Moral Dilemmas - What would you do and why?

[Beanz]

This story sparked the idea.


If you were there in Georgia what would you have done and why?

Atlanta drivers return spilled cash after armored truck drops $175K on highway



Two Atlanta men who found money spilled from an armored truck turned over $2,000 to authorities, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
One of the truck’s side doors flew open Tuesday evening near Ashford Dunwoody Road, according to the newspaper.
Footage of the incident showed at least six cars stopping to pick up cash off the road, all of which had left by the time police were able to make it through the traffic around 8 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Journal-Constitution.
Police believe as many as 50 people may have taken money from the side of the road. Theft of lost or mislaid property valued under $1,500 is a misdemeanor in Georgia, whereas any greater amount is a felony. Only about $200 was recovered at the scene.
“The law is the law,” Dunwoody police spokesman Sgt. Robert Parsons told the publication. “You need to turn in the property. It doesn’t belong to you. Reality needs to kick in, and you need to realize this money belongs to someone.”
Investigators are not certain how much money is missing, but the crew of the truck said it could be up to $175,000, according to Parsons.
Parsons added that anyone who voluntarily turned in money they had pocketed would not be charged with anything.
“If you bring the money into Dunwoody Police Department, 24/7, and turn it in, that’s it,” he said. “We’re done. We’re all human beings, we all understand this is something that just doesn’t happen. You’re driving down the interstate and money falls out of the sky.”
So far at least two people have returned money, one of whom returned $2,100 Wednesday afternoon and another who turned in about $500, according to the Journal-Constitution....


https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...ed-truck-drops

[ykdadamaja]

Taking it would be stealing. But if you needed it you would have been a fool to give it back!

[p4pking]

I would keep it and make a half assed attempt to vindicate myself by assuming the money was insured or going to some faceless corporation, without bothering to research the matter since Id keep it regardless as Im way cooler than people who say things like “the law is the law”. Maybe it was going right to some cunt like Jeffrey Epstein, imagine the irony then. Yeah, thats also what Id tell myself.

[p4pking]

Oh and as for the other drivers who stopped to pick up the cash, I guess Id just have to write down all their licence plates and break into their homes at night to take it. That part Im a little more uneasy with, but we ARE all human beings after all.

[Fenster]

As i'm on film i'd give it back, however, considering it's the banks dough, I wouldn't give back half as much as I pinched, how they gonna tell if they don't know the exact figure?

Guarantee that's what the slippery dude who gave back 500 bucks did, gotta keep some for mines.

[Master]

As an upstanding citizen of the community and role model to my children I would give it all back.

Your reputation should be worth more than a few bucks.