You musta had a BIG wallet!
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It was a bit of a George.
Vinnie will love the reasoning, it seems right up his street.
âWhat if I meet someone whoâŚI dunnoâŚwants to sell a car or something. Something way more valuable than they want to sell it for, and they say but it has to be right now and I donât have the money on me? What then, huh?â
But after that, I thought that was a silly reason to be carrying that sort of cash around.
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You mean this?
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I would hand the money into the police. My conscience would eat me up forever if I kept it
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Launder it through the casino. I dunno if thatâll actually work. 
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The âfinders - keepersâ law may not be all it is cracked up to be.
On tonightâs news. Two tradies on the Gold Coast dug up $476,000 while doing construction work on a suburban property. They took it to police, but apparently they may have to split it with the current and previous owners. 
Thatâs fair enough. All get a share.
Do you really think itâs fair enough? I donât.
- Itâs not the current ownersâ cash. They would have to be brain dead to hide $476,000 in their yard for tradies to find.
- Itâs not the previous ownersâ cash. They would have to be brain dead to hide it and then sell the house and go off and leave it.
I think the finders (the tradies) should be able to keep it all.
What if the tradies found a gold nugget?
One could argue that would be different.
I think its only becomes your moola if, you find it in a public place, you hand it in and no one claims it. If it were dug up on private property and it was more than a couple of feet below the surface the Government can claim it.
And; it was probably put there by someone else, who lived somewhere else and are probably either dead by now or are in a nursing home.
I can see your point. But if they check out all those possibilities and donât come up with an owner, what then?
And what does it being buried have to do with anything?
âYeah, Officer, look I thought Iâd do the right thing and bring this into you guys. We were digging under this block of land with my little dingo digger and we found this weird tetrahedral pyramid of earth extending, geez, at least six kays under the ground. It seems to be made up of a crust, mantle and core but a lot of it looks to be turning into lava. Not sure who owns it so Iâll just leave it out the front and you can sort it out. Maybe I can get some sort of finderâs fee? Thanks.â
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IIRC there used to be a charge in the statute book called larceny by finding. Not sure if it exists anymore but suspect it (or a version) would. Certainly used to encourage the âfinders keepersâ types to make some effort to reunite lost property with its owner. I wonder if thereâs a threshold amount most people would need to reach before they handed an amount of cash in to the cops or a lost property office. I remember as a kid finding $50 on a supermarket floor when it was a big amount. Picked it up and thought âlucky meâ until I saw a bloke clearly searching around for it. I gave it to him and was more disappointed that he just he snatched it back and walked off without a word of thanks.
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So you (a kid) walked up to him and said âAre you looking for this?â
And he just snatched it out of your hand, without a word, and walked off.
Hard to imagine in what universe a bloke would not give you a big smile and say âThanks, mate.â
This universe, I guess.
Yeah, I was about 14 Vinnie. I asked him and he took it. I think he was just more relieved rather than being a total douche. I hope if he had his time over again heâd have been a little more forthcoming. I wasnât looking for anything other than him acknowledging the act. Such interactions can, clearly, leave you wondering about your fellow humans.
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Some of the interactions on the political threads leave me wondering about my fellow humans. 
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Whatâs that old axiom about never discussing sex, politics or religion in polite companyâŚI think it holds true these days. Maybe even more so in this overheated PC world.
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