The credit union rewarded the honest messenger with a $50 gift certificate to Boston Pizza.

Finderlohn für verlorenes Handy
Polizei nimmt 16-Jährigen als mutmaßlichen Erpresser fest
Finderlohn für verlorenes Handy
ERLANGEN (en) - Ein 16-jähriger Erlanger hat für ein gefundenes Handy von der Verliererin 50 Euro Finderlohn verlangt.

Eine 25-jährige Erlangerin hatte in einem Linienbus ihr Handy verloren. Sie erstattete Verlustanzeige bei der Erlanger Polizei und wählte, während sie Anzeige erstattete, nochmals die Nummer ihres Handys. Plötzlich nahm ein junger Mann ab.

Im Gespräch sagte dieser, dass er 50 Euro für das Handy haben wolle und man könne sich an einer Tankstelle in Erlangen treffen. Die Verliererin war allerdings in Begleitung von zwei Zivilpolizisten. Der Finder, der die 50 Euro forderte, wurde vorläufig festgenommen. Er muss sich nun wegen Erpressung verantworten; die Ermittlungen übernahm die Erlanger Kripo.
15.9.2009

oh, das wäre ja hochgradig kriminell!! spätestens, wenn die nächste
mahnung ins haus flattert oder der hunger kommt, wird er sich mal
sowas von in den arsch beissen!!

spätestens, wenn der hunger kommt, wird er sich mal
sowas von in den arsch beissen!!

Bike courier gets $500 reward

Armoured car company tops up initial $50 certificate from credit union

CBC News, September 15, 2009

A Winnipeg bike courier who found and returned nearly $20,000 has had his reward increased tenfold.
Matt Magura was initially given a $50 gift certificate to Boston Pizza for his honesty. The paltry sum outraged people in the city, who flooded call-in shows and online feedback pages with criticism of the Assiniboine Credit Union.
On Monday, G4S Cash Services, the armoured car company whose employees left the loot on top of an automated teller machine in a downtown Winnipeg office building, gave Magura $500.
Magura welcomed the cash reward, saying he intends to use it to help pay rent. However, he said he expected nothing and was happy to get anything at all.
Employees with the armoured car company G4S Cash Services left the loot on top of an ATM machine. (CBC)
He said he returned the found money because it was the right thing to do and he wouldn't have felt comfortable otherwise.
Magura found a bundle of deposit envelopes filled with cash and cheques on Sept. 8 in the lobby of the Medical Arts Building on Kennedy Street, where he stopped to cash a GST cheque.
He gathered up the envelopes and took them to the Assiniboine Credit Union's head office on Main Street.
"For me, it kind of restores my faith in people and their honesty and integrity. Matt's a fine example of that and we really think it's a good-news story," said Gerry Campbell, the credit union's executive vice-president of sales and services.
It turned out the envelopes had been taken out of the ATM during a collection run by an armoured car company. They contained about $8,000 cash and the balance in cheques.