• dream_weasel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    14 hours ago

    If it’s a dollar, whatever.

    $30? Questionable but ok.

    An envelope full of money that is obviously someone’s pay for the week? Yeah you should turn that in, the owner who dropped it will be searching for it before they leave the store.

    (I saw the last one of these happen to a mother of three in person in a local grocery store when I was about 12. I hope she got it back)

    The amount of people saying “lol it’s mine now” in this thread is a little concerning.

  • mkwt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    When I took intro to law in undergrad, abandoned property was handled on a finders, keepers basis. I don’t know this jurisdiction, but, you know, what’s the crime here?

  • whereitsat@lemmy.zipEnglish
    41·
    1 day ago

    why is this even a concern?

    this seems like a law that was only put on the books to protect rich people. if you drop a wad of money on the ground for whatever reason then the person who picks it up shouldn’t be a criminal no matter what they do with it.

    we’re taught the merits of rugged individualism and social darwinism and ‘fuck you got mine’ but then we’re supposed to care about someone dropping a $10 bill on the ground no matter what the reason? we’re supposed to ‘do the right thing?’

    lol fuck off.

    • underisk@lemmy.mlEnglish
      22·
      1 day ago

      Cops insist on phrasing everything like they’re trying their hardest to use every multisyllabic word they know. They cant just say that the guy picked up some money that another person dropped it wouldn’t make them sound tactical and military enough.

  • falynns@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    That’s Bill, we were having lunch at that exact time. Must be a bad video, hope you find the real “criminal” you fascist pigs.

  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
    95·
    3 days ago

    Turn it in to the employees!?!

    What, is all money dropped in walmart now automatically walmart’s property?

    • meathorse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      3 days ago

      Yes… Cash is handed into Walmart, they hold it in trust for xx days, no one claims it and it goes into the coffers.

      How dare this “poor” take that money out of the hands of the long suffering corporation! Doesn’t he know they’ve got starving shareholders to feed!

    • Breezy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      527·
      2 days ago

      Yes taking something that is not yours is theft. As stupid as this situation is it is still a crime.

      • Routhinator@startrek.websiteEnglish
        532·
        2 days ago

        Uh… There are finders rights and reasonable doubt. There is no identifiable owner of money unless you saw someone drop it. And any employee is more likely to keep it themselves.

        There’s no such thing as a free and democratic nation that would prosecute people for this.

        • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
          72·
          2 days ago

          Uh… There are finders rights and reasonable doubt.

          Even under old English common law, finders rights would not have applied here. The finder can make a claim of ownership against anyone except the person who lost it. If the person who dropped the money is trying to recover it, then the finder has to return it. Even so, this isn’t old England. Local laws apply and in most jurisdictions, found property must be turned over to the authorities to allow the original owner a chance to come claim it. After a certain time period, often thirty days, the finder can return and claim the item.

          ‘Finders keepers’ and the law

          Much like many commenters, you might be thinking, if this man found a fairly small sum of abandoned cash on the ground, then it’s no harm to keep it.

          But, under Georgia Code § 16-8-6, “keeping property you know or learn is lost or mislaid without making reasonable efforts to return it to the owner is considered the criminal offense of theft of lost or mislaid property.” In other words, Georgia does not take “finders keepers” as a sufficient answer to why someone might keep the money

        • nullspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          2 days ago

          I’d get the theft angle if you found a wallet or “found” a bike lying there, but when it’s cash it’s in the realm of criminalizing someone for picking up a quarter off the ground, or a penny even.

      • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        1 day ago

        I love how Lemmy has just turned into Reddit, with how you’re downvoted for being right and actually engaging in this discussion.

  • balsoft@lemmy.mlEnglish
    40·
    3 days ago

    An anecdote: the first time I was in Spain as a kid (touristy reasons), I noticed a 20 EUR note someone dropped on the ground (this was in Madrid). I stood there for a second contemplating. My child brain went “I found something that someone lost => Need to put it in a prominent place so that the owner can find it and it doesn’t get dirty” (I was a much kinder individual back then). So I picked up the bill and was about to put it on the window sill of a nearby building when a guy walked over to me and explained in broken english that I should keep it. I looked at him in total confusion, but then he flashed some kind of local police ID at me and explained to me that if I don’t pick it up, someone else will, and there is no way to find the actual owner. I will probably remember this for the rest of my life (partly because 20 EUR was a huge chunk of cash for me back then).

    ACAB but some are worse than others.

      • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldEnglish
        47·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, the validity of that declaration is strongest the closer you are to the top. As you hit the bottom it’s pretty weak, borderline useless.