posted on April 18, 2005 02:36:09 AM new
Gosh, look at this story in our morning paper ...
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Man returns $2,000 found in shirt pocket
Associated Press
WEST BEND, Wis. - Larry Hoffman brought home a bargain shirt from the Goodwill store - only to find $2,000 in cash stuffed in a pocket.
The 69-year-old retiree returned to the store the same day to report the money.
"The money certainly wasn't mine. It belonged to somebody else, obviously," Hoffman said of his April 1 find. "That person was certainly on my mind more than me."
Store manager Rebecca Johnson said customers have returned small amounts of money found in clothing, "but nothing on this scale" in the six years she's been in charge.
"If there's a one-tenth of 1 percent chance that somebody's going to claim it, they should have that opportunity," Hoffman said Wednesday.
Goodwill has no way to trace the source of the shirt, so Johnson called West Bend police. The rightful owner has 90 days to claim the money. After that, Hoffman can claim it or else it goes in the city treasury.
Police won't disclose any details about the shirt or the denominations of the bills that were found. That information has to come from anyone seeking to claim the money.
"When we were kids, it was always 'finders keepers, losers weepers,'" Hoffman said. "But that's not really the case. You've got to keep the losers from weeping too much."
posted on April 18, 2005 03:20:34 AM new
My local Goodwill would have said "We'll see that the money get back to the right place!!!" Yeah like their right pocket??
Good for old Jimmy if he gets it back - keep us updated.
posted on April 18, 2005 03:21:02 AM new
Yep! Tis MINE!
Ralphie was visiting his cheesey relatives in WIS, when he accidentally donated one of my shirts (he always travels with one so he can feel comfy with my scent) to GOODWILL!
Now, give it back!
"In terms of timetables, as quickly as possible—whatever that means."
—On ElmerW Fudd's time frame for shoring up Social Security, Washington D.C., March 16, 2005
posted on April 18, 2005 07:15:50 AM new
In 1991 my husband and I accompanied some student leaders from the university where he worked on a trip to Eastern Europe and Russia. I'd bought a two-piece nylon jogging suit on sale at Nordstrom's to wear on the plane and in our travels. We were in Lithuania for a couple of weeks, and a week into our travels I was wearing the jogging suit again. Felt something strange in a chest pocket, unzipped the pocket (hadn't had occasion to do that before), and there were two $50 US bills. We were all appalled, as I could have been arrested at the border for carrying undeclared cash.
Rather than try to bring it back into the U.S. (and run into the same problem?), we gave the money to the president of a fledgling university there--a school that had no computers yet, no writing tablets, very few textbooks. US dollars in the black market were valuable there, and the school could use the help.
I've often thought how close I came to being in trouble with the authorities. All I could conclude about the jogging outfit was that it had been bought and then returned to the store in the past.
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