[Joke told by the Disneyland employees to people waiting in line for the Jungle Cruise] Would the person that lost the roll of twenty dollar bills with the rubber band around them, please come forward. We found your rubber band.[/Jtbtdetpwilftjc]
I have turned in wallets with money before. No reason to believe I would do different here.
I think in a situation like that i’d turn it all in. Not a huge amount of sense in stealing from what’s likely to be a crime scene of some kind.
The idea of finding it in the middle of the street seems to have entirely dumsquizzled me though. Intellectually, that 500 quid is mine. But actually imagining taking the cash out before sending the wallet back gives me a pretty strong heeby-jeeby-ness. Curses.
The money is not marked. There is, however, a transmitter in the carrying case.
in this particular case, will the finder get any cash from interviews etc due to the news worthiness of his find?
Add me to the hand in the cash list.
If I take the money and hand it over to charity, possibly saving a life or two, am I still a jerk?
I’d turn it in, especially since it’s evidence. The only reason I’d even consider taking it is because I give better than even odds that if I turn in the money the cops will steal it for themselves. I might compromise and chuck the money in a fire I suppose.
Remember that the OP has already pegged you as one who sneaks a pee behind a rock.
The Feds would, sooner or later, be all over that site like a cheap suit.
No thanks.
Hmm, I’ve thought about this and
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and just like that - poof - ShelliBean was gone…
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OK - maybe the only thing keeping me from taking it would be the fear of getting caught. But I still believe what the old joke says - we’re all whores, just some of us have a lower purchase point.
I’d be afraid of getting caught, too, but I’d probably keep the money.
He´s a millonaire and he´s dead (probably), his wife would not want the 1000$ left over from his wallet to remember him by.
I´d take it, screw the feds.
If you murder someone, and the hospital uses his organs to save five other people, would you still be wrong?
Taking money that belongs to someone else is stealing no matter how you rationalize it.
I’d take the whole thing and start using his credit cards at random locations across the country buying all sorts of weird stuff like 200 rolls of gauze, 8 square feet of white leather, some sewing needles, and a banjo then stop and wait to see if it makes the news.
Absolutely. So the question then becomes, “First, is stealing always wrong, and second, am I always right?”
Which is neither illegal nor immoral out in the deep wilderness.
Note that since he was a millionaire, I’d excuse your theft if you desperately needed the money to feed your family. But it’d still be stealing.
Robbing a dead man’s wallet isn’t my kind of evil. My evil deeds are less about personal profit & self-aggrandizement than causing the innocent and/or my enemies to suffer. Dude’s dead, so he can’t suffer any more, and I don’t want the other villains to think I’m a wuss.
Plus it’s tacky.
I’d hide the wallet in a wall for someone to find 30 years later.
I’d turn in the jacket, wallet and ID’s too the authorities to sooth the family, then keep the $1000. The Fosset family can afford it.
I don’t know for certain, but before I can answer: Is this money in spendable condition? i.e. has the year or more it’s been exposed to the elements left the money such that you’ll have to resort to turning it into the Federal Reserve to have them verify it, and then issue new currency for the same value? If I had any question about the ability to spend the currency, there’s no temptation to take the money.
If the cash looks as clean and crisp as if it came out of an ATM this morning? I’ll be tempted. Very strongly tempted. I hope I’d turn the money in. But I’m not 100% certain.
Add to that - should it matter if the person you are stealing from is a millionaire or not?
I am disturbed by the people who say they would steal from a millionaire - as though having had the means or will or ability to make money for themselves makes it ok for you to take it.
I voted for stealing the wallet. But I’d steal from y’alls broke asses, too.
