How honest are you? Or what is your price?

[Night Stalker]

Hey Night Stalker,

I got almost the same picture in an email from a nice gentleman in Ghana! He said much of it would be mine, if I only sent him $10000 to help getting it out of the country. I guess you got it all!

Mike

Yeah Gollum...it came U.P.S. this afternoon, I'm not sure what I'll do with it yet? Sure was heavy, it took three of us to get those chests inside! Think I'll give most of it away...you know, the homeless and all

P.S. Your avatar sends chills down my spine.....EEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

 

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[diggemall]

Me ? I'd return it, no doubt. Got a conscience, and gotta live with it.

Diggem'

 

[RON (PA)]

I would pick option A. I'm usually an honest person, but that much money definitely is my price. My wife would take the Monty option and return it all.

I would also take the Gypsy option and follow the truck.

 

[jopher]

I always have returned things that I could attatch a name or face to.Now take away the truck and the info on the bag and you may have a different story.Just say you find an unmarked bag-o-cash stuffed under a rock.Do you turn it in to authorities?.....put an ad in the local paper...?,,,or maybe just stick it in your coat and whistle a happy tune? HMMMM....I really dont know??

 

[PBK]

Yogi Berra was once asked what he would do if he found a million dollars. His reply:

"I'd find the fellow who lost it, and if he was poor, I'd return it."

 

[Night Stalker]

Sadly, what passes for honesty, integrity, and virtue is really often due to nothing more than lack of opportunity.

That's exactly right PBK! I couldn't have put it better myself, people speak of honesty, integrity, virtue, high moral values, etc, etc, but let them find several hundred thousand bucks along the roadside, late at night, with nobody else around....... . Openly, most everyone will say "oh, I'd turn it in" "I couldn't live with myself" , but deep inside, we all have it within ourselves to take that cash home and make a better future for our loved ones...and that's exactly what would happen. IMO

Plus, if people say they would turn it all in -- why don't they take all the clad they find in school yards and wood chips and give the coins back to the school, buy some new books or pencils or something? Same thing? Right? Some poor kid lost their lunch money, we pick it up and take it home. Finding and keeping is finding and keeping....just on different levels.

Buy Hey....if YOU would give it back, Congrats to you - you're definitely a step above the norm.

 

[warsawdaddy]

PBK - This is just my opinion,but having been around this ol' world for 72 yrs and having traveled and lived in a good portion of it,I have a somewhat different evaluation of people and therefor,to agree with your reply above,I would have to change the words 'really often' to 'sometimes'.I think there is no way to calculate how many 'opportunities' have been presented and how many gave into greed vice how many did not.Again,IMO .And I'm talking strictly about items that are identified to a person or businesss.

 

[PBK]

I wouldn't disagree with that. Perhaps I should have chosen my words more carefully. I was using the phrase "really often" not in the sense of "very often" or "extremely often," but rather "actually often" or "in fact often." Try it this way:

Sadly, what passes for honesty, integrity, and virtue is actually often due to nothing more than lack of opportunity.

That said, I still believe that it is easier to talk about being above temptation when you haven't been anywhere near it. If a man lives alone, he should find it fairly easy not to quarrel at home.

 

[Gold Digger]

OK.. Here's a different twist to the same question asked in the topic.... Why is it so wrong to keep that bag of money that fell off the truck and so right to keep hidden treasure taken in an old western bank or train robbery? We've all heard stories of gold being found in bags that had identifying marks as to who owned them (bank, railroad, military etc.) that was lost or stolen back in the 1800's or even as early as the 1920's and most of the companies are still around today... Wells Fargo, the Military, many of the old banks etc...


By the way, I think I'd have to turn it in.... I'm honest to a fault... All that money isn't worth not being able to sleep....

 

[ashleen]

Well...............I'd LIKE to think I'd be upright and honest.
However........seems like I have a little angel on my right shoulder and a little devil on my left shoulder; and they battle daily! Some days the angel wins....some days the devil.........but whenever the evil me wins..I'm plagued with the guilts

 

[civilman1]

B,

A, B, C, or D.

I would keep my mouth shut and keep it.

It would all go to the poor....ME.

have a good un.............

