Good fortune in garbage. (The Goodness of America).On January 16th, Brian Mangum, 31. of Salt Lake City, Utah For ships of the United States Navy of the same name, see . Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake, or its initials, S.L.C. , was at a local car wash when he noticed something with a silver hue protruding pro·trude v. pro·trud·ed, pro·trud·ing, pro·trudes v.tr. To push or thrust outward. v.intr. To jut out; project. See Synonyms at bulge. from a nearby garbage can. His interest piqued, he took a closer look and found a small unlocked box containing a number of mostly empty hanging file folders. One, however, held a bundle of bills wrapped with a paper band from the Stateline Casino in Wendover, Nevada, more than 110 miles west of Salt Lake City. The stash stash Drug slang noun A place where illicit drugs are hidden totaled $3,000. Mangum took the cash home and readily admits being tempted to keep it. Indeed, he and his wife began making a list of things they could do with it, but then, as he told Salt Lake television station KSL KSL - Knowledge Systems Laboratory for a report broadcast on April 16th, "we just looked at each other and I told her, 'I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. why we're doing this. There's no decision, really, to be made. It's not our money.'" Salt Lake's Deseret News that day further quoted him as saying, "I couldn't have lived with myself if I had kept it. It wasn't a hard decision to make." Mangum turned the money over to the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office. Detectives checked the lock box serial number and called Wendover police to determine if there were any reports of stolen cash, but nothing turned up. To this day it is not known how so much money from a distant Nevada casino ended up in a Salt Lake car wash trash can In the Macintosh, a simulated garbage can used for deleting files and folders. The trash can keeps the files intact in case the user wants to restore them, but can be "emptied" from time to time to save disk space. . Sheriff's detective Kelly Smith Kelly Smith (born 29 October 1978 in Watford) is an English football player who currently plays in England for Arsenal Ladies. Previously, she was the only English player to play in the Women's United Soccer Association, the former professional women's league in the United States. praised Mangum for turning in the money, telling the Deseret News "this is a rarity. It's good to see someone so honest." The honesty, in this instance, turned Out to be more than its own reward. Under Utah law, if lost money is not claimed within 90 days, it reverts to the finder. The waiting period expired on April 16th with no takers, so the $3,000 was given to Mangum. He told reporters that he plans to buy some clothes for his wife, bikes for his children, and bank the rest. He also hopes that his lucky streak continues, telling KSL-TV with a smile, "Well, hey, I found $3,000 once. How much luck can it take?" |
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