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Two Teens Find $20K While Building a Fort, Then Turn It In!

Teens Find $20k While Building a Fort Then Turn It In

What would you do if you found a backpack filled with more than $20,000 in cash? Two Utah teens turned it in. The Salt Lake Tribune reprots on the discovery:

“While working on the fort in a wooded area of the Avenues, one of the boys found a golf ball and let it roll down the hillside, according to a police report. When the boy went to find the ball, he spotted a backpack ‘shoved under some bushes,’ according to the report.

Seeing a significant amount of cash inside, the boys brought the backpack home and showed to a parent.

Fearing the cash may have been part of a crime, a parent of one of the teens called police. McGowan said the parent and boys did the right thing.”

The money was stuffed in plastic bags next to a pair of gloves in the backpack. Police were happy to see the teens “do the right thing” and the origin of the backpack is still unknown at this time.

A Salt Lake City police spokesman said of the discovery “It was a needle in a haystack.”

My only question is what were two teens doing building a fort?

Comments (52)

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  • GrumpyCat
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 11:12am

    Clearly the boys need to be taken from their parents and put in foster care for being allowed to build *forts*, play *war games*, and for being so honest. Must be something wrong with their upbringing!!! :-)

    No doubt they would have been taken away if this occurred in California, Massachusetts, or New York.

    Perhaps the fort was to protect their lemonade stand? :-)

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    • duffer319
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 11:55am

      couldn’t agree more & vary true about there stand.

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 9:36am

    The anti-racist comments in reply to a blogger make me proud to blog here. As far as the “fort”, they work great for paint ball, etc. As far as the boys, they did the right thing according to their knowledge, take it to their folks, call the police. I guess they weren’t thinking like a pro law enforcement agency. Often homeless people are found with large amonts of money-no one can figure that one out, if they have money why not have a home? Mental illness, I guess. Whatever, the right thing was done.

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  • loadingmyclips
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 9:07am

    Yeah I’d turn it in…turn it into something I could USE !! Like a new car, motorcycle, home Hekk I don’t know!!

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  • marthasusan40
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:56am

    Great Job parents..may God continue to bless them…these kids have a bright future…

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  • MOLLYPITCHER
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 6:35am

    Someones parent’s did something right!

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  • Bill Rowland
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 6:27am

    The boys were building a fort in preperation for whats coming down the pike.
    Obumbler, the CBC and Rev Jesse and Rev Al want an insurrection, a race war so that King Obumbler can declare Martial law finally have Michelle unpack his crown and scepter.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:37am

    Quite amazing, isn’t it? They found something that they didn’t earn or inherit, so they knew it wasn’t theirs. I wouldn’t expect any of the low life communist/socialist punks of the Obama dogma to do the same.

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  • kindling
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:26am

    Well, that explains it. They are UTAH boys. If they were Washington DC boys you would not be reading this or anyother story about money found…..it would have been spent on drugs faster than you can say“mine”.

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:09am

    These are honorable children.. and what a great job their parents did raising them!! Good job boys.. the Lord will bless you!

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    • the hawk
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:34am

      THEY should of reported it ! but if they can take the House ,Car, wIFE, KIDS for selling Drugs The kids should get to keep the money ! If they think it might of been Drug money ! if it had been reported lost then 10% reward mandatory !

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  • Rufusnatr
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:47am

    There was a young lady in Dallas that had found $2k and had turned it in as well. She was told at the time she turned it in that if no one claimed it in 30 days it would be returned to her. When she went to pick it up, the police told her that a new policy was in place and that the police would instead put the money to a better use for the police department. There was such an uproar by citizens that they reversed their decision and gave it back to the girl.

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  • modestmouse
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:47am

    Peppa-

    Two words. FLASH MOB. There you go….teens at their finest.

    Keep trying.

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    • abbygirl1994
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:07am

      Oh crap the infamous Peppa is back after she said a week ago after tonight she wasn’t coming back to the Blaze.. typical of a liberal always lying!

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  • Chief Moolah Eggplant
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:46am

    That was some of Obama’s money he be spreading around.

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  • TSUNAMI-22
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:30am

    I’d turn it in….NOT !!!

    No common sense. Not only did they turn the money in, they exposed themselves to retribution by the previous owner of the cash.

    They should have kept it and kept their mouths shut.

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    • JRntEwing
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 1:36am

      What POSSIBLE retribution could the hiders of/lookers for that money take on those kids if they don’t have the money in their possession? And for what possible reason?
      On the other hand had the kids took it and kept it…and were seen and identified by the perps…they would have been very possibly been targets of retribution in an attempt to recover the money.
      The smartest thing might have been to leave it lay and tip off the authorities of it’s existence so they could set up a decoy or a covert surveillance if the backpack. After all, it could have been a bomb, activated, and with a mercury switch on the detonator.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:12am

      @ JRntEwing

      I can just hear the original owners now, “well, since the kids don‘t have the money anymore there’d be no rational reason to hunt them down just for depriving me of it”.

      If the original owner of that cash was a crazed drug dealer or other criminal I guess that wouldn’t warrant any kind of follow-up reprisal for having their property “disrespected”.

      Sometimes you have to think like an a-hole to understand an a-hole, and their reasoning capabilities. Take a hard look at the world as it really is…not as you’d like it to be.

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  • jedi.kep
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:25am

    Wow. Teens with morals! What a concept!

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  • TH30PH1LUS
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:10am

    I love this story!

