Madison couple finds, turns in $1,000 cash
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MADISON--The slumping economy didn't deter one Madison-area couple from doing the right thing after they found $1,000 in cash.
Madison police say the pair turned in the money Thursday, one day after the woman found it while walking down the street.
The couple are both in their early 50s but have asked to otherwise remain anonymous.
Police say the money was in a wad of $20 bills that were fairly crisp and new. The police report says the woman took the money home and the couple turned it in the next day.
Oct 26, 2008 at 4:04 p.m.
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Who said anything about Bingo?BLACKJACK IS BETTER! Im just kidding. Im glad that couple did the right thing but one is aloud to dream!! That money would do wonders for my rather large family.
Oct 26, 2008 at 8:51 a.m.
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Why didn't they just take that money and then distribute it to the nearest 10 people around them? They could have made 10 people happy with the extra $100. Would that have been 'dishonest'?
Sound familar? 'Obama economic plan'.
Oct 25, 2008 at 8 p.m.
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Call me weird but I still think(hard decision)LETS GO TO HO CHUNK AND RESCUE THE GLOBAL ECONOMY!!!!
Oct 25, 2008 at 6:45 p.m.
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I'm sure they struggled overnight, whether their conscience would win or their stock market retirement fund losses would win... Keeping the money would have weighed heavy on their minds, yet with the hits the stock market took, $1000.00 probably wouldn't have covered much of what most of us (at this age) lost...Hubby and I, to date, have taken an $82,000 hit... After 30 plus years of saving and investing... we've been set back at least 10 years and will have to probably have to work well into our seventies. This was definitely NOT our game plan!
But kudos to this couple for doing the right thing. I question though, after this story hit the news, how the heck do the police validate someone who NOW claims the money??? Crisp $20??? Hummmm.... hopefully they will get it back in the end.
Oct 25, 2008 at 4:23 p.m.
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Ho Chunk anyone???
Oct 25, 2008 at 4:22 p.m.
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I think I would have struggled a bit with this particular decision!
Oct 25, 2008 at 2:43 p.m.
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Honesty is such a lonely word...
Oct 25, 2008 at 2:02 p.m.
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If i call and identify it, its mine right?
Oct 25, 2008 at 1:46 p.m.
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I hope it's drug money and no one claims it. Of course I don't like the idea of "drug money" but if anyone is going to lose money, I'd rather it be a drug dealer :)
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