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Today’s question:
If you found $1-million in a bag, and knew it belonged to criminals, would you turn it in to the police, or would you keep it?
Talk about it….
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I would donate it to Wounded Warrior Project
I would donate it to the Recall Newsom campaign.
Me too! Investing for a better future.
I would donate it to the human fund,
It would be better to donate it to the state. That would cover about 1% of the taxpayer’s costs for the fiasco election!
Just because it belongs to criminals doesn’t necessarily mean that particular million was ill gotten. But if I found a million bucks in cold hard cash, and nobody knew I found it, you can bet your sweet a$$ I would keep it. If the money was ill gotten, what will the police do with it? After it’s used as evidence it will most likely go to the state, and I’d rather it went into my pocket.
I’m with you Dawg! Happened to a friend of mine years ago. She found a small suitcase on the side of the road, pulled over and took a peek inside. There was a few thousand dollars in it. She took it to the police department and they said, if no one claims it, it would be hers. They told her to come back in a few weeks. She did, and guess what???? The bag was never claimed, and they said it was misplaced! Yeah, right!
If it were stolen money, I would try to get it back to the victims. Otherwise, I would probably keep it, as long as there wasn’t any way for its “owners” to trace it to me.
It’s not the “owners” you have to worry about it’s the police. If they trace it to you it is still stolen money.
What million dollars? I didnt find any money…….. hehe.
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Easy… keep it.
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Probably $$ defrauded from taxpayers due to CA government incompetence. Or maybe the criminals are in the govt…
I’ve seen No Country for Old Men, I’m no dummy. I would turn most of it in. Almost more than half.
Great movie Mamba!
I recommend watching “Lucky Grandma”.
A movie about Grandma finding a bag of cash.
I guarantee you’ll enjoy it or your money back.
(You have to buy your own popcorn).
That movie came to me as well.
Josh Brolin blew it.
1. Run the oposite direction 100 miles and never go back there.
2. Inspect the money to be sure it was not counterfit.
3. Bury it in a hole for a year.
4. Burn the carry case in another hole another 100 miles away.
5. ?
Llewelyn Moss made the mistake of returning to the scene. He also failed to check the bag for a GPS.
Ditch the bag, check all the bundles of cash for GPS, die packs, etc., and put the cash in your own bag.
Then shut-up.
Problem solved.
As far as the morality of keeping the money: Lol.
Is this some sort of confession??? Or are you asking for advise?
If the police find $1 million in a bag that is suspected to be the proceeds of criminal activity they keep it. They don’t even need proof it’s from criminal activity.
When you live in Alaska. You see lots of cargo drifting in waters near coast, I’ve found multiple things. I once found 3 bricks of Coke, got a 2700 reward from troopers for it. So its worth to bring it in
So you sold cocaine to troopers….lol
Take it for a quick spin in stock market make $2M then then turn in the $1M.
Either way somebody is going to come looking for it & if you turn it in to the cops the criminals may still kill you for doing that.
IMHO – No choice but to go with Stevie Guitar Miller’s advice…. “Take the money & run”.
The question is what is moral and what is thelaw. If you keep stolen money it just means it was stolen twice. So if you are a law abiding citizen you have no choice, but to turn it into the police, no matter how tempting it would be to keep it. If you morally or for religious are against stealing you also would have to turn it in. Hopefully there iwould be a nice finders fee, like 10%.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand they say there’s no such thing as a stupid question.
I would describe it vaguely on Nextdoor and then ask people to describe it to me if they want it back.
That happened to me: I turned it in! Not a million bucks, I would be afraid the crooks or the cops were watching me. I never get away with anything.
I’d turn it in.
No hesitation.
No doubt.
You are very honest and a moral upright person. You can keep your head high. Does not matter if you think money will be wasted, a lot of cute answers here, but as I said before it only matters what the law is and your morality.
Depends. Probably keep it though. Most Americans are about to get 1400 from the biggest criminals of all. Mine is going straight to bitcoin
If someone found $1-million and knew it belonged to criminals then maybe that person should be investigated. If that person doesn’t turn it in to cops knowing what criminals or criminal it belongs to then he or she must also be a criminal. As much as police are still important to keeping some sense of law and order, I know that they will not be using that amount of money towards good use so it boils down to deciding what is the least worse of the two evils.
I would have several thoughts to consider:
1 – turn it into the proper authorities
2 – invest it (although — investigations would be triggered, I’m sure) and take a small profit and give the mil to police
I don’t think I would keep it. I would most likely consider #2 and ultimately end up doing #1
I would go straight from there to the nearest Harley Dealership……Duh?
… there used to be a law in Calif that if you found something and nobody came forward within one year – the finder could keep it. Wonder if that’s still valid…. and who’s to say that it was really criminal $$ .. guess it depends on the circumstances.
Randy-
Years ago one of my coworkers found a
diamond ring in Walnut Creek. He turned
it in to the police department. After a certain
length of time when no one had claimed it
the ring was given to him. (I can’t recall how
long the wait was).
Don’t know if it is still the law. When I was at Macy’s in Palo Alto, we at times get returns and after the customer left occasionally with would find a $20.00 or $50.00 bill, it was usually a wallet that was given as a gift, you are not suppose to give an empty wallet, but enclose a small amount for good luck. Anyway we turned the money into to lost and found, if no one claimed it within 30 day the founder got the money. One of my co workers got $50.00 she found in a wallet. These are small amounts so not much of a dilemma. I once found a $100.00 bill in a used book I had purchased (back when $100.00 was worth more). I did not return it to the bookstore, figured they would not be able to trace it to the owner.
If there is $$$$$ inside the brief case…or gym bag, I would take it and run like the road runner hoping nobody saw me. BEEP! BEEP!
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