Finders keepers?

One day your taking one of those nice walks in nature, and you come across a box filled with money, lets say $500,000. Do you keep it or not? and if so, what do you with it.

I'd have to say that i would keep some if not all. Considering the fact i dont believe i'm taking it from some poor lil lady(not that its anymore right). i would end up buying a nice small little place on some nice piece of land.

 

If it isn't yours, you shouldn't keep it. Turn it in and if it isn't claimed chances are you'll get to keep it anyway.

Bad Kharma will follow you a loooooooong time, bro.

 

fucking right I would keep it. and I'd never look back and regret it.

 

Yeah but you'd just blow it on crack and transgendering surgery.

 

I know of a person first hand near the cana-shit boarder that found approx 500k and did the so called right thing (turned it in) well the law says in 30 days or somthing close to it if its not claimed the finder gets it.....wrong...the dea stepped in and declared it drug money (because it was found on a common drug route, no more no less) and guess where the money went?

 

To build more public housing?

 

naw, I'd keep it

and tithe mebbe 10-20% to a charity of choice, like unicef, united way, chep

 

fuck yeah i'd keep it... then i'd buy a really fast car with no top. 2 bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, 5 sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine, a whole galaxie of multi-colored: uppers, downers, screamers, laughers. a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, case of beer, pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.

and go on one hell of a journey........maybe even buy a sailboat and a bus.

 

Karma can haunt me all it wants for five hundred stacks. I'd invest, and be set for life after about 8 years.

 

Keep it, but would you pay tax on it?

 

I would look around very carefully for mobsters, because grandma's a broke and probably a bitch.

If I didn't see anyone, I would sure as hell take it. I'd probably throw a party, tuck a little away for rainey days and education, and donate the rest to HRW.

 

I think anybody that would donate any large portion of it off the top to be foolish. If you invest it properly you can double that money in no time. I know around here I could get a six to seven percent yearly return with ease, and a bit more with some work. Imagine a seven percent interest rate on five hundred thousand dollars. That turns out to be thirty five thousand a year in interest. Leave it sit for about eight to ten years, and bam you are a millionaire. At that point you could afford to donate, say two hundred thousand, and still have your million within another couple years.

 

damn skippy i'd take it...shit, i'd invest within a heart beat. and just let it accumulate. of course, i wouldn't invest it all at the same time...dont' want the feds asking questions...

 

The most you can deposit at a time is ten thousand before you have to answer where it came from

 

Well, when you think about it...it's not very often that a wad of cash that amounts that large would be just lying around innocently. I'd really be afraid something was going on. But if I decided it was safe, I'd probably take it home and store it up and do some research to see if anyone had reported it missing. But I'm not so sure I'd bring the cops into it right away. Basically, my mind went straight to the fact that I really need some cash right now and I think just finding that kind of change would be karma doing something good for me. Maybe I'd finally feel like all that hard work I've done had paid off. It's not a question of morality in my mind, but a question of need. Albeit, I don't need an entire $500,000, so, I'd definitely be investing and donating to a couple of charities. I dunno...I just really want to go to college and it's been really tough finding work so I can get money, not to mention the government won't help at all (big surprise), and scholarship committees apparently don't deem me worthy. Ack. I'm very bitter towards financial "aid" providers...

 

so?

 

If it was a poor person who lost the $500,000 I'd give it back.

 

they wouldn't be poor if they had 500,000 to lose.

 

Although it would be tempting, no, I couldn't keep it. I don't know what kind of bad energy is associated with the money, and karma might come back around and kick my butt.

 

depends on how and where i found it.

if i knew it was drug money and it was safe and they couldnt track me down after i took it, i would take that shit and run very fast.otherwise i might just walk off like i didnt see anything and leave it there.