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WDYT? Tip? Or tainted cash?
Big tip or tainted cash? Minn. waitress sues to reclaim $12,000 left by restaurant customer
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big fat tip or tainted drug money? Struggling Minnesota waitress Stacy
Knutson says it?s the former; Moorhead, Minn., police apparently believe
it?s the latter.
The wad of cash was left in a to-go box on a
table at the Moorhead Fryin? Pan restaurant where Knutson works.
Knutson said she followed the customer out to the parking lot to give
back what she thought were leftovers, but the customer said, ?No, I am
good; you keep it,? according a story Wednesday in The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead.
Knutson went back inside the restaurant, peeked inside the box and to
her astonishment found $12,000 in cash rolled up in rubber bands.
Like
a dutiful citizen, she called police, who seized the money and
reportedly told her she would get it back if no one claimed it in 60
days. But when that time period passed, she said police told her she
still couldn?t get the money because it was part of a drug
investigation. Apparently it didn?t pass the sniff test, because police
said the money had a strong odor of marijuana.
Now, Knutson has filed a lawsuit in Clay County District Court, claiming the cash is rightfully hers.
Moorhead
police Lt. Tory Jacobson told The Forum he couldn?t discuss the matter,
citing an ongoing investigation ?with suspicion of narcotics.?
***So do you think she should get the money?

Re: WDYT? Tip? Or tainted cash?
If I were on the jury, I'd vote in her favor.
I don't necessary think it doesn't have anything to do with being drug money. But MJ, FFS? Really?
Why don't they test hundred dollar bills for traces of coke.
I say she should get the money.
And wow, that's one honest waittress!
This exactly. She called the cops, they said she could get it back in sixty days. Give her the damn money.
If I followed the customer out and tried to give it back to him and he told me to keep it, I would. There is no way I would just call up the police. Drug $ or not, if someone left it to me as a tip I'd zip my mouth shut. She is a much more honest person than me! Though I dont actually think she would have done anything dishonest by not calling the cops, as long as she genuinely wasnt part of a drug deal.
I guess not reporting the income isnt honest but... its no less honest than what happens to much of our tax money anyways
Uh, the police should give her back her tip money.
Do I smell a lawsuit?
Good!
I agree that I am *not* that honest. If he told me to keep it, I would... but she did a good thing, time passed and I'm glad they rewarded her for it.