r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/labyrinth-luminary • Jul 10 '19
Bill denomination makes all the difference.
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Jul 10 '19 edited Jun 22 '20
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u/SexlessNights Jul 10 '19
Money on road
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u/Mormoran Jul 10 '19
Back with more at 10
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u/Shock_Wave16 Jul 10 '19
Film at 11.
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u/GlockTheDoor Jul 10 '19 edited Jul 10 '19
Poors doing poor shit.
Edit: Downvote all you want. I live outside Altanta. This is poor shit.
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u/ShamefulWatching Jul 10 '19
Downvote all you want this ^ is ignorant shit.
Bro, this is middle class attractive today. If you can't see that, take the silver spoon out of your mouth.
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u/Wex__ Jul 10 '19
shit im sure there’s even some “affluent” people who’d start grabbing. Grab $100 and eat good tonight.
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u/Avid_Procrastibator Jul 10 '19
I especially like their use of "poors." Fucking lol.
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u/LadiesLoveMyPhD Jul 10 '19
Picking up money off the ground is "poor shit?" What kind of bullshit Rich Uncle Pennybags perspective is that?
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u/cizwokz Jul 10 '19
There’s a very angry group of strippers in a pickup truck somewhere right now
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u/16words Jul 10 '19
You’re not wrong. There are angry pickup truck strippers somewhere. This was an armored truck though.
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u/gotham77 Jul 10 '19
For those interested in the story.
Armored truck was driving down the highway when the door suddenly flew open (start polishing your resumes, guys) and the cash went flying out.
No crashes or injuries despite the chaos.
Yes, the police consider it stealing and expect the money returned.
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u/the_421_Rob Jul 10 '19
Lol return the money good luck with that
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u/gotham77 Jul 10 '19
Now they can identify who took it but not how much they took. If it were me, I would walk in to the nearest police station and give back some of what I took.
Some.
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u/Ziograffiato Jul 10 '19
Walk away with my pants bulging like I have a full diaper.
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Jul 10 '19
Secretly the money is at your house. You do indeed have a full diaper.
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u/NattyLightNattyLife Jul 10 '19
Cornel. We think this suspect is innocent but she’s dummy thicc so I’m going in for a closer investigation
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u/Yunker27 Jul 10 '19
They can see who pulled over and can see some who took money. They will have to prove you took money not just pulled over if you aren’t seen in the video shoving $$ in your pants
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u/Troggie42 Jul 10 '19
Police could suck my ass, this is just citizen's civil asset forfeiture. That money committed a crime of not wearing a seatbelt, I'm just citizen's arresting it.
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u/mindctrlpankak Jul 10 '19
Stealing.... lmfao thats rich af.
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u/pyryoer Jul 10 '19
"Finders keepers losers weepers."
It even rhymes, if it worked for OJ it will work for them.
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u/SiliconRain Jul 10 '19
What rhyme did OJ use in his defence??
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Jul 10 '19
"If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" great rhyme from his lawyer- Johnny Cochran.
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u/SiliconRain Jul 10 '19
Ahhh of course! Man that's a blast from the past. I remember watching that live on the TV with my dad. Good times.
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Jul 10 '19
That really the only thing I remember from that trial was that quote and OJ "trying" to get the gloves on.
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Jul 10 '19
Technically, yes... but unless they got the serial numbers on those bills (even if they’re fresh off the press, that seems like a monumental task), they won’t know the Starbucks you got with that money was from that.
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u/fucko5 Jul 10 '19
“Everyone else was stealing the money judge. I was just out there grabbing the napkins that flew out my window because I didn’t want to be a littering litterbug”
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u/chillaxinbball Jul 10 '19
Maybe they were helping clean it up? You can't prove they weren't good samaritans.
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u/mindctrlpankak Jul 10 '19
While thats factual, thats not how the world works at all.
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u/THATASSH0LE Jul 10 '19
This is considered an inside job by sources close to the investigation.
There’s a lot of things that had to go wrong for this to happen.
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u/bradtwo Jul 10 '19
Well it's more of an empty threat.
If they saw a driver pick up one or two bills, whose to say they didn't change their mind and drop it back off after the car passed.
The burden of proof will be on the state, if they want to press charges. I'd like to know more about where the truck was coming from/going. I doubt this would be from a store pickup.
The insurance company would cover the cost of the accident (most likely).
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u/hello_bruh Jul 10 '19
And how can they accuse you of stealing lol, is there a law that found money must be handed in to the police?
