today i got mugged as the guy was running away he dropped his wallet which had well over 2000$ in it i had 5$ and a subway coupon in it his had his drivers license suffice to say he got caught i made 2000$ and immd
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Please learn to use punctuation, it makes reading these so much easier.
Also, why would you have been allowed to keep the $2000, it wasn’t yours. If you took it out of the wallet and kept it before giving the wallet to the cops then, technically that’s stealing(I think).
Even if he was a thief/mugger, his wallet and it’s contents would have been returned to him.
Heh, I was going to write that the mugger made off with the OP’s punctuation, but I edited myself. In so doing, I delayed my response, and the screen having refreshed after my post, IMMD to see two new posts agreeing with my exact thoughts.
FYI, “its” does not take an apostrophe when used as a possessive. In this regard, it’s just like yours, his, hers, ours and theirs, which also end in s but lack an apostrophe. The latter piece of trivia might help one to remember the rule. It seems to be a holdover from older languages that had a more distinct genitive case for nouns as well as prnouns; in fact, “genitive pronoun” is another name for “possessive pronoun”.
I know sometimes police will give the found amount as an award if it’s not claimed by anyone.
Yes, it’s stealing. Big deal, stealing from the guy who just mugged you.
Unless he had 2000$ in his wallet and the mugger took the time to put it in HIS wallet, that money probably belongs to other people. so YES it IS stealing.
I was going to say that… The $2000 is probably money stolen from other people. Muggers are never “1 time only” people.
BBkat, you are right; it is stealing. Furthermore, in most jurisdictions in the USA, it is Grand Theft (due to the amount) and thus a felony.
Ha Ha! That’s called KARMA.
Reminds of the time, many years ago, when friends car was stolen. He found it himself a couple weeks later (purely by chance). He blocked it in, called the cops who came to the scene and arrested the idiot teens who had stolen it to begin with. The cops asked my friend if any of the stuff in the car was his—he said no to the numerous car radios that these kids had boosted, but the case of giant oreo cookies? Yum!
I once owned a ’73 VW Beetle with “windwings” that were quite easy to force open by prybar or even strong hands. In the first incident, someone broke into my car and stole a quart of motor oil that was going to be part of a gift. Such break-ins were becoming common enough in my then-neighborhood that residents instituted the practice of leaving their glove boxes open so it could be easily seen that nothing of value was hidden, thus a break-in would not be worthwhile. Despite my taking this precaution, someone again broke into my car, and for some reason, left me a Frisbee.
lolwut…
lol random. Someone once broke into my dad’s car and didn’t find anything worth taking so they took…A TIRE GAUGE! He’s still laughing about that.
When I volunteer at the state fair we’re told to leave the booth’s cash register’s open so you can see that there’s no money inside so people won’t break in.
Your post is apropos of mine, and mine was apropos of the one before it. Not random at all.
I think they meant leaving you the Frisbee was random.
I am glad that the perp was caught; karma has smiled on you and has smote him. But you know this for sure: that $2000 is not yours and you certainly did not make it. It is at least evidence and perhaps stolen property, and there are any number of legal and moral reasons why you should not keep it unless due process has determined it should be so.
If he is a mugger, that $2000 is probably someone else’s money. So you just stole money. How is that a win?
By keeping the money, you mugged him (and whomever that money really belonged to). You are no better than him.
If you put someone in prison for kidnapping someone (i.e. illegally imprisoning that person) does that make you no better than him?
Anyway, yay for the Subway voucher!
Are you really comparing imprisoning someone legally with imprisoning someone illegally?
So I am fine accepting stolen goods from someone else (one step above stealing the stolen goods). I’ll keep that in mind the next time someone offers me a free stereo system in the middle of a parking lot (this has actually happened to me).
So stealing $2,000 is OK since it was from a thief? You should be in jail as well (oh, and I believe stealing $2,000 is a felony, while $5 is a petty crime)
But strong-arm robbery is surely a felony even if the take is only $5.
Old jokes are old…
Don’t you think that $2000, when returned to its rightful owners, would make THEIR day too? Lovely display of the holiday spirit of giving here.
anyway to track the owners back?
This is so selfish. I would have returned the $2000, MAYBE minus my $5. I feel bad for the other people who are missing money
I’ve been mugged before, and have also lost my wallet, and I’d hate to know that some self-righteous ass kept my money just because they ‘found it’. You would be better off returning that money… Not to mention depending on your state, keeping found money over a certain amount is indeed a crime.
unless there is a discription of the guy from possible previous muggings. as well as at least one record of other possible muggings
it is safe to say that it might have been been the mugger’s.
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but yet, it would be nice to have asked the cops if there were other muggings in about that area. and if they had possible amounts of cash as well recorded for having been stolen
Doesn’t matter if it was the mugger’s money legally or money he’d gotten from mugging others. It was NOT the OP’s to keep.
I’d have no issue (personally) with the op taking out the $5 that he got from him or her. Maybe even the fair value of the subway coupon. But not all of the money.
Please return the 2 grand. As everyone else points out, that money probably belongs to other mugging victims. Think about the fact that someone might very likely be without presents under the tree this year because you kept their money.
