Customer cashed in at fast-food restaurant’s drive through

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proud2BlibKansan  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Feb-25-11 10:32 AM
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Customer cashed in at fast-food restaurant’s drive through
   
A man drove through an Overland Park KFC and paid for his bag of food but drove away with something else entirely.

When the 21-year-old man got home Sunday, all he had to eat was a bank deposit bag full of cash.

He called police. As the man and an officer were heading back to the restaurant, a dispatcher reported that an employee had mistakenly given the bank deposit to a customer.

The money was all there, and the man finally got his food.



Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/02/24/2680838/customer-c...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x505982

A cute little bit of humor. Only at DU could this story bring on a fight.

reggie the dog  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Feb-25-11 02:29 PM
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18. why in the hell would you give that money back?
   
if i paid for a sack of something, and they say that paying 8 dollars gets me a sack full of thousands that who am i to argue with their business logic? i live on 900 euros a month and would have kept that bag of money in a heartbeat. the owner pays shit minimum wage to their workers to maximize profit so **** them. this 21 year old guy must be rich or something. why would he give that money back?

The DUmmy has a pot leaf as his avatar.

Gormy Cuss  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Feb-25-11 02:37 PM
Response to Reply #18
20. Because keeping it is dishonest? Because when they caught up with him, he'd be arrested? n/t
   

reggie the dog  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Feb-25-11 02:47 PM
Response to Reply #20
25. arrested for what? paying for a bag and then taking the bag they hand you?
   
how is keeping money they HANDED TO YOU dishonest?

Gormy Cuss  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Feb-25-11 03:05 PM
Response to Reply #25
30. If you receive a windfall in error and could have returned it to the rightful owner,
   
you don't have the right to keep it. In this case the person would know that a bag of money wasn't what he ordered and he knew where he obtained the money. It's a no brainer.

reggie the dog  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Feb-25-11 04:01 PM
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37. to me it matters where the money comes from
   
if it comes from a place that has shit for benefits for workers and very low salaries i would not be so prone to give it back. because of that i dont think that i am as big an asshole as mr potter was in "its a wonderful life".... but i know that old george bailey would not have kept the money either so i am no where near as cool as he was either.

LanternWaste  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Feb-25-11 02:37 PM
Response to Reply #18
21. Many people do the right thing...
   
Many people simply do the right thing, regardless of how it may profit them not to...
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reggie the dog (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Feb-25-11 02:47 PM
Response to Reply #21
26. why is it right to give money back to someone who handed it to you?
   
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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Feb-25-11 02:50 PM
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28. Becaue he'd be arrested
   
They do have cameras! And it is considered theft!

mrs_p  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Feb-25-11 02:38 PM
Response to Reply #18
22. maybe he is just honest
   
not hard to believe. i would have returned it, too, and our family is living on less than 30K a year.
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reggie the dog (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Feb-25-11 04:06 PM
Response to Reply #22
38. why?
   
if there were couple of grand you could have gone on vacation, fixed your car, bought new appliances. i think i would be dishonest if i scammed them but if it is their own negligence that would result in me getting money i would have to see what kind of place was making the error. a restaurant selling shitty quality high fat food and using underpaid workers, often not even giving benefits is not high on my list of places to be returned the money.

Ikonoklast  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Feb-25-11 02:41 PM
Response to Reply #18
24. It is theft.
   
And yes, even though it was not his fault he got a bag of money, he could get in trouble for keeping it.


He paid for a meal, not a bag of money.
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reggie the dog (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Feb-25-11 02:49 PM
Response to Reply #24
27. have you ever gone back to complain that they ****ed up an order
   
only to be told that you did order something you dont even like. who am i to question what they think i ordered? how can you get in trouble for keeping money they handed to you? there is no theft. they give you money, you leave. no theft involved.

Obamanaut  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Feb-25-11 03:06 PM
Response to Reply #27
31. I have complained that the order received was not what was ordered.
   
Interestingly, I did not tell them that they "...****ed up an order...", and the error was corrected.
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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Feb-25-11 03:03 PM
Response to Reply #18
29. Redistribution of someone else's assets through misadventure is not
   
the right thing to do.

