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Man returns >$43,000 found in second hand furniture he purchased

Terry Sampson

Well-Known Member
I'd say I found some money in a piece of furniture that I bought from a second hand store. Do you know what that piece was and how much money I found in it?
 

Quagmire

Imaginary talking monkey
Staff member
Premium Member
I would ask myself, " What would Jesus do"?

Then I'd decide that Jesus would take it to a casino and bet it all on black, give back the 43K if he won and pocket the rest, and write it off as God's will if he lost.
 

Dan From Smithville

What's up Doc?
Staff member
Premium Member
I would ask myself, " What would Jesus do"?

Then I'd decide that Jesus would take it to a casino and bet it all on black, give back the 43K if he won and pocket the rest, and write it off as God's will if he lost.
I suppose we will never know. Maybe God was trying to get the money to the guy that bought the couch and he misinterpreted it.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
Many years ago i found a wallet just over almost £1000 in it. I handed it on at the police station.

A while later the police contacted me. The owner had claimed the wallet and left a £10 reward (skinflint) I told the police to pay it into their charity collection
 

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
Many years ago i found a wallet just over almost £1000 in it. I handed it on at the police station.

A while later the police contacted me. The owner had claimed the wallet and left a £10 reward (skinflint) I told the police to pay it into their charity collection

I would've offered at least £100.
 

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
I'd say I found some money in a piece of furniture that I bought from a second hand store. Do you know what that piece was and how much money I found in it?
That occurred to me as well. What's the back story here?
Obviously something strange happened.

On the one hand, clearly whoever took the furniture to a second hand store didn't know the money was there. It's unlikely to belong to them. Perhaps a poor widow with Alzheimer's put it there and her children put it in a store trying to pay for her care. That's completely different from a drug dealer hiding it there, hoping to retrieve it after serving his sentence, and his landlord sold the furniture to cover $1200 in back rent.

Something freakishly strange is going on and the details would matter to me a great deal.
Tom
 

Terry Sampson

Well-Known Member
What's the back story here?
Shared the story with my wife and speculated that some relative of the furniture's owner owned the furniture before them, stored the money in a "safe" place, didn't tell anybody about it, then died and every thing went to an heir or heirs, who decided they didn't want the couch and footstool, gave them to the second-hand store (and probably took a charitable donation deduction for it too!!!),
Then it occurred to me: Okay, the buyer of the stuff returned the money in the footstool. What did he do with all the money he found in the couch? LOL!!!
So, I sez to my wife: Guess I need to figure out a plan for our money. And she asks: "What money? Have you been hiding money somewhere and not telling me? And I sez: Ooops!
 
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