$60,000 reward with a “terms and conditions apply, you ain’t never gonna see this money” asterisk is just about the most American thing ever. Everything is always a scam, no exceptions
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honestly good, fuck that shithead
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bourgeoisie showing their whole ass by not even rewarding the class traitors who help them. hopefully this story spreads far and wide and discourages future stitch-getters
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our ruling class is so aggressively incompetent, it would be funny if we weren’t still losing
Death to America
our ruling class is so aggressively incompetent, it would be funny if we weren’t still losing
One of the brighter billionaires will :redacted-1::redacted-2:
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known reality warper and accidental :lathe-of-heaven:
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Lmfao the tipster really thought their claim wouldn’t be denied
Best possible outcome would be for this guy to not get the money. Show future would be snitches that there’s no point
i hope it was worth it, a life changing amount of money dangled in front of your face and the rules are so fucking obfuscating that you cant even be sure if you still qualify after reading the rules.
System is working as intended.
i bet they’re so disconnected that they didn’t even know that there was a reward.
60k is not life changing. It’ll just make life easier for a year or two
It would pay the entirety of the median USAmerican rent for 3 years
Okay. Easier for 3 years.
Life changing is not free rent for a few years.
Life changing is being removed from your immediate circumstances. 60k. At most would make life a bit more bearable
Nah, hold that L. That is enough to completely change the circumstances of a person working for fast food wages. I respect doubling down when you are wrong but you are still wrong.
60k is not a lot. It just isn’t. If you guys think it’s a lot cool. I don’t.
Also what’s the tax status on these rewards? Gift or taxable? If taxable even less
Also if it’s actually life changing does that mean you would of narcd if the amount was 100% going to be given to you?
I wouldn’t. If I had a kid though I don’t know if I could make such a principled stance. I would for sure commit heinous crimes for thst kinda money, I think most bank heists get less than that nowadays. 60K would fix every problem I have. New glasses, new shoes, car fixed, debits paid, with enough left over to start a new school or training program and have a vacation to celebrate with a small ammoint saved for emergencies. As most people have zero emergency savings and lots of probelms that would absolutely change my life.
Also if it’s actually life changing does that mean you would of narcd if the amount was 100% going to be given to you?
What
It would be life changing for me
60K immediately would pay off a lot of debts one carries, so that’s pretty life changing in and of itself
Oh yes sure an entire two years’ pay, up front, isn’t life changing
You could at least start use it as a deposit on a flat, get a mortgage and pay equivalent of rent into it so you end up owning something
is this a bit?
judas does not even get his silver …
Related - I really hate how most people write articles. Halfway in and there’s still no followup on the statement made by the headline. On top of that the headline is immediately repeated in the text and the premise is then restated several times.
We get the “bizzare rule” answered with the second to last sentenceSo, if the informant called 911 instead of Crime Stoppers, they might be unable to make the claim.
This is what the article is about, but you can’t get around to it until the very end because the article has to be written like an 8th graders essay
It’s written that way to increase ad impressions. I hate it with every fiber of my being.
That’s definitely a large part of it, but it is also just the US style. I see it much less in non-US publications. It probably has something to do with the US having an abysmal reading level.
Because US publications rely more on ads to generate revenue
everything a commodity, everything enshittified
It’s literally the opposite structure of the journalistic inverted pyramid format. Most relevant sentences go right at the top, further details below. Articles used to be intentionally written so you could stop reading at any point and walk away with most of the information.
But that doesn’t force you to stay on the page longer, generating half a cent of ad revenue for the publisher!
Yeah, it’s infuriating
the crime stoppers thing is only about the $10k from NY. this is what the article says about the FBI’s $50k
The rules are complicated, as they stipulate tipsters in with a chance of the FBI portion of the reward cannot nominate themselves.
This means the McDonald’s worker will have to be put forward by an investigating agency, such as the Department of Defense or the FBI, which is then reviewed by an interagency committee.
