Big Tip , Or Drug Deal

[sugarfree irony]

http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/356277/

MOORHEAD - For the struggling waitress with five children, the $12,000 left at the table in a to-go box must have seemed too good to be true.

Moorhead police decided it was just that.

Now, the waitress is suing in Clay County District Court, claiming the cash was given to her and police shouldn’t have seized it as drug money.

“The thing that’s sad about it is here’s somebody who truly needs this gift … and now the government is getting in the way of it,” said the woman’s attorney, Craig Richie of Fargo.

Moorhead police Lt. Tory Jacobson said he couldn’t discuss the matter.

“We certainly have an ongoing investigation with it, with suspicion of narcotics or the involvement of narcotics investigators,” he said.

Assistant County Attorney Michelle Lawson also declined to discuss the pending lawsuit.

The Forum isn’t identifying the waitress in order to protect her in case the cash was part of a drug deal.

According to the lawsuit filed three weeks ago:

The waitress was working at the Moorhead Fryn’ Pan when she noticed that a woman had left a to-go box from another restaurant on the table.

The waitress picked it up, followed the woman to her car and tried to give her the box, but the woman replied, “No, I am good; you keep it.”

The waitress thought that was strange, but she agreed and went back inside the restaurant, the lawsuit states. The box felt too heavy to contain only leftovers, so she looked inside and found cash rolled up in rubber bands.

“Even though I desperately needed the money as my husband and I have 5 children, I feel I did the right thing by calling Moorhead Police,” she states in the lawsuit.

Richie said there was no evidence of a drug deal. He said the seizure could discourage people from turning in found money and set a bad precedent.

“That would mean that any money that ever had any drugs on it could be confiscated by the police at any time,” he said. “You know how ridiculous that would be?”

A University of Massachusetts-led study released in 2009 found that up to 90 percent of U.S. paper contained traces of cocaine, according to published reports.

Richie said the financial plight of the waitress and her husband was well-known at their church. He said it’s “far more likely” that someone was trying to make an anonymous donation than it is that a drug deal was going down.

I bet someone is kicking herself for calling the police .

[malq]

No good deed goes unpunished.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

What they don't know won't hurt them.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Honesty is for pussies.

[malq]

I have always enjoyed pondering this with people.
You were walking down the street and saw a duffel bag. You stopped and tried to pick it up.
It was heavy. You unzip it a bit and see bricks of Cnotes. Easily 500,000 to a million in there. You can easily get it home.

What do you do? You have 10 seconds to decide before someone else walks up.

[newstarshipsmell]

What do you do? You have 10 seconds to decide before someone else walks up.

Is my bladder full?

[TheMeaningOfItAll]

I have always enjoyed pondering this with people.
You were walking down the street and saw a duffel bag. You stopped and tried to pick it up.
It was heavy. You unzip it a bit and see bricks of Cnotes. Easily 500,000 to a million in there. You can easily get it home.

What do you do? You have 10 seconds to decide before someone else walks up.

Look over my shoulder for John Quinones because that shit has to be a set-up for his damn show "What Would You Do?". That or drop the bag and run.

[biteme]

I have always enjoyed pondering this with people.
You were walking down the street and saw a duffel bag. You stopped and tried to pick it up.
It was heavy. You unzip it a bit and see bricks of Cnotes. Easily 500,000 to a million in there. You can easily get it home.

What do you do? You have 10 seconds to decide before someone else walks up.

Put it in the trunk of the car and forget about it for a while, forgot to turn it in

Cops have no right to take the money, they found no proof of drug deal, They can always clam it's an open investigation because they found nothing and didn't close the case, assholes as usual so is the DA hope they get ass fucked by the judge
Unfortunately the tax payer is the only one that loses out in these lawsuits, not the cops, not the DA

[AngelFire]

If it were me I would take it. If anyone asked about it all I would say is......what money??

[malq]

Ok, so you decide to take it and solve all of your problems with this money. Where are you going to keep it and will you be worried someone might kill you for it? Paranoia might be a problem.

Then there is the problem spending it. Paying cash for everything raises eyebrows. You suddenly move into a nicer apartment and always have cash. That new car you want, You can't pay 35k cash. You can't put it in the bank, what do you do?