would you keep the money **spoiler alert** [edited by MNHQ]

[montysma1]

Watching Fargo this evening and a character finds a suitcase of a large amount of money buried in the snow, witnessess. He keeps it, goes on to run a succesfull business and becomes very rich.

Would you keep the money? Hand it in?

Sorry, but now I know of the plan, you're going to have to cut me in

You won't be saying that when they go for the fingers I'm sure you'll be squealing like a pig!

I always often daydream about being left a large sum of money by some distance relative I never knew, twice removed on my fathers side or something. Books have given me a false sense of life

Ha Xpost. Do our blackmailly instincts make us even worse than them Silly?

Always often? Fail Tequila.

Sod it might as well make it a Mumsnet all in and go for cocktails...

Always often? Fail Tequila.

So really it is 'always', you live entirely in a book-fuelled fantasy land, but thought 'often' would make you sound a tad saner?

The Coen brothers film 'A simple plan' is a complete lesson in why these stealing-dodgy-suitcase-of-cash schemes always end with multiple corpses, BTW.

But hey, i'm sick of being skint, so what the hell

I think you got me there fideline

I blame "The Little Princess"

"Ha Xpost. Do our blackmailly instincts make us even worse than them Silly? "

We're just cleverererer. They do the dodgy work, we just go about our business saying nothing and we get a cut. They get dead!

Until someone gets greedy. Than we get very dead

Yabu for posting a spoiler about Fargo :(

Oh yes. Hmm, maybe just stick with the 'run really fast away from the bag of money' plan then. And change our names. And leave the country.

Thieves and blackmailers. Nice folk on here.
And probably a murderer, because I would hunt you down and kill you.

I also dream about being left money by a distant relative.

And I can account for what I would do with every penny of a big lottery win (including not burying it in a suitcase)
Even although I dont actually play the lottery.

Thieves and blackmailers. Nice folk on here.
And probably a murderer, because I would hunt you down and kill you.

No honour amongst thieves

My only concern in those circumstances is who would come looking for it.

There are not many legal reasons for a large bag of cash.

My morals are quite flexible though, so morally wouldn't be sweating it, just worried about reprisals.

So I might take said bag and then sit on it for a looooong time.

I'd hand it in. I found $20 on the floor of a gas station once and handed that in. 'Finders keepers' not so true in real life!

I would take a little bit for me, a bit for charity and leave the rest.

I thought I was being a good girl in borrowing it and then returning when I was rich beyond my wildest dreams!

The Coen brothers are so good at these scenarios.
And the Danny Boyle film "Millions" was thought provoking.

Personally I'd hand it in.