$12,000 left at restaurant: tip or drug money?

[Fuji Vice]

MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) -- A western Minnesota waitress says $12,000 that police call drug money is actually a tip left for her by a diner.

Stacy Knutson has filed a lawsuit in Clay County District Court saying a customer left a takeout box from another restaurant at her table at the Fryn' Pan in Moorhead, near Fargo, N.D. In the lawsuit, Knutson says she followed the customer to her car but that the customer told her to keep the box. She later discovered it contained rolls of cash.

Knutson says she called police even though she has five children and really needs the money.

Officers told her to wait 90 days in case someone claimed the money. Police later told her the cash smelled of marijuana and is being held in a drug investigation.

So she did the honest thing and now she's getting the shaft? She actually has a pretty good case if she can prove that the police told her that the money would be hers in 90 days if nobody claimed it.

 

[TroyTheAverage]

I don't think I would have called the cops. Shit like that is the reason why. You try to do the right thing and then are fucked over by the pigs.

 

[CrimsonTide]

Shit if it wasn't drug money it would be lol