A moral dilemma poll. Use your anonymity for truth. (1153 hits)
Category: NoneRating: 0.74 on 62 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by Tardleby the Gruemaster (View user info) at 2009-08-04 10:33:34 EDT
In the middle of last month my crew and I were clearing out a group of 11 abandoned modular homes in a development. The developer had sold a couple of them to rather disreputable people and pretty much walked away from the rest. The people living the in the two "sold" units had used the others for partying and then just abandoned the ones they were living in. After a few months of no payments, the bank foreclosed and repo'd them. We got sent out to clear and move them.
These places were a mess, some worse than others. The best ones were simply filthy and moldy, with ruined carpeting, stained walls, and refrigerators half-full of furry cheese and bread. The worst ones had needles, shit, piss, blood, old food, used condoms, vomit, used tampons and pads, meth bags and foils, booze bottles, pill bottles, live rats, dead rats, cockroaches, millipedes, and burned areas of the carpet where they'd had hobo fires. Clearing out one of the bad ones took about two full days for the crew of two assigned to the job.
I was assigned to clear one with my fellow shit shoveler who, even though it is not his name, we will call Joe. About 4:00 on the first day Joe called me into one of the bedrooms. The debris in that room was mostly torn garbage bags full of rotting trash and old, stained clothing. There was a broken bed with the brownest matteress I'd ever seen on it. He showed me a small garbage bag under the bed that had torn open.
There was a bunch of cash in the bag. Most of it had red-brown stains like dried blood on it. We wear latex gloves under our leather work gloves to minimize the change of injury and infection. Joe pulled the money out and counted it with both sets of gloves on. $20s and a few $100s. $3,560 total. Just sitting there in a bag, abandoned by whomever left it. Stained with someone's blood.
I know what we did with the money. My question is: what would you do?
User Reviews
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-08-09 00:07:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2009-08-07 15:15:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
...
-----
Was going to make a reply, but it's worth a -2able post instead.
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2009-08-07 15:15:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Let me get this straight. You not only ran this alter, but created an entire back story with family and history and life details about which you posted, and even conversed with your other persona in the reviews of these posts?
You, sir, are a raging pillock, and just another reason uber is in the toilet.
Get a life.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-08-06 18:56:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Nah, I believe you. I doubt Bart would respond to my email inquiry, anyway.
I'm in Miami, at the Westin at Miracle Mile. Got a points upgrade to a cool two-floor suite with a spiral staircase. It overlooks the pool. This is how the rich folks live, I tells ya.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2009-08-06 11:19:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
100% truth- Never an alter...ever.
Email bart and ask, if you have to.
Why would I want to waste reviews that could be on Shlongy's stats on an alter?
Submitted by gonefiguring (user info) at 2009-08-05 22:46:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
No kids, Sacrilicious. Through the responses Gonefiguring got, I learned (among other things) that most Uberers are really less viscious than they let on. I was honestly surprised at the responses on the pro-Obama post 'he' did.
C'mon, Shlongy. Look me in the eyes and tell me that you've never run an alter. Besides, if you hadn't bought the booze, I'd have done so. Regardless, it still would've got bought.
Gonefiguring was just an experiment.
...or WAS I?
Submitted by YourNameHere (user info) at 2009-08-05 22:03:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
No Comment
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2009-08-05 20:18:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I would never have bought you numerous cocktails if I knew that you were ONE OF THOSE ALTERS.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2009-08-05 19:57:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Alright, Skrap- I have one question.
Did you thoughtfully create this character with the intention of being consistent, or do you have kids you never told us about?!
Submitted by JoeyG (user info) at 2009-08-05 14:42:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I'd spend half of it on booze, hookers, drugs and partying.
Then, well, I'd probably just squander the rest
Submitted by beer-turtle (user info) at 2009-08-05 10:12:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Money found in that particular situation:
It was in the "trash" and was left behind by its previously rightful owner.
I believe the proper legal reference was established by antiquity: finder's keepers
Submitted by TuTs (user info) at 2009-08-05 08:53:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
It's not mine and it's eww so I would give it to the homeless.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-08-05 06:29:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
It was bound to happen eventually.
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2009-08-05 05:35:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2009-06-08 11:21:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Something isn't right here.
That was on 'your' last post.
Did Shlongy know he was drinking with a Tardo?
Submitted by X54 (user info) at 2009-08-04 23:53:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Did you know:
That the words race car spelled backward says race car.
That eat is the only word that if you take the 1st letter and
move it to the last, it spells its past tense ate..
