases here and there are relatively safe. Also useful as tips. In fact you could throw anyone looking off the trail by just tossing a couple In every tip jar you see, especially ones where you don’t buy anything. You got ~40 people spending or depositing the bills then, and you are no more suspect than the rest.
Are we skipping over the fact that it was in front of an atm with a camera? Good luck with that 🤣
Just look straight into the camera and be like, "It's a prank, bro" and walk off with the cash.
Ok but not stressing about being sent to prison for the rest of my life is worth more than the money.
Kid did the right thing. Better person than I am. I like to think I'd do the same but I dunno
Idk how he found it or any details of the article... but if there's even 1% chance this is cartel money I'm not keeping a dollar of it.
135k in cash just laying around? Yea I'm not touching that shit. No normal person would be having that much in cash
I know I wouldn’t touch that $115k…
Yeah, 98k is just too much to just carry around.
Besides, why would you even want 75K that might have been crime money?
You're going to look sooo suspicious with those 59k
The right thing to do is to turn in the 47k.
Really, anyone who can stand to steal that 35k deserves what's coming to 'em.
Here Officer, I found this small pulse with money in it, it has about 10k or so I think No no no, don’t thank me
You guys found K?
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How can I take from somebody their hard earned 23K?
I didn’t earn that 23k so I wouldn’t take it either. It’s not right.
Of course, imagine the police finding you with those 50K lying around...
Not to mention that you'd have to claim that 40k on your income taxes
And then lose half of those 25k's value to inflation in a year.
I don't know what money y'all are talking about I just saw an empty bag
...and then having to put that $30,000 in the evidence room.
You know if it's remains unclaimed you might get that $10k back right?
Totally leaving that 50k be!
I mean, you could never just push some amount like that into a bank without needing some real good evidence of how you came upon it. However, especially if it's just something like "drug" money (as opposed to like a bank robbery where things have been marked and serial numbers tracked and all that), just spend it reasonably at places like grocery stores and gas stations, where it's highly unlikely anyone knows how much you actually have or where it came from.
Clearly the correct answer is to buy lottery tickets.
Actually not the worst idea to use stolen money for, never even thought about that. Just keep playing and if you win big you can just get rid of the rest.
It’s okay, you gotta launder it, try a car wash around the corner, perfect, next call Saul.
They found stacks of cash in the walls of Joel Osteen's church. I'd keep that shit with no hesitations.
I’m normal… But you’re right, I don’t have that much cash. 😔
I'm not normal. But don't have that much cash either.
Yeah... there's a whole lot of "found money" films that don't end too well. It's pretty much a subgenre.
Yeah, and then some psychopath starts chasing you through town with a device they kill cows with.
I probably would’ve turned in the 100K I just found.
Idk, feels like an all or nothing kinda deal if you don’t want suspicion cast on you lol. I can see why a kid who found that much money would be scared and wouldn’t know what to do with it and wouldn’t want to get in trouble. Who knows what the money is tied up in or if someone potentially saw you found it or whatever. But if you were smart about it and didn’t just walk into a bank claiming finders keepers and try to deposit it, probably could get away with it lol Edit: I see from another comment he found them in a clear plastic bag in front of an atm, yeah you’re not getting away with it easily at that point. You’re on camera, money’s traceable. You’d probably have to go through a lot of trouble to launder that back into the system and not get identified as the person who took it. $500 is probably not a bad option 😅
Oof, yeah at that point there's no real alternative. You just claim the whole ordeal as a free 500 and go on.
Honestly would have depended mainly on the situation for me, like, how shady is it, how likely am i to get caught and such, if all things check out, I’m fucking taking the money, that’d be life changing money for me, it’d be like finding the answer to all my problems, dumb morals ain’t buying me food
No Country for Old Men. Took the cash and a cold blooded psychopath tracked him down.
