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Old 10-28-2007, 10:14 AM   #1
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This reminds me of an article I read in newspaper last week about a woman who found a painting in a trash in NYC a few years ago , and found out that it was stolen and was an expensive painting from a Mexican artist. A man brought it for his wife as a present many years ago and it was stolen. She returned the painting and is being auction off in at Sotheby's auction house for one million dollars.. She will be getting a finders fee of 15,000 and I believe they say Sothebys is giving her a reward also..


http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/sto...-painting.html
Wow Gina, that was a great article! It would be really exciting to find out that a piece of "trash" was actually a long lost $1 million treasure!
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Old 10-28-2007, 01:24 PM   #2
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LOL - I posted to this thread not being able to read the article so not fully understanding the story behind the money or the question as to what to do with it. So NOW that I know, it changes a lot....


Yes, first id try to find the owner of the money. Of course I would...And if nobody claimed it Id go back to my first answer/post of buying land, building a barn, a junker truckfor work stuff, and the list goes on and on.
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Old 10-28-2007, 07:00 PM   #3
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It fell off the truck? That sounds pretty fishy to me. It might have been meant for someone else to pick up and split with the driver. I think the bank should give her a nice reward.

I'm assuming this is a small town. I don't know if that would happen in NYC. My bank charges $30 for a bounced check! I wouldn't run to give them money back.

I certainly do admire her values and I have returned a pocketbook I found and some money I found in a bank once ($6). The bank officer looked at me like I was nuts, because I found it on the floor. I was a young woman and was raised with those values.

Things have changed now - like I said, this is NYC, banks charge you when you use an ATM, on top of the fee you pay the ATM, enormous fees for cancelled checks, bounced checks, oxygen use when standing on line, etc.

In a small town, yes - I would return it. There's a different economy in a small town.
In NYC, I'm not so sure.
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Old 10-29-2007, 04:02 AM   #4
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It fell off the truck? That sounds pretty fishy to me. It might have been meant for someone else to pick up and split with the driver. I think the bank should give her a nice reward.

I'm assuming this is a small town. I don't know if that would happen in NYC. My bank charges $30 for a bounced check! I wouldn't run to give them money back.

I certainly do admire her values and I have returned a pocketbook I found and some money I found in a bank once ($6). The bank officer looked at me like I was nuts, because I found it on the floor. I was a young woman and was raised with those values.

Things have changed now - like I said, this is NYC, banks charge you when you use an ATM, on top of the fee you pay the ATM, enormous fees for cancelled checks, bounced checks, oxygen use when standing on line, etc.

In a small town, yes - I would return it. There's a different economy in a small town.
In NYC, I'm not so sure.
I totally get what you are saying about this. There's a lot of factors that take play in the decision as to how to handle a money situation like this.

Let's say I was riding my 4-wheeler out in the country here. I then came across some unmarked bag filled with cash. Honestly, yes Id probably keep it. Most likely that cash out here would have been in the hands of some meth drug operation dealer and they should not have had that cash to begin with OR doing drugs. So right or wrong Id be keeping me some cash. Again, it just all boils down to the situation.
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Old 10-29-2007, 08:09 AM   #5
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Seriously, I wasn't born yesterday nor do I think if I actually turn it in, that it will make it to it's rightful owner. I would ONLY give it back if I found the rightful owner myself. I would NEVER go to the police or anyone else because people are very dishonest and you never know who's good and who's not. So I would make an effort to find the owner myself and if I couldn't I would keep it. I would never turn it in because it would end up in some officers pocket the minute I walked out.
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Old 10-29-2007, 09:56 AM   #6
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I haven't had the experience of the police being dishonest. I think if you turn it in and it isn't claimed within a certain time you may have dibs on it. Not sure if those laws are still around. But I know when we were really broke at one point, I lost $40 at the supermarket. I called them but it was never turned in. The following week a friend found $40 at the same market and didn't turn it in - it wasn't my money but I thought she was quite mean to whomever had lost it. That $40 bucks I lost was so critical to us.
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In a large city, I don't think anyone would ever think to go to the police if they lost $40. Like Sheryl said, it all depends on the situation.
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