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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - A Murfreesboro woman says she returned $97,000 she claims to have found in a Cracker Barrel restroom, but police said Tuesday they have no report of the find. Billie Watts, 75, told The Daily News Journal that she discovered the money inside a tapestry bag hanging from a hook on a stall door last Thursday.
But five days later, the money and its anonymous owner remain something of a mystery in the community, where police said that they have no report of the find.
While digging through the bag to figure out its owner, Watts says she found a bundle of neatly stacked $1,000 bills.
Watts said she and her husband took the money home, but later called the restaurant back and asked if there was a lost-and-found department. She was told yes, and left her number.
A woman called about 15 minutes later and verified she was the owner by identifying pictures left in the bag. Watts returned the bag to the owner, whom she described as an elderly woman, but said she does not have the woman's last name or phone number.
Watts said the woman told her that the money came from selling her home and her belongings and that she was going to start a new life in Florida with her son. Watts says the woman offered to pay her $1,000, but Watts refused it.
A manager of the Cracker Barrel restaurant, Bill Shupp, said no employees actually saw the money or the elderly owner.
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Information from: The Daily News Journal, www.dnj.com
I honestly don't know if I could not keep that money, although I feel like a real scum bag saying it. I suppose I would have to be presented with the situation to really know what I would do.
I honestly don't know if I could not keep that money, although I feel like a real scum bag saying it. I suppose I would have to be presented with the situation to really know what I would do.
i have to agree dude....i dont know what id do....but it does make you feel good that there are people like this in the world
Post by bamadancer on Dec 10, 2008 16:31:18 GMT -5
I don't think I would keep the money.
That being said...people who walk around with that amount of cash are idiots anyway. I used to work at a bank and people would do it all the time. Get a cashier's check, it's not like that 97K is gonna burn a whole in your pocket!
97k would burn a whole in my existence, nevermind my pocket. If I had that much cash I would buy so many musical instruments, amps, a car, CD's, concert tickets...jeeeebus the cooooooooooooooorn.....
Post by wonderhamster on Dec 11, 2008 0:50:10 GMT -5
ethical problems posed by finding $97k in a Cracker Barrel bathroom aside, how the f*** does one *forget* a bag filled with $1k bills in the first place!? That must have been one serious shit.
As far as keeping it, it just depends on the circumstances I suppose. Realistically you can take it to the cops wait your 90 days or whatever then claim it. If I just found it in a tapestry bag with no ID on the field at Bonnaroo well.....
I think, really, it's much more likely that whoever left the money there was up to some shady business, and not just some absent-minded little old lady who happened to forget that she was carrying around nearly 100 thou in her bag. I don't think I would keep the money (well... maybe a finder's fee), but I can definitely understand how others would.
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