What would you do if you found $1 million worth of jewerly?

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"San Rafael resident John Suhrhoff had found the purse and turned it over to police with all its contents -- including a Cartier watch, diamond and ruby rings, pearl earrings, necklaces with large diamond stones, and $500 in cash."

:jaw drops:
 
[quote name='dude2003']http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/29/BAGUCHVM6F1.DTL

what a great guy. what sucks is that they didn't mention anything about a reward. hope he gets some sort of reward.[/quote]

He said in the article that he didn't want a reward. Left his name and address if they wanted to thank him, but asked for no reward.

This dude should go and buy a lottery ticket or something. He should use some of that good luck that he should have coming.

TBW
 
I'd either give it to the police or leave it. And the last thing I'd do is take the cash or keep it all. If you kept the whole thing and were found out they'd assume you stole it directly and nail you for it. If you handed in the jewelry and kept the $500 they'd know you took it because who'd be dumb enough steal something like that and leave the most valuable thing?

Actually... I'd probably keep the money, toss the god aweful tacky ass purse, give the least ugly jewelry to family/GFs and either throw the rest away or give it to a homeless person. I wouldn't take any of it to a pawn shop because they record info about who sells what. Police always check pawnshops when shit like that goes missing.
 
Some second thoughts....

I read the article and I understand that the woman was travelling for a wedding, but seriously, who carries $1 million in jewelry and just leaves it in the purse?

I understand that wearing it, might get you mugged. Leaving it in the hotel might get it robbed. If you can afford that kind of jewelry, you can afford to stay in a hotel with a safe that will guarantee your possessions while you are out of the room. I'm not talking about the small safe in the room with a key that everyone who works at the hotel probably has, but the big ass kind you see / hear about at five star hotels where the really rich stay.

I'm glad the woman got her stuff back, but seriously, let's use a little common sense here.

TBW
 
[quote name='TheBlueWizard']Some second thoughts....

I read the article and I understand that the woman was travelling for a wedding, but seriously, who carries $1 million in jewelry and just leaves it in the purse?

I understand that wearing it, might get you mugged. Leaving it in the hotel might get it robbed. If you can afford that kind of jewelry, you can afford to stay in a hotel with a safe that will guarantee your possessions while you are out of the room. I'm not talking about the small safe in the room with a key that everyone who works at the hotel probably has, but the big ass kind you see / hear about at five star hotels where the really rich stay.

I'm glad the woman got her stuff back, but seriously, let's use a little common sense here.

TBW[/QUOTE]

Agreed.
 
What would i do with a million dollars worth of jewels.... Well i'd do two chicks at once!


But seriously, my girlfriend tells me that god awful purse and wallet are worth a couple hundred easy... stupid designer handbags
 
[quote name='SBWildBill2004']What would i do with a million dollars worth of jewels.... Well i'd do two chicks at once!


But seriously, my girlfriend tells me that god awful purse and wallet are worth a couple hundred easy... stupid designer handbags[/quote]

Not all girls dig a guy with a million in jewels... ;)
 
Give back the jewelry. Keep the cash. If you don't spend it all in one spot, chances are, by the time someone decides to trace the bills, it's exchanged so many hands & time flown by, the originator will most likely not be found.
 
[quote name='dude2003']
what a great guy. what sucks is that they didn't mention anything about a reward. hope he gets some sort of reward.[/QUOTE]

No good deed goes unpunished. The person who found it will lose their wallet soon and get none of it back.
 
A million sure doesn't buy much anymore (according to what I can see in the pic), but I'm comforted with the knowledge that some people are good.
 
Man, I could have Louis V. Timberlands made out of that purse. But i would have to give it back with motherfucking reward. I wouldn't ask for it, but drop hints.
 
Paying it forward is hard to do.... this guy has a hell of a karma, honestly though I would be on the ropes with it, I would have one of the stones appraised to just see if it were real, but man if it was, I would probably be to scared to keep it, I mean people look REALLY HARD for a missing million dollar purse. So I would probably turn it in out of fear and/or guilt, but not out of complete unselflessness.
 
I would probably do the right thing and traced the owner down. You never know what sentimental value an item like that could have. It's all about Karma, what goes around comes around and I would have hated if something bad happened if I did keep that bag. Even though it looks hideous that bag is worth quite a lot since it's louis vuitton, I remember my girlfriends always talking about that damn LV brand. It's kind of like what Carson Daily said about Karma, don't do anything that will make you regret in the future. :)
 
I would have kept it, the cash at least. Then i would have cleaned all the jewels and scattered them around the area. 100 years from now, if by the off chance the planet isn't destroyed, the stories of hidden treasure would pop up in the newspaper.
 
you guys are all crazy. why would you keep 500 cash and return everything else. if you return a million dollars to someone, youll get more than 500 dollars as a reward. this guy knows that

"He left his name and address, but not to get a reward," Skoog said. "He said, 'If they want to thank me, here's my information.' ''

psh, thats just a nice way of hinting for a reward. if this lady has a million dollars a jewels in a purse believe me a 1,000 dollar reward or more is chump change.
 
