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Title: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: bradistani on December 27, 2011, 11:31:04 AM
a few months ago i found £10 plus some change in a wallet on the floor of a car park. i kept the money, but tbh, i felt fucking awful about doing so. 10 grand though. thats a lot of coin. plus a lot of guilt  :-\

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GREENWOOD VILLAGE - Nobody expects to become a saint in Sin City. Mitch Gilbert may have come close.

Gilbert had a winning weekend in Las Vegas in early December, but he came upon some really big money at the airport as he was about to catch a flight home.

Gilbert found $10,000 in two unmarked Caesar's Palace envelopes.

"There was $5,000 in each envelope. I just about fell over, I couldn't believe it," Gilbert said.

He discovered the cash when he opened the envelopes at his home in Greenwood Village.

"If it happened to me I sure would want that back," Gilbert said.

Some may have thought they hit the jackpot, but Gilbert knew he had to return the money.

"I wanted to show my kids the right thing to do. It would have been a lot easier keeping it to be honest with you. But I felt like I had to get it back to the right person," Gilbert said.

He called the airport in Las Vegas, but they would not even take down his name.

"They didn't do that. It was against the rules. I just said, 'Well, I'll keep calling back and I'll give it 30 days,'" Gilbert said.

Gilbert kept his word to continue calling the airport. More than two weeks later, the operator told him a man in El Paso, Texas reported losing two Caesar's Palace envelopes full of cash.

"She goes, 'Well, this is breaking the rules, but you're trying to do the right thing,'" Gilbert said.

9NEWS reached Ignacio Marquez by telephone from his home in El Paso. Marquez says he won the money gambling and dropped it as he was running to catch a flight.

"Relief is an understatement. Cash money is very difficult to get back. I'm very appreciative to Mitch and his family. You do not find people like this," Marquez said.

Marquez knew the odds of someone actually returning $10,000 were pretty slim.

"I will always thank Mitch for doing this. That could have easily just gone south, instead of what happened," Marquez said.

Gilbert deposited the money in Marquez's bank account just two days before Christmas.

"I think he was pretty much in shock. I don't know if he believed it," Gilbert said.

Even though Gilbert's real estate business is slow, he says returning the money was the only option.

"I would have loved to have $10,000. You think about all the bills you can pay. But it didn't belong to me," Gilbert said. "It felt so good to be able to get it back to the guy. I felt like I was floating on air. I felt like a million bucks."

http://www.9news.com/news/article/238021/222/Colorado-man-finds-10K-in-Vegas-returns-to-owner
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Nomad on December 27, 2011, 11:41:40 AM
buy more drugs - up the dosage
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: hematocritter on December 27, 2011, 11:48:09 AM
Props to him.
too many greedy fucks in this world, nice to see someone giving back what is not theirs.

Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: nosleep on December 27, 2011, 11:51:18 AM
THATS A LOT OF KIGTROPINA.

 :D
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: apply85 on December 27, 2011, 11:55:07 AM
i've had the opportunity to not return much more money than 10k
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Dr Dutch on December 27, 2011, 11:56:01 AM
i've had the opportunity to not return much more money than 10k
You mean you stole a car ?
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Wiggs on December 27, 2011, 11:57:01 AM
You mean you stole a car ?

 L ;D L
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: The_Punisher on December 27, 2011, 12:01:50 PM
if I lost a huge sum of money and some human being returned it to me, I would surely reward you greatly.......stories like these are Golden and one in a million.....I'm sure this guy would lose something one day and someone with a kind heart would return it to him..........now, if you find money in an envelope in the street with no name, no owner, it's yours...that's totally different sitiation
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: mass243 on December 27, 2011, 12:02:11 PM

I would rent a car and drive through the Vegas waving a flag from window throwing that 10k out of skylight bill by bill !!

Then they would think I'm rich  8) 8)


Then I would fly back home with memories to remember in rocking chair when I'm retired.  
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: BILL ANVIL on December 27, 2011, 12:04:59 PM
if someone loses 10k, it probably wasnt their last bit of coin so I wouldnt lose any sleep over spending it on blow and hookers
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: The_Punisher on December 27, 2011, 12:05:03 PM
I would rent a car and drive through the Vegas waving a flag from window throwing that 10k out of skylight bill by bill !!

