Finding cash on the ground$$$$$$$

Not to mention there is a camera in the machine recording your face.

 

As already mentioned

 

Trust me, the camera's are there. I know a few guys that are in the know in regards to ATM machines and you would be surprised at the amount of tech in them. There are cameras in there. All they need is a gap in the plastic 0.5MM wide. and they fit a special lens on the inside that allows clear vision through such a small hole. Freaky?

 

I work for the department of redundancy department.

 

I would have thought that Mr. S looked at pee and not at redundancies.

All that aside, strong jaw, nice even brow line.

 

Unfortunately, this did not happen to me but a friends roomate. My friend was living in NYC at the time, upper west side, and my friends roomate(early 20's) aunt had just died and left her a brownstone. It was a bit rundown and not a great neighborhood so she decided to sell it. Her dad came down to help get it ready and called her a few days later telling her she had better come over and see something. They were unsure of the news, a bit worried it might be something bad as he would not tell her what was up. When they got there, he took them upstairs and into one of the bedrooms, apparently her aunts room. When working in the room, they had discovered something funny in the plaster and had uncovered a bricked over closet. This could be nothing but seemed like an odd thing to do. Her Dad wanted her to decide what to do with it. They decided to break into the wall to see why it was bricked over. It was like the infamous Al Capone thing that Geraldo did years ago!!
Anyway, what they found was her uncle had stashed stock certificates, coins and cash and sealed it up. This was about 1930! The money did not amount to that much in modern terms by denomination but it turned out to include many rare coins and though most of the stocks were now defunct, a few were blue chips, worth of course, a substantial amount. In total her take was over $150k. Nice windfall for a young girl and very thoughtful of the uncle, probably if he had told anyone, it would have been raided long before.

 

A number of years ago I was at Rehoboth Beach, DE with an ex and while her and I were "swimming" I just happen to see something in my peripheral vision in the water just behind her. Well whaddya know it's a $1 bill floating by. So of course I grab onto it and feel pretty good about the whole thing. Ok so that in itself wasn't so great, but litereally 10 seconds later she shouts "Woah, look!" and she reaches behind me and grabs 2-$20's floating on past. Needless to say I made her buy me dinner that night for a change.

More recently I was going to a local restaurant/bar with a few friends and it was a rainy night so we had to run from the car to the door. I, being the thoughtful friend I am, stopped and held the door for everybody else to go in first. I just happen to look down at the ground next to the door and there's a $20 just floating in a puddle. And of course since I'm the good friend that I am I bought everybody a round with it.

 

LOL, yeah, but when i got caught, it wasn't pretty...

 

When we were teenagers, a neighborhood girl was dating the son of a local "shady" character, (big time bookie/racketeer as word had it). Rumour had it the mobster got tipped off about a pending raid when she was at their house and handed her a few big bags of cash to hide. Funny thing was by the next day half the kids in town knew there was a hundred grand under her bed but still no one DARED to try to steal it! LOL.

 

Don't know if this counts, but it was PERFECT timing i guess. I went to Commerce bank w/ about $20 in change to put in the machine and exchange for cash. Well the machine was broken and wasn't collecting my change, so i called a manager over, they fixed it, but throughout the day it wasn't collecting a lot of change. So it all spilled in the inside of the machine. Since I had already put all my change in, they couldn't separate mine from the rest of what was in the machine. So they gave me the rest of it, I walked out with about $65 in cash.

 

Over a Billion $ in bearer bonds dropped off at our office by mistake. I remember my Dad and I rolling the trunks down Broad St. to Chem Bank.
When we got there they were closed. We pounded on the door. Some guy told us to go away. My Dad explained what was in the trunks and asked for the guy's name explaining we would be happy to go away and keep their bonds if they wanted. All we needed was a name to tell the bank who told us to go away and keep the bonds...

 

I have found random cash here and there. The best I ever found was a $100 in a trash can while I was putting a soda bottle there. I also found like $250 in a pool at Disney World, but when I got out of the water there was a woman crying about her lost money, so I gave it back.

By far my weridest find was when I was about 6 years old. I was riding my bike down the street near my grandparents old house. Apparently there were some shady characters living in an old house down the block, who were into dealing coke. I found a package of what I thought at the time were "stickers" cause they had Lambo's and Fcar on them. I was like "Awsome..." then I showed my parents and they called the cops, and the cops came and took my "stickers". It wasn't until later that I found out what the packets actually contained, and at that point, I asked my parents what the hell they were doing letting me ride my bike there.

