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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCalifornia teen finds purse with $10,000 inside, turns it in to police
A Santa Barbara, California, high school junior was driving home from school Wednesday when he noticed a black purse in the middle of the street. He rescued the purse from the roadway and was shocked by what he found inside: $10,000.
Rhami Zeini, 16, says he opened the purse to find the owner's identification and was surprised when he discovered more money than he had ever seen in his life, reports CBS affiliate KCOY-TV. Zeini spoke with his parents and then did the right thing by turning in the small fortune to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office.
The sheriff's office said in a Facebook post that a watch officer was able to contact the owner and return the money to her, writing she "was very grateful."
Zeini wasn't left empty-handed for his good deed. The purse's owner was so touched by the teen's honest actions that she gave him a $100 reward for his trouble, reports KCOY-TV.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/santa-barbara-california-teen-rhami-zeini-finds-purse-with-10000-turns-it-in-to-police/
marybourg
(12,540 posts)more generous I think.
NoSmoke
(69 posts)in a case like this is to offer 10% as a reward. OTOH, maybe the owner needed all or most of that 10K for something important(?).
marybourg
(12,540 posts)the same, but even if the whole amount was needed loser should have extended her/himself. I think.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Who carries $10K on a hike or anywhere?
Hekate
(90,189 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)But the owner was given a favor, and that deserves recompense. Why be so harsh all the time?
Johnny2X2X
(18,739 posts)Maybe this person had every last penny they could muster for a large cash purchase when they lost it. $100 might have been all they could spare.
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)a kennedy
(29,462 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,818 posts)MineralMan
(146,190 posts)Bravo!
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)We pay cash for cars, and I took $18K in hundreds to a dealership when we bought my husband's used truck.. Got a fantastic deal because we had cash..
There's just something about seeing $18K in cash piled up on a desk that makes a salesman want to sell you that car especially when you tell them you can take that money elsewhere..
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)I mean, I've made some large "cash" transactions, but I paid either by check or EFT.
deurbano
(2,891 posts)though! And after the hike, you probably wouldn't have driven off with the purse still on top of the car. I think most of us would want to get that money to its destination a little faster than that... and to keep a good eye on it in the meantime!
(We have used $10,000 plus in cash to pay for cars, too, when buying through Craigslist... We also bought a wheelchair ramp van through Craigslist for $25,000, but used a cashier's check for that.)
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)I often was carrying that type of cash while sports bettor in Las Vegas. In fact, I would hate to provide the specifics of just how high it got on occasion, when I was carrying money for myself and two guys I was working with in middling/scalping games. Let's just say it was well into six figures, in terms of cash, casino chips and winning sports tickets.
Many times since leaving Las Vegas I've thought about how fortunate I was. No matter how careful you are, someone can easily target you. There were countless examples of groups of people targeting one guy who was carrying a bundle.
Anyway, I turned in more than $10,000 after finding a stuffed wallet downstairs alongside a pay phone at Caesar's Palace in 1996. I have told that story here previously. I was making an early morning phone call to the main guy in our wagering operation when I noticed the stuffed wallet in front of the next phone. There was nobody there. It was maybe 6:30 AM on a Saturday morning, down the escalators near the bathrooms. Absolutely empty. Las Vegas is not alive at that hour. I remained on the phone for 15 minutes. Nobody came to claim the wallet.
Finally I picked it up and went up the escalator. The wallet was jammed with cash and sports tickets. This is obviously a gambler's wallet. I wasn't going to take any chances. I walked directly to the security counter and handed the wallet. That was it. They didn't react or take my name at all. The security guy merely took the wallet, thanked me, and set it aside on a lower shelf.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)I think you might be Joe Pesci.
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)But I have tons of Las Vegas stories and friends are telling me I should write a book. It is basically an unknown world to outsiders.
AdamGG
(1,275 posts)Separation
(1,975 posts)With the exception of finding a stuffed wallet. People can carry obscene amounts of cash on them. It's not the "norm", especially these days because somebody invented credit cards and check books. But who wants to be "normal"
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)In Las Vegas I'm not sure I knew anyone who owned a credit card. Not in our circle anyway.
