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Originally Posted by AaronM
"Even though I desperately needed the money as my husband and I have five children, I feel I did the right thing by calling the Moorhead Police," Knutson said in the lawsuit.
You can't fix stupid.
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Amen.
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Originally Posted by PR_Tom
When I was a kid we were taught to turn over found money to the police. There's nothing stupid about it and it's not hard to understand. It's was ignorant her for not realising the world is not what she thought, and thats all there is to it. NEXT time if she does it, it'll be stupid now that she's learned the lesson.
Not everyone grew up in the times when people were so cynical. People used to look out for each other, it's part of history now.
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It is a flawed argument to argue that it is the right thing to do to turn over a 12 000$ "tip" to the police, and then argue that it is wrong for the police to hold that money because it is drug money and/or the product of a shady transaction. You either stick with your good samaritan approach all the way, or you do the everyone-out-for-himself thing all the way, not call the cops, keep the money, etc.
Do you seriously think this lady was getting a generous tip from a random stranger (who just happened to be in a hurry to leave that restaurant). Who knows, the waitress maybe came awfully close to getting whacked. I'm not saying I know what happened exactly, but the cops probably have a legal right to hold that money. In this situation, the moment she called the cops, she should have known she wasn't getting that money back, or at least that there was a strong chance she wouldn't get it back.