Honest man... returns 75 pounds of cash...

[Captain90s]

This would be my face upon finding all of that

[Powderman]

Turn it in. Immediately, and without hesitation.

There is no other choice.

[PMB]

Turn it in. Immediately, and without hesitation.

There is no other choice.

I agree... I think some of your ruffians know you'd turn it in too.
It might be fun to imagine what a bag of $200,000 could do for your life, but there is no way that I could enjoy the "benefit" if I had the weight of knowing that I hadn't earned it.

I'm trying to remember a somewhat similar situation... I hired a guy who had just recovered from a broken back (motorcycle wreck) and thought I was doing him a favor as he'd been off work for quite awhile. He was bright- I saw a traction machine that he'd made himself, saving himself about $3000, and it was a good job.
He ended up stealing some tools from my shop, and then when I called him on the weekend after reviewing the security cam footage and said it's probably best if he finds another job he got extremely abusive... It was crazy some of the things that he said. I tried to calm him down, eventually said "I have to hang up now" and then the text messages came.
Long story short, he'd left a cheap 6' ladder of his at the shop and I came across it a month or so later. I had a little thought of "HAH! I got a ladder out of the mess at least."
And every time I looked at that ladder it gave me a little bad feeling. It took my stubbornness almost 6 months before I dropped that cursed thing off at his place.
So not only did I lose a cab full of good tools, I lost 6 months of inner peace to that dirt bag.

Whatever you buy with "someone else's money" isn't going to taste as sweet as if you earned it. This may explain a lot of the discontent in this country and around the world in our enlightened age.

[MadPick]

Good story about the ladder.

[oldkim]

That is a good (moral/conscious) ladder story.

I truly try not to Remember who I have had run ins with. It's just not worth remembering. Lol


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[cycle61]

I'd be tempted to assume that no honest, law abiding person would ever lose that much cash, therefore...

[bulldog18]

Back in the day as a poor college student, I was on campus walking out to my car and I found a plain white envelope with $6,790. I went to the security office and told them that I found an envelope with a large amount of cash in it. I gave them my contact info and told them if the owner comes forward looking for the envelope to have him/her contact me.

3 hours later, a guy calls me up thanking me for not keeping the money for myself. He worked full-time 40 hours (part-time at pizza hut, part-time at Safeway and part-time at 7-11) and went to school as a part-time student. The money in the envelope was his rent payment, tuition, books, and money for food.

Lord knows I could have used the money, but being a poor college student myself I knew that if I lost $6,790 ..it would mean no money for rent, food, gas or school...

[Powderman]

Back in the day as a poor college student, I was on campus walking out to my car and I found a plain white envelope with $6,790. I went to the security office and told them that I found an envelope with a large amount of cash in it. I gave them my contact info and told them if the owner comes forward looking for the envelope to have him/her contact me.

3 hours later, a guy calls me up thanking me for not keeping the money for myself. He worked full-time 40 hours (part-time at pizza hut, part-time at Safeway and part-time at 7-11) and went to school as a part-time student. The money in the envelope was his rent payment, tuition, books, and money for food.

Lord knows I could have used the money, but being a poor college student myself I knew that if I lost $6,790 ..it would mean no money for rent, food, gas or school...

Well done.

My father spent most of his adult life in some prison, penitentiary or another. I did not know this until recently. Thus, what he told me one day when I was a young man resonates even more than it did then.

He told me that there is only one thing we have that we can truly call our own--and that is our integrity and honor. No one can buy your integrity, for it is far beyond price.

No one can take your integrity. It cannot be taken by force.

You have to GIVE it away...but once you do, you will NEVER get it back.

[Soldier_Citizen]

You guys are forgetting. This wasnt an envoleope of cash that fell out of granny's purse or some college kids car.

It was out of a brinks truck... That was insured. Fuck it, your loss my gain

Edited cause my phone doesn't know what the hell a BRINKS truck is

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[Captain90s]

You guys are forgetting. This wasnt an envoleope of cash that fell out of granny's purse or some college kids car.

It was out of a bricks truck... That was insured. Fuck it, your loss my gain

[kf7mjf]

You guys are forgetting. This wasnt an envoleope of cash that fell out of granny's purse or some college kids car.

It was out of a brinks truck... That was insured. Fuck it, your loss my gain

Edited cause my phone doesn't know what the hell a BRINKS truck is

I'd still return it. For one thing there are witnesses.

Insured or not, losing that cash for good would cost a few people their jobs. Second, the insurance rates are spread out among all of Brinks' customers. Thirdly, it's still somebody's money and property.

[L_O_G]

Don't they have exploding ink packs in them?

[kf7mjf]

Even if you dismiss the moral aspect behind keeping cash, the criminal logistics of it are pretty damned complex.

[PMB]

I'd still return it. For one thing there are witnesses.

Insured or not, losing that cash for good would cost a few people their jobs. Second, the insurance rates are spread out among all of Brinks' customers. Thirdly, it's still somebody's money and property.

If someone really would lose their job for a mistake like that (assuming it was a mistake and not a mechanical malfunction) wouldn't they lose their job in this case anyway?

Trying to remember the quote... The true character of a man is revealed by what he does when no one is looking... Something like that.

[kf7mjf]

Depends. It's a lot easier to talk yourself out of getting shitcanned over dropping 75 pounds of cash when it was returned right away, and you are more likely to be able to argue mechanical failure rather than operator error.