I do remember one time we ate at a fancy restaurant upstairs at Imperial Palace and a guy we knew named Kaufman volunteered to pay. When he pulled out a credit card we were stunned. Literally staring at it, and the transaction. I told the rest of the guys I had heard about that type of thing. It was maybe 1999.
My first credit card was a sad story. My mom died suddenly and I needed a suit. My dad and I drove to Macys. He told me to open a credit card to establish a credit history. But they hesitated forever, while making one call after another. They couldn't believe someone of that age had no credit history. Finally they approved me but for only $100. What a joke.
That was less than a decade ago. Now I'm disturbingly normal, with a flock of credit cards. As I type this I don't have one dollar cash in my wallet. Sigh. The credit card companies now like me. I have never been turned down and have a $21,000 limit, and $19,000, and $17,500 and so forth. Macys closed down the $100 card several years ago due to lack of usage. The bums never warned me beforehand.
Separation
(1,975 posts)I'm actually taking my life back, bit by bit and small bites at a time. I recently quit Facebook and Twitter. I'm hoping to have a smaller online footprint by February, including credit cards.
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)Just started dabbling on Twitter, mostly to fire out some anti-Trump stuff.
I was fascinated by credit cards for a while because I like numbers. It was interesting to see how my credit score would vary, depending what I did. Finally I got over it and haven't applied for anything in more than 2 years.
mnhtnbb
(31,318 posts)when interest rates at banks were much higher.
He was taking large amounts of cash and moving it around between short term interest bearing accounts at different banks. My brother found out and put a stop to it. My dad was in his 80's at the time and had always been very secretive about money and was also beginning to show signs of dementia.
DFW
(54,050 posts)Sometimes people buy things where there is no time to verify their bank info or credit card worthiness. In Texas, there have been a lots of scams with crooks buying gold or jewelry (or trying to) with "legitimate" cashier's checks that weren't, though they checked out after an initial call to the bank.
Heritage Auctions of Dallas once auctioned off a rare Russian coin in California for $250,000. A rich Russian who had no bank account in the USA bought it, and wanted to fly home with it the next day. He had brought $300,000 in (genuine!) $100 bills with him, and wanted to pay his invoice with it. The Heritage staff freaked out at first, but the guy produced a legitimate U.S. Customs declaration proving he had declared it to Customs upon arrival at LAX, and imported it legally. It says right on the form: ANY amount is legal, you just have to declare it if it's over $10,000.
With all the bank and stolen credit card scams going on, there are plenty of situations where a seller would want cash if there were no time to verify a payment by someone from out of town who wanted to take his purchase with him. If everything is declared from one end to the other, and Customs and the IRS get their paperwork, then it's their business if they want to conduct their transaction that way.
mnhtnbb
(31,318 posts)at our house in Nebraska years ago. He came back the next day to ask us if he could look all around the perimeter of the house for it. It had his whole month's rent--in cash--in it. I told him to go ahead and look. He didn't find it, left his number and asked me to call if it turned up.
The next morning I looked out the window to the fenced area of our backyard and noticed our dog, Tanya, seemed to be poking around with something. I went out to look and it was the wallet! I called the guy and he came over later with a box of Milk-Bones as a reward for our dog.
That was the best "reward" I'd ever seen.
iluvtennis
(19,756 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,318 posts)I've often wondered whether Tanya had already found--and moved--the wallet when he came to look and that's why he didn't find it when he walked the perimeter of the house. It was an old 3 story house from the 1920's with lots of shrubbery around it and plenty of places where it could have been hidden from view.
iluvtennis
(19,756 posts)PaulX2
(2,032 posts)Ring, and asked me if it was mine.
He found it in a flower bed where I was working a few minutes earlier.
It was mine.
Momma would have killed me DEAD.
I gave him $200, and thanked him over, and over.
I'll never forget.
lame54
(35,130 posts)Croney
(4,646 posts)I guess I'm the only shallow one here? Lol (I have grandkids older than he is.)