Alleged criminal: "Uh, I didn't actually spend the $30. Here, you can have it back."
Police: "The media circus is already on, buddy. You're going to do 20-to-life now!"

There handing this dude a very very large check for defamation and malicious prosecution unless they took it out of a wallet given that it's completely legal to keep found loose money without looking for the owner.

It's real.

He turned the money in.

You have to wonder: How did this come to anyone's attention in the first place? But it could be that the person who lost the money asked Walmart for help, and the cameras caught the story.

So this may not be as baleful a sign of our times as it at first seems. But how much effort do police departments make for stolen bicycles? It's definitely an example of the cops taking a crime seriously, not because the crime is serious, but because the case is easy.

This can't be real. Unless he took it from a wallet he found on the ground, there is no crime. This feels like ragebait. Does anyone have a credible link?

For fucks sake: its money. Why would you turn it in?

There is nothing identifiable about it. It makes no sense. Besides at the rate the US is going it will have halved in purchase power in the next week anyway.

Yeah im reporting that guy has fled to Israel and joined the IDF.

Who would actually turn him in though?

There’s also Luigi Mangioni to consider. Those McDonald’s employees made public the fact that rewards for turning people in, don’t happen, the majority of the time.

Even if the “crime” is more egregious than picking up $30 blowing in the wind, who would bother?

Plot twist: he also said something mildly disparaging about Ice or Charlie Kirk on the internet. Get 'em, boys!

Naturally, we should spend all of our money on cops and not social services. /s Fuck cops.

If they don't know where he is, how do they know he kept it? Perhaps he's taking the long way round to drop it off.

I can't even fill my car's gas tank with that much

Genuinely, in the U.S, what is the crime here?

Destroy cameras whenever you can

The total labor hours spent is at least $300

Police would just keep it

Social credit score but it's real

LET THE MAN KEEP IT. HE BENT OVER, PICKED UP DISCARDED THINGS AND FOUND PURPOSE FOR IT. NOT ONLY IS THAT CLEANING UP LITTER ITS RECYCLING. THATS WORTH $30

Albany, GA folks. That small ass town has gone viral more than a couple times