If approved, the suggestion is passed on to the Secretary of State, who signs off on the final decision.
so the FBI has to put the rat’s name forward and the secretary of state has to approve it. so what? I’m unconvinced they will screw over the rat given how public this story is, and fully convinced this article is clickbait trash
Seriously, cops denying reward money is the oldest trick in the book. It’s embarrassing that the worker fell for it.
They basically never pay out tip money if full. Even if you nail the guy with your tip, and he gets convicted, they always find a way that your tip was on 80% helpful or some shit.
The McDonald’s worker said they saw Mangione around 9.15am ‘acting suspiciously’ in the restaurant, adding that he appeared to have fraudulent documents
What’s this about? I’m trying to think of why it would ever be necessary to show an ID at McDonald’s… so we might have a real super sleuth of an employee on our hands here! Were they really out there eyeing every table just in case a patron decided to lay out their fake IDs and forged documents like they were about to start vlogging? What foresight and dedication! It would be such a tragedy for the bravest and goodest hero who saved the day not to get their due reward, instead to fade away into history like they were never there in the first place…
Same comment from me:
The search then grew over the weekend ,as the FBI backed the NYPD in the investigation, adding an additional $50,000 to the pot, and hundreds of tips poured in.
The McDonald’s worker said they saw Mangione around 9.15am ‘acting suspiciously’ in the restaurant, adding that he appeared to have fraudulent documents.
Mangione was then arrested with five charges at the scene, as officers found he was in possession of fake IDs, a ‘ghost’ gun, silencer, clothes, and a mask matching the one that the suspected shooter was captured wearing.
I’m so tinfoil hat about it. Out of the hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of tips this one worked? A Greyhound from New York to California is 3 days straight? 4 or 5 with rest? So in essence the man could have been anywhere in the continental US - hell, anywhere on the globe and especially those parts where it’s hard to come into contact with a police department that gives a fuck. But in that McDonald’s in particular a man was acting strange? And wasn’t just told to fuck off? And the employee wasn’t just like “get the fuck out of my store” they were like “that guy looks just like that guy with the smile!” Why the fuck would he splay out his fake IDs and tell people about it? How suspicious are you acting in McDonald’s that they would search your car? What’s that? You had the same clothes, mask, and gun on your person? That’s even weirder!! No car? Throw your shit away!! As a matter of fact, go through the drive through and eat in the parking lot. It seems like a generational throw coupled with generational luck.
There’s so much about this that’s weird. Why did he still have all his shit on him? Why was he still so close? Hell, why was he just chilling at the McDonald’s? Take that shit to go & eat somewhere else! .
I’m split on whether this is a patsy or parallel construction. I think it’s more likely this is the guy & they just used some means they’d rather not share to find him, though I haven’t ruled out him just being a patsy (his comments about the money not being his). If he dies mysteriously in jail I’ll probably swing back to him being a patsy
Also this guy was living in Hawaii previously. That’s a pretty fucking ideal place to lay low.
this whole thing is off, like @CyborgMarx@hexbear.net said this reeks of parallel construction
Luigi loses by not doing absolutely nothing.gif
But yeah, nothing about the official story makes any sense.
mcdonald’s workers out here authenticating motherfuckin’ documents and still not getting a living wage
Be me
McDonald’s Cashier
Got Paper’s Please during the Steam Summer Sale™
Finally got to play it
Showupforwork.jpg.exe
Feeling funny at work
“Can I see your papers please?”
Guy looks surprised but obliges
WTF it worked???
Look at the ID
It says he’s 76 years old
Look at the name
Kill D. CEO
Picture is the kid from Superbad
Make a copy of it in the copy machine right by the fryer
“Thank you sir, your food will be right out”
Try to alert the police
They show up before my 911 call connects
Guys I think I just made $60,000!!
New site tagline dropped
To steal a joke from @LeninsBeard@hexbear.net,
If you are a minority pell grant recipient who starts a business in a disadvantaged community that stays open for 3+ years, you may be eligible to be nominated to receive the “Snitch of the Year” award from the Department of Defense.
If you are a minority pell grant recipient who starts a business in a disadvantaged community that stays open for 3+ years, you may be eligible to be nominated to receive the “Snitch of the Year” award from the Department of Defense.
