A Fairbanks, Alaska, woman paid $7.50 for a bunch of old office items at a city-run auction last weekend. Candace Carroll wanted the three boxes of pink printer paper, but soon found something more valuable – “an old index-card cabinet containing 460 4- by 6-inch cards, many of which list the names, birthdates, salaries and Social Security numbers of people employed by the city in the late 1970s,” reports the local newspaper.
So, like you do, Carroll stopped by city hall to tell them about her unintentional find – then demanded the city pay her $300,000 for the return of the info. Carroll claims the money is a “finder’s fee” and told the newspaper that “her demand is partly meant to punish what she perceives to be the city’s negligence.”
Sounds more like extortion to us.
Via Obscure Store
