you lose a $100 bill. I find it an hour later. Whose money is it?

[private_ryan]

legally, not what's the right thing. I don't want to give it back, you can prove it was yours and that you lost it.

[Superfly]

1. It's yours

...until _proven_ otherwise

[private_ryan]

3. "you can prove it was yours and that you lost it"

n/t

[Superfly]

5. You *can* prove it...

and that's why I said "until proven". You would have to seek legal recourse to reclaim the bill. Otherwise, all you have is a case of "It's mine, give it back!"

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

13. This reponse reminds me of a joke

A little old lady goes to a probate lawyer to draw up a will. She tells the lawyer all she has is a 100 dollar bill and that she would like to leave it to her son.

The lawyer says, "Lady, it will COST you $100 to draw up the will!"

She states, "That's O.K., just do it. I want my son to know that I thought of him."


As she leaves his office and walks to her car, the lawyer is rubbing the $100 bill together and notices it is actually TWO $100 bills matted together.

He then says to himself, "NOw I have an ethical dilemma!


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DO I tell my partner about this or not?"

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. It's yours unless it is under my chair or you saw me drop it

under those conditions, you are dishonest. If it is just there..live and learn.

[Cat Atomic]

4. If the $100 bill doesn't come back on it's own,

it never loved me to begin with.

[Virgil]

6. It is mine

If I lost it, it is mine.

If I found it, it is mine.

[radwriter0555]

7. Possession is 9/10's of the law.

Is how that works.

Then let your conscience be your guide.

Frankly, it's only money.

[private_ryan]

10. it's a hypothetical question

I didn't find anything.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

8. it's whoever found it's

no boohooing. if youre lucky, the person who found it is nice. Of course, if its 162 million dollars, well - it's Johnnie Cochran time.

[CanuckAmok]

9. It's mine.

I don't mean "mine" in the sense of being the guy who lost it, rather "mine" in the sense of reading this post and being the All-Powerful Master of Time and Space (TM).

[DuctapeFatwa]

11. How many more do I have, and how hungry are you?

;)

[TrogL]

12. Nobody's

It's not worth the paper it's printed on. It belongs to the government. It's "tender" not having any intrinsic value of its own unless somebody is willing to involve himself in the process.

[private_ryan]

14. I see

so you can't buy groceries or clothes with it?

[TrogL]

24. if the vendor is willing to accept it

then it has the same intrinsic "value" as "mall bucks"

[cosmicdot]

26. I'm thinking that's when the 'willing to involve' comes into play

as long as if someone is willing to accept it 'as money', it'll work

i.e., Confederate dollars

[ElsewheresDaughter]

15. seriously if ya found it at Bon Ton' s in Newburgh Mall, NY in the ladies

undergarment department on or around Dec. 20, 2003 (i was shopping for thongs/hieney floss for my 23 year old daughter)......it's mine...seriously i dropped a $100 bill there....i just hoped that whomever found it was a needy person and that it blessed them and theirs at christmas time :7

...my daughter didn't get any heiney floss in her stocking...sigh

[tabasco]

16. Legally, it still belongs to the person who lost it.

However, you have greater rights to possession than everybody in the world except the person who lost it.

[Deja Q]

17. Gotta advertise the lost $ or give it to the police... after 2 weeks or

whatever, then it's yours if it's not claimed.

That's what multiple US sitcoms have said in the past, so it's probably the truth. :D

[private_ryan]

18. hey, if it's on TV it must true :)

I wanted to know the legality of it (they said that the $162 million ticket is like cash) and the last two answers did it.

[noonwitch]

19. Finders, keepers

If it's in a wallet, however, it's a different story.

[DS1]

20. Hey, it's your dental bill

Giving back the $100 would be cheaper in the long run.

[private_ryan]

22. huh?

n/t

[LuLu550]

21. I found $200 in cash and tried to turn it in to the cops

it was in a mall parking lot. I felt bad because I thought maybe some teenager lost it..it was around Christmas. The cop didn't even want to take the report, let alone the money. When his supervisor came in and asked what the problem was, the supervisor misunderstood and thought I lost the money...he said..."Forget it lady, if you lost cash nobody is going to turn it in." After I corrected him, he told me I was nuts. We agreed I would keep the money and leave my phone number and if anyone came in within 90 days saying they lost two $100 bills I would give it back. Nobody ever came in, so I got to keep it, but my conscience would not let me just take it without trying to find out who lost it.

[bif]

23. Depends on how big you are

n/t

[Pobeka]

25. Either way it's Dubya's

Until we get his keester out of the White House and get someone with morals back in there!

[jimbo fett]

27. It's mine unless I have a way of identifying you (ie. it's in a wallet)