Craig

 

Thats a good one!

Along those lines - When I was about 14 I was riding a bike near my grandparents house in Iowa while visiting, and found a credit card and drivers license in the street... We called the lady, she didn't live too far, and she had had her purse stolen a day or two prior. We returned the stuff to her and she gave me 4 dollars as a reward. Not much, but I was 14, and 4 bucks was better than a poke in the eye.

Next morning, I'm riding my bike and another lady is having a garage sale... with a pile of 10 cent comic books - among them were most of the first 100 issues of Uncanny Xmen... so I bought 40 of them. I don't know what they're worth, but I've still got them, and I suspect theyre worth more that $4.

 

My mom used to be the revenue manager for hertz car rental in Canada... I found buckets and buckets of bills in the different car she brought home every night... Also, a good place to find money is in cigaret cartons lying on the ground... I found $50 in one once.

 

Years ago I was waiting for my car in a parking garage in downtown Manhattan when a well-dressed lady marched in, handed me $100 and told me she was in hurry. I was a little stunned, and before I could say anything, she started screaming at me, telling me to hurry up. Just then the attendant showed up with my car and she goes, "Move that damned car outta my way."

So I did. All the way to New Jersey.

 

Many years ago I found a 1 ounce gold Kruggerand under the drivers seat of a car that had been traded in where I worked. I gave it to the Sales Manager, thinking there would be a reward when the rightful owner claimed it. Well, they gave it back to him, and I got zilch.

My other "honesty" story: by some strange quirk, my bank once paid me two years interest on a CD that they accidentally closed after about six months (long story). I didn't discover the error for a couple of weeks. I went to the Bank Manager, told her what had happened, and let them withdraw the extra money from my account ( I don't remember the exact amount, but it was well over $1000). For being so honest, I got NO REWARD. Then, to top it off, the next year I got a letter from the IRS, stating that I had received more interest than I reported on my return, and I was being taxed and penalized for the not reporting the correct amount. The bank never told the IRS that THEY had made an error, and that I had returned the extra money!

 

Jeff the next thing you find I would keep. Don't tell anybody. Your luck sounds like mine.

 

God! I got rid of those specs in about 1992. I need a better pic. Can anybody put Kitty Fishstick's helmet on my head?

 

LOL, that's awesome...


Jeff, as the old saying goes, no good deed does unpunished...


A month or two ago, i went and cashed a check at the bank; the girl gave me an extra fifty and i counted it and gave her the fifty back... She's been really helpful ever since... About ten years ago, i went into a bodega to buy a pack of cigarettes; i gave the guy a ten; he gave me just over $95 in change... i didn't say ****...

 

good old bodegas.

 

Found a phanny pack full of coke and cash when I was about 10 in a stall in an Arby's. And $75 under a urinal trough at a bills game.

 

OMG!!!! What the hell were you doing *there*, looking for a free drink?????


Don't answer that.

 

I’ve found lots of stuff and I always give it back, but then lots of stuff I lose also comes back. Wallet, car keys, dandruff...
The largest ‘found’ amount was $3m, although it wasn’t ever really in my hand.
Back in early ‘85 the British Pound was drastically undervalued so I bought some. The bank made an error with respect to a decimal place or two and I found the equivalent of $3,000,000 extra in my account. I immediately looked into it: The money was theirs but while the loot sat in my account the interest it generated would be mine. I dutifully set about informing them of their sad and sorry error, having decided that a postcard with the wrong zip code and a return address in Mexico would be the best way of speedily imparting the news. Should I send something tasteful involving a architecture, or should it be bold, brash, primary colors and have chesty girls in the foreground? One must be considerate when telling a bank about their error.......
As I was musing on how to present the message the bank manager called. It must have been telepathy!! He was thinking about the same thing I was!!
Now, that’s a bank: In tune with the customer.

At different times I’ve also found a Rolex watch in a field, a wallet with just $100 and an ATM card and an address book without the owner’s name. I got them all back. Tracking down people to do them a good turn is actually quite interesting. You would be amazed at the suspicious looks you get when you hand them their lost stuff!
I guess I just look like the sort of guy who would pinch it in the first place.