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How much money have you found in a parking lot???

Was eating at a fancy Chinese restaurant, looking out the window and saw a 100$ bill floating by on the wind. Excused myself from the table and ran out to get it haha
 
In total? Maybe like $150.
The biggest was $100 I found getting out of the car to check the mail. I freaked the fuck out and worried it might be fake until I spent it.
 
Ive found $700 dollars before when i worked at a gas station. No one came back to claim it so i pocketed it.
 
Hundred dollar bill once, but I found a pay envelope in a rats nest once, while rebaiting a rodent station. Just a plain manila thing with one corner chewed off. Id have thrown it away, then recognized the shade of green.....500 bucks, and no identifier. Mine....
Also found 1100 dollars between a matress and box spring in a motel once. Just bills....mine.
 
@Locoluv the top so far...... must have been nice that could cover some of your renovation cost :D
Can't say I remember finding anything significant in a parking lot but I went in a bookstore once and out of all the books that were there (it was a fairly small, locally run store to my knowledge but still) found a 10 or 20 dollar bill as a bookmark! Maybe whoever left it there really liked the book and wanted whoever came across it to read it so they paid for the cost of the book ?
 
ZooeyZeta said:
@Locoluv the top so far...... must have been nice that could cover some of your renovation cost :D
Can't say I remember finding anything significant in a parking lot but I went in a bookstore once and out of all the books that were there (it was a fairly small, locally run store to my knowledge but still) found a 10 or 20 dollar bill as a bookmark! Maybe whoever left it there really liked the book and wanted whoever came across it to read it so they paid for the cost of the book ?
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That's paying it paying it forward. While the $14k didn't cover the reno costs it was the amount of the deposit on the place when my partner first brought the house 15 years earlier.
cheers LL
 
Walking through a park, I noticed the corner of a $100 bill. Just the upper right corner, maybe an inch square, total. Picked it up and didn't think much more of it - just something to chuckle about and think "bummer - wish it had been the bigger part!" Continued walking. Found another piece. About 2/3 of a serial number on it. My interest increased, and I started actively looking for more. Long story short, about 15 minutes later, I'd found another 8 or 10 pieces - Everything *EXCEPT* Ben's face. Never did find that bit, but got exactly zero argument from the fellow behind the counter of the little package store I was a regular at when I asked him if he had a roll of scotch tape - Pieced it back together, taped it up, he rang up my pack of smokes and six pack of beer, dropped the (de)shredded bill into the till, gave me my change, and that was that. Couple days later, he told me the bank didn't even blink when he took it in and deposited it with the rest of the day's take - just tossed it into the "damaged bills" box and kept counting the cash. Best theory: Somebody dropped it, and it got hit by a lawnmower.

Years later, I was working a job that included picking up the garbage from a fancy-schmancy restaurant. They used clear garbage bags, and as I was unloading the day's pickup into the trash-masher, something inside one of the bags caught my eye, and I damn near went into the crusher trying to stop the "fling" I was in the middle of. Second closer look appeared to be a $50, folded into quarters, and glued to the inside of the bag by what looked liked might have been hollandaise sauce. First thing that went thorugh my head was "can't be real!" Next thought was "I didn't know they made those to look like fifties...", thinking about those little pamphlets that look like a folded up 20, until you try to unfold them and find out they're actually a tract that usually starts out something like "how much is your soul worth", and go on to try to convince you that the Big Juju in the Sky exists and loves you. That was when I said, Screw it", ripped open the bag, and grabbed what I saw. Unfolded it expecting a sermon - first unfold - "Wow... they really went all out on this one... Looks real!". Unfold again, still expecting the sermon. and instead, find myself looking at the front of a damned realistic-looking fifty dollar bill. Turn it over, and the back looks just as real. Rinse the gunk off it under a nearby hose, and sure enough... If it ain't real, it's the best fake I've ever laid eyes on. Finished unloading into the trash-masher, pulled out, and stopped at a walk-up barbecue place I used to like, bought myself a sausage and a drink, paid with the still moist 50, got my change, and away I went. Yay :) Best guess: Somebody had left a tip (it sure wasn't enough to be intended to pay the bill - a typical 4-top in that restaurant would run up a tab in the $250-300 range before you started counting drinks and dessert), the waiter/waitress didn't see it when clearing, and scraped it into the trash can with the rest of the debris from dinner. Their loss, my gain...
 
I was on this job one day, and I was on my lunch break. On my way back from the sandwich shop I walked right past a Brink truck parked in front of a bank. The two idiots whose job it was to guard the truck had left the back doors wide open. I turn my head and see two duffle bags wide open with stacks of hundred dollar bills. There had to be at least a half a mill in the bags. The bags were just two feet away from me. I should have taken that shit and walked off.
 
I found a bank envelope once with $185 in it no name no ID.

I felt bad for keeping it but who do you turn it in to? By law in most states any amount of money of $100 or more should be turned over to local law enforcement (probably never to be seen again).
 
Renegadewa1 said:
I found a bank envelope once with $185 in it no name no ID.

I felt bad for keeping it but who do you turn it in to? By law in most states any amount of money of $100 or more should be turned over to local law enforcement (probably never to be seen again).
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Buys a lotta donuts, Ren....
 
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