CashMoneyGo wrote:
As for accepting a reward... I think I might do it. Doing right is a pretty good reward, as is the associated karma. But I wouldn't turn down $50 if they offer.
Don't take the fv,king money, idiot.
If you really need the money then I'll send it to you, but don't take a reward for doing the right thing.
This is all posted assuming this is a real story, which it isn't. That said,
1) It's a stack of 20s. I don't always pay my rent that way, but when I do, I'm a drug dealer.
2) Someone found my $1000 worth of $20s. If I'm a drug dealer, that person isn't returning the money. If I'm a dude, that person is going to be less likely to meet me to give back the money, probably be cause he's afraid I am a drug dealer, or thinks I will be angry because the finder "stole" the money, etc. If I'm a scatterbrained woman who offers a sob story, and I offer a reward, I might be able to get a lead on my lost money from a white knight, Dudley Doright type person. The alternatives are a) no one found the money and it is gone forever, b) someone found the money is keeping it, or c) someone found the money and wants to return it. As someone who wants to find your money, your only option is to appeal to the 'c' group, and assuming you can contact the person who found the money, you must present the most appealing situation possible, which is helping a "damsel in distress". In case the finder of the money is a woman, there should also be an incentive, hence the reward.
So, precisely because it is a "damsel in distress" I am immediately more suspicious than I would otherwise be. The reward for returning cash always strikes me as odd, because if the finder is motivated by money, you've got a big problem that a reward can't solve. Like you pointed out, a person motivated by honor doesn't require or even want a reward, and a person motivated by a reward wants money they already have.
3) Just because "she" provided info that only she would know, doesn't change the fact she could be a fictional character made up by the person who lost the money. She could further be represented by a real-life female who is associated with the person who actually lost the money.
I've had sketchy people come after me with baseball bats for giving them dirty looks. There's really no barrier to low for these types of people that will cause homicidal rage. Taking $1000 of their cash, even if you are in the process of trying to return it, will not be seen by those types of people as a good deed. They will try to get their money back, and beat (or kill) the living hell out of whoever "took" it.
I'm just saying, for me, in this fictional scenario, it doesn't pass the sniff test.
As an addendum, a quote from another fictional person, Prince Humperdinck:
"I always think everything is a trap. That is why I'm still alive."
common wrote:
I'm just saying, for me, in this fictional scenario, it doesn't pass the sniff test.
Your post says more about YOU than the reality of the situation.
The only person who would know the details of the loss is the person who loss the money.
Your rambling about "drug dealers" etc is a sign you've been watching too much television. $1000 cash is not much money at all. Plenty of people carry or hoard larger sums than that every day, and only deposit their cash in a bank for those occasions when they do write checks, such as rent. There's no 'there' there.
But back to the beginning, read slowly if you have to: the fact that the woman provided the information that 1) the money was lost in the first place, and 2) the details of the loss, including how and where, ends the story.
common wrote:
As an addendum, a quote from another fictional person, Prince Humperdinck:
"I always think everything is a trap. That is why I'm still alive."
Better quote, unknown attribution:
"Just becasue you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
Malmo: I understand your point, but the skeptical analysis states YES the money was lost, just perhaps NOT by a "damsel in distress," who may be a front for someone else.
Not saying any of this is real or not or right or not, just pointing out that the analysis answered/anticipated your crit...
Might all be legit (did she contact the police? *I* would! And as the finder I would go through proper channels). But I, too, found it a lil too convenient that it was a msg that hits all the right buttons...
Oh: and if it's legit: DO NOT TAKE A REWARD, doofus!
It teaches bad behavior: do right because, well... because it's RIGHT!
Update:
Still waiting on them to come by to scoop it up.
All this rambling about drug money is ridiculous. You people need to turn CSI/The Wire for a few minutes a day.
AND, even if it was money from an illegal activity, that wouldn't justify me keeping it. The money is certainly no more mine than theirs. Illicit work is still work.
$1000 isn't that much money, I agree. But there have been times in my life when a 1k swing would have definitely put a real hitch in my ability to cover the month's bills/rent/etc.
dadfasdfasd wrote:
Malmo: I understand your point, but the skeptical analysis states YES the money was lost, just perhaps NOT by a "damsel in distress," who may be a front for someone else.
Not saying any of this is real or not or right or not, just pointing out that the analysis answered/anticipated your crit...
