[WMCoolmon]

...cash a check for $185,000 that you found on the sidewalk?

[Admiral_Stones]

In all honesty - I call that stupidity.

[karajorma]

You wouldn't really have a hope in hell of getting away with it unless you already knew how to cash stolen checks already.

It's not like the bank isn't going to track you down fairly easily unless you know how to set up a fake and untraceable bank account. So when it comes down to it the likely outcomes for this guy were $50 in cash vs lengthy jail term. I'd say he picked the right one.

[Admiral_Stones]

Swiss bank account is all I say 

[Kosh]

Swiss? Pffft, Caymans all the way

[haloboy100]

pffft. Join the Italian mofia

[Unknown Target]

If the name was blank, I can honestly I totally would have. If it was all filled out, though, there wouldn't be much I could do, and I'd return it.

[haloboy100]

I agree.

[Bobboau]

sounds like his mom was a witch.

[Edward Bradshaw]

You'd be found out eventually and then you'd be really ****ed.

[Nuke]

most likely if you were to try to cash that check, the bank wouldnt do it because its not in your name. no bank would cash something like that without 4 kinds of id.

sounds like his mom was a witch.

i was thinking the same thing. not a real pagan, but one of those wiccan hippies.

[Polpolion]

You'd be found out eventually and then you'd be really ****ed.

Yup. So it's really a choice between $50 and being ****ed.

Anyway, I probably wouldn't do it. My weak willpower wouldn't allow me to abandon my primitive notions of "right" and "wrong".

EDIT: Either that or I'm just too lazy to cash the check. This one time, I found a $50 bill on the sidewalk, I picked it up, laughed, and put it in my pocket.

[Nuke]

i frequently find large sums of money in the self checkout at the store. someone had left a good 35 bucks in the machine once, another time i picked up 10. i have this theory, that if they were too dumb to get their change, they would probibly spent it on weed. so they are better off without it.

[Rictor]

And you presumably don't spend it on weed?

[Nuke]

no, i only smoke that which i am given.