Moses, a supermarket bagger, says the bible inspired him to return $10,000 in cash he found in his store's bathroom. Moses explained: "I teach at Sunday school with 10-year-old kids and I always tell them to do the right thing."
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CNN deemed Moses' action so unusually generous that it sent a reporter to the store to discuss his decision making process. But perhaps choosing to return the money isn't so surprising. Despite the lure of free money, $10,000 on a bathroom floor seems a little fishy. Maybe Moses didn't want to get mixed up in any trouble, since someone would probably come looking for the cash.
What would you do if you found $10,000 in a bathroom?
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I would keep it in a heartbeat. Just being honest.
1Well wait a minute let me read the article.
2Alright, I'd probably have kept it and waited to see if anyone asked for it back. But ummmm....I don't believe the guy about having the money because he was "moving." It sounds like some shady dealings to me.
3I'm confused as to why someone would bring $10,000 to a grocery. I mean, I eat a lot, but I've not ever racked up that large of a shopping bill.
4I would return it. Not only because some large sums of cash typically are ill-gotten, which can get me in trouble, but also because that's just my nature.
Besides, if it were meant to be, it would be. Que sera sera.
5i would keep it. no doubt in my mind.
6"But perhaps choosing to return the money isn't so surprising. Despite the lure of free money, $10,000 on a bathroom floor seems a little fishy. Maybe Moses didn't want to get mixed up in any trouble, since someone would probably come looking for the cash"
Um there is no "perhaps" he did the right thing because his faith teaches him to, not because something looked "fishy"
7CG totally beat me to it. I'd rather focus on how awesome it is that he returned the money instead of trying to discredit his motives.
8I'm not sure what I would have done. I probably would have kept it but given at least 7 grand of it to the HSUS. I'd try to rationalize that giving a big chunk to charity is a more noble way to spend the money than however the original owner would have chosen to. Oh, I don't know...
I lost a very expensive diamond cross a few years ago that I wish more than anything that whomever it was that found it would have been honest enough to turn in knowing that it might have some sentimental value to the person who lost it.
Tempting as it might have been to keep it, I would have returned that money in a heartbeat.....
9Im with HarmonyFrance, I probably would have kept it.
10I don't know what I would do, I have not been in that situation before. I have found about $600 before and looked for the person who lost it, but $10,000??
11I probably would have kept it, but also given a large amount to some charity, to ease my mind
12I probably would've kept it, and given most of it to the "help UnDave get a HD television with a kickass surround sound" foundation.
13Yeah mine would've been the "keep Harmony housed and fed fund."
14I could keep you housed and fed for a lot less HF, but you'd have to come live in WI...
15Somehow I don't think your wife would like that UD, but thanks for the offer.
16I'm hoping I would return it, but who knows unless something like that actually happens.
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18I'll echo comments 7 & 8....
19Is there anything in this story to warrant such a cynical remark?
I think I'm a little too emancipated to be a career nanny. (Not that there's anything wrong with that. Calm down people!) I'm still out chasing my "dream" after all. I HATE that turn of phrase.
20When I mentioned there was something fishy I wasn't implying that that is why he didn't take the money. I just meant it seemed fishy that that was the guy's moving money, but whatever.
21I agree that 10 thou cash seems fishy so I would definitely return it out of fear of getting caught in the middle of something violent... did anyone watch "No Country for Old Men"??
22Is it really so unusual to do the right thing?
23No way would I keep it. I probably wouldn't even touch it - I'd call security or the police. Don't want my fingerprints on it - don't know how it got there and where it came from originally.
24Yeah...I'm not that good of a person. I would have kept it.
25HF- We're all talking about Liberty's original post, not yours about how the original money-man seems fishy. =)
26You can't keep that. It's illegal and immoral. That could have been somebody's life savings (more likely something shady, but you never know).
27Furthermore, if it is from something shady, then you're implicated in the crime. It's not only wrong to keep it, it's dangerous and stupid.
28Well call me dangerous and stupid then because I am pretty sure if faced with this situation I would keep the money.
29Ahhhh gotcha. Thanks foxie.