AND
Have you noticed that if you rearrange the letters in "illegal
immigrants," and add just a few more letters, it spells out:
"Fuck off and go home you free-loading, benefit grabbing,
kid producing, violent, non-English speaking cocksuckers and take those
hairy faced, sandal wearing, bomb making, goat fucking, smelly rag head
bastards with you."
How weird is that?
Submitted by Cakes (user info) at 2009-08-04 21:47:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
In Edward Scissor Hands, almost the very same question was asked to Edward over dinner. Wynona Ryder gave the right answer.
Submitted by Tokerson (user info) at 2009-08-04 18:13:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Try and find out if there had been any armed robberies in stores or banks in the last few months that resulted in injuries and if there had been, turn it in to the police.
Otherwise keep it.
Submitted by catscradle (user info) at 2009-08-04 17:48:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Keep the money.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2009-08-04 17:41:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
If the term 'best alter' wasn't so vastly oxymoronic, of course.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2009-08-04 17:39:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-08-04 13:24:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Best alter ever, shot to fuck.
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2009-08-04 17:25:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
If you really want karma points, buy some hookers for me too:)
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2009-08-04 17:23:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Spend it on hookers, they are already diseased.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-08-04 16:55:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-08-04 16:38:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-08-04 18:35:46 BST (#)
Ranking: 0
you turn it in, you get karma points, boom.
-------------
wow scourge has become EPIC gay
---
this is the tenth or so time very recently which you call me gay. i think your desires are starting to creep into the real world. get a grip!
as far as karma goes, do i think is there some sort of cosmic ledger which tracks everyones deeds? nope. just a symbolic concept. a reference point.
i'm far from spiritual or religious or any of that stuff and nonsense.
do good in the world and there's just that much more of it, yeah? if there's more good, there is likely more of it to spill onto me.
*shrugs*
wanna screw?
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-08-04 16:46:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
http://www.ubersite.com/m/122978#2921625
Submitted by maiorano84 (user info) at 2009-08-04 16:44:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-08-04 13:23:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I suppose it'd be different if I actually was hurting for money. The settlement money I got a while back took care of most of my bills. Joe, on the other hand, has a mortgage and car payments and debt. Turning it in was probably harder for him than for me. Hadn't thought of that until just now.
--------------------------
BWAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-08-04 16:38:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-08-04 18:35:46 BST (#)
Ranking: 0
you turn it in, you get karma points, boom.
-------------
wow scourge has become EPIC gay
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-08-04 15:03:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Busted.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2009-08-04 15:01:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
SKRAP!!!
Submitted by SPECIALk (user info) at 2009-08-04 14:42:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
free blood-covered money?! ummmm, shopping spree!!
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-08-04 13:35:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
and i guess my answer is i'd turn it in.
hedging my bets both karma-wise, and on eventual return of the cash.
you turn it in, you get karma points, boom.
PD's will do just what the poster described, give you a receipt and have a hold on it, after which it'll be turned over. who would lay claim to blood soaked money found in a squat? nobody, so you just wait and you'll get it back.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-08-04 13:33:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
lol @ skrap
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-08-04 13:27:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
See ya 'round, kid.
Submitted by gonefiguring (user info) at 2009-08-04 13:27:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Fun while it lasted, I guess.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-08-04 13:24:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Best alter ever, shot to fuck.
Submitted by gonefiguring (user info) at 2009-08-04 13:23:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Fuck.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-08-04 13:23:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I suppose it'd be different if I actually was hurting for money. The settlement money I got a while back took care of most of my bills. Joe, on the other hand, has a mortgage and car payments and debt. Turning it in was probably harder for him than for me. Hadn't thought of that until just now.
Submitted by HellRazer (user info) at 2009-08-04 12:51:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Take the money and run dude. Buy yourself something nice. Or pay some bills, didn't you get laid off a little while back? I hope you used that money to better your families situation.
Submitted by ubetidid (user info) at 2009-08-04 12:46:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I hope you did something good with that blood money.
karma can be a bitch.
Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2009-08-04 12:17:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I would turn it in to the police and the shoot myself for being such a fucking goody two shoes...
Keep it, spend it on fruitless endeavours. Isnt that what blood money is for?
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2009-08-04 12:11:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I'd use it to fuck mother goose!
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2009-08-04 12:04:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Hmmm... use it to buy a couple of pounds of super-quality bud which I would then break up and sell for enormous profit.
Just kidding. I'd just leave it there and pray that nobody found out I had even touched it.
Submitted by gonefiguring (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:58:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
That's certainly using your anonymity, Liquidice281, and it clearly revealed some sad impotent truth.
Submitted by SkullBiter (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:52:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Turn it in to crime stoppers, and when it leads to the arrest of someone, split the reward money papers.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:47:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'd turn it in cuz o' the blood.
