Even if the deceased was a “saver not a spender” what possible benefits were there in stashing garbage bags of small bills for a law abiding citizen?
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
…If it was some rich guy who had enough money he simply lost track of this 45k then it’s probably better staying with me anyway…[/quote]
Wow. “I didn’t work for it and I know it doesn’t belong to me and the other guy DID work for it and it DOES belong to him but because I am in possession of it I will be the judge as to who keeps it.”
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DOESN’T belong to him at all. The guy bought the house and all of its contents. Period.
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
It’s definately not stealing to keep it, and if the son couldn’t be bothered to thoroughly search the house before he sold it, I wouldn’t feel bad about keeping it. [/quote]
Holy crap, you haven’t been around for a while.[/quote]
Ha! No, don’t spend much time on the net anymore. Thanks for noticing though!
Would you guys that are self righteously judging those of us that would keep the money also give up the land if say, one day you were shootin at some food, and up from the ground came a bubblin crude? I mean its not YOUR oil…right?
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
Looking at it from another angle:
“It took at least three hours for the Ferrins to sort and count the new-found cash, all the while teaching a lesson of honesty to their two young sons, who wanted to keep “just one” of the bundles and kept trying to slip coins into their pockets.”
Lesson in honesty = priceless.
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Good post.
Frankly I am genuinely surprised at the relative high number of thread respondents who are in the “Keep the money” camp. Says a lot about the world we live in.
So?
Finders Keepers. It works all the time everywhere, not just in 2nd grade. If I lost my wallet on a taxi, there’s no fucking way I’d expect to get it back. By the time the next person found it, my credit cards in it would all be cancelled. I’ll accept the loss of some pocket change and condoms.
Would giving back the money to idiots who would bother to check the whole house for values be better for the world as a whole? I’d definitely not give back the money, but I’d probably donate a large portion of it to a worth charity rather than just squander the money.
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
[quote]Simon Adebisi wrote:
Lots of self righteous liars.[/quote]
Don’t call us liars to justify your opinions.
You see, if everyone was of the thinking that they’d return the money, then a large portion of those people would also offer up a reward if the roles were reversed and they were receiving the money.
But, this isn’t an ideal world. [/quote]
Believe what you want.
But, I’m certain that 99.9% of the people that say that they’d give it back are full of shit.
It’s really easy to make the decision to be a moral superhero when you are sitting on the sidelines.
When faced with this situation personally, I’d bet that every single person that said they’d return the money would convince themselves to do otherwise.
Not necessary.
I wouldn’t feel bad about it to begin with.
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
Tough to say without it happening to me.
That said, I’d like to think I would give it back. [/quote]
x2. I’d like to think I would give it back but I don’t think anyone can say for certain unless it actually happened to them. I really admire that family for giving it back, that is NOT an easy thing to do. I look up to people that have such strong moral codes, it’s what I try to be but may not always live up to.
On a related note, I seem to have a knack for finding people’s cell phones and I’ve always given every one of them back. 5-6 of them over the last few years.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Simon Adebisi wrote:
Not necessary.
I wouldn’t feel bad about it to begin with.
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No doubt.
You’ve got lots of company, lemming.[/quote]
Pot to the kettle: “You’re black.”
It was directed at the lemming comment.
Your moral high ground is amusing and pretty typical.
Have fun kidding yourself into thinking any of it matters.
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
…If it was some rich guy who had enough money he simply lost track of this 45k then it’s probably better staying with me anyway…[/quote]
Wow. “I didn’t work for it and I know it doesn’t belong to me and the other guy DID work for it and it DOES belong to him but because I am in possession of it I will be the judge as to who keeps it.”
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DOESN’T belong to him at all. The guy bought the house and all of its contents. Period.[/quote]
Did anybody see what I posted on the first page? The simple fact that he bought the house doesnt necessarily give him EVERYTHING in it. If the property is MISLAID, then the original owner can get it back.
[quote]cct wrote:
I’ll accept the loss of some pocket change and condoms.
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Like a whole 2 dollars and some old expired ones that probably weren’t going to get used anyway?
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
Did anybody see what I posted on the first page? The simple fact that he bought the house doesnt necessarily give him EVERYTHING in it. If the property is MISLAID, then the original owner can get it back.[/quote]
The original owner is dead–how does that affect the situation? I wouldn’t think his legal rights to it pass along to his next of kin, but I’m no barrister…
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]cct wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
Looking at it from another angle:
“It took at least three hours for the Ferrins to sort and count the new-found cash, all the while teaching a lesson of honesty to their two young sons, who wanted to keep “just one” of the bundles and kept trying to slip coins into their pockets.”
Lesson in honesty = priceless.
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Good post.
Frankly I am genuinely surprised at the relative high number of thread respondents who are in the “Keep the money” camp. Says a lot about the world we live in.
So?
Finders Keepers. It works all the time everywhere, not just in 2nd grade. If I lost my wallet on a taxi, there’s no fucking way I’d expect to get it back. By the time the next person found it, my credit cards in it would all be cancelled. I’ll accept the loss of some pocket change and condoms.
Would giving back the money to idiots who would bother to check the whole house for values be better for the world as a whole? I’d definitely not give back the money, but I’d probably donate a large portion of it to a worth charity rather than just squander the money.
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Don’t ever let me find your dog on my lawn. I’ll keep him.
Don’t ever let me find your wife/girlfriend in my bed. I’ll keep her.
Don’t ever let me find something that blew out of the back of your pickup truck on the highway as I follow you. I will keep it.
Don’t ever let me find your expensive leather jacket in my coat closet after you’ve left a party at my place. I will keep it.[/quote]
1 and 2 are living beings, so you have no control over their freedom.
for 3, i’d either realize immediately and stop the truck to get it back before anyone else could possibly see it or forget it about it long after i’m out of the area and accept it as lost. Can’t fucking imagine you’d be able to find it to return it to me in the 2nd case.
4 is different as you were the host, which means a different set of rules all together. Also I am aware of my belonging, unlike the case in the original story. Also really? You’d invite to a party at your place? You can keep the jacket!
As a general rule, i don’t steal and i return anything that i borrow. If I find something and know someone who actively tries to find and get it back, i will return it. If the so called owner is not aware of it at all or doesn’t care or that there’s no way i can find out who it is, then i keep what i found. The family in the original story does not even know that the money exists, so it’s not really their money. I’d say the money is nobody’s after the man died, so it’s free for all.