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- wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -9/+214"Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy." -George Carlin
- wisam, on 10/11/2007, -22/+215In Islam, whoever finds an object and returns it to its owner is entitled 10% of it's value. $1700 would have been a good reward.
- SteelChicken, on 10/11/2007, -2/+120Honesty is a long term investment, not a short term one.
- AdvancedSoul, on 10/11/2007, -7/+113you probably wouldn't be saying that if you lost the $17,000.
- carpespasm, on 10/11/2007, -4/+97altruism ftw. good on the guy, wish the guy he returned the money to had been much more generous.
- shauncorleone, on 10/11/2007, -6/+98Ah yes, a submitted title that promotes thievery. That's what we need. Lying and deception are smart, after all.
If the guy had kept the money, he would have been caught eventually. Returning it was a smart and noble decision. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+99Who walks around with $17k in their pocket? Well, other than drug dealers and so on.
- nunquam, on 10/11/2007, -6/+89Ah well, at least Karma has his back.
- aussieNickuss, on 10/11/2007, -0/+76The lady who tried to buy a heap of iPhones.
- NSMike, on 10/11/2007, -1/+65I don't know, I'd rather be honest and able to sleep at night than pilfer someone else's money they left behind by mistake.
- SpideyC, on 10/11/2007, -4/+65The title of this post is disgusting... honesty is never stupid, honesty is what keeps the poison of lies and deceit from eating away at us... this guy has got some good kharma coming his way... anyone who says they would've taken the $17G's, just hope you never lose something in the vacinity of other people like yourselves...
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -43/+104Unless the finder is an atheist, Hindu, Buddhist or pagan in which case they would get their head cut off in accordance with the same Islamic law. A Christian or Jew would probably just be beaten.
- EBFoxbat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+53$17,000 in cash in a bag in the Philippines, you're ***** nuts if you don't turn that back in. They'd never find the body.
- Digitalfilm43, on 10/11/2007, -26/+73I'd tell him I only found $15,000.
- pradvan, on 10/11/2007, -3/+48so maybe he actually found $20,000? =D
- tehbored, on 10/11/2007, -4/+48Which means $17,000 goes a much loooonger way.
- ravan46, on 10/11/2007, -6/+50This is Manilla. $32 goes a loooong way over there.
- swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -10/+49If the title is accurate, then Scooter Libby must be a GENIUS.
- ponchietto, on 10/11/2007, -4/+43Guess what, even by Italian law whoever finds an object is entitled 10% of its [not it's] value.
- reiner15, on 10/11/2007, -3/+41probably cost an arm and a leg...
- ubuwalker31, on 10/11/2007, -7/+43What the heck is wrong with you people. If you find something which isn't yours, and you know who the owner is, you should return it. If you don't know who owns it, you report it to the police and file an unclaimed property form. If no one claims it in a year, the property becomes yours. [This obviously varies state to state, and country to country, but since all unclaimed property belongs to the Sovereign, not to the person who finds it, this is what you should do, technically.] Expecting or demanding any sort of 'reward' is ridiculous, unless the owner has offered a reward.
Think of it this way, if you lost your engagement ring, which belonged to your great-grandmother, you would hope, and perhaps even pray, that it would be found and returned to you. An heirloom engagement ring can easily cost $17k. Honesty would only be stupid if you believe that not helping out your fellow man is a good thing. - tizz66, on 10/11/2007, -6/+37I have to say, she still rewarded him with $32, which sounds pathetic to us, but that's 7 days wages there. I'd be happy if someone gave me a week and a half of my wages as a reward for returning something.
Anyway, the fact he's expecting something substantial in return shows clearly that his honesty isn't pure. It's not really honesty if you're doing it expecting something in return. - blaze4metal, on 10/11/2007, -2/+33*Tears in eyes* Thank you sir! Thank you for returning this money to me! Here's $32, don't spend it all in one place!
- fritzbrown, on 10/11/2007, -3/+32Agreed for the most part but by the very definition of altruism he should expect no reward. Good deeds should be done because it's the right/nice thing to do with the expectation of nothing in return.
- knowltonj, on 10/11/2007, -8/+35what if i find your lost child?