Don't you just hate it when people display a streak of honesty?
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reggie the dog  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Feb-25-11 04:11 PM
Response to Reply #29
41. i don't think it is dishonest to keep the money
   
you leave, open up to eat, find a bunch of cash and keep it without telling a single lie or doing a single dishonest act. a nice payday in cash, no taxes to pay or anything. it is ****ing legal to rip us "consumers" off in so many ways that i do not conisder it dishonest to profit from the negligence of a person who exploits their workers anyways. the owner of the kfc has stolen how much from the labor of his workers???? and it is dishonest for me to say that the guy should have kept the money that was given to him without him even demanding it??? i would assume it were a gift and leave it at that.
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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Feb-25-11 04:54 PM
Response to Reply #41
43. I'm sure you don't think it's dishonest. That's the difference between
   
honest people and the others.

A nice payday with no taxes you say. What about all that hype one reads here, right here, about paying the fair share.

Now we know.
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reggie the dog (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Feb-25-11 05:04 PM
Response to Reply #43
44. it is not income
   
it is money you got due to a **** up which gives an average slob the chance to get something back from the kind of place that pays minimum wage with no benefits. i know that the wealthy also pay tax lawyers to help them use loopholes to get out of paying a lot of their taxes so if i could scam a few grand in cash that i got due to someone handing over the wrong sack i wouldnt think twice in our current system. if things were different and the wealthy made to pay enough taxes to have a social welfare system perhaps i wouldnt feel so inclined to class warfare and not thinking twice about keeping the cash.
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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Feb-25-11 07:13 PM
Response to Reply #44
50. I was gonna respond, but instead, I just give the **** up. nt
   
   

 

[Chris_]

Another worthless urban myth... the fast food bag full of cash money.

Sounds like bullshit to me.

[JohnnyReb]

DUmmie says, "i live on 900 euros a month "...a U-R-pee'n Dummie no less....don't go to Europe, they're dishonest.

[AprilRazz]

Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts)     Fri Feb-25-11 03:03 PM
Response to Reply #18
29. Redistribution of someone else's assets through misadventure is not
  
the right thing to do.

Don't you just hate it when people display a streak of honesty?

While I agree wholeheartedly with what this primitive is saying the simple irony is killing me.

[delilahmused]

reggie the dog (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Feb-25-11 05:04 PM
Response to Reply #43
44. it is not income
   
it is money you got due to a **** up which gives an average slob the chance to get something back from the kind of place that pays minimum wage with no benefits. i know that the wealthy also pay tax lawyers to help them use loopholes to get out of paying a lot of their taxes so if i could scam a few grand in cash that i got due to someone handing over the wrong sack i wouldnt think twice in our current system. if things were different and the wealthy made to pay enough taxes to have a social welfare system perhaps i wouldnt feel so inclined to class warfare and not thinking twice about keeping the cash.

So this guy who doesn't work at the minimum wage place, one that often gives teenagers their first job, is going to take money he hasn't earned and that was maybe supposed to be used as wages to pay the poor slobs, to get back at "the corporation". Meanwhile, the "average slob" who works there is going to lose his job because he made a (rather large) mistake and accidentally gave it to an asshole who thinks he has a "right" to money got through someone else's labor. But hey, he's stickin' it to "the man" so that makes it all okay. I'm sure the poor minimum wage slob would thank you for standing up for him by not having the decency to give back something that isn't his and in fact is so dishonest and immoral he doesn't even care.

Way to show progressive values there!

Cindie

[Ballygrl]

reggie the dog  (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-25-11 02:29 PM
Response to Original message
18. why in the hell would you give that money back?
   
if i paid for a sack of something, and they say that paying 8 dollars gets me a sack full of thousands that who am i to argue with their business logic? i live on 900 euros a month and would have kept that bag of money in a heartbeat. the owner pays shit minimum wage to their workers to maximize profit so **** them. this 21 year old guy must be rich or something. why would he give that money back?

Honest decent people would give it back, I would give it back!

[Chris_]

I just can't see a restaurant manager being stupid enough to stuff the night deposit cash into one of the food bags and leave it next to the drive-through.  They usually have a company bag that the cash is supposed to go in (hint: it's usually made of leather).  Maybe I'm giving too much credit to KFC managers, but this sounds like so much BS.  I mean how stupid do you have to be to try this?  I would have turned around and headed back to the restaurant the minute I found the cash.  Even if they were closed, I would have gone back and pounded on the door.

****in' DUmmies, all of them.  The store manager is probably one of them.

[franksolich]

DUmmie says, "i live on 900 euros a month "...a U-R-pee'n Dummie no less....don't go to Europe, they're dishonest.

Notice the ragged primitive doesn't say he "earns" or "makes" or "takes home" 900 "euros" a month.

