No wonder the sheriff there has only a hazy recollection of $17,000 in found-money turned in six months ago:
Two Sedgwick County employees who turned in $17,000 they found in an old paint can are going to court to get the money returned to them.Lance Miller, an employee at the Household Hazardous Waste Facility, found the money in July 2006, when he turned over a 5-gallon paint can at the center. Inside were several denominations of bills that added up to $17,280.
Miller and his supervisor, Kolin Anglin, took the cash to another supervisor, who turned it over to Sheriff Gary Steed. Miller said investigators found the man who dropped off the can had died about 15 years ago and they did not locate any relatives.
Steed said Friday that he could not remember much about the investigation and the cash is probably in safekeeping somewhere.
I'm going to have to assume they asked for it back themselves before hiring a lawyer, and I myself have a hazy recollection that a certain amount of time does have to pass before you can reclaim money you've turned in.
My husband, Dr. Schweitzer, once found a ten-dollar bill on the grocery store floor and turned it in to a cashier. She gave him the oddest look and I just shook my head. He doesn't follow the age-old rule about how if it's on the ground and not inside a wallet you can keep it. Actually, that's my rule; but I'm sure my ancestors before me followed it too.
Posted by floridacracker at January 23, 2007 02:54 PMFor 17 grand I'd be interested in getting it back if it remains unclaimed, too.
As a kid I once found four dollars outside a department store and my mother insisted I turn it in to the office at the store. She obviously follows your husband's rule. Virtue is not its own reward for a kid who had Plans for that money.
Just be sure that bill ain't being trolled by James Carville. ;p
Found money like that was sure to attract other players, this time the cookie jar lid got slammed on their hand.
I hope they toss whoever filched it in jail for embezellment.