After all this stories about people returning money makes you wonder if it's just that they're scare or they are honest.
2007-09-28 09:20:28 · 25 answers · asked by Shadow 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Yes, definitely. I would feel guilty wondering if the money was someone's life savings, and it was stolen from him. But I would absolutely file the "finders" paperwork should no rightful owner be located.
2007-09-28 09:22:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Uh, if I found $250, I would tell an authorative figure...or someone that works for the lost and found or something. Now $250,000 is definitely a no-no to keep. I wouldn't even THINK about keeping it in the mind set that I'm in right now. I really really really don't like it when people pick a $10 bill off of the ground and say, "Cool, 10 bucks. Let's go get ice cream." If it's not yours and you took it off of the ground, it was stolen. Same with a phone, wallet, even a pencil.
2007-09-28 09:29:26 · answer #2 · answered by zbam91 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know there are many honest people in this world & that's why they return things they find. I would place an ad in the paper stating a large sum of money had been found. Owner can claim with a few questions asked. Then, I'd have a P.O. box number where the mail is to be delivered. Sure, I'd return the money & would hope that someone would return it to me if that was my money.
2007-09-28 09:28:36 · answer #3 · answered by Shortstuff13 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
$250,000?
As much as I wouldn't want to - I'd have to. Firstly, that's a huge chunk of change and someone, somewhere, is going to have a hard time because they lost their live savings or because they lost someone else's life savings.
Secondly, it's the right thing to do, and that's the way I was raised.
Oh and you don't "tell the cops". You hand it in, and get a receipt for the amount, so that you have proof you handed it in, and so that none of it 'goes missing' in the police station....if ya know what I mean....
2007-09-28 09:55:50 · answer #4 · answered by allusian_fields 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I wouldn't tell the cops. What for?
What I would do is give half of it away to people who really need it (not through some rip-off organization, either) for homes, food, transportation, education, or whatever.
Then I would keep the rest and make it grow through investments until I had enough to retire on AND to provide a good nest egg for my children when they grow up, for their college education, buying a home, etc.
2007-09-28 09:24:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Depends on whose trash can I find it in. If its a public trash can, most likely I'd turn it in. If its my trash can, well, possesion is 9/10ths of the law.
2007-09-28 09:27:17 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
you'd better believe it .. but then I speak from experience, having found a wallet with over $60,000 in it (at today's values) in 1968, handed it in and was taken to dinner by the person who lost it, then married his daughter .. my reward .. six kids, three grandchildren
2007-09-28 09:24:17 · answer #7 · answered by The old man 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I would give it to the police without even hesitating. Why? because it does not belong to me
2007-09-28 09:23:32 · answer #8 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats def too much. I would return it probably cuz id feel ridiculously guilty. Thats why God gave us consciences. :-)
2007-09-28 09:22:51 · answer #9 · answered by cannon_primed 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd probably keep a few thousand ($249, 000) and hand the rest in.
2007-09-28 09:29:53 · answer #10 · answered by KingOfTheWorld 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