Then they would think I'm rich  8) 8)


Then I would fly back home with memories to remember in rocking chair when I'm retired.  

that's if you're not followed home and make it there in one piece
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Swede! on December 27, 2011, 12:40:48 PM
Returned a Iphone 4s a week ago or so. Old swede would have kept it. Then again i found it just outside the building I live in.
Called "mother" on the phone and she responded "Hi darling" lol. The phone belonged to a visiting sister to my neighbor that just leaved earlier that day. I was called an Awesome person and got about a million thank you. I even said no to a reward. I told her she should give her kid an extra gift instead of giving me anything.

TEAM KARMA

TEAM POSITIVITY BABY
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Swlabr on December 27, 2011, 12:43:39 PM
yes...would...have...kep t..it...and..bought...10 0...kits...kigtropin...
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Agnostic007 on December 27, 2011, 12:44:10 PM
It's not mine, I would return it if it is  possible to locate the owner. If it is about turning it in and eventually it going to a local  government general fund, I'd rather keep it.  
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: bradistani on December 27, 2011, 12:44:58 PM
Returned a Iphone 4s a week ago or so. Old swede would have kept it. Then again i found it just outside the building I live in.
Called "mother" on the phone and she responded "Hi darling" lol. The phone belonged to a visiting sister to my neighbor that just leaved earlier that day. I was called an Awesome person and got about a million thank you. I even said no to a reward. I told her she should give her kid an extra gift instead of giving me anything.

TEAM KARMA

TEAM POSITIVITY BABY

the buzz and great feeling you get from doing the right thing is better than the fleeting buzz you get from keeping the phone/money, whatever it is.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Swede! on December 27, 2011, 12:48:10 PM
the buzz and great feeling you get from doing the right thing is better than the fleeting buzz you get from keeping the phone/money, whatever it is.

It took a while until she could come an pick it up. And during that time Her sister called, which I talked to and said the phone is safe with me. And then her Bf called lol. And then the Sister called her own phone (owner of the phone) and said "oh you wonderful person" when I picked up. Awesome feeling for sure. Was pretty close to xmas also.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: El Diablo Blanco on December 27, 2011, 12:48:31 PM
If there was a name or ID with it then YES.  But unmarked.  No fucking way.  The fact this guy went out of his way to call over and over is cool.  I wouldn't have.  I would have extended my trip and called up some of those hot trannies, whores you see in those local papers and had a blast.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Coach is Back! on December 27, 2011, 01:22:43 PM
Return it of course!
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Dr Dutch on December 27, 2011, 01:25:17 PM
Return it of course!
x2 that's more like it.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: El Diablo Blanco on December 27, 2011, 02:56:12 PM
Return it of course!

Unmarked.  Who do you return it to?  Would you have called the airport everyday?  Or hand it over to the black guy that works at the counter who swears on his dead mom he will help find the rightful owner?  Come one man.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: haider on December 27, 2011, 02:59:03 PM
Same thoughts as the guy who returned it- I would not want to lose that much money, so I would return it if possible. You would also have to consider the possibility that the person who lost it really needs the money (for example, for funding a relatives cancer treatment). You would have to be a pretty heartless person to not return it, i.e. your parents probably neglected you as a child.

Also boys who got picked on by others during childhood and adolescence -often sons without a father figure- try to compensate by lifting weights, to develop muscles and survive in ther male world. They re insecure because they re girly, childish, feminine having been raised by a single mom. They lift obsessively hoping it will transform them into men, to compensate for their lack of influence from a father figure that was not there. Unfortunaltey they can get as big as they can it doesnt cure their insecurity and who they truly are, how they grew up being raised by a single mom. They re no as manly as other men whatever they do, and they often have a big lack of masculine presence they dont know how to balance, hence often being borderline homosexuals while trying to get their manhood back thru various manly activities (mma, cars, weight lifting etc). They are often the ones that, in order to get respect from other males will go the steroids route to get even "bigger" attemptint to cure their insecurity , but being natural not being "enough", they still feel "too small", insecure, amongst other males. The lack of a father figure also often means they didnt have guidance to continue studies and are often working shitty manual jobs.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: haider on December 27, 2011, 03:02:57 PM
Unmarked.  Who do you return it to?  Would you have called the airport everyday?  Or hand it over to the black guy that works at the counter who swears on his dead mom he will help find the rightful owner?  Come one man.
Contact some one higher up in the chain, obviously you should proceed with caution and try to do the right thing. There is zero chance of the money getting back to the guy if you keep it, but there is at least some chance if you return it. The money doesn't belong to you, so you shouldn't be worrying about where it ends up that much.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: arce1988 on December 27, 2011, 03:06:24 PM
 every hand is a winner...and every hand is a loser...
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: no one on December 27, 2011, 04:43:32 PM
Unmarked.  Who do you return it to?  Would you have called the airport everyday?  Or hand it over to the black guy that works at the counter who swears on his dead mom he will help find the rightful owner?  Come one man.

