Posted on 05/03/2016 6:18:59 AM PDT by Rusty0604
The lesson learned: Find money in school, turn it in. If not claimed, get it back.
If no one saw the “find”, it was turned in, and a panicked kid told office staff or a teacher about the loss, not too hard. But that’s an unlikely scenario.
If the loser knew it was a bad bill, he would not be likely to report the loss, right?
If the $10 bill was laying out in the open I would dare say that the majority of us would first ask those around us if anyone lost a $10 bill and then hand it to hem. If not we would simply pocket it. No crime has been committed. There's no knowing who the bill belongs to and it's lost at that point. It's a simple solution. Or you could turn it in to the office and let them pocket it and take it home.
I found one of those once. Just laying in the street. Looked pretty real from 3 feet away, but it was made with cheap copy paper. I don’t know if it was a deliberate counterfeit or just a prank by kids with a color copier.
I would rather the folks in the office pocket it and suffer the consequences of unethical behavior than to do it.
Sorry. It wasn’t his regardless of the location.
If it’s in the middle of the desert, take it to the nearest police station.
I’d rather be honest that $10 richer.
Hoss
I remember when I was young and had no money and just started a job at a factory. I didnt have anything to eat and I had gotten there early. A foreman walked up to me and was asked if I wanted to start early and I said sure. He wanted me to walk the outer perimeter of the fence around the plant. After about 20 mins or so (and with a grumbling stomach) there was a $10 bill that had blown up against the fence. The way I look at it, god fed me that day. It happened again a few years later when I was walking through a parking lot and had little money and was hungry. I looked down and there was a $20 bill. Again God fed me and my wife that day. So obviously I have a differing perspective on the subject...: )
And nothing wrong with a differing opinion!
Another way to see it would be that someone went hungry so you could eat.
Or someone who had a roll dropped one and never missed it.
Hoss
Sometimes I drop money for others because of what happened to me...: )
Good on you. If I had it, I’d do it too.
Hoss
Years I was vacationing with my family in Pensacola, FL, and leaving a beach side shop, my wife found a $100 bill on the ground. As she headed back into the shop with it, I asked her where she was going.
She said she was going to turn it into the clerk in case someone came back for it.
I said Yeah, right. It’ll just go in the clerks’ pocket. I’d rather have it in mine. So I went back inside, gave the clerk my card, and told her we had found something that someone might want back. And if they called me and identified it, I would return it.
Never heard from anyone.
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