Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge begins raining $20 bills

[AlumniClub]

GREEN BAY, Wis. - It was a clear morning in Green Bay - and then it began raining money. Traffic came to a halt on the congested bridge Wednesday after $20 bills from a money bag that had been accidentally dropped from an armored truck began blowing around and down to the Fox River banks below.

Commuters jumped out of cars, hopped dividers and nearly caused accidents trying to catch the flying cash, police said.

By the time officers arrived at around 7:34 a.m., some 10 minutes after being called, there was chaos on and below Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge.

"People were stuffing handfuls of money into their pockets and running back to their cars and speeding off," police Lt. John Balza said.

Of the $80,000 in the bag initially, some $72,000 was recovered, but almost none of it willingly, he said.

"No one was like, 'Oh here, I'm collecting this for police,'" Balza said. "They were basically seen jamming it in their pockets."

Police said they are not sure how the money bag fell out of the armored courier owned by Badger Armor Inc.

Police Capt. Greg Urban called on people who picked up the money to be "honest and ethical" and turn it over to police.

"Technically, it's the crime of theft, not finders keepers," he said.

[keith]

What's the honest truth, if you picked up a few hundred dollars of floating twenties from a bag dropped from an armored car...would you keep it or return it?

Hmmmm......

[AlumniClub]

Word to the wise: if it's crisp new money, the bank has the serial numbers logged and if you use the money they could potentially track you down from it (because it eventually goes back to a bank and they are rabid about stuff like this). A couple hundred dollars isn't worth jail time.

[andy]

Originally Posted by Crys

Word to the wise: if it's crisp new money, the bank has the serial numbers logged and if you use the money they could potentially track you down from it (because it eventually goes back to a bank and they are rabid about stuff like this). A couple hundred dollars isn't worth jail time.

I originally read the thread title as "$2 bills" and thought that it would be easy to track the people down. $20 bills though? No way. After the $1 bill the $20 is the one most frequently used. It would still be pretty crappy of people to keep the money and I would defintely return it.