Poll: You find 40 thousand dollars ?
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it depends on the circumstances really, if you find it in a bag with guns and drugs then yeah i'd be a little worried about who comes looking for it. but otherwise you quietly keep it to your damn self.
i'm always amazed by the news stories about people finding a bag of money or it turning up in their backyard or attic or whatever, supposing whoever owns that money is long dead it is the absolute worst thing you can do to tell thousands of anonymous strangers that you have a big pile of cash with no way to prove your ownership.
I would deffinitley keep it, spend it over time, have a few nice meals, buy some games, probably more than a few gifts for friends but buying something big and expensive all at once is dumb, buy things that don't have a known value. but hell yeah i'd keep it.
i'm always amazed by the news stories about people finding a bag of money or it turning up in their backyard or attic or whatever, supposing whoever owns that money is long dead it is the absolute worst thing you can do to tell thousands of anonymous strangers that you have a big pile of cash with no way to prove your ownership.
I would deffinitley keep it, spend it over time, have a few nice meals, buy some games, probably more than a few gifts for friends but buying something big and expensive all at once is dumb, buy things that don't have a known value. but hell yeah i'd keep it.
Eh, I'm not really sure.
My first instinct is take it instantly.
But lets be honest: What reasons are there for that much money being in a backpack?
Something to do with a drug cartel or payment for an assassination.
I would turn a chunk of it in and keep a finders fee. That way I still get payed, but hopefully the cops can track down whoever left it and get them before they get me.
My first instinct is take it instantly.
But lets be honest: What reasons are there for that much money being in a backpack?
Something to do with a drug cartel or payment for an assassination.
I would turn a chunk of it in and keep a finders fee. That way I still get payed, but hopefully the cops can track down whoever left it and get them before they get me.
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OT: There's no way this isn't a sting. I'm not touching that money.
OT: There's no way this isn't a sting. I'm not touching that money.
Is 40k really a backpack of money? I'm fairly sure that fits in an envelope.
That kind of money laying around in a backpack should either be illegal or insured. Either way, they should be covered, so if I were to take it, I'd cover my behind by a) taking the backpack and denying I know what's inside it, b) waiting at least 6 months to spend any of it, c) laundering the money, just in case.
Whether to do so or not- hard decision. It's not a small amount of money. I'd hope for someone to turn up looking for the backpack and make my life that bit easier.
That kind of money laying around in a backpack should either be illegal or insured. Either way, they should be covered, so if I were to take it, I'd cover my behind by a) taking the backpack and denying I know what's inside it, b) waiting at least 6 months to spend any of it, c) laundering the money, just in case.
Whether to do so or not- hard decision. It's not a small amount of money. I'd hope for someone to turn up looking for the backpack and make my life that bit easier.
Unless it's like that (Robert Bloch?) story that was in One Step Beyond or Twilight Zone or one of those '60s shows, where this guy in Las Vegas finds a money clip with twenty grand in it, and agonizes over keeping it and counting it over and over, but decides to be a good honest citizen and turns it in. Then henchman take him from his room and bring him to the mob boss who runs the hotel. The boss wants to know where the other ten grand is, and the guy knows there was no other ten grand, only they hand him the phone and it's his wife. The boss has a thug at the guy's home, who's going to start breaking his wife's fingers if he doesn't cough up the rest of the money. So, in that case, no, it is brain dead stupid to return the money. No good deed goes unpunished.
On the other hand, if anyone finds out you found a lot of money and didn't turn it in, they will either turn you in for a reward, or demand part of it to keep quiet, or they are the cops and will arrest you, or likewise demand part of it to keep quiet. This is Earth. Prepare to get screwed.
On the other hand, if anyone finds out you found a lot of money and didn't turn it in, they will either turn you in for a reward, or demand part of it to keep quiet, or they are the cops and will arrest you, or likewise demand part of it to keep quiet. This is Earth. Prepare to get screwed.
I guess its in one dollar bills.DanDanikov said:
Hell no I'm not returning it, I'm deep in debt because of university costs. Even if I wasn't I'm sure I'd think of something to do with the money. I really doubt 90% of people who voted to return it are being truthful.
I currently cant afford to keep a roof over my head.
I'd take 1,000 and hide the rest in a secure location, if anyone approached me, I'd reveal that location, and explain why I took the 1k, I think even a mob lord would appreciate having his 39,000 secure, with just 1k missing.
I'd be able to feed me and my girlfriends for a while, that's what matters.
EDIT: Also, I would have the 39,000 converted into some obscure eastern European currency, before hiding it, for teh luls.
I'd take 1,000 and hide the rest in a secure location, if anyone approached me, I'd reveal that location, and explain why I took the 1k, I think even a mob lord would appreciate having his 39,000 secure, with just 1k missing.
I'd be able to feed me and my girlfriends for a while, that's what matters.
EDIT: Also, I would have the 39,000 converted into some obscure eastern European currency, before hiding it, for teh luls.
30 years ago, my mother moved 100,000$ in a backpack 
my grand mother lend it to her so she could buy us a house. If you find 40k laying around, yeah, it could be drug money... or it could be the money of an old person trying to do some good... think about it
my grand mother lend it to her so she could buy us a house. If you find 40k laying around, yeah, it could be drug money... or it could be the money of an old person trying to do some good... think about it 
Being recently unemployed, I'd settle my debts and pay the next 6 months of my rent. I could blow through 40k in drug money pretty fast/easy. Realistically? Who knows what I'd do........
I would probably keep it if I thought I'd get away with it. So, if I found it somewhere where I thought there would be security cameras I would return it, otherwise keep it.
I'd be tempted to take it, but no one carries that much cash around with them unless they're doing something seriously illegal, so the chances of it being drug money or some other such related crime, are very high. Do I want to turn in drug money to the police? No because then that might make the criminals angry, and who's to say the police would believe me? Hell they might even think I'm a suspect and that I want to confess or something, and I'm sure as hell not going to take it as that could get me killed. So seriously I'd probably just high tale it out of there and forget I ever saw it. Now if I knew I could take it without any repercussions what so ever? Yeah I'd take it....
I don't want to be the target of some junkey from Essex, thanks.
Give it to the police. I don't know where it came from, why it was there, or why it's got powdery ketchup on it.
Edit: Realistically speaking, and knowing me, I'd trip over the backpack, break an arm, someone would walk by, kick my body, take the money, then get shot by a drug lord going to pick it up only a few meters away.
Give it to the police. I don't know where it came from, why it was there, or why it's got powdery ketchup on it.
Edit: Realistically speaking, and knowing me, I'd trip over the backpack, break an arm, someone would walk by, kick my body, take the money, then get shot by a drug lord going to pick it up only a few meters away.