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Fox News - When 15-year-old Ashley Donaldson found $2,000 on a Dallas street and turned it over to authorities, she thought she’d be rewarded for her honesty. But a new city policy has prevented her from pocketing the unclaimed cash, prompting an outcry from the community. In fact, rather than reward the girl, the city policy calls for the money to be treated like contraband -- and added to the municipal coffers. But under pressure from the public, Dallas police appear to be having a change of heart, saying the girl will likely be given the money she found if the owner doesn’t step forward. “Assuming the rightful owner doesn’t come forward, I think there’s a very good chance she will be awarded the money,” Lt. Chess Williams, spokesman with the Dallas Police Department, told FoxNews.com. Williams said money claimed by the city is not taken for a “sinister purpose,” but rather deposited into the city’s general fund and used for the good of the community – like buying new fire hoses or books for the library.
What kind of dicked up place is Dallas, Texas anyway? People who turn in found cash dont even get to keep it? It gets treated as drug money? Nothing but crooks and swindlers in Dallas I guess. "Not for a sinister use" my ass. Buying new books for the library, please, I've heard that one before. More like paying for politicians bar tabs on their lunch meet and greets for fueling up the gas tanks of political hacks with government cars they use for the family vacation. Did you honestly expect anyone to believe that cash was going to be used to buy a new fire hose? That's the worst lie I've heard in my life. That shit is embarrassing for the experienced and accomplished liar that I'm sure a local politician has to be.
It's not entirely the governments fault though. If there's one thing I've learned from childhood, it's that if you find money, you just keep it. True story, I once found a nice crisp $50 spot at my local convenience store back when I was like 12. Lot of money for a kid that age, could have kept me in cherry flavored slush for an entire summer. Instead I did "the right thing" and turned it in. I got called back like 3 hours later, apparently the woman who lost the cash came back and claimed it and left me a reward...A .50 cent Sugar Daddy. A frigen Sugar Daddy!? Wow, that's it? .50 cents, are you sure you can afford it, don't want to break the bank on you.