- deml247, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26Hey, the money wasn't his, so he shouldn't keep it. And you don't know what that money was going to be used for by that woman anyway. Even if you did, what difference does it make? The money is not YOURS! Stop this fairness BS. Hey, since you're reading this comment you obviously have a computer and are probably sipping a Starbucks. Now that you know about this guy and his medical bills what are you going to do to help him? I thought so.
- ill0gical, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24Wow someone with morals around here. Good to see this still exists.
- sacherjj, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22@funkmachine
Actually it's not it's, it's its. :) - Toast1185, on 10/11/2007, -8/+27One of the tenants of the the religious faith of Islam is a 10% finders fee??
- Groovel76, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20Honesty is not stupid. Many people are just ignorant, selfish and cheap bastards. Ask any waiter.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17Good for him, I am glad there is some honesty left in the world. It will eventually come back around to him in the form of good fortune, perhaps his wife will get better or something.
- celeb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Well, Woz carries around 20k in his pocket at all times (as he says)
http://digg.com/apple/Steve_Wozniak_Why_I_Carry_20_000_With_Me_At_All_Times - reed311, on 10/11/2007, -4/+18Don't confuse Islam with Islamic Law. Islamic law is something that Governments created and does not reflect the views of the majority of Muslims. They share the same name, but they are two entirely different things.
- Phearce, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Exactly. Digging this article down as inaccurate: honesty is the best policy.
- sail191912, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Not true. $32 won't even cover a sick wife's medicine, even in Bohol.
Medicine prices here are comparative to the price of medicine in developed countries. - davin510, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15My question is why would anyone have 17k in cash in a bag in the Philippines.? Surely it couldn't be for something illegal.
Also, if I had that kinda money on me, I damn will would never let it out of my grasp. - Lane, on 10/11/2007, -5/+19most of the time it's the type of person who thinks nothing of going around with $17,000 that are cheap bastards
- qhor, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16Buried as inaccurate. Honestly.
- shockoj7, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15Character.... nice to know some people in this world still have some. Don't worry he will be blessed.
- oracleofmist, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14I wish the same, however if you read the last bit of the article $32 was seven times what an average taxi driver makes in a day. I'm sure he'll be able to at least pay one of his two bills.
- xtmno3, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15Possessive (its) does not have an apostraphe. Contractive (it's) does, because it is an abbreviation of it is.
it's = it is, EX: It's his.
its = possossive, EX: 10% of its value.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Its - swiftekho, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1317 grand is 10 years salary if he only makes about 4.50 a day.
- ronaldinho, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13I applaude the guy for his honesty, even if self-interest wise it is stupid. But I'm glad that I'm still able to see SOME goodness in this world. He was intent on doing what is right and not taking what's not his, and I hope I can see more instances of this too
- zeroooooooooooo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12Oh my. Next time one of those "Five grammar mistakes that make you look like a total moron" stories comes up, take some notes.
- LethalAmbition, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14Who says he was expecting something in return?
- slapout, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12I don't think it would help his sick wife much if he got arrested for keeping the money.
- ArmandoM, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12dude...Foxbat said that you are nuts if you *DON'T* turn it back in. And then you go asking what's wrong with him and say he should return it. He did say he should return it!
Anyway, the point is that the person who lost the money is being incredibly cheap. If someone returned 17k that belonged to me, I would understand how incredibly lucky I was to get it back, and definately give him more than 30 bucks. - rainergamer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12what kind of moron moneybags misplaces $17,000?
- keitarofujiwara, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12Honesty is not stupid! Just because the bitch gave him only $32 doesn't make the taxi driver stupid; on the contrary, he was smart.
In poor places people have never even seen that kind of money. I am sure that if he would take the money for himself he would have ended up being busted by the police because people would notice that his standard suddenly got higher; knowing that the police were looking for $17,000!?...pfft, case closed! He would surely get busted. I think he was smart because he knew that he would be rewarded if he brought the money back; I think he simply could not hope that she would be such a bitch. Practically, to instantly recognize a bitch you'd have to be a psychic, not smart.
There was no Out of Context so i burried it as lame. -
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