Why does this guy get to keep the money?

[NNN0LHI]

This is not a finders keepers type of deal. If someone robs a bank and drops the loot it does not belong to the finder. Even when money accidentally falls out of armored car people have been arrested and jailed for picking it up and not turning it in.

Obviously this money was marked and the serial numbers were recorded before it was given to the hijacker. There is no doubt who the money belongs to.

Any ideas on this one?

Don

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/870838,CST-NWS-db01.article

Owner of D.B. Cooper's cash puts it up for sale

April 1, 2008Recommend

DALLAS -- A boy who found the lone piece of evidence linked to the world's only unsolved skyjacking is now a 30-something father of five who has decided to start selling his treasure.

Brian Ingram was an 8-year-old on a family camping trip when he discovered three bundles of deteriorating $20 bills on the shore of the Columbia River near Portland, Ore., in 1980.

The money turned out to be some of the $200,000 ransom D.B. Cooper was carrying when he parachuted from a plane after a 1971 hijacking.

Now Ingram's taking some of his find to auction, offering 15 bills through Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries. The live and online auction was announced Monday.

''My wife and I have discussed it over a few years, and we just decided we wanted to share it with people,'' said Ingram, 36, of Mena, Ark.

[Richardo]

1. If you want to 'share it with the people' you donate it somewhere, you don't auction it

He's got five kids, why not just say: "We could use some extra money." :shrug:

[Lance_Boyle]

2. Don't be too upset about it

it's not like it was Euros or something valuable like that. ;-)

[Pierre.Suave]

3. ...

:rofl:

[rickford66]

4. money is only fragments

The money was turned over to the authorities and a handful of
fragments were returned. None of it has any value except to
collectors.