 

[gollum]

Hey Night Stalker,

I got almost the same picture in an email from a nice gentleman in Ghana! He said much of it would be mine, if I only sent him $10000 to help getting it out of the country. I guess you got it all!

Mike

Yeah Gollum...it came U.P.S. this afternoon, I'm not sure what I'll do with it yet? Sure was heavy, it took three of us to get those chests inside! Think I'll give most of it away...you know, the homeless and all

P.S. Your avatar sends chills down my spine.....EEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Hey Night Stalker,

I had to go to the DMV today, and that's how I felt afterward!

OH, and by the way..........I would keep the money (every amount).

Best,

Mike

 

[TreasureTales]

This is a no-brainer for me. I'd stop and grab the money bag, then I'd catch up to the truck and flag them down. Then I would wag my finger in their faces and call them every name in the book for allowing MY MONEY BAG to fall out of the truck. Those armored car dudes are always so careless with my money.
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This is a difficult question to answer. I like to think I'd do the right thing and return it...no matter the amount. But if I were in desperate need of the money, well I just don't know what I'd do. I do know one thing, taking someone's money and giving it to the poor is not my right and IMO doesn't make it any less stealing. I don't believe in socialism. I am by no means a wealthy person (not even close), but there is truly little that I want and little that I need. I'm already comfortable with what I have. And when I look at myself in the mirror every morning I like knowing I've always tried to do the right thing (although I don't always succeed).

Nope, believe it or not you skeptics, but I would make every effort to return the ENTIRE amount of money and I'd feel good for doing it because it is not the same as finding coins in the playground. The coins in the playground don't have BRINKS printed on them.

I remember a few years ago when an armored vehicle lost bags of coins on a street in Florida (I think it was Florida). The news crews videotaped dozens of people grabbing the money and running away with it. It was appalling and disgusting. They knew the money belonged to the armored car company, but they didn't give a dang about that. All that those people cared about was "getting something for nothing."
And "sticking it to the man" (apparently the insurance man, which is in reality all the people who pay the premiums...which equates to YOU and ME) in some perverted sense of the Robin Hood mentality. Robin Hood was a crook and to emulate him is to be a crook, too.

Scoff if you must, but I'd return the money. If I found an unmarked stash under a rock in the National Forest, I'd keep it and pray the dopers didn't track me down and kill me to get their ill-gotten gains back.

 

[whitt459]

this did happen to me when i was a kid,an elder man got out of his car and a money bag fell to the parkin lot,when he returned to his car, he did not see it and started to drive away, i ran and stoped him at the road before he pulled into traffic,i handed him the bag and he looked at me real mean then opened the bag and counted the money 2 times, don't remember the amount but was a large sum,he offered to bug me a coke ($.06) at the time, i said no thank you and walked off. so i have to say if your deal happened to me i would not tell a soul.

 

[Huntin' 59er]

I'll have to get on Monty's bandwagon and give it back. But I would take a reward if it was offered. I also like what Treasure Tales had to say in his post. He makes some good points.

Huntin' 59er

 

[skydiv]

those of you who would keep the money would not get a job with brinks, I know because I am an armored car driver..

 

[erik12152003]

I think that I to would follow the truck and get more, stop and bury most of it and keep a map so some on will find it in the future and dig it up. I would call the cops from my cell and keep the last 2 bags as proof, well one for me and one for the cops. They will get it back from ins. and some one will find a lost treasure (hopefully my kids) Now if it was a wallet or a single persons money I would return it. A big company it would never hurt them. Heres one what if it was Bill Gates, Pres. Bush that lost it what would you do? There is a single persons money I would keep!

 

[Nana40]

Back it goes! No doubt about it. No second thoughts.

Nana

OH...and I never ask my hubby if my pants make my butt look too big.

 

[Johnny Cache Hunter]

[size=10pt]For A see below, for B I'd wait until they publicly offered a reward, and as far as for C and D, well, they don't make pot odds, I'd give those bags back straight up.[/size]

It would be no trouble at all for me to kindly hold on to it for them. Should I ever feel guilty about it and maybe even start loosing sleep over it, well..., at least I'd have the money to go get therapy.

 

[DEMON]

2 yrs ago living in the counrty i would return it after being taken at ever turn in the city i'd keep it and sue the goverment for every dumb act and then move back to were your keys in car and door unlocked to house