10,000 dollars found and return, what would you do

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Yes, it's true!! As in almost all of these cases, the loving but estranged husband peacefully entered the woman's domicile after being invited. There, to his surprise, he was confronted by instuments of violence wielded by an emotionally unstable, nearly deranged ex-spouse. Seeing no alternative, he reacted in self-defense, as nearly all of us would.

How did this turn to the OJ case?

1st time I found a wallet laying on the ground in a parking lot, called the person, she came to pick it up...accused us of taking the $ inside. Yeah...like we would have called her, after taking the $, not the CC's. Not a pleasant experience.
2nd time, stepped on a wallet as we were leaving a mall, got home, mailed it to the address on the DL with a note saying where & when we found it. A few weeks later we rec'd a Thank You note plus a $100. check for the return of the wallet intact. That is what restores my faith.
For the original post, with no ID or idea where it came from, I would be hard pressed to turn the money into local PD. BUT...that would be the right thing to do.
And you better believe I would keep track if the PD found the owner, otherwise, the money is mine.

Not in Nevada (and most other states). The state gets the windfall, not the finder.

Dallas will keep $2,000 found by a teenager in a parking lot last February.

The money will go into the city's general fund — not back to Plano high school student Ashley Donaldson, who found the cash in an envelope at the Pavillion Shopping Center in North Dallas.

"I don't regret making the decision I did," she said. "I feel proud of myself for giving the money back. It's one of the biggest decisions of my life."

The 15-year-old Shepton High School student spotted the money on the ground and took it to a nearby Chase Bank.

Over the last three months, the bank and Dallas police have tried to find the owner, but have had no luck.

On Tuesday, police said under a new city policy, the unclaimed money will go into Dallas' general fund — not back to the person who found it, as in years past.

I enjoyed reading "Queen of Comps" Jean Scott's blog today about the $1510 she mistakenly left behind in a VP machine recently.

The casino discovered that, moments after Scott left, a known player printed the voucher, cashed it at a TITO machine, and split. The casino, aware of Nevada's lost property laws, offered the player a choice: pay it back, or face criminal charges. The player wisely decided to pay it back.

Let this be a lesson to those who don't understand Nevada's lost property laws.

I don't see the two instances comparable.

What legal distinctions do you see between someone who found $10,000 while traveling to Vegas and someone who found $1510 in an abandoned Vegas VP machine?

I agree they're not exactly the same factually, but what legal difference do you see?

I don't either.