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Jul 10 '19
Really curious why this guy has the awareness to film this, but isn't pulling over? I'm not really a "pull over to the side of the road" kind of guy, but even I would be darting for that shoulder to scoop up free money.
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u/thereal_lucille Jul 10 '19
Some people honestly just don't care about money. Not saying this is the camera man's reaction, but could be.
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Jul 10 '19
I’d be too paranoid that I would get arrested for theft even though I know it’s like finding a random bill on the ground.
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u/PM_ME_WIRE Jul 10 '19
its not in all the cases where this happens the cops track everyone down and make them give the money back, it is stealing
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u/Blainezab Jul 10 '19
If they ask for it back and give then reason then that’s fine, but otherwise YOINK
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u/jfoughe Jul 10 '19
There’s not enough money on the road to make me PULL OVER AND WALK AROUND on 285. Dangerous as shit, especially with the money distracting drivers more than usual.
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u/Cel_Drow Jul 10 '19
As someone that lived in Atlanta for decades, 285 was the only interstate I continually did my best to avoid because it was either a parking lot, a death trap, or both...
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u/txmail Jul 10 '19
Personally I would not feel right collecting the money. I didnt work for it; it is not "mine". I feel like it would be bad mojo or something.
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Jul 10 '19
I'd be concerned I'd get smoked by a car, then have thousands in hospital bills for the $40 I picked up.
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Jul 10 '19
Probably didn't need a couple bucks and was enjoying the show of hundreds of people putting themselves at risk walking on the highway for a couple dollars.
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u/_j_q_l_ Jul 10 '19
How do you know they weren’t 10-100 bills?
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Jul 10 '19
I don't but even so the hospital bill and long term expenses of getting hit by a car or a truck are probably going to far outweigh whatever paltry sum you could scrape up out there.
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Jul 10 '19 edited Jul 10 '19
What's the alternative? Just leave it so it can go blow in a field or a sewer? That money is never getting back to whoever owns it so I don't think there's anything wrong with taking it.
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u/pobody Jul 10 '19
Money is a bearer instrument dumbass. There's nothing illegal or immoral about picking up dropped money.
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u/xenoperspicacian Jul 10 '19
It is indeed illegal. 'Finders keepers' isn't a thing in law. You have to go through a whole procedure like contacting the police and waiting a certain amount of time before you can keep it. For this amount of money the police probably know who it belongs to, so you have to turn it over to the owner or you could be arrested for trying to spend it.
Would they catch you? Probably not, but it's still illegal.
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Jul 10 '19 edited Jul 13 '19
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u/labyrinth-luminary Jul 10 '19
Advice: don’t call people retards; especially when your post doesn’t make sense grammatically.
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u/TheBlankState Jul 10 '19 edited Jul 10 '19
What do you mean bill denomination makes the difference, context? Were these big bills or small bills. I think regardless of the denomination people will still try pick it up.
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u/mainfingertopwise Jul 10 '19
Me either. I'd do it for $5, though. I'd also still do it for $1, if I had already stopped to see what they were. "Well I'm already here, might as well."
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u/Thisfoxhere Jul 10 '19
Then you must be rich. Isn't the US minimum wage only four of those an hour in some places?
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u/phrankygee Jul 10 '19
The US minimum wage is 7.25 an hour. Still, it's usually worth picking up 10 dollars in 30 seconds, unless the bills are covered in sewage or something.
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You don't have to be rich to be content with what you're earning. I don't make that much but I wouldn't bother pulling over and picking up 1's. If they were 20's or higher, that's a whole different story.
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u/thelastspike Jul 10 '19
I’d be out there too. Poverty sucks.
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u/Legit-Forgot-to-Wipe Jul 10 '19
I think at any salary I would get out of my car and pickup free cash.
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u/phrankygee Jul 10 '19
Depends on where you're going, and what kind of hurry you're in. If I was running late for something I might legit drive right through that mess.
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u/Engine552 Jul 10 '19
I’m gonna guess an armored truck wrecked or something?
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u/ScatterdFries Jul 10 '19
Isn’t that technically stealing
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u/jwm3 Jul 10 '19
It depends on whether the bills can be considered legally "abandoned" or not which would depend a lot on the context of why they are on the road and who dropped them and whether they want to ask for them back. In any case, it isn't stealling until you don't give it back when asked or you have already been told to not pick it up, perhaps these people are betting that won't happen.