I would have kept it. Anyone losing $1 million in jewelry doesn't need it as much as I do. :)

Who the heck carries all that with them unless they are stinking rich. Screw'em I guaranteed they were insured.
 
[quote name='iheartmetal']you guys are all crazy. why would you keep 500 cash and return everything else. if you return a million dollars to someone, youll get more than 500 dollars as a reward. this guy knows that

"He left his name and address, but not to get a reward," Skoog said. "He said, 'If they want to thank me, here's my information.' ''

psh, thats just a nice way of hinting for a reward. if this lady has a million dollars a jewels in a purse believe me a 1,000 dollar reward or more is chump change.[/quote]

Simple. Because hard currency is harder to trace. You could easily laundry the money by going to a casino, exchange the money for chips, wait until a different chip changer is there and cash your chips. The bills are in the casino's stash so it'll be harder to notice one particular bill amongst the thousands (or millions if it was in a big casino). Also, since it's only $500, no eyebrows will be raised since those kinds of places are used to dealing with large bills. Even if you return everything minus the $$$, I wouldn't doubt you'd still get a reward for the return of the jewelry. So instead of taking $500 home, you'd take $1500 (if we're using your reward as an example). That's not being crazy. That's called being smart. ;):cool:
 
Damn. Seeing as how it had identification and such, I want to say I'd track the owner down.

But having that sort of amount on me would spark a lot of interest. Namely, paying off all my debts, all my family's debts, paying for graduate school, and still having a bit left over to put into savings. I'm also part of a software company start-up that could really use the capital (more on that will appear in another post quite soon).

Weighing all of that in my head would be seriously fatiguing/draining. Especially, given what defender said, that if someone just lost that, they obviously have enough cash in their name to not really care AND to easily replace it.

I mean, if you saw Bill Gates drop a few hundred bucks on the ground, would you give it back to him? Didn't I hear once that if he did drop a $100 bill on the ground, it would cost him more to take the time to pick it up than to leave it there?

But really I don't know. I really, really want to say I'd return it. But given how selfish and greedy people are...not given a reward for something that took a HUGE amount of honesty AND balls to do? Shit that's a lot of doubt to be mulling over.

Sigh. I guess I'd just return it, kick myself for being the nice guy I am, and continue on. Honesty is its own reward. That probably makes me an idiot but oh well.

Maybe I'd meet myself halfway and keep the cash. That's not terribly dishonest...

This reminds me of that Doug episode where he found an envelope full of some $14K. There's no identification. He takes it to the police. It stays there for 30 days, no one claims it. Doug takes it home counts it, and finds out on the local news that some lady lost the exact amount. I realize now, being older, than the chances of someone not claiming it within 30 days has an extremely slim chance of happening, but still, the episode always felt iffy with me. Had I been in the same situation, damn. Doug ends up returning it and gets a packet of gum. A packet of f*cking gum. How weak is that? I'd probably be replaying that episode in my head endlessly if I were in the same situation...
 
i would keep it without a doubt... come on it would be so easy to pawn it and never be traced back to you. theres so many underground pawn brokers out there. and how in the heck can they trace money. take whats worth out of the purse burn the rest and sprinkle the ashes over a ocean. poof your rich and happier there ever...
 
Call me a bastard, but I would have kept it. Anyone dumb enough to carry all that with them, and then leave it on a park bench doesn't deserve it. It's obvious it they've got more money than brains.

I wouldn't be betting this guy gets much of a reward. I'm sure the snobby rich bastards are probably more embarrassed now that their idiocy is getting front-page news. Nice guys do finish last.
 
I'd turn it in and drop hints for a reward. ("C'mon, rich purse lady, I could really use a copy of Valkyrie Profile!")

And I agree on the ugly bag comments- why the hell do people pay so much for that crap? It's hideous!
 
I'd have turned it in. If I kept it I'd have to sell the jewelry because I have no use for it and I'm too paranoid to pull something like that off.
 
You guys are already assuming that MORE cash wasnt originally in the bag? I mean maybe he left $500 but tok $10k? You never know.
 
[quote name='Kendal']What would I do? Well I will tell. Two chicks at the same time.[/QUOTE]

I can just imagine Scorch in this thread, linking to a post on the first page, and saying REPOST over and over.

OMFG KENDAL, THAT JOKE WAS ALREADY SAID, MODS LOCK THIS POST PLZ

:)
 
[quote name='Kendal']I just skipped to the bottom. I am horrible at the internet.[/QUOTE]

Well that's good. Because I am horrible at anything not the Internet.

So we balance out.

Mostly.
 
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