Seriously. Buttermilk Falls.
I was awarded a jacket there once (for helping with their bicentennial celebration in 2000) but it was stolen. Apparently “Beaver Search and Rescue” has entirely different connotations in New York City.
I think it was the dog with his tongue hanging out embroidered on the back that did it.
Buttermilk Falls is about 5 minutes from my place. The one time I decided to walk back there, it was slam full of beered-up hoopies of both sexes. They made it clear that I was intruding on a private affair, so I made my good-byes. Prolly should have called the po-po on them, but why bother?
Sure. Because whoever left a duffle bag full of money in your trunk isn’t going to want it back or anything. And my quick check of lists of people or organizations that trade in large, unmarked bags of money reveals that most of them aren’t the sort who take “oh sorry, I already spent that” for an answer.
I kind of feel like paranoid responses are the only appropriate ones when finding a large strange bag in the trunk of your car.
Ok, let’s suppose you call the cops. And let’s just suppose that it’s got drugs someone else planted, a dead body, or something else that is highly incriminating.
The police are not going to believe you. They are going to take you to jail. Your fate now rests in the hands of 12 people who didn’t get out of jury duty, and the state is going to have an expert liar (the DA) who will attempt to convince them that you are to blame for the crime, whatever it is.
In order to have a chance to not be convicted, you have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a competent attorney to represent you, and even if you win, the state doesn’t have to pay you back.
The only way it hurts you to open the bag is if it’s a bomb. But why would a bomber leave the device in an obvious duffle bag? Why not plant it underneath the car with a switch that detects the car moving? Or just shoot you dead where you stand? Highly unlikely it’s a bomb. I’d open the bag. If it’s an ordinary item that isn’t valuable, I’d turn it in to whatever ‘lost and found’ place is nearby or just leave the bag outside the car. If it’s highly valuable, I’d probably try to turn it in to the authorities. If it’s something illegal, I dunno.
That must be why there is no such thing as an unsolved murder - because the person who reported finding the body is always convicted of the crime.
Let’s say it’s a body, you go and open it and suddenly you’ve made the DA’s job of convicting you easier since your fingerprints are all over it.
Yes, you’re in a bad situation. If this were a movie, the cops would be behind you with their guns drawn the moment you touch the bag. As for what to do now if it is something illegal or incriminating - well, again, you really have 2 viable options.
a. You can call the police and pray the detectives do their job right and pray that if they don’t find any other suspects the DA doesn’t charge you and pray that if you do get charged you don’t get convicted.
b. You can drive away with the bag and hope this isn’t a movie where the cops jump you out of nowhere. Dump the bag in a dumpster with gloves on and wipe off any part you touched, then maybe put bleach or something on that part to destroy any DNA.
I think choice b has a smaller probability of you going to prison, but it’s a risk either way.
Okay, Contemplation, it’s been five days; you can stop teasing us now.
What’s in the duffel bag?
I understand how people might want to call the cops in this situation, but what if it’s a bag full of a very illegal drug? No way they’d believe it wasn’t mine!
“Where is my marijuana, please?”, he asked balefully
You’d flash a drug dealer??? :eek:
As to the OP, I’d like be in the “Dang, I don’t remember putting that in there.” camp. I’d open it to see exactly what I had forgotten.
I would think someone in my family left the duffle bag in my car and forget to take it out . I keep my car locked at all time and if the car doesn’t look like it been broken , I would the bag was filled with camping equipment . If I was in then habit of leaving my car unlocked I would one of my neighbors threw the bag in my car by mistake . People are in such a big hurry today or texting and not paying attention so it possible to made a mistake like this .
You believe they would think that you owned a big bag of drugs, then chose to call them about it? It doesn’t make any sense.
Go look at the cases of people falsely convicted. They rarely make sense, there almost always was a huge red flag or massive inconsistency in the prosecution’s story. Didn’t mean a goddamn thing, the jury all voted yes and went home.
Especially since the bag can only have gotten there by someone committing a felony! I just can’t imagine that there’s something actually beneficial to me in the bag (drugs or money are not, because someone will come looking), and it’s probably either incriminating me in something or actually dangerous. While I don’t have 100% trust in the police, I have significantly more trust in the police than someone who committed a serious crime to put something in my car for no reason that’s immediately apparent.
This is basically a mystery box thread that turned into a crime thriller. I want to see what you guy’s would imagine.
“Your Honor, the defendant was so stoned when the police arrived he didn’t remember the drugs were his”.
And don’t forget,
Q: “At what point did you shoot the clerk?”
A: “I shot the clerk.”
Q: “Yes, when did you shoot him?”
A: “I shot the clerk.”
Unless I lived in the Falls Road, I can well imagine driving off incuriously and only checking it out after it had lodged in the garage awhile.
We are not an excitable people.