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Old Nov 21, 2014 | 4:06 pm
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Originally Posted by Edgerfly
I was waiting in the car at the curb babysitting my nieces and nephews while my sister and brother in law were checking in. Had I actually been there to confront the skycap, I can assure everyone this would have gone down differently.

My question now is what to do. There is a high chance it was the elderly ladies money. It most certainly was not the skycap's. I can only imagine there are cameras around that area to find out whose actually it was. I'm not saying we are entitled to the money, but I'm more concerned about the skycap's behavior and the rightful owner of the money. Is contacting the airport police really the correct thing to do?
I suppose if it makes you feel better (and certainly if your relatives DO say they lost $100), but this is a case of hindsight being 20/20; the right thing to do (in terms of getting a resolution you would have liked- the cash turned into lost and found) would have been to raise the issue right then and there. After the fact- I can't see the PoS police making a huge hairy deal out of this. You yourself admitted that the lady who you think lost the money said it wasn't hers, so you don't have unambiguous evidence of any crime, and I wouldn't count on video evidence showing things clearly either. Basically, if you file a report now I'd have pretty low expectations....
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