Stephanie Paparo Gets Arrested for Stealing Dropped Money

Well I guess "finders keepers" is out. She was wrong to keep it when she knew who lost it. No mercy for her cause she had no mercy on the one who lost the money.

What I'd do, in the UK, perfectly legally, would be to pick up the money, to prevent somebody dishonest picking it up. I'd then look around, to see if anybody was watching, because somebody watching could easily be somebody who knew he or she had dropped some money, but couldn't remember exactly where he or she had dropped it, and was also looking around, for somebody who found the money to return it to him or her.

At the earliest convenience, I'd tell the police that I'd found a sum of money, and where I'd found it, and that I was willing to give it back to whoever lost it, if they convinced me, for example, by saying HOW MUCH money they'd lost, that they were genuinely to loser of the money I'd found. The UK police would tell me that I should keep the money, but not spend any of it for a month, in case the owner, who had lost the money, reported its loss to the police, and the police were able to link my find with their loss. They'd then record the incident in a book, or on a computer.

The law in the UK is still, I believe, "finders keepers", UNLESS there is a realistic prospect of reuniting the owner who lost the cash, with the cash that the finder is obliged to hold as trustee for the unknown loser of the cash, until all realistic prospects of returning the the lost cash to its owner have expired, which the UK police told me was a month after the cash was found, when I last found myself in this situation.

There is a realistic prospect of reuniting US $2,300 with the owner who lost it. Mere coins dropped can safely be pocketed, where I live.

This "storm in a tea cup" story is just another opportunity for American people to hurl abuse at one another, on the Opposing Views website, a website I am tiring of, on which people who call themselves conservatives hurl abuse at people who call themselves liberals and vice versa, and on which people who call themselves atheists hurl abuse at people they call theists, and theists post responses that range from nobly turning the other cheek, to downright red-neck rants that would make even the Flying Spaghetti Monster wrathful, if he existed, and are far worse than the atheists often deserve.

Maybe we should be told the ethnicities of the bloke who dropped the money, and the woman who found it. Who knows? Maybe there's scope to contrive a link from this story to Zimmerman and Martin, or the black ex-marine shot dead in his own home, by cops who called him a nigger before breaking in, because they'd been told that he was poorly. Were the loser, and the finder, of the dropped cash, theists, or atheists? The usual people here need that information, if they are to be able to score, yet again, their usual Opposing Views points.

Don't feel a damn bit sorry for her. If she had turned it in, the owner might have been greatful enough to reward her. As it is, she got what she asked for. Just because you don't know who it belongs to doesn't mean it belongs to you.