What Would You Have Done?

[marval]

With reference to the article below, would you have taken the money. I wouldn't because it would make me a thief as well.

http://news.sky.com/story/1086389/stolen-cash-dropped-in-street-taken-by-locals

[craft1948]

No I wouldn't but if usually law abiding people think it's okay I guess it's up to their individual consciences...............

[craft1948]

Belgians are weird anyway..............

[FredPuli43]

No, and if the money was not traceable to its owner or rightful custodian, I'd give it to charity (and let someone else nick it, if I put it in a pub charity box !)

[Answerprancer]

I wouldn't have done this because there was a direct victim.
If however I knew the money was stolen from a branch of McDonalds or the vaults of a CocaCola office, I would delight in helping myself to handfuls of the money.
I'd probably then donate a chunk of it to a third world charity.

[B00]

picked it up quicker than a quick thing, i'd even be tempted to rob Triggs of his from down his kecks.

[mccfluff]

boo, think about that, those kecks.... you'd put your hand down there?

[B00]

Meh, ive done worse, for a whole lot less McFluffy!

(apologies marvel)

[craft1948]

Come on girls, we all know there is no room in Triggs kecks for the money..

[andy-hughes]

I can see the temptation, and maybe an impulsive response, but no, I wouldn't have taken it either.

i remember interviewing Kiss back in the 1980's, and my tape recorder broke, so Gene Simmons loaned me his portable Sony Walkman cassette player which recorded - a new invention then and worth several hundred pounds. When we finished, Gene forgot to pick up his recorder, and when i got home, i posted it to him via his UK record label.

I thought afterwards - it's pretty unlikely that it will find its way back to him - more likely snaffled by whom ever opened the package in London, and also, he probably woudn't miss it anyway, he is a multi-millionaire and could by dozens of the latest gadget any day of the week but ...

it was not mine to keep, i did the right thing by trying to return it, and i would never have felt comfortable using it, knowing I had come by it dishonestly.

Morality - it's a bi**h isn't it!!!!

[mccfluff]

i forgot, he keeps his lunch down there

[ll_billym]

I definitely would have picked some up at the time, who knows what's going on. If I found out whose it was later and felt guilty then I would hand it in to the police.

[magsmay]

I would have picked up as much money as I could -no one is a victim -the insurance pays up

[jackthehat]

If I understand correctly, the money was in a safe in a private house, and then it was stolen.....
So the villagers have stolen the money from one of their neighbours?

I'd return any I had found just because it is the right thing to do, and I wouldn't be able to look the owner in the eye ever again if I didn't.

It would be a very generous Insurance Company which would settle a claim for 1 million Euros in cash!!

[Bbbananas]

I agree with trigger - get what I can and run.....and keep Schtum.

[Bbbananas]

Unless the serial numbers were traceable....

[friedgreentomato]

I know that town it is near where my husbands family is from.

Crafty not all of them just the french ones!!

[ludwig]

I'd give it back. Twenty years ago I would have kept it.

[keyplus90]

I would always try to return if I know who it belongs, does not matter how much is there and does not matter how much effort I will have to put in it.

I found a camera card at Dubai airport almost year and half ago. It is full with someone's holiday snaps.It might not be of the same monitary value but may worth more for someone. As I believe the criteria of value of everything is not money. I am still trying to find the people in the photos and so far have done whatever I could.