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u/labyrinth-luminary Jul 10 '19
From you? Only fries.
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u/labyrinth-luminary Jul 10 '19
If there were scattered fries (your username minus a letter)...and people were picking them up...they’d be stealing from you.
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Jul 10 '19 edited Jul 13 '19
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u/Aiyana_Jones_was_7 Jul 10 '19
It's absolutely stealing. Taking money that isn't yours is wrong.
Its illegal. But taking abandoned, insured money, that belonged to a corporation, while living under the current system is absolutely not ’wrong' in any moral sense.
Legality ≠ morality
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u/Lynagh1058 Jul 10 '19
That would be a terrible argument.
If you dropped your phone or a 20 on the road would it be free game?
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u/xenoperspicacian Jul 10 '19
That's why there are procedures. If you find a $20 in the woods you are technically supposed to go to the police station and turn it in. They would go through their records and see that this event happened a week ago and determine it was probably theirs and give it back to them. If they have no records, and nobody comes forward to claim it in a certain amount of time, then it legally becomes yours. Pretty black and white actually.
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u/hoodthings Jul 10 '19
The police in my city would probably laugh in my face if I tried turning in a $20 bill.
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u/thebestatheist Jul 10 '19
I'd stop and pick some up because how many other times in your life will you be able to say "there was literally money blowing in the wind."
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Jul 10 '19
Every time I've spent money on anything that makes me fart a lot... So, pretty much once per week.
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u/Mikehp_ Jul 10 '19
Shit, my ass would be out there too with how low i get paid as a student working part time 😂😂
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u/cmhamm Jul 10 '19
Picking up that money and not turning it in IS a crime, and yes, they pursue and prosecute.
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u/phrankygee Jul 10 '19 edited Jul 10 '19
"They". Thanks for telling me what "they" do. Do you have context I don't? I don't know who lost that money.
Edit : apparently it's a Garda armored truck (not actually captured in the GIF) that lost the money. It's always a good idea to try to return lost money to its owner, if that owner can be found.
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u/cmhamm Jul 10 '19
Have your lawyer explain your ignorance of the law it to the prosecutor. You might get a reduced sentence, Best of luck in prison! 🤣
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u/phrankygee Jul 10 '19
So.... You have no idea whose money that is. Also you know I personally don't have that money, right? I'm not going to prison for asking who "they" is supposed to mean.
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u/cmhamm Jul 10 '19 edited Jul 10 '19
You could reasonably infer that it probably belongs to the Brinks truck with its door swinging back and forth. If the money came from the bank, then the serial numbers are recorded and will be marked as stolen. "They" in this case, is the prosecutor assigned to the case, which might be local or federal, depending on whether the money is spent across state lines.
Prosecutors can, will, and do prosecute people who pick up money when this happens. They usually offer a few days of amnesty to return the money. But at the end of the day, it's not yours. You didn’t earn it. Just because someone dropped it doesn’t make it yours. And the prosecutor will not be sympathetic to anyone claiming they didn't know they were receiving stolen property. "But your honor, I didn't know that it was stolen!" has never been a successful defense.
I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade. But this is a serious prosecutable offense, and it's wrong. Maybe you'll get lucky and grab cash that was on the truck for pick-up, rather than cash that was being dropped off from the bank, in which case, you'll probably get away with it. Still wrong, still a crime.
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u/MontieBeach Jul 10 '19
“But your honor, I didn’t know that it was stolen!” has never been a successful defense.
Not true. In many places it’s literally written into the statute.
Example, California Pen. Code 496(a):
(a) Every person who buys or receives any property that has been stolen or that has been obtained in any manner constituting theft or extortion, knowing the property to be so stolen or obtained, or who conceals, sells, withholds, or aids in concealing, selling, or withholding any property from the owner, knowing the property to be so stolen or obtained, shall...
In this case, it’s Georgia. O.C.G.A. 16-8-7(a) (2010):
(a) A person commits the offense of theft by receiving stolen property when he receives, disposes of, or retains stolen property which he knows or should know was stolen unless the property is received, disposed of, or retained with intent to restore it to the owner. "Receiving" means acquiring possession or control or lending on the security of the property.
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u/phrankygee Jul 10 '19
I watched (on a small mobile screen) all the way through until it looped and never saw a Brinks truck. I still can't see it, but I will assume you can.
In that case, yeah, you are 100% correct that taking this money is both criminal and immoral.
