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      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.

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    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?

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Turn it in to the employees!?!

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

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      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!

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    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.

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        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.

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      There’s a fair chance the Walmart CCTV is airgapped so there’s no convenient way to get the image off. (It could even be ancient and analog - unlikely, but I could believe it.)

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        In my experience, while bigger corporations are more likely to have the means, they’re also more likely to have all kinds of corporate red tape forbidding providing footage when law enforcement arrives (gotta get every rung of the leadership ladder to sign off, maybe even Legal). I’ve had months between the reported incident and corporate approval to provide the footage, usually a CD.

        In situations like those, Loss Prevention “pretends not to notice” when you take a photo of the CCTV freeze frame with your agency-issued camera, and something like this is the result.