"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Good topic but we may as well add what people have "caught". I have
heard of the bales of drugs in the ocean and a duffle bag of cash

($80K)

even made the news a few years ago.

I caught a cheap 35 mm camera. It was in terrible shape. A friend of
mine fought a 24 oz hammer for a good 2 minutes on 6lb test on the
Mississippi once.

Dan

UglyDan®©T wrote:



Never caught anything to that extreme.

Great suggestion....let's go for it...

What have you dropped and what have you caught....

If you caught $80k in a duffle bag....would you report it to the news?






Some people are a little slow. About 20 years ago or so, the Budget
Rent a
car people recovered an overdue car from SFO parking lot. The lady at
Budget removed the 2 suitcases in the car and after opening them, she
turned
them in. $10,000,000 in cash and gold and platinum. The government
took
them as drug booty and she got nothing.



Some people are honest.

About five years ago, I found a wallet on the sidewalk in NW DC between
a fancy hotel and the Georgetown U law school campus. It had several
hundred dollars in cash in it, and all sorts of plastic. Belonged to a
woman who lived out of town. I made several calls to her various
offices and finally someone there tracked her down at a medical
conference she was attending in DC. We met briefly in the hotel lobby,
where she explained she had been carrying her coat while running for a
cab, and the wallet must have fallen out of her coat pocket.

If I found $10 million in cash and other valuables, I'd assume it was
drug money and immediately call the local sheriff's department.

I guess that's just one of the differences between we moderates and you
conservatives.



If I found $10mm in suitcases in a rental car, I would know it is drug money
and is now mine. As to finding wallets, I have returned a couple of them
over the years. Major difference between a wallet and a $1mm+ case of money
on the street. Why not profit from the drug business's screwup?

It would have to be drug money, and I would keep it.

Harry says his local county mounty is going to protect him from the drug
kingpins, so of course he can give the money to the cops, but he is
terrified of Tuuk.


"Calif Bill" wrote in message
news

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Calif Bill wrote:
"P.Fritz" wrote in message
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"JimH" wrote in message
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"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
thlink.net...

Good topic but we may as well add what people have "caught". I have
heard of the bales of drugs in the ocean and a duffle bag of cash

($80K)

even made the news a few years ago.

I caught a cheap 35 mm camera. It was in terrible shape. A friend
of
mine fought a 24 oz hammer for a good 2 minutes on 6lb test on the
Mississippi once.

Dan

UglyDan®©T wrote:



Never caught anything to that extreme.

Great suggestion....let's go for it...

What have you dropped and what have you caught....

If you caught $80k in a duffle bag....would you report it to the news?






Some people are a little slow. About 20 years ago or so, the Budget
Rent a
car people recovered an overdue car from SFO parking lot. The lady at
Budget removed the 2 suitcases in the car and after opening them, she
turned
them in. $10,000,000 in cash and gold and platinum. The government
took
them as drug booty and she got nothing.



Some people are honest.

About five years ago, I found a wallet on the sidewalk in NW DC between
a fancy hotel and the Georgetown U law school campus. It had several
hundred dollars in cash in it, and all sorts of plastic. Belonged to a
woman who lived out of town. I made several calls to her various
offices and finally someone there tracked her down at a medical
conference she was attending in DC. We met briefly in the hotel lobby,
where she explained she had been carrying her coat while running for a
cab, and the wallet must have fallen out of her coat pocket.

If I found $10 million in cash and other valuables, I'd assume it was
drug money and immediately call the local sheriff's department.

I guess that's just one of the differences between we moderates and you
conservatives.



If I found $10mm in suitcases in a rental car, I would know it is drug
money
and is now mine. As to finding wallets, I have returned a couple of them
over the years. Major difference between a wallet and a $1mm+ case of
money
on the street. Why not profit from the drug business's screwup?

"Calif Bill" wrote in message
news

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
Calif Bill wrote:
"P.Fritz" wrote in message
...

"JimH" wrote in message
...

"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
thlink.net...

Good topic but we may as well add what people have "caught". I
have
heard of the bales of drugs in the ocean and a duffle bag of cash

($80K)

even made the news a few years ago.

I caught a cheap 35 mm camera. It was in terrible shape. A friend
of
mine fought a 24 oz hammer for a good 2 minutes on 6lb test on the
Mississippi once.

Dan

UglyDan®©T wrote:



Never caught anything to that extreme.

Great suggestion....let's go for it...

What have you dropped and what have you caught....

If you caught $80k in a duffle bag....would you report it to the
news?






Some people are a little slow. About 20 years ago or so, the Budget
Rent a
car people recovered an overdue car from SFO parking lot. The lady
at
Budget removed the 2 suitcases in the car and after opening them, she
turned
them in. $10,000,000 in cash and gold and platinum. The government
took
them as drug booty and she got nothing.



Some people are honest.

About five years ago, I found a wallet on the sidewalk in NW DC between
a fancy hotel and the Georgetown U law school campus. It had several
hundred dollars in cash in it, and all sorts of plastic. Belonged to a
woman who lived out of town. I made several calls to her various
offices and finally someone there tracked her down at a medical
conference she was attending in DC. We met briefly in the hotel lobby,
where she explained she had been carrying her coat while running for a
cab, and the wallet must have fallen out of her coat pocket.

