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MaxxLarge

2011-11-04 05:46:14 PM

I wonder what he'll buy with his $10,000?

bigpeeler

2011-11-04 06:12:35 PM

I once found a checkbook with an ATM card (with the code written on back) and $7000+ inside. It was laying in the middle of the street. I passed it, swung around and picked it up. First instinct was to keep it but the conscience kicked in. I drove to the address written on the check and walked to the door. A middle-aged woman answers and I explain what had happened. I asked for her ID which checked out. She opened the screen door, I hand her the loot and she says, "God bless you." and shut the door in my face.

I still regret that day.

jaylectricity

2011-11-04 06:17:00 PM

bigpeeler: I asked for her ID which checked out.

So you had her purse, but not her ID?

farkingismybusiness

2011-11-04 06:27:01 PM

Dude's farked.

John Paul Jones

2011-11-04 06:31:24 PM

jaylectricity: bigpeeler: I asked for her ID which checked out.

So you had her purse, but not her ID?

A checkbook. Presumably with a name and address. This is not hard to comprehend.

dahmers love zombie

2011-11-04 07:02:47 PM

bigpeeler: I once found a checkbook with an ATM card (with the code written on back) and $7000+ inside. It was laying in the middle of the street. I passed it, swung around and picked it up. First instinct was to keep it but the conscience kicked in. I drove to the address written on the check and walked to the door. A middle-aged woman answers and I explain what had happened. I asked for her ID which checked out. She opened the screen door, I hand her the loot and she says, "God bless you." and shut the door in my face.

I still regret that day.

Jeez. The Dalai Lama tips better than that.

/gunga galunga

jaylectricity

2011-11-04 07:51:54 PM

John Paul Jones: jaylectricity: bigpeeler: I asked for her ID which checked out.

So you had her purse, but not her ID?

A checkbook. Presumably with a name and address. This is not hard to comprehend.

I was questioning why her ID was not also in her purse. This is not hard to comprehend.

James F. Campbell

2011-11-04 07:58:59 PM

jaylectricity: I was questioning why her ID was not also in her purse. This is not hard to comprehend.

Idiot or troll?

probesport

2011-11-04 07:59:20 PM

jaylectricity: John Paul Jones: jaylectricity: bigpeeler: I asked for her ID which checked out.

So you had her purse, but not her ID?

A checkbook. Presumably with a name and address. This is not hard to comprehend.

I was questioning why her ID was not also in her purse. This is not hard to comprehend.

Maybe it was, but her checkbook wasn't.

SN1987a goes boom

2011-11-04 07:59:54 PM

Was the air duct actually a warp pipe?

hbk72777

2011-11-04 08:01:20 PM

If I found it, I'd come out of that duct with the biggest bulge in my pants.........and that's with all of the the cash in my sock

Dairy King

2011-11-04 08:03:01 PM

sfpfc

2011-11-04 08:05:24 PM

"Llewellyn, what's in the satchel"?

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KidneyStone

2011-11-04 08:05:50 PM

bigpeeler: I once found a checkbook with an ATM card (with the code written on back) and $7000+ inside. It was laying in the middle of the street. I passed it, swung around and picked it up. First instinct was to keep it but the conscience kicked in. I drove to the address written on the check and walked to the door. A middle-aged woman answers and I explain what had happened. I asked for her ID which checked out. She opened the screen door, I hand her the loot and she says, "God bless you." and shut the door in my face.

I still regret that day.

If I found $7k like you did - with a checkbook with name and address - I'd do the same thing you did and never regret it.

Now if I just find a bag o'cash with no markings* or someone's info in it then it's mine.

/* markings like "Brinks" don't count - they're insured

toejam

2011-11-04 08:05:53 PM

Was it his?

numbone

2011-11-04 08:10:36 PM

Plumbers only know two things, payday is Friday and crap flows downhill.

ThisNameSux

2011-11-04 08:12:17 PM

There isn't a chance in hell that I wouldn't have kept it.

BishopHatto

2011-11-04 08:13:57 PM

I found a wallet once with $400 in it. I was going to return it but then I asked myself what I would do if I'd lost my wallet. I thought to myself "I would want to be taught a valuable lesson about being careless."

Saners

2011-11-04 08:15:35 PM

Dairy King

2011-11-04 08:15:44 PM

numbone: Plumbers only know two things, payday is Friday and crap flows downhill.

