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 Post subject: What would you have done?Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 1:19 pm 
On Sunday I was out with my brother and his girlfriend and they wanted to stop by the clothing/everything you might ever think you'd need to buy store that I work at and I was very against it seeing as I hate it there. But I gave in and in we went. Brit(my brother's gf) was walking behind my bro and I so once we got into the store we waited for her right inside and as she walked in I noticed money, a single bill, laying on the floor and I went to pick it up. It was a...HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL!  I kept it. I'm bad!!! My thinking in keeping it was that if I gave it to one of the managers they would've kept it for themselves or that the person would never retrieve it. We did wait for about 45 minutes or so to see if an announcement was made concerning lost money. At the time I didn't feel guilty but now that I've had time to think about it I'm beginning to. What would ya'll have done?(and was I a bad girl?  ) _________________ Yeah... |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 1:38 pm
finders keepers _________________ www.allisongill.net www.myspace.com/silverbugs www.last.fm/users/allisoncostello www.imahuman.tumblr.com www.isitreallysostrange.wordpress.com [i spend too much time on the internet, apparently.] 
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Post subject: Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 1:44 pm
this reminds me of a true story from a couple years ago (early 90s maybe?) in ohio. i guess this armored truck wasn't closed properly and 1.5 million or so fell out on the highway and people just stopped and took the money. this one guy took like $57,000 himself and realized he should return it. he ended up getting a reward for returning it to the police but about 85% (or some other ridiculously large amount) of the money remained missing. i think you can find it if you google it. it happened in ohio im pretty sure. we read the story in my morality class. you know, "the moral thing is to give it back" _________________ Say something witty, dammit! http://kimschaefer.bandcamp.com/ http://youtube.com/kimschaefermusic |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 2:35 pm
I would keep it.  _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 2:39 pm
This happened to me one time. Only it was a $50. I turned it in. I have no clue what happened with it afterwards, but I know that I didn't have a guilty conscience. I just kind of wish I had kept it because I had ended up buying about $80 worth of music. _________________ Thistledown |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 2:53 pm
yeah well if someone isn't careful with their 100 bills then they deserve to lose it. but seriously, no matter what that person is not getting their money back, someone along the chain of returning it is going to keep it. in theory you're doing someone a favor, but...not the person you intend |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 4:08 am
i would've kept it too. but i wonder if the person who lost it is angry for not being more careful or maybe they're so rich they don't even care. i know i'd never let myself live that down. i lost one dollar out of my wallet the other day somehow, and i was devastated. im a poor student and that was my last dollar. my mom sent me some more though.
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 4:47 am
The store has a duty to keep it. Someone left their pen behind a couple of weeks ago.We kept it behind the counter. It wasn't a terribly expensive pen, but nontheless, it was some-one elses. They came back and retrieved it once they realised it was gone. Today... I was chatting to my Big Issue vendor when we suddenly noticed a bag of carrots on the ground, about one/two metres away from us. His pitch is just outside a supermarket, so it was obviously a customer from the shop. The thing is, we had no idea who the carrots belonged to. I'm sure if we had one of us would've picked them up and chased the owner. As it was, there was nothing we could do. We left them there and picked up a conversation about Douglass Adams - we joked that the carrots had just fallen out of the sky, much like the Whale in whichever book it happens to be. After about ten minutes someone from the shop came and picked them up. Everything has a value attached to it. This is all relative. The owner of the carrots could have felt that the price of the carrots was alot, or quite cheap. They still have a value. they may or may not have come back for them and claimed them. Now, a one-hundred dollar bill. That's alooot of money to me. To a rich businessmen, probably not so. It's still got a value to it. The person may or may not have come back for it. There is no way of telling. You should've handed it in. To whom, i don't know. But it was wrong to take it. _________________ She is handsome, she is pretty, she is the girl from Belfast City, she is courtin' one two three, please won't you tell me who is she? TheClassicRomance wrote: Facebook is a dirty skank blog! |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 5:11 am
hmm, i can understand the apprehension regarding not wanting to turn it in to untrustworthy hands..but maybe you let the police know? i've lost a wallet and just always wish that whoever had found it had turned it in to the movie theater i lost it at...so i try to do that whenever i find returnable things _________________ |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 5:55 am
"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." Basically, keep the money. You've certainly got a few excuses for it, and if you don't, make some up. _________________ If the end of the world has proper noodles I'll probably be okay with it. |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 6:01 am
i'd give it away. not necessarily return it to whereever i found it at, but as far as i am able, i'd give it to somebody who could actually use it. money's just money, it's never really ours anyway. _________________ Saellys wrote: Thank God for Arielle  all your kind, they're coming clean they shut their eyes their mess, their scene |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 6:04 am
amidthestars wrote: money's just money, it's never really ours anyway. Have you taken up American Indian philosophy? They have some lovely concepts. _________________ EisleyForever wrote: you're A-list in my heart! MAKECOLDPLAYHISTORY |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 6:05 am
Leave your name and number for anybody who asks for the money at the store, but don't give it to anybody there. That way if nobody claims it, you get to keep it. _________________ Scriptozoology, a screenwriting blog .. Facebook |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 6:05 am
amidthestars wrote: i'd give it away. not necessarily return it to whereever i found it at, but as far as i am able, i'd give it to somebody who could actually use it.
money's just money, it's never really ours anyway. i like that answer. id probably stick around and see if that person came back and if not id give it to someone who needs it. _________________ www.flickr.com/photos/somecallmeallie www.envelopesandeggnog.blogspot.com www.somecallmeallie.deviantart.com |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 6:11 am
"A fool and his money are soon parted." All money I find, I keep. If the other person were more careful with their cash to begin with, it wouldn't have gotten lost in the first place. _________________ Coprophiliacs make sh*tty lovers. Flickr Transvaal IV - Myspace : Virb Deep Thoughts About Shallow Subjects |
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