I sure would take it and wait for some time before I used it .
After reading everyones answer. If I found it I would give it to Jacqui805.
I would make sure that no one saw me looking at it and that I was safe. Then! take the money and run! run! run! run! RuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuN!!!!
I have to say, I would take the money too, but I would be very nervous about it, not so much guilty. Being that the money was out in the middle of nowhere, I'd think it was maybe drug money. But I'd be nervous that maybe it was money from a bank robbery or something then I'd get blamed for the robbery if they traced the money. I'd probably hang on to it for awhile before starting to spend it.
All I'm sure of is that I really need to find that bag of money. LOL
I am too afraid of karm to be willing to keep the money. With my luck whatever I had used the money for would either burn down, blow up, kill me, or end up costing me even more money than the amount I found. Not to mention the fact that the guilt would eat me alive.
I'm STILL tryin' to decide how to answer this one......Ordinarily, I'd TOTALLY try to do the "right thing"....but man, I'm in such bad financial shape right now, and it's not about luxuries...and seein' the hubby stressed b/c of money too...hmmmm....I might pick it up and wait it out and see if it was reported missing or where it might have come from. If I just took it and used it, the guilt would be HUGELY painful for me, BUT, again, things are very bad right now....I'd be reasoning too, trying to justify taking it, even to hold onto, that the chances this money was in the middle of the woods in a brown paper bag, came to be there by anything other than "decent" means, would be slim....Like what, Little Red Riding Hood was bringin' Grandma a whole bunch o' money along with the biscuits and Jam? Hmmm...I'd be thinkin' otherwise, not that it really justifies takin' it...but still.............If I found out some decent law abiding citizen lost this money or that it was stolen from them, back to 'em it would go...I KNOW this is wrong, and I'm trying to keep something in mind so I can change my answer.....Early this year, my mother-in-law found a wallet with 350.00 in it....it had NO identification....she hung onto it, and my father-in-law wanted to spend it...she refused, saying somehow, some way, she'd get it back to it's rightful owner....She found this money in a restaurant...she found an ad in the paper shortly thereafter, asking for anyone who might've found the money....Turns out, it was an elderly gentleman who was SO grateful to have it back, it was all he had....I know that the circumstances surrounding the found money shouldn't matter, that taking something that isn't mine is just wrong...but I really would have an awful time with this particular scenario...thinking, if I turned it over to the police, would they not just spend it themselves?....that kind of thing.....hmmmm......still not sure.......ugh
Lisa,if you find that bag,you better grab it and make a B-line for Pittsburgh.I'll be waiting on the corner.LOL
in fact,..i am praying that it would be so easy....lol
holy cow..i would take the money and run too...
I have turned in money from bank errors,cashiers,etc...but ..I if find money in a paper bad...that is fair game..
YIKES I'd have to agree with allaboutmary.. It would probably haunt me the rest of my life but I am in a terrible financial situation... If it's a bag full of money it surely wouldhave been gotten ilicitly anyway.
I'm with Avisg...my conscience would destroy me..I'd have to turn it in.
Jim
I have found a large amount of money in the past and turned it in. Believe it or not I was awarded the money becuse it was never claimed. So I would probably take the money and run.
Good thing for some honest people cuz i would take the money and run but then you all knew that anyway!
I've always been proud that I'm an honest person. I return money to cashiers when they give me back too much change etc...... BUT with the financial situation I'm in right now....I'd have to say I'd take the money and run. Wouldn't feel that good about it. I would just keep telling myself it was nasty drug money.
turn it into the police .Just because if I ever lost money I would hope someone else we do the same exspeacially now