If it was clean I would be somewhat conflicted, but likely keep it.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:44:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
keep it and literally launder it. you found a "small" amount of cash in a former drug pit. you're not the owners of the two abandoned houses so the chances they'll find you specifically is really hard to imagine. the people that ran were obviously shit, as were the ones using this place for their shooting gallery (thank you law and order).
keep it. wash it a few times, blood comes out.
Submitted by no1hasdis (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:43:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Unclaimed money = up for grabs.
Some great reviews below.
Submitted by Liquidice281 (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:42:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
I would:
a) Stop being a pussy
b) Mix up a solution of hydrogen peroxide and water to soak the bills in
c) let dry
d) profit.
another option:
e) Sell it for 35-45 cents on the dollar for clean cash (every decent town has a guy who buys 'dirty' cash)
I'm sure whatever you did was a major pussy move -- like burning it in the backyard or turning it in to the police who just took it home and did steps 'a' through 'd'. God youre a fag. I want to head butt you in the face and I dont even know you....
Submitted by FATMANTPK (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:41:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
A pack of menthols and a gallon of gas ought to soak most of that $3,560 up!
Seriously, I would keep it. I would use it for a few home improvement projects at my own house.
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:40:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i would attempt to clean a few. if they could be cleaned easily, i would keep the money, and if not, i would turn it in to the fuzz.
Submitted by gonefiguring (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:40:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
We were going to wash it and spend it, but then Joe thought the serial numbers might be on a list someplace. We turned it in to the cops as it was. They gave Joe a receipt and said that if it fit the description of evidence in a crime they might need to test it and possibly keep it, but if not then it'd be held against a claim for 6 months. If no one claimed it after that time, Joe gets to keep it. I get half.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:27:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-08-04 10:59:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
id invest in a new wheelchair for berty that had a remote control, i would then position him on the white cliffs of Dover, revving him up, slowly back and forth, then a bit quicker, till he was toppling on the edge, then id swiftly boot him in the head, call him a long haired cunt and watch him die.
----------
OMG RACIDISABLIDISM!
Submitted by kgbpasha (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:25:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Well, YOU obviously turned it in because you don't need the money
with the fancy job you've got. Cleaning out hobo trailers..I mean
c'mon...they just don't give those jobs away.
Me, well I'd spend it on hookers and cocaine.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:22:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I'd be blowing it all over town...bars, restaurants and poker tables.
Why, what'd you do?
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:19:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
What would I do?
Put a down-payment on a couple of used trailers from some dumbass that owns a "Development" that isn't being developed, then invite around 400 or so junkies, hoboes, vagabonds, and general miscreants and anarchists to share their drugs and women with me, after which I'd take off, leaving the THOROUGHLY shit stained and ruined houses to be cleaned up by someone else.
Jimmy the wanker says he's sorry that he jerked off all over the money after fucking a dead deer he found on the side of the road though.
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:12:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Keep it, make sure there isn't more
Submitted by gonefiguring (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:11:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I have a fine education, MIII8178, and at one point worked mainly with my brain rather than my muscles. Things changed, and these days I do what I can with my strength as my brains aren't what they once were. Somtimes, things change. It's not a glamorous job, but it's interesting and it's certainly a better job than no job at all.
Submitted by MIll8178 (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:04:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Me personally? I would report it to local law enforcement.
If I were you however, I would take it, and use it as a down payment on an education toward a job that doesn't require that I wear 2 pairs of glove whilst I sort through human filth.
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2009-08-04 11:01:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
maybe orphelia won the lotto and was wiping all the sand out of her vagina
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-08-04 10:59:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
id invest in a new wheelchair for berty that had a remote control, i would then position him on the white cliffs of Dover, revving him up, slowly back and forth, then a bit quicker, till he was toppling on the edge, then id swiftly boot him in the head, call him a long haired cunt and watch him die.
Submitted by sage104 (user info) at 2009-08-04 10:57:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
First, I'd wash it. Then, I'd probably spend some of it on clothes and put the rest into savings. I have no credit card debt or anything to pay off so my ING account would be the best bet.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2009-08-04 10:54:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
If there was blood on it, someone probably either a) died on account of it or b) was at least badly injured on account of it. Blood money, indeed. Because of that, my conscience wouldn't allow me to keep it.
I'd turn it into the fuzz. They might be able to extract DNA evidence. Plus, I'd get to rack up a couple of cosmic karma points.
Win/Win
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-04 10:49:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Take it, obviously. It's a "crime" with no consequence.
Dunno what you'd do about the silverfish and such though. Perhaps there is some manner of powder that could be used?
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2009-08-04 10:39:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
burn it.
i don't want no stinking aids money.