Poll: You find 40 thousand dollars ?

[CommanderL]

Ok the deal is you find 40 thousand dollars in a backpack I dont know how or where you find it you just find it would you return or keep the money ?

 

[Nouw]

40,000 is a lot of money to find in cash so needless to say it's probably safer in the hands of the police.

 

[Keoul]

I'd return that shit.
Sure 40k is a lot of money but with questionable origins you might lose a lot more to the legal system when the cops find out or the "owner". Dunno man, could be drug money and you don't really want a druglord coming after you.

 

[nykirnsu]

I'd keep it and spend it all on Games Workshop products, it just seems like the right thing to do in this situation.

 

[Miss G.]

I'd turn it in to the police... and hope that it isn't claimed so that maybe I could keep it, legally. That'd pay my rent for a few years, at least.

 

[Jamash]

Would I fuck over the type of people who carry $40,000 in cash? No, I don't think I would.

It's not like money occurs naturally, so obviously that money belongs to someone, someone who has a good reason, but also an illicit reason, for having such are large and exact amount of cash in a bag rather than in the bank.

If there was no way of quickly tracing the owners, i.e. something with their phone number in the bag so I can immediately tell them I'd found their money and arrange to return it (an address on it's own wouldn't be good enough because there's no way I'd risk running into the owners with their money unless I'd informed them I was returning it beforehand), then I'd just leave the bag where I found it and let it be someone else's problem - handing in potential drug money to the police probably isn't wise either, as it could easily be construed as a form snitching.

$40,000 isn't really a lot of money anyway, certainly not enough to risk my permanent well-being by taking it, although if I could definitely return it without any trouble or misunderstanding, then even a 0.5% finders fee would be a better result when you weight up the risk vs. reward.

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

That amount of cash has to be drug money. Drop it off at the police station and await the eventual knock on the door, confession I gave the money to the police, and death.

I'd return that shit.
Sure 40k is a lot of money but with questionable origins you might lose a lot more to the legal system when the cops find out or the "owner". Dunno man, could be drug money and you don't really want a druglord coming after you.

I highly doubt the owners are going to track you down should you take it. Career criminals have more important things to do like not leaving bags of cash in places where "muggles" will find it.

My reasoning is "Whoever just left this money here, deserves to have it taken from them"

As for cops finding out, I'm sure anyone would have taken that cash, it's not hard for them to understand.
Most that will happen is they will confiscate it and a slap on the wrist.
It's an unmarked bag with no obvious owner and a lot of money in it, who can blame you?

As for me, the money would go towards my newly founded crack empire. Specifically the division for hunting down people who steal from my incredibad dead drops.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I'd turn it over to the police; 40k isn't all that much money all told and it simply isn't worth the risk. Few endeavors require 40k in cash and those that do are generally not the sorts of things I want to be mixed up in.

 

[Strazdas]

a situation where knowing i took it possible - i do the thing required by law and turn them to police, who them spends them on thier own and never return the money, but i let them deal with the mob instead.

A sitaution where noone sees me taking it and it cant be tracked back via money, i would take it, keep it hidden couple months to see if anyone is trying to track them down, then SLOWLY start spending them.

 

[MHR]

Provided I can be relatively sure that nobody will come looking for it, that shit is mine.

It's drug money. There isn't some granny waiting for it that will have to subside on catfood if she doesn't get it, and There's no way if I turn that in that I'm going to get it back from the police.

I'm usually a very moral person. I don't break any laws and I'm a vegetarian for the animals, not my health. Now if I knew it came from someone specific and they had just misplaced it (for some reason) I'd return it if I knew they weren't an asshole. Now that I think of it that's pretty scummy, but if I'm going to return it and they won't even be grateful or if they're just going to use the money to do douche things like buy cigars just to blow smoke in baby faces or buy ad space to put up hate-speech or something, that cash has a better home with me, sorry to say.

Now if an average joe drops his winning lottery ticket and I happen to be behind him and am in a perfect position to be able to pick it up and walk the other way, I would definitely just give it back to the guy. Afterwards though I would strongly attempt to solicit some free drinks and his cellphone number so that I can call him up and have him tell my friends and girlfriends how I did that really cool thing that proves how I'm a good person

 

[MHR]

That amount of cash has to be drug money. Drop it off at the police station and await the eventual knock on the door, confession I gave the money to the police, and death.

I highly doubt the owners are going to track you down should you take it. Career criminals have more important things to do like not leaving bags of cash in places where "muggles" will find it.

It's my understanding that most drug-based criminals are about getting paid at any cost. If they can get paid and reinforce their concept of respect by finding and beating your face in, they'll probably do it.

That's of course not to mention that the money is likely in payment from one set of criminals to another. Things tend to agitate the whole lot of them when disagreements of payment arise, and if the simplest solution is to find you and beat your face in, they'll probably do it.

 

[Esotera]

If no-one saw me take it & there was no CCTV, I'd take it. Although I'd probably find it hard to spend as I live in the UK, and you can't exactly change something like that all at once. It would need laundering over time by different people...and I'd always have a fear that my life would turn into No Country for Old Men.

 

[Zhukov]

I would do the right thing and... phht, nah, I'd totally keep it.

I wouldn't tell anyone about it and I'd stash it for a few months before spending any of it because I'm not quite a complete idiot.

 

[ShipofFools]

Someone who has that kind of cash with him can't be clean. Probably drug money or something.

So fuck him, it's mine now! I just have to make sure they don't know where I live...

 

[Valagetti]

To be honest if the money was clean and no murders or cops were hunting it down, it'll be pretty hard to say no to that. I'd probably just give it to the police, cause it'll cause too much anxiety.

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

That amount of cash has to be drug money. Drop it off at the police station and await the eventual knock on the door, confession I gave the money to the police, and death.

I highly doubt the owners are going to track you down should you take it. Career criminals have more important things to do like not leaving bags of cash in places where "muggles" will find it.

It's my understanding that most drug-based criminals are about getting paid at any cost. If they can get paid and reinforce their concept of respect by finding and beating your face in, they'll probably do it.

That's of course not to mention that the money is likely in payment from one set of criminals to another. Things tend to agitate the whole lot of them when disagreements of payment arise, and if the simplest solution is to find you and beat your face in, they'll probably do it.

Thing is, a drug based criminal wouldn't leave 40,000 in cash somewhere a member of the public will find it. "Dealing" is just the passing on a product, from source to distributor to customer. They usually have set up and established trades. No point fucking anybody over to get money, thats a one time deal, they want sustainable income.

So say if I was growing marijuana, and I sold my crop of 10oz to you my distrubutor, you "shot" (lend out and recieve pay later) that 10oz for a higher price to several street dealers, couple of oz each. They then sell small weight to their customers.

Everyone is making money, no one is getting fucked over, we are all using established contacts, no one is leaving money outside, no one is finding money, no one is getting their skull caved in for accidentally finding money.

The only time someone gets their head kicked in is when a customer tries to steal from a street dealer, or a street dealer doesn't pay his contact's tic.

Obviously the higher up you go and depending what country, the more serious it is. But the general public doesn't hear about that stuff. Why? Because if you did, then it wouldn't be happening.

The moral of the story is, if you find 40,000 in cash, take it home. Nobody will come to your house in the middle of the night with a suppressed handgun and pump two rounds into you while you sleep. A: The dramatized image of the drug trade Breaking Bad and many other movies and tv shows have painted is not what actually happens. While it's fun to watch, it's not factual. B: No one can trace an unmarked bag sitting under your bed.

My source? I live in a rough area.