$65,000 question Options

[impala454]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/5190399.html

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A county garbage operations employee found a plastic bag on the road stuffed with $65,000 Thursday — and immediately turned it in to authorities.

It turned out the money had fallen off a Loomis armored car half an hour before Debbie Cole found it near the Pinellas County solid waste operations facility where she works. First she thought it was a turtle in the road.

The 53-year-old Largo woman found the bag just before 7 a.m., full of enough $50 and $100 bills to pay her salary for two years. She immediately contacted a supervisor, who called deputies.

It's not clear how the bag fell from the truck, said Mark Clark, spokesman for Loomis, a Houston-based cash-handling company.

Cole's boss, Bob Hauser, said he can't give her a raise or a bonus for her good deed because she's a government employee. But maybe, he said, he can arrange some extra time off.

Cole, who grew up in Long Island, said she was raised to be honest. She said she raised her four daughters the same way.

Did she think for just a minute about keeping the money?

"Everyone keeps asking me that," Cole said. "To be honest, no. It didn't even cross my mind."

time to watch a few peeps on here talk about their integrity & honesty

I'd have kept it, for the simple fact that loomis sure didn't seem to want it.

[False Dude]

I would have turned it in.

[Seeker]

WTF? There's some dumb ass people out there in the world, of course you should keep it.

I'd keep it and convert it all into gold to use for when the economy crashes and Dollars are worthless.

[theIncredibleEdi...]

I would take the money and buy dildos to donate to all the people in Africa.

[Spectatrix]

I would have turned it in.

[Inferia]

how do you explain a sudden extra $65,000 in your bank account? At that sum, probably better off turning it in.

[theIncredibleEdi...]

how do you explain a sudden extra $65,000 in your bank account? At that sum, probably better off turning it in.

Just hold a bunch of the cash and make small deposits over time.

[cupcake]

I'da turned it in simply because I have crapass luck when it comes to committing crimes.

always wear my seatbelt and drive the limit. yet the one time I have to speed to get somewhere not only is my seatbelt off, but my registration is expired too.

had I kept that dough, there would be brian williams and his crack undercover dateline team rolling out my kitchen and shit...

[Mommy]

Id turn it in because I would be scared of getting in trouble if I kept it.

[Testm0nkey]

if i was in need of the money or known a good use for it (charities i work with) i would have kept it and distributed it according

[impala454]

how do you explain a sudden extra $65,000 in your bank account? At that sum, probably better off turning it in.

that's why you don't put it in your bank account

hello gas money for life. not to anything else that's fun to pay with cash.

[cmac]

i don't have the kind of luck just to run into $65,000.

[GOB]

why was the money in a plastic bag instead of the normal burlap sack with a gigantic dollar sign printed on the side?

[jonathan83]

would've turned it in, because who knows where it could have come from.

[Oasis]

If it came from an armored car it was probably from a bank. Since it was under under $100k it would have been federally insured, meaning I wouldn't turn it in.