Waitress gets to keep $12,000 left by restaurant customer
 

So how much you think the lawyer is going to get? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

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Knutson filed a lawsuit in Clay County District Court, claiming the cash is rightfully hers.

On Thursday, her attorney, Craig Richie, said the County Attorney's Office and the Moorhead Police Department had agreed to let her keep all the money.

?We argued that most money that you carry in your pocket has drug residue on it,? Richie told CBS station WCCO. ?She could?ve kept the money and nobody would?ve known. But she said, ?No, I?m going to do the right thing.? So she called police and now integrity has now prevailed.?

Richie told Reuters that folks around Moorhead knew that Knutson and her husband were having financial problems raising their five children. He told the news service that he believed the money was intended as a gift to the family. FULL STORY

Follow up from this

I was happy to see them give in to the national media pressure, though it shouldn't have come to that. If it's going to be held for a narcotics investigation, there's no need to tell the person to come back in 60 days, then in 90 days, then tell them sorry you can't have it.

She'd never turn over money now even if it was buried under a pile of white powder.

White powder? (sniff) I didn't see any (sniff sniff) white powder. (wipes nose with back of hand)

90 percent of all US dollar bills carry traces of cocaine.

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-08-14/h...s?_s=PM:HEALTH
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009...n-contaminated

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No one. The cops wanted to keep the money based on the argument that there was drug residue found on the bills. The fact that 90% of dollar bills in circulation are contaminated with drug residue quickly rendered their argument invalid.

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i wish i find 12k$ anywhere :)

Cocaine cash is the best!

Or a freshly killed corpse.

Good for her,waitresses work hard and sometimes get no tip

Never trust the police:2 cents:

The lawyer was kind enough to leave her about 15%.

Another twisted situation.