racist post reported.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: che on December 27, 2011, 04:50:43 PM
Keep it of course
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: makaveli25 on December 27, 2011, 04:53:44 PM
If it was that important he wouldn't of lost it  ;D
I would have crates of shering primo and a fridge full of ghona  :D
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: dr.chimps on December 27, 2011, 04:54:08 PM
Return it of course!

Keep it of course

 ;D
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: lovemonkey on December 27, 2011, 04:58:58 PM
Lets add a twist to it:

What if you knew that the person who dropped it happens to be a millionaire poker player?
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: dr.chimps on December 27, 2011, 05:01:32 PM
Lets add a twist to it:

What if you knew that the person who dropped it happens to be a millionaire poker player?
Still theft, but I'd be sorely tempted to make an anonymous donation to the local Humane Society. 
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: haider on December 27, 2011, 05:02:11 PM
Still theft, but I'd be sorely tempted to make an anonymous donation to the local Humane Society. 
and what if you weren't an MD making 6 figures either?  :D
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: dr.chimps on December 27, 2011, 05:04:49 PM
and what if you weren't an MD making 6 figures either?  :D
Probably the same. I'm a little loopy, that way.    ;D
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: che on December 27, 2011, 05:15:11 PM
Lets add a twist to it:

What if you knew that the person who dropped it happens to be a millionaire poker player?

Keep it .


Lets add  a bodybuilding twist to it :

What if  that was Tom  Prince's life savings  for his kidney transplant .
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Coach is Back! on December 27, 2011, 05:18:35 PM
Unmarked.  Who do you return it to?  Would you have called the airport everyday?  Or hand it over to the black guy that works at the counter who swears on his dead mom he will help find the rightful owner?  Come one man.

There's a legal process for things like this. Do the right thing. It's a matter of integrity. Either you have it or you don't. If you don't you're not to be trusted for anything. 
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Coach is Back! on December 27, 2011, 05:19:19 PM
Keep it of course

See above post.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: che on December 27, 2011, 05:27:13 PM
It's a matter of integrity.

Haha ,says the guy who quit posting 2 days ago  ::)
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: lovemonkey on December 27, 2011, 05:29:41 PM
Haha ,says the guy who quit posting 2 days ago  ::)

lmao yeah, what a drama queen.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: haider on December 27, 2011, 05:30:38 PM
Haha ,says the guy who quit posting 2 days ago  ::)
10k is pocket change for The Coach, plus this shows he is not a quitter
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Coach is Back! on December 27, 2011, 05:47:28 PM
Haha ,says the guy who quit posting 2 days ago  ::)

You guys make it difficult to not respond to stupidity.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Coach is Back! on December 27, 2011, 05:48:08 PM
10k is pocket change for The Coach, plus this shows he is not a quitter

Wouldn't make a difference whether I needed or not. Do the right thing.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: haider on December 27, 2011, 07:19:18 PM
Wouldn't make a difference whether I needed or not. Do the right thing.
what do you think a typical liberal would do in such a situation?
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: kiwiol on December 27, 2011, 07:49:14 PM
Unmarked.  Who do you return it to?  Would you have called the airport everyday?  Or hand it over to the black guy that works at the counter who swears on his dead mom he will help find the rightful owner?  Come one man.

I promise not to return your mom unmarked.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Quickerblade on December 28, 2011, 01:13:55 AM
I would return it.
I lost a envelope that had 2grand in it years ago whilst i was on the train, it slipped out my pocket, i got off the station and was chased by a asian lady and her partner..i think.

she gave me the envelope, i didnt know that it fell out, i opened the envelope and handed her $300 she refused to accept it, but i physically had to put it in her handbag.

