• AlphaOmega@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Fun fact. If you find money or valuables and no way to find the owner. Take it to the police department, and after 3 months or so it becomes your property if no one claims it. At least in the US.

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      3 days ago

      I tried that with a ring. They never filled the paperwork to release it back to me and instead sold it at auction and kept the proceeds.

      I was a young teenager, and my dad was trying to use this as a lesson about doing the right thing. We both learned a lesson, but it wasn’t the one he expected.