He was a mugger. The money you took from it was likely not HIS either. It should have been taken to the police and if he was found…WAS it his license…HE could have been taken off the streets and if found his OTHER victims could have been reversed. Your post definitely does NOT make my day. *sigh*
reversed? RePAID I mean…gah, need more coffee! LOL
It’s probably next to impossible to return the money to its rightful owners (and c’mon, it was stolen. No one carries around $2000 in cash), so I would most likely keep it as well. Otherwise it will just line some cop’s pockets, or sit in an evidence locker. But there is no excuse for not using a single punctuation mark.
“No one carries around $2000 in cash”
NO ONE? Not EVER?
Bull crap. I have. A number of times. When I went to my last school, and loan checks came in, we didn’t have e-refunds. And checks take time to clear if you deposit them to an account in a bank they’re not drawn on. So I’d cash several thousand dollars worth of checks and walk them over to my own bank. Some times I’d detour en route. Yes, people DO carry thousands in cash at times.
His other points are valid though.
That’s a matter of opinion
I carried 1,000,000 in cash once.
OK, it was Indonesian rupias, but it was still a fair amount of cash
“Otherwise it will just line some cop’s pockets, or sit in an evidence locker.”
That’s not your call to make.
If you all think that stealing $2k is a jailable offense (assuming no prior felonies and by that I mean violent crimes) then you live in a small town that has jail space for that s**t. In the city, we would just cite you and release you on scene.
At worst taken in for processing and released but not “put in jail”.
You guys watch WAY too many cop shows on TV.
If you can’t return it to its rightful owner, donate at least some of it to charity or something. Or spend it on anonymous gifts for people. Aahh, selfishness doesn’t MMD at all.
If it was stolen (which is likely) the rightful owners probably reported the theft to the police. If the other victims are able to pick this mugger out of a lineup, then that out to be proof of who the money belongs to. The OP should turn the money over to the police- the law is that if the money is not claimed, THEN he can have it. This makes me think of an article I read yesterday about a woman who cashed a check, but dropped the envelope with her $950 in the parking lot. Surveillance video shows a man pick up the envelope, look inside, smile and leave. What a jerk. It’s one thing to find a dollar on the ground and not be able to figure out who lost it, but he could have gone inside and turned the money in, knowing that the woman who dropped it would come back when she realized it was missing.
I’m with the others. Keeping the money is wrong, wrong, wrong. It probably was either money from other victims or someone else’s wallet, which means you either stole his money or were the recipient of stolen property. You were wrong morally and legally. @KelBel, you don’t know if it can be returned or not, probably doesn’t cut it. You fail also.
I say f@#* the mugger, OP was right to take the money.
Then again, I consider punishing the mugger to be a higher priority because the chance of the money ACTUALLY getting returned to the rightful owner(s)(if it was stolen) is probably pretty low. I can easily see people having the inverse opinion though.
Assuming OP DID keep the money, I hope it was used in an appropriate manner. I’d probably take the 5$ cash out, buy myself a new wallet, then find a nice “neutral” party that could better utilize the funds.
How about this….take $5, then donate the remaining $1995 to a food kitchen, women’s shelter, old folks home!
The complete lack of punctuation doesn’t MMD.
Assuming this post isn’t a troll with a moral dilemma for us to debate, and grammar nazis aside, I don’t blame OP for his/her gloat. Ever been mugged, people? Not! nice. Not!!
F the mugger. If the money was his, he deserves to lose it, the B. That’s what he planned for OP, after all. If it’s not his (most likely), there’s no way to return it to his prior victims. If OP is truly in dire need, he should keep and use the money to live on. If not, he should take his $5 and pay the rest forward. Perhaps a crime victim’s fund if his city has such a thing?
i read a story about a counter mugging once.
Mugger holds up knife to would be victim, demanding wallet
Would be victim (off duty polic officer) reaches into coat pocket and pulls out gun.
That is pure win. Unless the guy the mugger had then pulled out a knife firing gun
The only knife firing gun I saw was on the show “Deadliest Warrior”.
i lol’d xD
Nah the trolls are the ones worrying about the grammar and punctuation. The submitter is tossing us a vollyball to bat around.
I don’t even believe this really happened…..
I suspect you’re right.
Whether it did or it didn’t, it’s something to ponder. To open up dialogue regarding an issue. Is it true? Maybe…maybe not. Or maybe it’s an embellishment.
I’m supposing he made away with your grammar as well?
So you stole from a thief then reported him, lieing hypocrite.
True or not: $2000 is the proper way to write Two Thousand Dollars.
2000$ is not and makes you look like a dumbass.
Yeah, I was totally on the OP’s side till that 2000$ thing.
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Taking something that doesn’t belong to you is stealing.
The person would have been wrong if he had taken the money from the mugger’s wallet before handng it over to police. And he may have done just that.
However, when I handed in a wallet I found the officer expressed surprise that it still had money in it. She then informed me that if no-one claimed it within 60 days, then I could claim it.
Possibly that means that if the money in the mugger’s wallet was stolen, then the mugger could not claim it. After it was used as evidence, then the owners would have have to claim it. If they didn’ then it would go to the person who handed in the wallet. I think.
i think keeping all of it is overkill. maybe a couple hundred, but seriously? 2 grand? then again it doesnt say what he did w the money after, who knows, he might have donated it…
or the police may have given it back to him. it doesnt say
why is eveyone telling this person she stole money? she probably knows already. and i wouldve done the exact same thing if i was in her position.
Noooow…I’ll agree with everyone that that was stolen money so she was stealing aswell.
If not, fake and gay.