Poll: You find 40 thousand dollars ?
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Yes.
It's 40K, of course im gonna keep it. Just a few things. First, pick it up and check if you can find any form of ID. Then, check around for any hidden camera's, you know from one of those secret reality shots where they want to see if people would return the cash.
If i cant find an ID, and there are no hidden camera's around (ie, i don't get caught) I walk home 40K richer.
And i'll probably spend it about right away. Get my drivers licence, few games. Keep a 5 grand separate for when i need a new gaming rig in the future. And some more fun stuff.
It's 40K, of course im gonna keep it. Just a few things. First, pick it up and check if you can find any form of ID. Then, check around for any hidden camera's, you know from one of those secret reality shots where they want to see if people would return the cash.
If i cant find an ID, and there are no hidden camera's around (ie, i don't get caught) I walk home 40K richer.
And i'll probably spend it about right away. Get my drivers licence, few games. Keep a 5 grand separate for when i need a new gaming rig in the future. And some more fun stuff.
Step 1: Take a quick look around for anyone suspicious
Step 2: Nonchalantly shoulder the backpack full of cash and take it home. Make sure you're not followed.
Step 3: remove the money from the backpack. Deposit and spend at your leisure.
Step 4: Destroy the backpack and any evidence linking you to wherever you found the backpack
Step 2: Nonchalantly shoulder the backpack full of cash and take it home. Make sure you're not followed.
Step 3: remove the money from the backpack. Deposit and spend at your leisure.
Step 4: Destroy the backpack and any evidence linking you to wherever you found the backpack
So, I would keep the money, but not out of greed. I would give 30,000 to charity, and keep the remaining 10,000 as a back up fund.
I'd keep it, I have a lot of debts that need paying, and I'm like 8 years late on my education due to financial bullshit, and minimum wage ain't gonna pay for that without a little bit o help.
Depends on my mood, and the location i discover it in. If i were to stumble upon it in my current neighborhood, I'm withdrawing a finders fee (up to 80%) and kicking the rest into the street. If i were to discover it on my way to work. Its mine. During the day at work if i hear talking about it or someone talking about having misplaced something, i'd nonchalantly ask how much they 'misplaced' and ask them whereabouts they last saw it (most of my co-workers know i walk to work, so there'd be no suspicion)
Honestly my moral urges tell me to turn it in to the proper authorities, but lately you can't trust any of these jerk-offs anymore.
Honestly my moral urges tell me to turn it in to the proper authorities, but lately you can't trust any of these jerk-offs anymore.
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.