You know of an individual that has stolen a lot of money from people over the years in many different situations. You know that that is wrong and you don't condone that behavior in any way. As you walk across the parking lot of your local Walmart, you come across a $20.00 bill laying on the ground. You reach over and pick it up. You look around and there is no one in your immediate area so you don't know who it belongs to. Do you put it in your pocket or take it back in the store and turn it in? If you put it in your pocket, is it any different behavior than than the individual that you know has stolen in the past?
EDIT: Let me edit this so that it doesn't turn into a Walmart bashing question. If you were in ANY parking lot.
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If you pay it forward, I don't see anything wrong with it. That way it would go to doing something positive. Take it in the store, and walmart benefits.
Good question honey, you know me, I'd turn it in cause it's all about the karma baby!
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So my friends found 4 crisp $100 dollar bills in Tiffany's in Las Vegas. They gave the security guard their phone number and said if any one reported missing the money to call them. How do you feel about that?
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$20, I'd guess the person did not know they lost it, and chances are, would NOT go in to the store to ask if anyone found it. How would you know if the person you turned it in to, would not just pocket it? If you do turn it in, what happens if no one does claim it?
I admit, I'd pocket it, but try to spend it in a way that would not be all about "me".
BTW, I lost a $20 bill in the parking lot at Wal-Mart, anyone find one? ;-)
I'm sorta with Ash & Trigger. If there's no reasonable way to identify the owner in the parking lot, taking it to the service desk would almost certainly not result in its being returned to the rightful owner, only the customer service employee (and I don't particularly mean any disrespect to CSRs).
I think the idea of 'paying it forward' is a great idea - buy the person behind you a McMuffin, put it in the church plate, whatever.
Now, for found 'non-cash' property that can be identified somehow - sure, I'd take it to lost and found.
I have many times returned excess change (coin or bills) to a cashier when I've received too much back. Exception: when the amount was small $2-$3, and I didn't realize it until I was in the car, and I would've had to stand in line at the service desk for 10 minutes to return it.
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