And don't bite your fingernails.

PJ-

2011-11-04 08:20:17 PM

Dairy King: numbone: Plumbers only know two things, payday is Friday and crap flows downhill.

And don't bite your fingernails.

YUMMY!

Lt. Cheese Weasel

2011-11-04 08:20:31 PM

I never question karma. If I find money, it was meant to be mine. Anything else and bad things happen.

jaylectricity

2011-11-04 08:22:39 PM

Haha, yeah, I'm an idiot. My apologies.

tereklusec

2011-11-04 08:25:06 PM

When I bought my house there was a bookcase in the garage. It wasn't screwed together just set together so when I put things on it it collapsed. After a few days I got around to reassembling it and found a bunch of old candy boxes under the base. They were filled with rolls of quarters; the previous owner had died and his family probably didn't know about them. $2500 in quarters.

I took them all to the bank.

vexle

2011-11-04 08:28:38 PM

A jewish kid asks his dad if he can have five dollars. His dad says, "Four dollars?!?! What do you need three dollars for? Here's two dollars, split it with your brother."

pup.socket

2011-11-04 08:31:43 PM

bigpeeler: I still regret that day.

I'm genuinely curious, what did you expect?

Equilibrist

2011-11-04 08:33:33 PM

I'm a contractor and this does happen. People just forget.

Largest cache I found was $20,000, tucked into a large headboard/bookcase that I had to move to access a window. Customer wasn't even home at the time even though he knew we were going to disassemble the bed unit. This was back in the eighties when that was a nice piece of change.

My immediate second thought was to call the customer to take possession of his property.

elffster

2011-11-04 08:36:57 PM

pup.socket: bigpeeler: I still regret that day.

I'm genuinely curious, what did you expect?

Buttsecks! BOW CHICKA BOW BOWWWwww!

/Or, Spanish Inquisition..i get those two confused

W6XRL4

2011-11-04 08:37:26 PM

KidneyStone: If I found $7k like you did - with a checkbook with name and address - I'd do the same thing you did and never regret it.

Now if I just find a bag o'cash with no markings* or someone's info in it then it's mine.

/* markings like "Brinks" don't count - they're insured

1) Never steal from your employer
2) Never steal anything worth less than a full year's salary
3) Never steal anything unless you're 110 percent sure you'll never get caught
4) If you ever steal anything, never, ever tell your girlfriend/boyfriend or spouse

/Brinks is open season
//Don't open the top of the bag unless you want a face full of dye. Cut open the bottom of the bag, and then throw the bag away, as it may have a tracking device
///Or so I've been told....

texdent

2011-11-04 08:37:31 PM

What a plumber might look like.

KidneyStone

2011-11-04 08:38:03 PM

BishopHatto: I found a wallet once with $400 in it. I was going to return it but then I asked myself what I would do if I'd lost my wallet. I thought to myself "I would want to be taught a valuable lesson about being careless."

lol

I lost my wallet waaaay back in college with $40 in it. At the time that was a ton of money to me (food for two weeks). Dropped it in the parking lot of a hardware store (Builders Square in Melbourne, FL to be exact)

It went from someone finding it, to the department store, to the police, to campus security, and back to me with the $40 still in it. I was shocked and obviously happy.

I would have been satisfied had I just got it back with my license, IDs and ATM card

/back then an ATM card was just that and didn't double as a credit card
//Bought a lot of belts and onions with that $40

The Onion is prophetic

2011-11-04 08:38:59 PM

Am I the only person who would likely return the money only because it might be a set-up?

Mixolydian Master

2011-11-04 08:40:18 PM

Have we wittled it down to the plumber turning in all $0.08? Cause this thread joke always dielivers the lulz!

/Man, I hope the owner of those 2 pennies was thankful for him turning it in!! *snort*

John Paul Jones

2011-11-04 08:42:57 PM

jaylectricity: Haha, yeah, I'm an idiot. My apologies.

*knucks*

wambu

2011-11-04 08:45:45 PM

$5,000 doesn't go very far nowadays.

Silent But Deadly

2011-11-04 08:52:40 PM

tereklusec: When I bought my house there was a bookcase in the garage. It wasn't screwed together just set together so when I put things on it it collapsed. After a few days I got around to reassembling it and found a bunch of old candy boxes under the base. They were filled with rolls of quarters; the previous owner had died and his family probably didn't know about them. $2500 in quarters.