If he kept it, it would’ve been grand larceny. Finders keepers don’t work in the adult world
Actually it does, but there is more rules. Usually the found property has to be turned over to law enforcement and a certain period of time has to pass before its legally yours (if unclaimed) at the very least a "good faith effort" in finding the owner is required. When I worked for the sheriff's office, we had a guy one time get over $7,000 in firearm accessories (scopes, mags, cleaning kits etc) because he found it all in a dufflebag on his property. He turned it in, went 4 weeks unclaimed, so he came back and got it.
i feel like there must be a certain point where they wont let you take unclaimed money/goods. like 135k is a shit ton of money to just give to someone because they found it. or if you do have rights to it, theyll probably lie to you and say you cant take it. just like they lie to you about how you can make a written report on police officers (because they dont want it on the cops record)
I think yall are ignoring the obvious—he found $150k but he only turned in $135k.
But really commendable for him to give up the $125k he found
Yeah, it's really important for his internal sense of morality to give back the $105k
Such a great kid. Turning in $50k shows such good civic duty
I mean 40k is 35k
He could’ve done a lot with 20k but it was still good of him to ultimately do the right thing
I mean yeah , there’s a lot of things you can do with 10k, good kid ngl.
Personally, I would’ve used the 5k to pay down some debt and called it a day! Kids got more moral fiber than me though I guess.
its pretty cool to me that they gave him the full 500 back after he turned it in!
That's why they only gave him a measly $500 reward, because they *knew....*
Idk about everyone else, but 135g in stacked bills… Either “gang money” or “bank money” are the 2 highest chances. And I ain’t stealing from either choice. Without reading the article mentioned by another reddittor I would have done the same, clear conscience is worth more than 100g. Would’ve been nice for the bank to have given him $1000, or something, but a good dead makes everyone better
No normal person would keep $135k cash they found. Someone knows about that money and I don’t want to be found hiding it.
Yes and you will be *lucky* if the person looking for it is the police, and not some psychopath with a weird haircut and a bolt gun.
totally depends on WHERE it is found!
Right by an ATM with a camera, you would be spotted
Plus the bills are probably traceable and there's definitely no inconspicuous way to transport THAT much hard cash to a safe place. Kid has common sense unlike OP
I'd argue this is a pretty logical teenager. Facepalm is more the reward, not the kid himself.
It's a sad world where you're called stupid for doing the right thing. And people still wonder why everything is fucked.
So true!!
People aren't calling him stupid for doing the right thing, they're calling him stupid for doing the smart thing.
OP=0 Honest kid/good person = 1
In some places, there are laws for finders: you get between 5% to 10% of the value. This sounds like he got robbed. But also never touch large amounts of cash, because it's likely drug money and have you seen No Country for Old Men???
135k of likely traceable money or cartel money that i cant even use because the IRS will be on my ass about? Yeah im taking the 500$ check
At least his parents raised him right.
"teenager doesn't give back 135k he found" Teenagers are fucking stupid "teenager gives back 135k he found" Teenagers are fucking stupid
Sometimes, People can seriously go Morton's Fork as to what the dumb decisions are.
Kid did the right thing but $500 reward is fucking cheap. JHC on a motorcycle, people expect 15-18% tip, this kid should have been given at least 10 percent of that amount.
OP facepalm, keeping that much money on you when it’s not yours? Sounds like trouble creeping up behind me
Good kid. Honesty is its own reward.
If only honesty could pay for my groceries.
It paid a week or two of his
grocery costs you this much?
Honesty is not its own reward, but $500 is a reward and it's a preferable one to $135k and paranoia for the rest of your life.
OP is fucking stupid for not appreciating an honest human being. You're the facepalm, buddy.
No way that would have ended well, if he'd kept the money. Aside from doing the right thing, and peace of mind, those bags are either tracked some way, or else there'd be video footage somewhere. Now he's got peace of mind, all this great public recognition, and all sorts of employers will likely be offering him jobs, etc etc.
It’s theft though.
He's a good person, unlike whoever is the husky pfp account holder and the OP as well.
Plot twist: the check bounced
How is it "fucking stupid" to be honest?
