Found money

[knkali]

If you found $125K, would you return it?
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/salvation-army-worker-returns-125-000-fell-armored-truck-n118806

[wyntrout]

Yes, as long as I thought it wasn't drug money... gang money from drug sales.

I've been given $50 or more several times by my bank, or undercharged for things like lottery tickets. I returned the money or corrected the clerk's math.

Wynn:)

[b4uqzme]

I found $60 in an ATM once and helped the clerk track down the rightful owner. But $125k? Hmmmm. Every man has his price.

[DavidS]

Yes.
My firm belief is that honesty is the most important virtue for a person.

[cohoskip]

Hmmm. If I were in charge a couple of Brinks employees would be looking for a new job...

[kerby9mm]

I worked in armored car delivery for 30 years. All the companies in this Detroit metro area have had the truck doors pop open & either a bag/a few bags or a complete mailbag full of deposits fall out. Sometimes equipment failure sometimes employee incompeence. Over the years I found many misplaced or dropped bags. Really not as rare as one might think.

[Bawanna]

I been following armored cars around for years. Never had one yet let anything fall out the back I could grab.
Damn the luck!

[Longitude Zero]

In this case yes. However if I found it laying on the ground in some sort of container with no identifiable factors to return it, you betcha I would keep it.

[CJB]

Thursday a young lady left a twenty on a table at DD.

Se was goin...and I called her twice. Almost out the door she turned and I told her she left money.

She told me...most folks wouldnt have said anything, and she thanked me.

I just happened to be in full biker mode too.

[AJBert]

The question comes to mind that if one did keep it, how would you spend it? You couldn't deposit it nor buy that pretty new ZR1. Anything that is above $10,000 gets reported if cash is used.


So, I guess one could nickel and dime their way through $125,000 but you couldn't make that one big purchase.


On second thought, I guess you could go Vegas and try to launder the money there in a casino?


As for me, I'd turn it in. Not that I couldn't use the money but I don't think it would set well with me knowing I didn't earn or win the money honestly.

[O'Dell]

Absolutely! My honor is priceless.

[kerby9mm]

In 1981 a mailbag full of deposits fell out when the back door popped open at my company. It was on a freeway the employees pulled over & shut the door not knowing the bag had fallen out. The people that got it used the money to buy drugs cars and a house. One of them was a Wayne county sheriff's sister & when he figured things out he turned them in. Court determined it was finders keepers. The entire bag had about 407k & all the deposit s inside were tagged for City National Bank

[100percent]

I found 600 rounds of 22 today. Does that count.

Yesterday I go 3 phone calls from someone in federal prison, according to an automated operator.

Also saw a guy on a Harley Davidson putting a dead bunny in a saddle bag....Must have been an obama voter.

[ltxi]

The question comes to mind that if one did keep it, how would you spend it? You couldn't deposit it nor buy that pretty new ZR1. Anything that is above $10,000 gets reported if cash is used.


So, I guess one could nickel and dime their way through $125,000 but you couldn't make that one big purchase.


On second thought, I guess you could go Vegas and try to launder the money there in a casino?


As for me, I'd turn it in. Not that I couldn't use the money but I don't think it would set well with me knowing I didn't earn or win the money honestly.

I've never earned my money honestly. Worked for the government all my life. :)

[CJB]

I made a big prchase cash. Big like $85,000. I was asked where it came from and was advised to say it was life savings, and that that particular story works one time only