Good Karma ever since

Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: booty on December 28, 2011, 05:18:14 AM
When I was 18, I found $500 dollars in a department store in a envelope.  I handed it in to the store manager. 
I would definitely return the money. 
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: newmom on December 28, 2011, 05:24:40 AM
even though my income has been cut dramatically lately, I'd still return it. Could be something for a child or along that lines.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: ChevChelios on December 28, 2011, 05:38:16 AM
No you won't think of how much cock you'd had to suck for 10k$,you'll keep it for sure.

I would keep it all and consider a sign from heaven to have 10k$ kigtropina in order to become a monster.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: apply85 on December 28, 2011, 04:32:34 PM
When I was 18, I found $500 dollars in a department store in a envelope.  I handed it in to the store manager. 
I would definitely return the money. 

u were probably pretty hot at eighteen. pics?
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: oldman on December 28, 2011, 04:48:21 PM
Is this some sort of admission or coming out party, did you breathe a sigh of relief?


Also boys who got picked on by others during childhood and adolescence -often sons without a father figure- try to compensate by lifting weights, to develop muscles and survive in ther male world. They re insecure because they re girly, childish, feminine having been raised by a single mom. They lift obsessively hoping it will transform them into men, to compensate for their lack of influence from a father figure that was not there. Unfortunaltey they can get as big as they can it doesnt cure their insecurity and who they truly are, how they grew up being raised by a single mom. They re no as manly as other men whatever they do, and they often have a big lack of masculine presence they dont know how to balance, hence often being borderline homosexuals while trying to get their manhood back thru various manly activities (mma, cars, weight lifting etc). They are often the ones that, in order to get respect from other males will go the steroids route to get even "bigger" attemptint to cure their insecurity , but being natural not being "enough", they still feel "too small", insecure, amongst other males. The lack of a father figure also often means they didnt have guidance to continue studies and are often working shitty manual jobs.
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Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Cashfan on December 28, 2011, 05:24:38 PM
As a true Getbigger, I couldnt be bothered to stop banging supermodels/flying my personal fighter jet/helping old ladies across the street/shaping world political policy/owning tiny tits, etc. to pick up the measly sum of 10k.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: HTexan on December 28, 2011, 07:48:24 PM
so he was scared it was mafia money?
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Tapeworm on December 29, 2011, 02:42:45 AM
It took a while until she could come an pick it up. And during that time Her sister called, which I talked to and said the phone is safe with me. And then her Bf called lol. And then the Sister called her own phone (owner of the phone) and said "oh you wonderful person" when I picked up. Awesome feeling for sure. Was pretty close to xmas also.

You kept answering all the calls?!
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Swede! on December 29, 2011, 11:20:33 AM
You kept answering all the calls?!

Ofc..  They were trying to find the phone and tried calling it..
And a ringing phone is annyoing as fuck.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Swlabr on December 29, 2011, 11:24:50 AM
Ofc..  They were trying to find the phone and tried calling it..
And a ringing phone is annyoing as fuck.

you're...a...good...fella... swede...respect...
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: lesaucer on December 29, 2011, 11:40:03 AM
i would have went to play poker with it until i gain 10k more, then give back 10k to the owner
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: The Abdominal Snoman on December 29, 2011, 11:40:58 AM
Return half so the positive and negative thoughts in your head equal out.  Even Stephen. Cops do this all the time when they bust drug dealers. I've heard one guy(cop) say that they like to always take 51% and report 49%. That way the good guys always have the upper hand.lol
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: The Abdominal Snoman on December 29, 2011, 11:49:30 AM
Interesting question to think "lost" money or anything is theft. There have been treasure hunters who spend millions of dollars to hunt in the oceans around the globe who are looking for other peoples "lost" treasures. Some have even been brought to court and forced to pay the bloodline of the so called owners treasure lost at sea hundreds of years ago.  If you find and Indian arrow head in the woods. Is it theft to take it? How much time has to pass before something is truly considered "lost"...
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Tapeworm on December 29, 2011, 01:32:27 PM
I'd invest it conservatively in a diversified portfolio and send the owner a yearly dividend.
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: The Abdominal Snoman on December 30, 2011, 12:35:36 PM
I'd invest it conservatively in a diversified portfolio and send the owner a yearly dividend.

lolz
Title: Re: Man finds $10K in Vegas, returns to owner- what would you do ?
Post by: Stavios on December 30, 2011, 01:33:11 PM
to be honest I would return the money, it happened to me a few times and I always returned it (not 10k tho..)