Sounds as if the ragged primitive's on some sort of disability gravy train, disabled from pot usage.

[Vagabond]

DUmmie says, "i live on 900 euros a month "...a U-R-pee'n Dummie no less....don't go to Europe, they're dishonest.

No kiddin'.  Don't try picking anything off of a rack to give to a vendor so you can pay for it.  They will think you are trying to steal it.  I've never had that problem in the states.

[Alpha Mare]

Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Feb-25-11 06:39 PM
Response to Reply #15

17. And no one confronted any senior citizens to mend there errant way
   
of thinking, or demanded the teevee be changed from FOX news.

What a pleasant story indeed.

 

[Ballygrl]

Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Feb-25-11 06:39 PM
Response to Reply #15

17. And no one confronted any senior citizens to mend there errant way
   
of thinking, or demanded the teevee be changed from FOX news.

What a pleasant story indeed

[Boudicca]

Reggie the dog should have called himself something much more appropriate:  Reggie the douche.
I thought Obamanaut was a mole though.  Maybe I read it on Dutch Elm disease island. :clueless:

[Duke Nukum]

I can't figure out of Reggie is the mole or if Obamanaut is a mole who is about to out himself.

[Boudicca]

I can't figure out of Reggie is the mole or if Obamanaut is a mole who is about to out himself.

Reggie might be bobo's sockpuppet, what with all that bleating and blathering about stealing money he didn't earn, because it was there for the taking.  One imagines the hideous hobo latching on to a bag of found money muttering My Precious between her flapping gum lines.

[thundley4]

Obamanaut reminds me a little of OMC.

[AllosaursRus]

Holy smokes! We oughta frame this one!

Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Feb-25-11 03:03 PM
Response to Reply #18
29. Redistribution of someone else's assets through misadventure is not
  
the right thing to do.

Don't you just hate it when people display a streak of honesty?

Especially given his DUbass handle!

So this guy who doesn't work at the minimum wage place, one that often gives teenagers their first job, is going to take money he hasn't earned and that was maybe supposed to be used as wages to pay the poor slobs, to get back at "the corporation". Meanwhile, the "average slob" who works there is going to lose his job because he made a (rather large) mistake and accidentally gave it to an asshole who thinks he has a "right" to money got through someone else's labor. But hey, he's stickin' it to "the man" so that makes it all okay. I'm sure the poor minimum wage slob would thank you for standing up for him by not having the decency to give back something that isn't his and in fact is so dishonest and immoral he doesn't even care.

Way to show progressive values there!

Cindie

All those posts, and not a single one got wise to the fact the worker most likely would be fired! Real "Good Samaritans" at the DUmp, ain't they

Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Feb-25-11 04:54 PM
Response to Reply #41
43. I'm sure you don't think it's dishonest. That's the difference between
  
honest people and the others.

A nice payday with no taxes you say. What about all that hype one reads here, right here, about paying the fair share.

Now we know.

Ok, who's mole is ObamaSnutz? There's two conservative posts in the same thread. Wonder why no one called him on it? I guess out and out stealin' is not ok, when ya do it thru the gubmint, well, that's another story.

I noticed Red DogsDick says he lives on euros. Must be his gubmint freebee. Sure don't sound like he works for a livin'!

[BlueStateSaint]

The Obamanaut primitive is keeping the canine primitive on the ropes.  I'm thinking that the Obamanaut primitive is just about to break through the surface of the ground.

Hey, reggie the dog--how 'bout giving the money back because it's the right thing to do?

[Texacon]

The Obamanaut primitive is keeping the canine primitive on the ropes.  I'm thinking that the Obamanaut primitive is just about to break through the surface of the ground.

Hey, reggie the dog--how 'bout giving the money back because it's the right thing to do?

Yeah, I've been thinking ObamaNOT is a mole for a long time.  He makes too much sense to be on the island.  It might be coming out in the posts too ... like  this one;

Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Feb-25-11 04:54 PM
Response to Reply #41
43. I'm sure you don't think it's dishonest. That's the difference between
   
honest people and the others.

A nice payday with no taxes you say. What about all that hype one reads here, right here, about paying the fair share.

Now we know.

KC

[BlueStateSaint]

Yeah, I've been thinking ObamaNOT is a mole for a long time.  He makes too much sense to be on the island.  It might be coming out in the posts too ... like  this one;

KC

One thing you quoted made me do this:

Guess what (PM, so as not to cue anyone to it)?