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:10am

    Dollars to donuts they don‘t and won’t vote for B HO!!!

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  • SanDiegoCountyCitizen
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:07am

    A glimmer of hope in a sea of despair.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on August 31, 2011 at 11:56pm

    This does speak much of the kids and their parents; how many of us honestly would have just up and turned the money in? I would hope to be one of those who would do so, yet until I am in their place and shoes, I will not know for sure.

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    • boxy
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:02am

      Isn’t that life for ya? 20k is very appetizing. I would hope I would do the right thing also. You never know till you get there though.

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  • ZaphodsPlanet
    Posted on August 31, 2011 at 11:51pm

    Someone is not going to be happy when they deliver their drugs and don’t find a backpack with cash. LOL. Hope they have someone keeping an eye on the area.

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    • CatB
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:26am

      My first thought also … isn’t something lawabiding citizens lose. Sounds like a “drop” to me.

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  • 1casawizard
    Posted on August 31, 2011 at 11:50pm

    Did I hear a hint of racism from peppa?

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    • RoBoTech
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 1:01am

      Not a hint, Sir, a deluge of racism from this so called “peppatard”.
      Shows how your brain rots when color of the skin is all you can think about. Black KKK member right there.

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  • Elena2010
    Posted on August 31, 2011 at 11:50pm

    Hey! My brother and I used to build forts…don’t knock it — LOL It’s good to see kids do what is right 1) talking to their parents; 2) returning what is not theirs. It’s also good to see kids playing w/imagination outside instead of glued to the boob-tube or game set.

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 11:56pm

      and den?

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    • Chief Moolah Eggplant
      Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:43am

      If they be 13 or 14 then no concerns.
      But if they be 18 or 19 then something be wrong wearing paper hats and holding wooden swords out building a fort.

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  • TJexcite
    Posted on August 31, 2011 at 11:49pm

    As long as it does not just end up in the cities coffers with the kids getting nothing, all will be fine.

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on August 31, 2011 at 11:48pm

    This is wonderful! Good kids. Good parents.

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  • 1casawizard
    Posted on August 31, 2011 at 11:43pm

    Me and my bud woulda each have 5K if it was me bakintheday.

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  • freedomisasfreedomdoes
    Posted on August 31, 2011 at 11:41pm

    Wow. Love to hear good stories like this:)

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on August 31, 2011 at 11:50pm

    Peppa- You know what? Shut up. Race baiter.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on August 31, 2011 at 11:57pm

    Peppa — normally I would not even deem a response to such baiting as you use, yet this time I will.

    Return to the masters of the Democrats you have, troll, return and hang your head in the shame of uttermost defeat. For in declaring the racism in your post, you display the truth of where it lays at in the first place.

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  • stripe
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:34am

    coolaid intoxication at its finest!

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  • RoBoTech
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:58am

    What?
    That doesn’t make a lick of sens…. Oh WAIT, you are a RACIST!.
    I get it now, racist.
    Pathetic.

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  • Shad Stang
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 1:50am

    Peppa

    Standing as a true Glenn Beck fan, I am proud that you are exercising your first amendment right on a site that has views that seem to be opposite of what you believe. I try to post on Gawker to expose their lack of reasoning and hatred towards our views, unfortunately they won’t let me speak my mind unless I spread hate. But I challenge you to backing up your statements. I defiantly won’t eliminate the possibility that your right, but prove to us that you are right. That’s whats sets people apart.

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  • TH30PH1LUS
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:24am

    @ PEPPA:

    I don’t recall ANY mention of skin color in this article. Are you suggesting that no black, brown, etc people live in Utah?

    What was that little thing MLK mentioned about being “judged by content of character” rather than color of skin? Hmmmm

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  • READRIGHTHERE
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:46am

    In our past there were many “white” folk who held dearly to concepts of black inferiority in an effort to remain useless all the while still feeling like they had accomplished something important just by being born “white.” We look at these mentalities now and we shake our heads in disbelief that anyone, let alone a lot of people could ever survive into adulthood and be that incredibly stupid.

    Thankfully, MLK and others came along and changed the debate, not only in public, but in the hearts and minds of many Americans. He challenged the way people viewed race relations, his example encouraged many to shed any vestiges of racist thinking still left in them. The content of our character was becoming more important than the color of our skin.

    The definition of racism is simple. Dividing people into groups using arbitrary labels such black, white, red, or yellow, and then assigning stereotypical traits, true or false, positive or negative, to any individual who shares common physical traits with the rest of the “group.”

    Peppa has decided that if we are not in favor of Obama’s policies ( as indicated by our participation on the Blaze message boards), then we must likely be white, and predominately racist (why else disagree with the Anointed One?) and therefore appreciate this feel good story about a couple of Utah teens who must naturally be white.

    Peppa, you are part of the problem. Whatever progress we enjoy in race relations, people like you keep us from t

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  • Oil_Robb
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:40am

    Typical PEPPA…..Always having to play the race card. Let me let you in on a little secret Blacks have had over 100 years years since slavery was abolished, and all you have had to do is see how white folks conducted themselves and emulate them……….GET OVER IT…Quit blaming others for you laziness and your lack or discipline and morality.

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  • loadingmyclips
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 10:28am

    It was probably blacks who stole the cash.

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  • bigfatslob
    Posted on September 1, 2011 at 10:49am

    Hey Peppa, go back to work @ da stripper bar.

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