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 Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 6:18 pm Post subject: What would you do if you found it? |
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STUART, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man rescued a framed space shuttle photo from a trash bin — and found a wad of treasure in the process.
Stuart Police say Warren Bendix was going to put the photo in a different frame and discovered $3,100 in cash stuffed behind the picture. He had found the picture while going through the trash near his apartment.
Bendix reported his discovery to police on Saturday. Police say Bendix can claim the money if the owner doesn't turn up. |
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Exactly what he did. Unlikely that the money will be claimed after so much time, and when you get it, you get it with a clean conscience.
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Of course, I'd turn it in. (And then keep my fingers crossed no one claimed it.)
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agree
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Wow, thats a lot of dough. I'd turn it in, but I'd be one miserable SOB during that waiting period.
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No lie... I'd keep it and not tell anyone... it'd be my secret stash.
What? 
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| ellipses wrote: | No lie... I'd keep it and not tell anyone... it'd be my secret stash.
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Me too... (shhhhh...) 
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Bastards!
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They're only bastards if they don't give me half. 
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| Brant wrote: | | They're only bastards if they don't give me half. |
I only posted this because in certain situations,it is yours and there should be no guilt trips involved.
Then there are cases where it is sheer stupidity to think it is yours.
For example:
Near Punta Gorda, Florida, a preacher found a suitcase with $450, 000 in it along side of the road.
He turned it in and tried to claim it as his since no one claimed the money.
The government took the money as "drug money".
What the preacher failed to mention was that a police car was chasing a drug dealer on that road and the dealer tossed the suitcase. The preacher was traveling in the opposite direction and saw him toss it. The preacher picked it up and turned it in as "found" money.( sure, no doubt, that the cop made him)
The cop saw it too and got the preachers car make and tag number and called it in,by the time the cop got the dealer and returned, preacher was gone.
The preacher tried to sue for it, but when the info about the chase etc. came out; the preacher offered to settle for a portion of the money and got nothing.
Was that fair?
Case 2;
My friend Regis was on a side street on trash day when he spotted a bunch of open boxes of trash being discarded on the curb from an old house that had a "sold' sign on the lawn.
Being a "handy man' he knew that there was a good chance that he would find things he could use in there. He picked up a paint can that felt as if it was full and took it.
When he got home in his garage and opened it, it was packed tight with really old silver dollars.
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Clearly, the preacher didn't deserve a cent of that money. In the second case, I would contact the real estate company to get the identity of the people who had just sold the house.
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Regarding the second scenario, I agree with Brant.
On the first scenario, money involved in the commission of a crime is evidence in the case against the accused. Therefore, it is clearly not open to the rule of finders-keepers like legal money would be.
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| Brant wrote: | | Clearly, the preacher didn't deserve a cent of that money. In the second case, I would contact the real estate company to get the identity of the people who had just sold the house. |
If you sold a 50million dollar painting you got at a garage sell for 1 dollar,would you give the seller the money? |
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| Cylinsier wrote: | Regarding the second scenario, I agree with Brant.
On the first scenario, money involved in the commission of a crime is evidence in the case against the accused. Therefore, it is clearly not open to the rule of finders-keepers like legal money would be. |
and the second? |
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| busdriver wrote: | | If you sold a 50million dollar painting you got at a garage sell for 1 dollar,would you give the seller the money? |
You bought the painting for 1 dollar. It ceased being the other person's painting and became yours. You sold the painting for 50 million. That is your money as the owner making the sale. While it might be a nice gesture to share some of that with the first owner, I don't think anyone should feel obligated.
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