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The New York Times reports on NYPD officers placing bags containing iPods and credit cards in public places like subway trains so they can felony arrest whoever finds them - if they walk by a uniformed police officer holding the goods without reporting it.

Now, I admit, if you find something that doesnt belong to you, you either leave it in case the owner remembers where they left it, or you give it to a police officer you walk by a minute later.

However, baiting people into this is just ridiculous.

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