If I found $10 million in cash and other valuables, I'd assume it was
drug money and immediately call the local sheriff's department.

I guess that's just one of the differences between we moderates and you
conservatives.



If I found $10mm in suitcases in a rental car, I would know it is drug
money
and is now mine. As to finding wallets, I have returned a couple of
them
over the years. Major difference between a wallet and a $1mm+ case of
money
on the street. Why not profit from the drug business's screwup?

Are you assuming that harry's wallet story has more truth to it than is
lobsta boat?

"P. Fritz" wrote in message
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Are you assuming that harry's wallet story has more truth to it than is
lobsta boat?

Fritz,

I would hope that most people would contact the owner of a lost wallet.
There is a big difference between taking money from an individual and taking
money from drug kingpins, .

while Harry does like to make up stories to boost his weak ego, I didn't
find his story about finding the owner of a lost wallet to be unbelievable,
Now if he told us he found a $100 bill in the road and had his friend from
the FBI to check for fingerprints and DNA evidence so he could return it to
the owner, I would find that hard to swallow. Now if Harry told that story,
she would have been a single mother with 3 children, who had just come to
the US after escaping from Vietnam on a home built boat. Of course, she had
a child in the hospital with cancer, and needed the money to by milk for his
1 yr old with a cleft palate. Of course, Harry would have then paid for the
children's medical treatment and opened a trust fund for all the kids
college education.

"Me Again" wrote in message
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"P. Fritz" wrote in message
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Are you assuming that harry's wallet story has more truth to it than
is
lobsta boat?

Fritz,

I would hope that most people would contact the owner of a lost wallet.
There is a big difference between taking money from an individual and
taking
money from drug kingpins.

67% in the states........64% in Canada......looks like we are a little
more honest than those to the north :-)

http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/1997/03/think_01.html
"OUT OF 120 wallets dropped in Canada, 77 were returned intact -- 64
percent. In a similar Digest survey of 12 U.S. towns and cities, the figure
was 67 percent. In Europe it was 58 percent; in Asia, 57 percent"



while Harry does like to make up stories to boost his weak ego, I didn't
find his story about finding the owner of a lost wallet to be
unbelievable,

I find little of anything he says believable........remember his little
story about the burglary and his fathers store?

Now if he told us he found a $100 bill in the road and had his friend
from
the FBI to check for fingerprints and DNA evidence so he could return it
to
the owner, I would find that hard to swallow. Now if Harry told that
story,
she would have been a single mother with 3 children, who had just come
to
the US after escaping from Vietnam on a home built boat. Of course, she
had
a child in the hospital with cancer, and needed the money to by milk for
his
1 yr old with a cleft palate. Of course, Harry would have then paid for
the
children's medical treatment and opened a trust fund for all the kids
college education.

Wow, I would have thought it would have been higher than 64 - 67%. The good
news is it still was in the majority.

Did you Google up the article, or had you actually heard about the survey
before?

I would guess if they did the survey in a marina the percentage of wallets
returned would be much higher. Marinas are like small towns.


"P. Fritz" wrote in message
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"Me Again" wrote in message
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"P. Fritz" wrote in message
...

Are you assuming that harry's wallet story has more truth to it than
is
lobsta boat?

Fritz,

I would hope that most people would contact the owner of a lost wallet.
There is a big difference between taking money from an individual and
taking
money from drug kingpins.

67% in the states........64% in Canada......looks like we are a little
more honest than those to the north :-)

http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/1997/03/think_01.html
"OUT OF 120 wallets dropped in Canada, 77 were returned intact -- 64
percent. In a similar Digest survey of 12 U.S. towns and cities, the
figure was 67 percent. In Europe it was 58 percent; in Asia, 57 percent"



while Harry does like to make up stories to boost his weak ego, I
didn't
find his story about finding the owner of a lost wallet to be
unbelievable,

I find little of anything he says believable........remember his little
story about the burglary and his fathers store?

Now if he told us he found a $100 bill in the road and had his friend
from
the FBI to check for fingerprints and DNA evidence so he could return
it to
the owner, I would find that hard to swallow. Now if Harry told that
story,
she would have been a single mother with 3 children, who had just come
to
the US after escaping from Vietnam on a home built boat. Of course,
she had
a child in the hospital with cancer, and needed the money to by milk
for his
1 yr old with a cleft palate. Of course, Harry would have then paid
for the
children's medical treatment and opened a trust fund for all the kids
college education.

On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:00:23 -0400, P. Fritz wrote:


67% in the states........64% in Canada......looks like we are a little
more honest than those to the north :-)

Frankly, neither number is too shabby. I've always thought most people
were basically honest, but 2/3 is a super majority.


http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/1997/03/think_01.html "OUT OF 120
wallets dropped in Canada, 77 were returned intact -- 64
percent. In a similar Digest survey of 12 U.S. towns and cities, the
figure was 67 percent. In Europe it was 58 percent; in Asia, 57 percent"