That’s a Felix bit.
How much you want to bet that since the snitch was at work when they made the call they’re going to pull some bullshit like that means it was technically McDonalds that reported the crime so any reward money that does end up getting paid out goes to the company instead.
The franchisee is somehow going to get the money
The tip-off from the employee is apparently crucial in the case, but the question remains if the worker will be able to cash in on the $60k reward at all. The rules are complicated, as they stipulate tipsters in with a chance of the FBI portion of the reward cannot nominate themselves.
This means the McDonald’s worker will have to be put forward by an investigating agency, such as the Department of Defense or the FBI, which is then reviewed by an interagency committee. If approved, the suggestion is passed on to the Secretary of State, who signs off on the final decision.
If that’s not tough enough, the full reward amount could also be in dispute as payment amounts are based on factors from the value of the information provided, the level of threat, the severity of danger or injury to people or property, and the degree of the source’s cooperation. As for the NYPD’s $10k, the rewards program is granted through Crime Stoppers, where tipsters receive a unique reference number.
This number is crucial as the tipster has to use it call back or check the status of the investigation online before lodging a claim with the NYC Police Foundation and the Crime Stoppers Board of Directors, who ultimately decide whether to approve the tip and instruct the caller how to receive it. So, if the informant called 911 instead of Crime Stoppers, they might be unable to make the claim.
In both cases, the rewards will only be paid out if the arrest leads to indictment or conviction from the court - so the McDonald’s employee could be waiting a while and even at the end of it all, might not even get a dime.
I remember when I found a bunch of stolen goods and handed it in to the cops after I’d find out as much as possible about the goods (it was jewellry thrown in a lake, my family thinks somebody hit it there after doing a break-in and would wait for the heat to die off). We’d cleaned up the silverware, found names, dates, all sorts of stuff that could help the cops find the owners. Lots of family heirlooms. I handed it in so my little sister could learn something about doing The Good Thing and Helping Others, plus we found some fun in talking about the finders’ fee.
Three days later I come back and the cops say they didn’t receive any goods that day, and I also spot two of them wearing watches that were among the goods handed in. one of them winked at me.every single cop should be executed
Death to America
This happened on christmas day too. Seemed like the opportunity to do a genuine christmas miracle for some family that probably missed their old heirlooms + an incredible PR opportunity for the cops. But nah.
They didn’t even give you one of those “Porky’s friends” cards to get out of tickets and shit?
Hogs gonna hog.
That’s a thing?
Yep. Here’s one example.
https://apnews.com/article/nypd-courtesy-card-police-misconduct-c6b6cba435f4ad025944cd4e85f7189c
What the fuck it’s an actual card?
:this:
I hope you were not much older than your sister.
Getting cops envolved is never a good thing.I was still a teen, but it’s not like we got cops involved really. We went to the local station and delivered a bunch of stolen goods we’d found in a lake. If anything the cops stayed out of it, considering the fact that they didn’t do anything
Reads like the fine print on an insurance contract
This ain’t a reward, it’s a sweepstakes for a chance to win!
But wait, you can avoid income tax because it’s a raffle!
The rules are complicated, as they stipulate tipsters in with a chance of the FBI portion of the reward cannot nominate themselves.
Idk what that means. in particular
tipsters in with a chance
It’s awkwardly written definitely, and I’m not sure I’ve parsed it correctly either but:
tipsters in with a chance
I read as ‘tipsters who have a chance’. ‘in with a chance’ is the phrase here that sits awkwardly. It appears another verb has been elided and adding one back in e.g. “Tipsters who have a chance of receiving the FBI portion…” would be more complete and easier to read imo but it’s still a mess of a sentence.
As for the self-nomination, it’s addressed in the next paragraph
This means the McDonald’s worker will have to be put forward by an investigating agency, such as the Department of Defense or the FBI, which is then reviewed by an interagency committee
so the McDonald’s employee could be waiting a while and even at the end of it all, might not even get a dime.
Class traitors praying porky doesn’t alter the deal any further
