Comments on: Cool Cash

By: zwenkwiel

zwenkwiel — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:54:26 +0000

well it depends if the cops can prove it’s contraband. perhaps the money was there before the drugdealers ever lived there.
if the cops can’t prove without a doubt this money is from drugdeals. isn’t it just another unclaimed lost and found case??

By: asdf

asdf — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:07:13 +0000

LET’S ALL YELL AND SHOUT ABOUT HOW THIS IS A CRAPPY THING. hOlY crAP!!

THEY SHOULD HAVE JUST KEPT THE MONEY AND THEN CALLED THE POLICE AND REPORTED THEIR NEIGHBORS AS DRUG DEALERS!!!1!111!!!

bLAmE thE LaNDl0rd!! LOL!!11!!

By: knows better

knows better — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:04:10 +0000

Anybody should know better than to take money to the police, they are gonna try to find a way to keep it every time, they are gonna keep money EVERY TIME, NO MATTER WHAT, THEY KEEP MONEY EVERY TIME THEY GET THEIR HANDS ON ANY…. WAKE UP…..

By: Editor, The SciTech Journal

Editor, The SciTech Journal — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:26:54 +0000

great post. thanks for sharing. enjoyed it thoroughly. good luck

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:00:31 +0000

I wouldn’t have said a word to anyone. Finders-Keepers.
Just use it a little bit at a time.
It was meant for these folks-that was destiny.

By: babyboo

babyboo — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:09:07 +0000

Yes, it is a shame. You’re honest,but you feel dishonest for not turning the money in.Remember Judge ye not saith the Lord.You needed it, you should have used it.I would not have thinked ill of you.Someone is stealing more than that everday.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:47:15 +0000

I say give them a $1,000 reward. Call it an incentive to future drug money finders. It’s not like the city deserves the money any MORE than the finders.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:28:04 +0000

The idea of keeping all the money as evidence is ridiculous. Even if they tested all of it for trace evidence of DNA, drugs, fingerprints…after the testing, it’s not useful as evidence and should be returned.

This stuff was in the freezer for six months (long enough to become unrecognizable), I’m sure any trace evidence was lost anyway. If not in freezing, then in thawing.

I also agree that the cops had their chance to find it in the raid. If my property was raided last year before I owned or rented it, how long can the police lay claim to anything in there?

If all cash used in crimes were confiscated and removed permanently from the system, we’d be on a strictly credit card economy by now.

What if the money was there before the raid? Maybe some little old lady tenant who was afraid of banks used it for her life savings.

While I’m all in favor of “doing the right thing,” I don’t think the police are generally doing the right thing themselves.

I think if they’d brought the bills to different banks over a long period they might have gotten away with it. Not that they should have had to “get away with it.”

By: beckie

beckie — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:04:06 +0000

I found some money on the side of the road 1800 and turned it in. The sherrifs department messed around and tried to keep it. I took them to JP court because it was under 5000. Only one word saved me allowing me to keep the money…MAY. The law in TX said that the judge ‘may give the money to the state’. It did not say it ‘had to’, it gave the decision to the judge. He did not think that it needed bad publicity and did not feel I should be punished for being honest. It took a year and lots of calls but I got my money.

By: tate

tate — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:59:22 +0000

Everyone knows that the cops will keep the money and use it to buy Christmas presents for their kids this year. American cops are all crooks. They will steal anything they can from the public and put it in their pockets.

You cannot trust police in the U.S. The mafia at least has honour. Show me one cop in the U.S. that has honour.

-Larry Tate