What's the Largest Amount of Money You've Ever Found in Public?

[howardgqcollector]

After I graduated high school I went to work for a golf course while I was in college. Part of my job was to spray down and clean up the golf carts after they were turned in. I was spraying one down one day and found $3,300 and a Rolex watch behind the cup holders on the dash. The money was in a rubber band. I knew the guys that had used the cart and returned the money and watch to the owner. He peeled a $50 bill and handed it to me. I tried to turn it down but he wouldn't let me. The guy had some legitimate businesses that he owned in the Killeen Texas area but he also had some stuff that I am sure wasn't legitimate in that area as well as in Vegas. He used to go to Vegas twice a month and play black jack at $500 a hand. I was playing golf with him one day and asked him how his trip to Vegas went and he told me that he had dropped $50,000 out there. I asked him if he was ever going back and he said he was going back in two weeks to get his money back and he did.

[JFried1029]

After I graduated high school I went to work for a golf course while I was in college. Part of my job was to spray down and clean up the golf carts after they were turned in. I was spraying one down one day and found $3,300 and a Rolex watch behind the cup holders on the dash. The money was in a rubber band. I knew the guys that had used the cart and returned the money and watch to the owner. He peeled a $50 bill and handed it to me. I tried to turn it down but he wouldn't let me. The guy had some legitimate businesses that he owned in the Killeen Texas area but he also had some stuff that I am sure wasn't legitimate in that area as well as in Vegas. He used to go to Vegas twice a month and play black jack at $500 a hand. I was playing golf with him one day and asked him how his trip to Vegas went and he told me that he had dropped $50,000 out there. I asked him if he was ever going back and he said he was going back in two weeks to get his money back and he did.

howardgqcollector- You did the right thing. In a case like that where you know who's cash it is, it's different than finding cash in public.