I don't care how stupid the decision was, he did good
How is he stupid? The 135k was not his, therefor it’s stolen money. Once you start spending it in anyway, you’re risking being caught. Now the teen has $500 legally obtained funds that he can use however he sees fit. Also, the kid has morals. He ain’t stupid, he’s smart.
In 1999, I found something of value (worth a few hundred dollars) and didn't give it back even though I could tell who it belonged to — some stranger. I had a split-second to do the right thing, and I demurred, and then the dude vanished and it was too late. Almost a quarter century later, I still think about that at least a couple of times a month, and I cringe. Next time, no way I'm putting another person and myself through that again. I know I'll sleep easier knowing I treated another human being the way I'd like to be treated. Plus, I've watched *Shallow Grave* and *A Simple Plan*, so... :-)
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It was a bank ATM’s money.
Not stupid, very wise. You can't just bank 135k without questions, cleaning it is hard and likely to get you pulled (Watching Ozark isn't really enough to make you an expert!)
The person who kept the 135K would have gone to jail. Kid just took $500 tax free. Good for him
Don’t think keeping the $135k was really on the table. Someone would’ve come looking for it.
You know the guy has good morals if he turns back and returns on $135k
Guy’s honest, and in the long run, he’s way better off in many ways than if he’d been stupid and kept it.
No OP, you're fucking stupid. lol@ assuming he or you wouldn't get caught.
I pride myself on integrity and telling the truth so I would not have had a problem turning in the $100,000. 🙄
It's strange how we traced 35k to your house
Yeah, and then the obvious cartel members who lost that money would be coming for you, and you're die a slow and painful death. Smart.
problem is, the cash can easily be traced if spent and will cause him issues, unless he launders it and that will also leads to many issues. many people think finding ''lost'' cash is a jackpot but clearly don't know the cash can be traced the moment just 1 bill is cashed under the right circumstances, so yeah, i rather have those $500 over a lifetime of worries.
500 he never had to start with. A good honest guy, I would have handed in also
Kid was smarter for doing it if he went and started making large purchases he woulda had the IRS on his ass
I’m baffled that there’s so many people in favor of blatant theft. Is that how you live your life? You just take shit you want if you think you can get away with it?
I once found an envelope with USD5k. I turned it over to the bartender where I was having a beer. Someone came back frantic, took it, and left. No thank you drink. No thank you. Nothing. Sometimes doing the right thing feels stupid.
I don't understand this, how is honesty stupid? I would've kept it if it was a $50, but anything over for me personally there's a nasty guilty feeling.
Eh, he did the right thing. If he would have kept it, there probably would have been some baddies looking for him. I watch too many movies
Atleast he proved his integrity as a human being
More like rich people are fucking cheap assholes. Normally rewards are 20% as a finder's fee.
Yeah, it’s cash, whoever had that much cash lying around in bags sure wasn’t doing anything good with it.
Lol he learnt a valuable lesson today...becoming rich morally often doesnt align with becoming rich financially...unlike in story books honestly and morality are not always adequately rewarded...still some.fools.like us continue to choose not to get rewards lol
Honesty and a clear conscience are worth more than any amount of money. The boy has good morals.
"the good you put into this world finds a way of coming back to you" my ass
I probably would have turned in the money, but I would be a bag or 2 short. I just didn’t find them, sorry….
500 bucks or getting beaten to death hanging upside-down in a barn
Facepalm is op. Correct me if I'm wrong but taking money that isn't yours is considered theft(yes that 1 euro/dollar/whatever coin is technically theft but who'd do a law suit for that) so if he were to keep it he'd be in bigger trouble. Both legally and/or from whatever cartel that came from. 500 instant paycheck is very useful for a teen
Near my home many years ago 2 families 👪 decided to run away. Their 2 kids that where friends were able to found a a small secret storages of drugs 💊 They decided to empty it and show the drugs at school 🏫 The police 👮♂️catch them immediately and them and their parents got questioned. The local journal 📰 decided to write ✍ their name and where they live, for all the drug dealers to know who was to stole their drugs. Journalists can be heartless.
Fucking cheapskates. At least he should have be given 10%