If you found it what would you do?

[MackemX]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4742972.stm

I haven't seen much news about this £50 million robbery but I saw the police found a van with money in it though I don't know how much

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4749772.stm

I'd love to find something like that as I sure as hell wouldn't hand it in . Why leave a van full of money also?

my question is would you do the same or hand it in and get some ridiculously low amount in comparision to the amount you find?

[jimmalenko]

Whilst I'd contemplate keeping it, I'm sure the authorities and/or the company that was robbed aren't just going to "forget" about 50 mil in a hurry.

It would be more trouble than it's worth IMHO.

[Cobra]

I would hand it in. Theft is theft, and I would never be able to look at anything I bought with the stolen money without feeling guilty. Better to earn the money and be a decent, honest person.

[canadateck]

Return it.

[MackemX]

if it was £50 million then I'd probably hand it in, minus a few £1,000 I'd take for personal expenses :P to claim a reward

if it was only a partial amount like something that was in the van then I have no shame in saying I'd probably keep it and just hide it somewhere. I'd dip into it now and then and also make anoymous drops to charities etc somehow

I'd love to win the lottery and share my good fortune with my friends and family and if it was money I'd found I'd still do it I suppose as I get great enjoyment out of other people's happiness

saying that when I was a kid I found a purse full of cash & creditcards on a bus. I handed it in to the busdriver, gave my name & address and thought nothing more of it. A few weeks later I got a card through the post saying thankyou for handing it in and there was also £10 inside. I guess even the bus driver could have emptied the purse but didn't 8)

[waheed]

I would hand it in. Theft is theft, and I would never be able to look at anything I bought with the stolen money without feeling guilty. Better to earn the money and be a decent, honest person.

I'd do the same thing.

[ZAPPER]

Take all that I could carry or move, and then get it offshore at my own expence to have it laundered! (50% ain't too bad if you are in a hurry, but you can do better with volume and time!)


Nah, everyone talks big, but when the real situation comes up I would mess my britches and call the cops just like everyone else with more than a 3rd grade education. But it is fun to dream.

[ZAPPER]

On a kind of related subject. The story goes, a high school kid had a job as a stockboy at a local five and dime. Each night after the money count, two couriors (SP) in plain clothes took the money from the store to a banks night deposit across the street. A store employee, almost always male, got to go along for the five minute round trip car ride.

So, one cold winters Friday night after closing, this one stockboy happened to be the one chosen to go along for the ride for his first time. At the bank one of the money carriers opens the bag and pulls out a few bundles of cash and tosses two bundles into the back seat with the stockboy and pockets a couple of more for himself.

Not a word was spoken, the implications were clear.

The stockboy was dropped off back at the store and watched the carriers drive away into the night. The stockboy, being of high moral fabric, goes back into the store and reports the events to his boss and returns one of the money bundles.


What do you think? Fact or Fiction? What would you have done?

[Cobra]

I would have returned the money and reported the theft. Don't know if it is fact or fiction, but that would be my course of action.

I can't steal anything, no matter how small. It'd just eat at me.

[Cole]

Hand it in; theft is theft.

There were people kidnapped, held at gunpoint and threatened with death over this £50m, one being a child.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4750758.stm

Keeping it would make you an "accessory after the fact" to the crime, wouldn't it?