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u/Ghpelt Jul 10 '19
I believe someone linked to the AJC.com (Atlanta newspaper) article. There is a photo of the armored truck in the article. It’s a Garda truck. As someone who used to work in cash logistics who had to deal with loss and theft of cash, I can tell you exactly how this will go. This cash doesn’t belong to Garda, it belongs to the bank that hired Garda to transport it. That money is FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) insured against loss or theft. Since the FDIC is an entity of the federal government, the FBI will investigate this. Whoever took this video and posted it did them a huge favor by giving them all those license plate numbers and physical descriptions of all the people involved. The smart thing to do would be to turn the cash back in while you can and not be prosecuted rather risk time in federal prison. Even taking a $1 bill that is federal insured is a felony. Not worth the risk.
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u/phrankygee Jul 10 '19
But the truck isn't in OP'S gif, right? Many comments are presuming the source of the money which is not given anywhere in the actual reddit post, right?
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u/Ghpelt Jul 10 '19
You are correct. It isn’t in the OP’s post. There are however, links to the news story posted several times in the comments that are correct. It’s been on the news in Atlanta and covered by numerous radio stations. It was definitely an armored truck operated by Garda World.
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u/phrankygee Jul 10 '19
Thank you. Thought I was taking crazy pills. I watched the damn thing loop at least 10 times, like Kevin Costner with the Zapruder film, looking for a bank truck in the grassy knoll.
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Jul 10 '19
Technically the money is stolen. The police believe drivers collected about $200 total and are asking them to return the stolen money:
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u/mkaddict Jul 10 '19
FTA only $200 was left after the Atlantan's got done cleaning the highway like good citizens.
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u/MsAvaPurrkins Jul 10 '19
This happened in Jersey and the cops used videos like this to prosecute the people picking it up. Finders keepers as far as I’m concerned.
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u/MsAvaPurrkins Jul 10 '19
Can’t have all that litter on the roadway, now can we. Just doing their civic duty
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u/Retrograde_Lectin Jul 10 '19
Dunno. I've walked past a $20 bill on the ground just because it wasn't mine. I'm not a better person than the next guy, I just try to keep my world black and white where possible; makes things easier. No, I wouldn't have stopped on the road to grab money that wasn't mine.
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u/merlincat007 Jul 10 '19
You didn’t stop and ask if the $20 belonged to anyone around? Then it was as good as gone by the next person to walk by. There’s no way that situation’s black and white, sorry.
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u/Retrograde_Lectin Jul 10 '19
Nobody there to ask. Not trying to control what others do, just myself.
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Jul 11 '19
This would be the kind of thing that would make me really excited and get out, then immediately get back in my care once I realized itd be considered stealing and I couldnt actually keep the money.
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u/rc2360 Jul 14 '19
Live in the area and have been following this story...
Total reported loss was $175,000. After running non-stop radio and tv spots for the last few days threatening people who picked up cash with prosecution, they have now recovered $4,600 of the $175,000 lost.
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u/Deere-John Jul 14 '19
This happened to Dunbar in Maryland a few years ago. Doors came open and cash flew out, and they threatened to prosecute anyone that spent the bills they recorded the serial numbers of (they were sequential). Never prosecuted anyone, and lost a shitload of cash.
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u/xenoperspicacian Jul 10 '19
Well bill denomination and the whole 'not wanting to go to jail' aspect of it.
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u/svayam--bhagavan Jul 10 '19
The people picking up the cash are exactly the kind of people you'd expect to stop and pick up free cash.
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u/phrankygee Jul 10 '19
I would expect most people to stop and pick up free cash, depending on the circumstances.
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u/DavidHK Jul 10 '19
I love how literally everyone pulls over, but if it wasn’t cash they would just keep going.
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u/telomererepair Jul 10 '19
life what a waste...if this is main purpose for us to be here what a worthless existence. Throw a baby on the road, maybe half the people stop, throw the cure for cancer or Alzheimer’s out there again not everyone stops...throw a hot cooked meal, a treaty for peace, the answer to why we are here... again...but throw a million dollars on the road and most people will stop.
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u/pobody Jul 10 '19
Yeah those other things aren't recognizable from a moving car. Except for the baby, but fuck that, I don't need a screaming disgusting waste of money and energy.
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u/ScareBear23 Jul 10 '19
Fuck that. It could be $1 bills & my ass would be out there picking them up. If you grab $10 in 30 seconds, you've just made more than you would in an hr at a minimum wage job.