If you found someone else's stash........

I read a story where someone posed a similar question. He'd found a stash of firearms.........

 

If it were a Roman Stash I'd keep it. Just like an old mate who's past on, he found a certain boat & it was full of silver. It took some time to notify the authorities. Well he only kept the really good ones.

 

There seems to be a whole lot of really honest people on here :/ :/

 

In the bush, no contact details. Keep it.
In the bush, with contact details. Send them a thank you card and a box of tissues.

 

I'd leave it alone and not touch any of it.

That is of course unless it was clearly some kind of antique find (ie like a horde of pirate treasure). Given Australia's fairly short history, however, the propects of it being a horde of antique pirate treasure vs the prospects of it being a living persons current stash are small.

 

then use you charting skillz and speculate with it and when they come back in 12mo to claim just give them the original amount

 

I would do everything in my power to find the owner and return it free of charge. Serious. But that is just me.

 

Did you have a history of possess stolen property etc.?

This seems absurd to me...

 

I would eat as many coins as I could just in case they turned up and I could say I just got there and when they noticed the rolls of gold roosters were gone and lunar dragons and horses than I showed them there was nothing in pockets the only conclusion would be someone beat me there first.

 

You'd have to ask yourself "will I sleep easily tonight if I take this person's hard-earned?" You wouldn't want that metal to become a Tell-Tale Heart sitting in your stack.

If you would have trouble sleeping due to excitement over the new expansion of your stack that's another thing altogether.

 

I'd say

Guilty until proven innocent @_@



Now regarding the thread topic:

I'd hire a helicopter with some of the stash and use it to scatter the remaining contents to the people below.

 

I felt sorry to hear about this MatrixOpals; I kept remembering this story over the weekend...
I came to the conclusion that if I ever lose something valuable then I hope somebody like you finds it.

(shudder) No way!

For those who don't know Poe, read this...
http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/tell-tale-heart.html

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(~~~if you dare~~~)

 

Like grinners, I couldn't live with myself if I didn't hand it in. It's just the way I am and the beliefs I hold.

 

This article in the local rag, maybe you should'nt keep the stash !

 

maybe you shouldn't let the wife know

 

Its happened to you? Twice???? Do tell!!!

 

Do you think she had an axe to grind ?

 

dig it all out and bury it in another location for myself....

seriously.. leave it... karma...

 

So he got fined 3k for having 500k+ worth of coins.......did he get to keep the coins? (I'd pressume not)

 

I guess not, off to the Maritime Museum they go.....Do you think he will suffer greatly given that abalone is worth about the same price as Silver these days ?