A teen found $135,000 next to an ATM. Instead of walking away with it, he called police

Yeah I saw that propaganda story on MSN. I like how they added that he was a Mexican and his parents emigrated from Mexico at the very end

If he never said anything nobody would know if he was an asshole or not.

what an idiot

If you want o see a idiot look in the mirror.

dunno if you knew, but in Islamic SHARIA views which is kinda the ultimate fascist dictcorship state, which most "patriotic" islamists are looking, fighting for, their rules, view of life, it's common to cut of hands of thieves, i'm christian btw

right - thinking propaganda

how did those 135 K Benji$ end there in the first place?

you can't get more than 10 K $ in cash at a bank but he found this stash in black bags

what's wrong in this story?

You'd be pulling your hair out if he was white but they didn't bring it up


Could people like you please go extinct faster?

surely the money is 'insured'? so if someone had taken it in disguise and was never traced, then the bank claims off the contracted atm supply company and they stump up for their negligence. he coulda bought grandpa a fucking sock factory!

If he invested that money, at 59 years of age he would have 3 million dollars.

Nope, be thinking the same thing.

A young man with integrity. It's nice to know that not everybody is an asshole.

"The officers counted the cash back at their station: It totaled $135,000."

I wonder how much was there before they counted it?

"The officers counted the cash back at their station: It totaled $135,000."

I wonder how much was there before they counted it?

You know, at least half of what we read is BS - whatever way you want to look at it.
Anyone can claim some story with video backing it up, but is it actually real?
Someone posts ANYTHING and the troops come up to support it.

it has been possible to make completely fake videos for years. look at all them movies which are full of computer graphics. once you lower the quality and so on, it's just as good as a real surveillance camera video.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jose Nuñez Romaniz was on a mission to buy socks for his grandfather. He'd just helped him find the right ones online, after the elder man had no luck finding them in stores.

The 19-year-old Nuñez just needed to deposit money into his bank account to make the online purchase. When he tried, he made an astonishing find -- and what he did next has earned him praise and a bit of fame in New Mexico's most populous city.

Nuñez drove to an ATM outside a Wells Fargo bank branch Sunday morning, just two minutes from his Albuquerque home to make his deposit.

As he pulled his truck alongside the machine, he spotted a clear plastic bag on the ground. It was a "foot-long stack" of $50 and $20 bills, he said.

Nuñez said he never considered keeping the cash -- but all sorts of wild thoughts raced through his mind. Was this some kind of trick? Was someone going to pull up behind him and kidnap him?

Nuñez called Albuquerque police. Two officers arrived, and the teenager handed over the money.

The officers counted the cash back at their station: It totaled $135,000.

Albuquerque police understand the money was mistakenly left outside the ATM by a bank subcontractor that was meant to supply the machine with cash, Officer Simon Drobik said.

Nuñez said that as he stared at the cash, waiting for police officers to arrive, he could hear the lessons of his parents in his head.

"My parents always taught me to work for my own. Stolen money would never last you any time," Nuñez recalled his mother and father teaching him.

And for Nuñez, who comes from a tight-knit Latino family, there was an infamous guiding force hovering over him to be well-behaved.

"I had my mom's voice and her 'chancla' in the back of my head," Nuñez said. "La chancla" is a reference to an often real, often humorous threat of a flip-flop spanking to keep children on the right path.

City officials honored him Thursday in a ceremony outside Albuquerque's police academy.

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but what would bill gates have done?

taken the money and run?