I took them all to the bank.

If those quarters were old they were also probably silver and worth about 5x their face value.

boozerman

2011-11-04 08:54:09 PM

Plumber called the owners of the house and said, I found about tree fiddy in your duct, what do?

Dairy King

2011-11-04 08:56:25 PM

As a plumber I want to know what this plumber was doing in the air ducts

Honest Bender

2011-11-04 09:01:53 PM

Dairy King: As a plumber I want to know what this plumber was doing in the air ducts

Searching for treasure! Duh. Maybe you should try it some time.

Itzala

2011-11-04 09:03:07 PM

The Onion is prophetic: Am I the only person who would likely return the money only because it might be a set-up?

No, you're not.

/not referring to myself of course.

tereklusec

2011-11-04 09:06:20 PM

Silent But Deadly: tereklusec: When I bought my house there was a bookcase in the garage. It wasn't screwed together just set together so when I put things on it it collapsed. After a few days I got around to reassembling it and found a bunch of old candy boxes under the base. They were filled with rolls of quarters; the previous owner had died and his family probably didn't know about them. $2500 in quarters.

I took them all to the bank.

If those quarters were old they were also probably silver and worth about 5x their face value.

They were actually not. The individual had labeled them well and they were all those new State quarters. I opened a few rolls to make sure.

davidphogan

2011-11-04 09:11:29 PM

I found a purse in some melting snow when I was about 20. All it contained was a bit of cash and some pot frozen in a block of ice in a torn baggy. At least the cash was salvagable.

el_morte

2011-11-04 09:12:03 PM

came here for the Walter White aka Heisenburg referance and leaving satisfied.

AaronK

2011-11-04 09:30:01 PM

I got two.

I drove past a purse and pulled over to get it. Before I could get to it a car ran over it and $20s fly everywhere. This is a five lane road. So I start chasing the money like one of those dollar grab games. I grab every one and put them in the purse. I get her address from her drivers licence and drive it to her house. She wasn't home so I left it in her mailbox.

The second was I was driving and noticed papers all over the road....wait....that's MONEY! So I pull over and start grabbing dollars...while giggling. I had around twenty ones when I saw the wallet, dammit. With his license...dammit. So I took it to his house and he wasn't home so I left it in his mailbox.

ICU812

2011-11-04 09:40:48 PM

Dairy King: As a plumber I want to know what this plumber was doing in the air ducts

I thought about this also, my guess is he simply pulled the grille off the wall tracing down the copper line for the shower, not physically in the duct itself.

bigpeeler

2011-11-04 09:48:00 PM

pup.socket: bigpeeler: I still regret that day.

I'm genuinely curious, what did you expect?

The words, "Thank you" and possibly a smile.

WeenerGord

2011-11-04 09:48:45 PM

Air ducts are installed in bathrooms to remove condensation from using the shower. Is there a law saying that plumbers can't work on them?

sseye

2011-11-04 10:01:10 PM

davidphogan: I found a purse in some melting snow when I was about 20. All it contained was a bit of cash and some pot frozen in a block of ice in a torn baggy. At least the cash was salvagable.

Are you crazy? The street value of that pot was $100,00!!

/plumber math, meet cop math

ICU812

2011-11-04 10:15:21 PM

WeenerGord: Air ducts are installed in bathrooms to remove condensation from using the shower. Is there a law saying that plumbers can't work on them?

Yes. Less the guy is a scab(has no license). You must be licensed in all the state you perform a specific trade as it pertains to construction. Else, you cannot report sales tax correctly, register with the ROC, etc...

bobbonamic

2011-11-04 10:21:17 PM

I dropped my wallet in a restaurant once. Went back and the waiter had turned it in. I gave him about 20% of the cash that was in the wallet. Later I thought about it and recognized how often "the cash" is not as important as all the other stuff in there and I felt guilty I had only given 20%. Years later, I dropped my wallet on the street and some guy returned it to my hotel. I gave him all the cash that was in my wallet. I hate giving up all "my" money---on the other hand, it seems only fair.

Should there be a "law" that 20% should be given as a finders fee? More/less/take your chances?

Humans really are too often self centered little pukes and the law is to express the group judgment?

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