So explain it to me? Someone, err, a 'front for someone else'.... randomly puts an advertisement in Craigslist saying they lost money. Another person, who finds money on the street, sees the ad and calls them. The person who placed the ad, out of all the locations in the United States, describes the money, and where, and when .... ? Yet you're skeptical?
FWIW, the police is the last place you should take found money to. Evidence just magically disappears all the time. Cash? FUGGETABOUTIT!
malmo wrote:
Your post says more about YOU than the reality of the situation. True. I am deeply skeptical, security conscious, and somewhat paranoid. I make no apologies for it, as my cautious behavior has saved me from a vicious beating or two over the years.
The only person who would know the details of the loss is the person who loss the money. ...and the person(s) that the person who actually lost the money shared the details of the loss with.
Your rambling about "drug dealers" etc is a sign you've been watching too much television. I don't watch much TV $1000 cash is not much money at all. Try taking $1000 from a drug dealer sometime, or be a mule that "loses" a stack of 20s. It may not be much to me or you, but it's a sum well worth killing for in this context. Plenty of people carry or hoard larger sums than that every day, and only deposit their cash in a bank for those occasions when they do write checks, such as rent. I'll spot you this point. I don't do it, but I know a lot of people do. But, let's keep in mind, just because "she" says she was going to the bank, doesn't mean it's true. There's no 'there' there. Maybe not. Is it worth being wrong? I will never in my life go water skiing because the risk of wrecking my knee does not outweigh the benefit of enjoying the experience of gliding over the water. Similarly, I will never pick up a stack of $20 bills in the street, unlikely as it is to happen, because the benefit is not worth the cost. For others, it may be.
But back to the beginning, read slowly if you have to: the fact that the woman provided the information that 1) the money was lost in the first place, and 2) the details of the loss, including how and where, ends the story. Only if you believe the story.
IT'S AN ELABORATE RUSE!
What is really odd about all of this:
Neither party involved has posted their PR for a 5K.
15:28.
And the run where I found the money was 6 miles long, at about 7:10 pace (the mile after I found the money was probably a 6:10 though).
I think it makes sense to deposit cash for rent, especially in one's own account. I write checks for rent, as a check represents an automatic receipt and is more legit. Gotta keep your checking account stocked to write checks.
I agree with malmo that it's fairly ridiculous to think she wouldn't be the person if her story checks out. If you want a more realistic conspiracy theory, then how about something like her friend/acquaintance lost it and she's trying to be the one it gets returned to! Dun dun dun!
Also, we need pics.
the more important part that everyone seems to be overlooking:
this dumb, poor woman hurrying down the street to deposit what is, to her, a very significant amount of money, drops her purse. She somehow fails to notice a stack of 50(!) 20 dollar bills fly out of the purse and hit the sidewalk with a loud THWAP.
She gets to the bank. The money is not in her purse. Obviously she is within walking distance from where she dropped it.
She does not hurry back to where she dropped her purse? Yet she knows EXACTLY where and when she dropped it?
Alternatively, you picked up the money in the small amount of time between her dropping it and when she would have gone back to recover it?
I don't buy it.
However, if all the above is true, you do what a previous poster recommended: Offer to meet her at the Police Station.
Exactly. There are all kinds of implications in "her" story, which, if followed to logical conclusions, will not check out.
Domo, Hirsoshi-san.
I must have swooped in the brief window between her reaching the bank and hustling back (just four blocks away).
Still waiting on her to come pick it up (at my office). Will try for "pics".
malmo wrote:
Don't take the fv,king money, idiot.
If you really need the money then I'll send it to you, but don't take a reward for doing the right thing.
If it his is how you get your karma, then I'm going the other direction.
post the Craigslist ad!
Well, CashMoneyGo is obviously dead now.
Can't say I didn't warn you...*snap* WHAT WAS THAT SOUND??!!
Update!!!!
The money has been returned.
This part is nearly unbelievable... So, this girl, and her IDENTICAL TWIN SISTER, and their TWO puppies (shnauzers?) came to pick the money up at my office. Both hot (well duh, they are identical) and about 28 or 29 years old.
Did I mention they were wearing matching Nike running shoes. I think they were lunar elites, in almost all black and red.
I took the reward, $100. Gonna buy myself some nice booze on the way home. I was going to deny the reward if the person looked at all needy, but these girls looked pretty well off.
And no, I didn't get a picture. That would have been hard to explain.