€1m thrown by burglars during Belgian car chase scooped up by passers-by –

Paddy Samurai

but now the police want it back.

Two weeks ago, locals in Zedelgem had their Saturday evening disturbed by the sound of screeching tyres and sirens as police pursued a getaway car following a break-in in a neighbouring town.
Suddenly, cash started flying through the air like confetti. It emerged that the burglars had thrown a safe from their vehicle in an attempt to shake off police, which then cracked open, leaving notes - some as large as €500 - blowing around the red brick house-lined street of Ruddervoordsestraat.
Dozens of wide-eyed residents rushed out of their homes to grab handfuls of cash, and there were even reports of one lady arriving with a broom and sweeping bundles of notes into her house.

IT’S an oft-debated question of scruples: if you find money in the street, do you cite 'finders keepers' and pocket it or do the 'decent thing' and hand it in to authorities?
Furthermore, does the amount of cash found affect your decision? Less than a tenner seems hardly worth it, but you would think someone might seriously miss a few grand.
Well, this moral dilemma is being played out for real in a town in north-west belgium, after residents scooped up a chunk of a €1m burglary haul that robbers had attempted to get rid of amid a high-speed police chase.

I'm not sure what I would do .If I'm truthfull it would depend who they Robbed.
If it belonged to a business/individual I would hand it back without thinking. If it was a Bank I would probably think twice TBH.

So ,would you hand it back?.

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/1m-thrown-by-burglars-during-belgian-car-chase-scooped-up-by-passersby-but-now-the-police-want-it-back-29240250.html

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force eleven

Good luck with changing those 500 euro notes.....

keith16

I imagine it would be much a like a scene from the crystal maze.

FatherLen

ha no way.

starviewadams

Like on Southland!

Antar Bolaeisk

I think I'd hand most of it back, though this would depend on the original owner, some I'd keep as a finders fee.

SEPT 23 1989

No

Chuck Stone

Of course I wouldn't






Asterix in Belgium.

There was some nice cartoon art in that one.

Paddy Samurai

Dozens of wide-eyed residents rushed out of their homes to grab handfuls of cash, and there were even reports of one lady arriving with a broom and sweeping bundles of notes into her house.

Obviously she was on the tidy towns committee

mitosis

It's not my money, obviously I'd give it back. How can anyone justify keeping someone else's property just because they don't know the victim, or because they happen to be better off?

It's larceny by finding - a criminal offence.

admiralofthefleet

In the words of Charlie Haughey: 'I might keep a little it for meself'

gobnaitolunacy

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

If it was a Bank I would probably think twice TBH.

If it were a bank they could go fcuk themselves....figuratively.

coolemon

mitosis wrote: »

It's not my money, obviously I'd give it back. How can anyone justify keeping someone else's property just because they don't know the victim, or because they happen to be better off?

It's larceny by finding - a criminal offence.

Because often those who accumilated it did not do so in a 'just' way, even though they did so legally. Rather, the state - the Garda and the army facilitate the unjust accumilation and protection of wealth.

Think Nigeria, think China, think Russia. Billionaires going around protected by the state.

And it is not so removed here in Ireland either.

Id keep the money without a doubt. Unless it were in exceptional circumstances - belonging to a hospital, charity and so forth.

Bucklesman

It was a fierce windy day, your honour, I'm afraid we weren't able to catch all those banknotes in time.

c_man

Hmm, I'll need to refer to the case of Finders v. Keepers.

Oryx

I could lie and say I'd be a model citizen and give it back.

But truthfully there's no way in hell I would give back free money.

Hopefully the owners were insured.

Paddy Samurai

It all started when the robbers broke into a home in a neighboring town, and made off with the safe

Looks like the money belonged to a individual.So I would definitely give it back...................Eh unless they drug dealersl;)

Or people traffickers...............

Or bankers.................:eek:


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/03/zedelgem-belgium-stolen-euros_n_3208604.html

kraggy

c_man wrote: »

Hmm, I'll need to refer to the case of Finders v. Keepers.

Finders was found to be in keeping with the law.

Senna

If someone had a Million euro in a safe in their home, you can bet its dodgy money.
If a business had it, again very dodgy, but maybe just stupidity. But they'd be insured.

Either way I'm keeping that money, feck what anyone thinks.

Capt'n Midnight

Give enough back to avoid the 2 year sentence.

And remember not to buy any fur coats or bicycles.