‘Finders Keepers’ Defense Doesn’t Hold Up With Police

'Finders Keepers' is a saying just about all of us uttered at some point in our childhood to a friend or sibling. But as we all reached the age of reason, we found out that just because  we find something, doesn't always mean we get to keep it.

But this crack-head from Florida must have missed that little life lesson, he snatched $29 off the ground in a parking lot that a woman had just dropped and proclaimed, "Finders keepers," before driving away to buy cocaine with the money.

According to the Huffington Post,  a South Florida woman was doing some shopping at a Home Depot, but in the parking lot she dropped $29 in cash. And before she could bend down to pick it up a man ran over, snatched it off the ground, yelled "finders keepers," and ran away.

She tried to chase him down, but he then hit her with his car (Thankfully, she wasn't badly hurt). Police were called and used the man's license plate number to track him down at his home. He had already spent his stolen money on a vial of crack-cocaine that they found in his pocket.

[Huffington Post]

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