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Ethical conundrum
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Ron.M
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Joined: Jul. 7 2003
From: Scotland
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Ethical conundrum
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The Forum has slowed down a bit over the Summer, so here is an amusing poser.. OK...you are driving down a fairly quiet road right out in the country in the early evening, daydreaming about one day being able to afford a really quality, top name Flamenco guitar. You've been driving a few hours solid and feeling the call of nature, pull up to take a leak behind some trees. As you return to your car, you see a leather bag a bit down the road on the verge. It looks like it's been thrown out of a passing car. You pick it up and take a look inside. It's stuffed with money! You take it back to the car and have a closer look. Just piles and piles of 100's notes (Euros, Dollars, Pounds...depending on your local currency) all bundled together in 10,000's with elastic bands. All the notes appear used..and there must at least be 200 bundles! You look all around you...but nobody has passed since you stopped...it's a peaceful, pleasant evening with the birds chirping and the sun going down. No other information either inside or outside the bag. You start the car and continue your journey. So what do you do? Take it to the Police? Possible problems if you decide to keep it are... a) What do you do with it? You can't suddenly deposit 2,000,000 in your Bank account without raising suspicion... Same problem if you try to open several accounts with different banks. b) Just spend the cash? Trouble is, you can't really go into a shop and buy a high value item in cash without raising suspicion. c) What if the money is actually forged, but you are too much of an amateur to tell even when comparing the bills with known real ones? d) What if the notes are invisibly marked by Police for a "sting" on a gang? You could end up becoming involved and getting locked up in jail for years. e) What if it's a money exchange for a drugs cartel and some gang member has noted your licence plate? You could end up dead. So what do you do? Take it home? Take it to the Police? Chuck it back out on the road again and drive on? cheers, Ron
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Date Jul. 17 2010 17:27:00
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