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You've just been given a duffel bag... (1 Viewer)

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You're sitting on a park bench, alone.  As far as you can tell, you're all alone.  When all of a sudden, a guy runs up to you and hands you a small duffel bag.  He's got two gunshot wounds in his stomach but is still able to slowly hobble off out of sight.  No one is following him.  After about 5 minutes, you unzip the bag and see it's loaded with stacks of $20 bills.  There has to be about $100k in that bag.  You look around and there still seems to be no one around but you.  Your car is about 50 yards away and you could probably get there walking without anyone seeing you with the bag.

What do you do?  And if you take it, what are your plans for it?  Do you have a family?  Are you worried about jail or the owner of that money hurting you or your family?

Discuss.

 
At lunch, between golf rounds, not sure how but this came up.  The scenario morphed a couple times until what's posted above, but I said I wouldn't touch it.  Too much worrying with it.  For me and my family.  And from the good guys and the bad guys.

Plus, it's not like you can just spend it all.  You'd have to use it sparingly or sit on it for your kids or something.  All of which seems like a lot of nothing for a lot of potential risk.

 
either sleep with the bag or take a bit and turn in the rest.  don’t spend it until 20 years down the road.

 
Depends a lot on one's situation. Someone just struggling along might be more in the mind to leave with the money than someone currently successful who would have much more to lose.

 
let's see... based on every movie I've ever seen, you're either being watched or there's a tracker in the bag. is there also a tracker in the money or is it marked in some way? probably 50/50.

maybe you can run top speed to your car, toss the money inside and leave the bag on the ground, but there's a chance that the guy hiding over there behind those trees gets in a headshot before you get there. or you might get ambushed right as you get to the car and either whacked onsite, or taken to an abandoned warehouse where they pull out your fingernails while asking what you know.

 
let's see... based on every movie I've ever seen, you're either being watched or there's a tracker in the bag. is there also a tracker in the money or is it marked in some way? probably 50/50.

maybe you can run top speed to your car, toss the money inside and leave the bag on the ground, but there's a chance that the guy hiding over there behind those trees gets in a headshot before you get there. or you might get ambushed right as you get to the car and either whacked onsite, or taken to an abandoned warehouse where they pull out your fingernails while asking what you know.
One thing I like about this hypothetical is that we're told the money is in stacks of $20s.  Now, obviously that means it's only 1/5 as much money as if it were in $100s, but $20s are much easier to pass and there's basically no chance of them being marked, so that's actually a strong point in favor of keeping the bag.

 
Take a handful, leave the rest. 

Slowly spend the cash throughout the next few years.  Including girl scout cookies

 
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Take a handful, leave the rest. 

Slowly spend the cash throughout the next few years. 
Slowly spend a handful of twenties over a few years???  That is definitely being cautious.  If you are only going to take a handful, head to the nearest strip club and buy a bunch of lap dances.  They aren't checking the money, and you'll have a little fun.

 
That smells like a setup. I'm not doing anything with the bag or the money, a dude already got gutshot over it, I'm allergic to fast moving lead anyway.

 
Slowly spend a handful of twenties over a few years???  That is definitely being cautious.  If you are only going to take a handful, head to the nearest strip club and buy a bunch of lap dances.  They aren't checking the money, and you'll have a little fun.
Hell, that might be right where it came from. 

 
That would buy a lot of hookers and blow.

Depends on if this park is close to my home.  I wouldn't want to be near that park again or live close enough that someone might spot me.  There is a chance the guy survives and wants the money back, or some bad guys catch up to him before he dies and makes him tell them what he did with the money.

If I'm away from home I keep the money after ditching the original bag.  :shrug:  

 
Make the amount a million, then I am more inclined to keep it. 100k is not worth the hassle that will come with this loot. 

 
Walk to my car, then drive to the police station and turn it in.....I would have to take a little something for my trouble though...maybe 10K or so.

Like Al Sweargen said "I would not trust a man who did not steal a little"

 
1) I immediately search the interior of the bag, find the tracking device inside, and throw it into the nearest river.

2) I do not mention this find to my intellectually-challenged brother, his low-life friend, or my scheming wife.  (I saw that movie, too).
I'm amazed by how much your family life mirrors that of the movie.

 
Slowly spend a handful of twenties over a few years???  That is definitely being cautious.  If you are only going to take a handful, head to the nearest strip club and buy a bunch of lap dances.  They aren't checking the money, and you'll have a little fun.
I have large hands

 
Every time this happens to me, this is what I do.

If I think there's a chance that I'm being watched, I don't walk to my car. I walk somewhere where I can catch a cab to someplace else. Call a friend and have them meet me so I can give them the keys to my car and let them pick up my car a day or 2 later.

Get another bag. Transfer the money into the new bag. Toss the old bag (river, dumpster, doesn't matter).

Over the course of the next month or so, launder the money through a few casinos. Max fund my 401k, Roth IRAs. Deposit $1000 or so per week into each bank account. Gift my son $5k cash a couple of times over the next year (birthday, holidays).

This is why I spend my free time siting alone on a park bench.

 
I think I've seen too many movies.  Since I'm at a park I'd find a wooded area and stash the bag....no way I'm taking that thing with me.  Come back hours later or maybe even a day with a backpack.  If shady looking characters are around I keep on walking.  If not, I transfer into my bag.  First I would need a rental car, a burner phone and a disguise.

 
Every time this happens to me, this is what I do.

If I think there's a chance that I'm being watched, I don't walk to my car. I walk somewhere where I can catch a cab to someplace else. Call a friend and have them meet me so I can give them the keys to my car and let them pick up my car a day or 2 later.

Get another bag. Transfer the money into the new bag. Toss the old bag (river, dumpster, doesn't matter).

Over the course of the next month or so, launder the money through a few casinos. Max fund my 401k, Roth IRAs. Deposit $1000 or so per week into each bank account. Gift my son $5k cash a couple of times over the next year (birthday, holidays).

This is why I spend my free time siting alone on a park bench.
Yes, slow play is the right play.

 
I once played a gig at a dive bar, guy walked in bleeding from a stab wound(true story)

No money, or bag for that matter 

 

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