Samaritan or Cynic?

I, despite fantasies of being a good little consumer, would have done the same thing as you and handed it into the branch.

It sucks having a conscience.

Yes, very nice, but I would have done it too, not only my conscience bothering me, but knowing the camera saw me do it!

With the camera, I would definitely have turned it in. Without it, I would really be torn. I feel so dirty.

I would have taken the money inside. Just cause I’d hope someone would do the same for me if I ever became a grade-a idiot for a minute. But later I would have kind of regretted not keeping it and buying that new Coach bag I have my eye on haha.

I would have taken the cash inside, mainly because the bank can easily track down who it belongs to and recredit/redeposit the amount.

Plus the whole camera thing.

If I found $300 on the sidewalk, well, that’s a different story.

And I have been known to not go back into a store after noticing that the clerk forgot to scan a fairly expensive item (usually forgotten to be scanned while they made sure I wasn’t trying to steal anything, oh the irony)

So, now that the camera has seen you taking the money out of the machine, has it also seen you give it to the bank worker?

Maybe he just pocketed it.

Interesting.

Without a camera would you have done the same thing? Me, without a camera and no-one around I’d have pocketed it. As you say, if anyone is that daft…

But in the presence of others, camera or not, I think I’d have handed it in.

Gosh, that’s alarmingly honest of me.

I would have turned it in, camera or no, because the guilt of taking the money would have been too much to bear.

Yeah, me and guilt, we get along pretty well.

Due to the camera being there, I would have returned the money too.

Gawd, but the money.. heheh..

being on the receiving end of a banking error — i would have turned the cash in.

(BofA deposited a big check written to me…to some other account! it is their error. if only the person who received a 4 digit amount of cash would just pipe up and say “this isn’t my money!”)

The camera makes it tricky, but if you don’t ever enter your *own* pin and stuff, it would make it hard to find you out.

I might have given it away too, but mostly from fear of being found out.

this one time, I’m waiting in the car while my girlfriend is asking for directions at the Dunkin’ Donuts.

This girl passes by, tlaking on her phone. She dropped her wallet.

I waited till she was out of sight, grabbed her wallet. Didn’t have much in it, a student driver’s license and A HUNDRED BUCKS!

So I kept it, never told GF, threw the wallet in the trash.

If I ever lose my own, I’ll expect the same.

The same thing as you. The dishonesty would have hung over my head for months to come.

Tempting, but I’d have to side with you Lance. I would return the money to the bank… however, without the camera, my morals might not be so strong.

Money on the street would be a different story.

Who the hell leaves money in the bank machine dispenser, but remembers to take their card?

I once did something really “good” like that once. Later when a staff member stole from one of the other staff members, everyone knew it wasn’t me! Karma baby.
Good for you.

I would have done the same damn thing you did. Damn my decent upbringing!

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$300? I am recently wealthy after years of being poor. It took about a day for me to forget the years of poverty. $300 chump change, I spend at least half that every night on dinner. Double on the weekend? I may have taken it and filled up the tank of my hummer, just for the irony and a story to tell over a bottle of wine.
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Wow…
I would have turned the money in, but then would have obsessed for months about the situation — what happened to make someone take his card and leave the ATM before the cash was dispensed? Something horrible? Something wonderful? What?

Richard (of the hummer — thanks for the global warming, dirtbag!) and Marc (budding mugger) are pigs. I hope Richard soon goes back to being poverty-stricken. Just because you suddenly have good-fortune and are financially comfortable doesn’t meen you have to suddenly start emulating the worst elements in society (namely Arnold Schwartzenegger and George “Dubya” Bush)!!! Marc, maybe you should see a psychiatrist about your sociopathic tendencies. It isn’t only about being “honest” it’s about not being an asshole to another human being! Thank you Lance, and the other folks, for having some decency in this ever-declining world.