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<p>[QUOTE="stldanceartist, post: 4897965, member: 13307"]As I was pulling through, the coin collector in me (who ALWAYS scans the ground as I'm traveling; once I found a gold/diamond ring in a bar parking lot on the way to work) spotted the paper money and immediately recognized it as a $20. Smiled and said to my wife, "Go pick it up!" (Obviously not shouting or ordering her around, but trying to convey that it would be well worth the effort to do so.) She comes back and excitedly says, "There is a ***** $50 inside that $20!" (<i>gotta love her</i>) So, of course, I decided to make a second pass through that area and picked off a lowly $1 bill. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, the cops when I called were going to pass me off to someone else until someone else called them literally while I was on the phone (could hear it in the background.) Then they were immediately more interested. Gave them a full description of the make/model/color/plates (took photos) but couldn't see any details of the driver. Now it's up to them to figure out where they are - going to be a rough day for whoever was driving like a moron (speeding, reckless driving, changing lanes without signaling, hit and run, running a red light.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="stldanceartist, post: 4897965, member: 13307"]As I was pulling through, the coin collector in me (who ALWAYS scans the ground as I'm traveling; once I found a gold/diamond ring in a bar parking lot on the way to work) spotted the paper money and immediately recognized it as a $20. Smiled and said to my wife, "Go pick it up!" (Obviously not shouting or ordering her around, but trying to convey that it would be well worth the effort to do so.) She comes back and excitedly says, "There is a ***** $50 inside that $20!" ([I]gotta love her[/I]) So, of course, I decided to make a second pass through that area and picked off a lowly $1 bill. Yeah, the cops when I called were going to pass me off to someone else until someone else called them literally while I was on the phone (could hear it in the background.) Then they were immediately more interested. Gave them a full description of the make/model/color/plates (took photos) but couldn't see any details of the driver. Now it's up to them to figure out where they are - going to be a rough day for whoever was driving like a moron (speeding, reckless driving, changing lanes without signaling, hit and run, running a red light.)[/QUOTE]
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