30You could add 'selfish' to that list.
31No matter how tempted I would be- I know myself. I would return every dollar and cent. I believe in karma and I would feel terrible if this was someone's life savings or something equally sad. (And while it does seem odd that 10,000 is brought to the grocery store- who knows the reason. Maybe it is ransom money.)
32Whenever someone loses something, it becomes the property of whomever finds it. Such is the well established legal doctrine of the English commonlaw "finders keepers, losers weepers."
33I'm an atheist and I always turn in lost wallets/money. I'm a moral person; it has nothing to do with faith. I'd want others to do the same for me - and in fact, the few times I've lost my purse or wallet, people have been so kind as to turn them in.
I've twice turned in money found at my places of employment in the past (dropped, etc.), and in both cases, within 2 weeks no one had come to inquire about lost cash (they would ask the person for the specific amount, if someone were to claim they lost it), so I've received it.
34When I worked in retail I found a pretty hefty pair of diamond earrings in the womens dressing room. I returned them. Turned out they were family heirlooms, and worth probably $10k. The thought didn't even cross my mind to keep them, I was 19...it would be pretty obvious that they weren't mine. I would've done the same if I found the cash.
The craptastic part of this story is that the woman wanted to give me a reward, but the store didn't allow their employees to accept cash rewards.
So she called our local newspaper and surprised me with flowers and balloons.
35"but the store didn't allow their employees to accept cash rewards"
36Boo!
That's really sweet blue.
37I think it would be easy for me to return a lost wallet or jewelry... but a bag of $10000? That would pay off my car and pad my savings... I don't know if I could turn that in...
38I said "boo" too! Worked my butt off for $6.50/hr and I couldn't get a reward for my good deed!
39definitely return it since it is not mine, i preach to my children daily about the value of money and you only deserve it if you earn it or it was given, i dont care if it is a penny or a million dollars, i remember losing my purse my wallet in there with 900 cash(christmas shopping) and someone found it and kept the money and mailed me my social security card, licence and pictures and kept the rest, i hope that money was put to good use whoever found it, im glad they didnt mess up my credit
40I would turn it in, and I am not surprised by the many people who say they would not. It is why America is the way it is now, every man for himself...
41i know its not entirely legal... but i would have kept the money and donated the entire sum to a food bank. stealing from the rich to feed the poor has always been a dream of mine.
42I would return it as I have this theory that if you keep money that is not yours karma has a way of taking it back from you when you least expect it, even when I get extra change I give it back.
43I would have gave it back. It wasn't mine to begin with.
One of the news shows did a test where they had an armored car drop a bag of "cash" to see what people would do. There really wasn't any cash in the bag and there was a hidden TV camera crew to capture the actions of the people. The armored car would go down the road and as they turned a corner someone would swing the door open and throw out the bag. They did this in front of 13 people, one person at a time. These were just random people on the street, going about their daily lives. Interestingly enough, all 13 people who witnessed the dropped money returned it.
44If it had been me, I probably would've returned the $6,000 in the bag, that the man lost.
45Vinigritte, it has to do with this guys faith though, thats why we are talking about it.
46Well, Michelin, I never said what I would have done with it. So I won't add selfish to the list. If I found a wallet with ID in it, I would return that to it's rightful owner. If I found an unmarked bag of cash, I would keep it, wait a while to see if anyone came out and said they lost a bag of cash at the supermarket, if so I would return it to the rightful owner. If it was not possible to determine who that was, I would keep it.
47Apparently, owning $10,000 makes someone rich. I had no idea.
48There's no way that I would have kept that money. I agree with Vinigrette that you don't need to be religious to be moral, but hey — no matter why he turned it in, it was the right choice. He seems like a good egg.
49At a street fair I spotted a purse tucked into a dark corner. I made my friends stop and went over to it, and it had credit cards and some jewelry in it- no cash. No police were to be found (oddly) so I called a friend to google the name from the driver's license, and were able to get ahold of the girl's parents. Apparently it had been stolen from her during the festival, but she was still around so we were able to meet up with her. She was just a college student like us, and she was SO happy to get that purse back! That was a good feeling.
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