When I took intro to law in undergrad, abandoned property was handled on a finders, keepers basis. I don't know this jurisdiction, but, you know, what's the crime here?

They know our President's a pedophile right?

why is this even a concern?

this seems like a law that was only put on the books to protect rich people. if you drop a wad of money on the ground for whatever reason then the person who picks it up shouldn't be a criminal no matter what they do with it.

we're taught the merits of rugged individualism and social darwinism and 'fuck you got mine' but then we're supposed to care about someone dropping a $10 bill on the ground no matter what the reason? we're supposed to 'do the right thing?'

lol fuck off.

Poo dollar!

If it's a dollar, whatever.

$30? Questionable but ok.

An envelope full of money that is obviously someone's pay for the week? Yeah you should turn that in, the owner who dropped it will be searching for it before they leave the store.

(I saw the last one of these happen to a mother of three in person in a local grocery store when I was about 12. I hope she got it back)

The amount of people saying "lol it's mine now" in this thread is a little concerning.

House got old...

That's Bill, we were having lunch at that exact time. Must be a bad video, hope you find the real "criminal" you fascist pigs.

Turn it in to the employees!?!

What, is all money dropped in walmart now automatically walmart's property?

Yeah I know him. Mitch McConnell is his name. Get him.

An anecdote: the first time I was in Spain as a kid (touristy reasons), I noticed a 20 EUR note someone dropped on the ground (this was in Madrid). I stood there for a second contemplating. My child brain went "I found something that someone lost => Need to put it in a prominent place so that the owner can find it and it doesn't get dirty" (I was a much kinder individual back then). So I picked up the bill and was about to put it on the window sill of a nearby building when a guy walked over to me and explained in broken english that I should keep it. I looked at him in total confusion, but then he flashed some kind of local police ID at me and explained to me that if I don't pick it up, someone else will, and there is no way to find the actual owner. I will probably remember this for the rest of my life (partly because 20 EUR was a huge chunk of cash for me back then).

ACAB but some are worse than others.

This has gotta be bait.

This is... a crime?

Did they literally take a photograph of the monitor? Take a screenshot ffs.

Is that even illegal?

The staff just takes it if you turn in it.

If police wanted to improve society they would kill themselves

I'm a hardened criminal, I pick up every penny I see.

must have stolen a total of a couple dollars though my criminal career.

Wait so he dropped his own money then picked it back up?

If cops get paid that muchs, then why is one abusing his powers to get his $30 back?

I bet the guy didn't realize it was theft

Wouldn't he have "turned it in to the employees" if he used it to pay for his purchase though?

Sorry, I am too stupid. So he dropped something on the floor and took it back? The issue is he took his own money and did not return it to the shop employee? Os is it some weird sentence structure…

Honestly, mulling over this for a bit, I can't tell if you're saying it's dumb to have a shitty screenshot of CCTV, it's dumb for them to investigate a technical-but-clearly-petty Theft, or both.

For the former, as I said in another comment:

In my experience, while bigger corporations are more likely to have the means, they're also more likely to have all kinds of corporate red tape forbidding providing footage when law enforcement arrives (gotta get every rung of the leadership ladder to sign off, maybe even Legal). I've had months between the reported incident and corporate approval to provide the footage, usually a CD.

In situations like those, Loss Prevention "pretends not to notice" when you take a photo of the CCTV freeze frame with your agency-issued camera, and something like this is the result.

For the latter, despite what a lot of people believe, the police generally do respond to reported incidents and generally do follow up on all available leads. The disparity in response for some petty crap from a mega corporate location is due to the robust infrastructure they have in place to observe, record, and report incidents. Even in 2026, most people do not have extensive interior and exterior CCTV in their homes, for example.

"This investigation is kinda dumb and I don't feel like pursuing the available leads" isn't something a patrol supervisor would accept on your report.