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Grumpy 06-12-2009 06:27 AM

Money from heaven or ?
 
This story got me thinking http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news..._by_Loose_Cash

Your driving down the expressway when an armored cars doors fly open. Money begins to fly out the back door at you. People are stopping to grab what they can. Do you return it or ?

JJIII 06-12-2009 07:12 AM

"If it ain't yours, leave it alone."

(Unless you want to be helpful and return it to the lawful owner.)

Sandy G 06-12-2009 07:17 AM

Return it to the owner. Minus a reasonable Finder's Fee-of course. (grin)

merrylander 06-12-2009 07:25 AM

Return to owner.

soundhound 06-12-2009 01:05 PM

i'd return it, but it sure would be hard...

Charles 06-14-2009 05:02 PM

I'd just keep going.

Chas

Combwork 06-15-2009 03:11 AM

Where's it from?
 
EDIT. Written in haste as I had to catch a bus.

Depends where it came from. I don't know about US Banks but UK banks were bailed out by the government (taxpayer) but they still give incredible bonuses to staff who were directly responsible for screwing things up. Fred Goodwin (ex chief of Royal Bank of Scotland) gets £693,000 pension per year for the rest of his life plus a multi million £ bonus.


RBS made me bankrupt 10 years ago and my credit rating's been affected ever since. After the case legal advice was they acted improperly and I could go back to Court to ask that the bankruptcy be overturned, but that it would cost approximately £2000 to do this. I didn't have £2000.......... In comparison, last year RBS was within 24 hours of being declared insolvent, so the government stepped in and now owns 68% of it, but they still pay that greedy bastard £13,326 PER WEEK for the rest of his worthless life. OK, he's moved abroad on the grounds that if he were in the U.K. his life expectancy might be a bit short, but if the found money came from RBS, I'd take and keep as much as I possibly could and smile as I did it.

JJIII 06-15-2009 05:43 AM

Morality is relative?

Sandy G 06-15-2009 05:53 AM

No, when it came down to it, OF COURSE I'd return all of it, morality is NOT relative, but its awful hard to "Do the Right Thing" when every day you read of crooks in gov't & business stealing megabux & getting away w/it...And those are the ones who've screwed up & we hear about it...There's prolly 2-3X that do it, get away w/it, & we NEVER hear about it...

merrylander 06-15-2009 06:57 AM

Well as combwork put it RBS screwed him over and in all fairness "owes" him.


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