Man Finds, Returns 10k in Cash

According to this story, a man found $10k in cash in McCarran and spent weeks calling to try to return the money. I would like to think that I would return the money, but times are tough and I think it is tough to say until the money is in your hands. We all know that returning the money is the most ethical decision. Does anyone else wonder if he would do the right thing in this instance? Anyone sure that they would return or keep the money?

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According to this story, a man found $10k in cash in McCarran and spent weeks calling to try to return the money. I would like to think that I would return the money, but times are tough and I think it is tough to say until the money is in your hands. We all know that returning the money is the most ethical decision. Does anyone else wonder if he would do the right thing in this instance? Anyone sure that they would return or keep the money?

It would've been fun if you made this into a poll. I would want to keep the money but not sure if I actually would or not.

What a chump!!

Besides... what if there had been three missing envelopes but he found only two. First thing the owner is going to do is send someone out to take care of that problem and that problems wife and kids.

I'd have made a good faith effort to return the money. I'd have gone to the police, too, or whatever passes for police at the airport.

Quote: bigfoot66

According to this story...

For whatever reason, that link isn't opening for me. Here's one that gets the Las Vegas Sun article.

Did he do the right thing? Sure.

What would I have done? I have a feeling I'd keep it.

However, if I was inclined to return it, I'd ask to see his $10K cash transaction paperwork first. If he doesn't have it, I'd donate it to charity rather than return it. After all, putting it in two envelopes sounds suspicious to me.

Quote: FleaStiff

What a chump!!
Besides... what if there had been three missing envelopes but he found only two. First thing the owner is going to do is send someone out to take care of that problem and that problems wife and kids.

This was actually one of the early TV shows. It involved a man who found a large sum of money in a casino parking lot ... and came to grief when the gangster-owner realized it was a few grand short.

It's not my property. I would return it.

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I would want to keep the money but not sure if I actually would or not.

Now there is one I had not even thought of. You would like to think you would keep the money but you would probably 'chicken out' and return it. I am just the opposite....

Quote: FleaStiff

This was actually one of the early TV shows. It involved a man who found a large sum of money in a casino parking lot ... and came to grief when the gangster-owner realized it was a few grand short.

Yeah, it does sound like a movie/TV scenario.

Well depends on how you look at it. Maybe you were up leaving Vegas as he was. Wouldn't want to permanently jinx yourself by taking the money. Maybe if you were down, this would be like Christmas freaking day.

Returning the money is obviously the right thing to do, but it certainly isn't the easiest thing to do. And given the fact that their are cameras and people everywhere, you minus well make a good faith effort to return the money. Last thing you want to do is lose sleep over money that could be tainted.