MYBAG!!! You've found it! I must have dropped it in the street someplace when I was pubbing. Send it to my place and I will reward you with 10% of the contents.

A question of ethics or morality? Here's a possible scenario. A black bag with no identification. It could be a bag of ransom money, it could be stolen money, it could be payoff money for the murder of someone's wife. Then again there is the slim chance that it could be someone's life savings that they carry around with them because they don't trust the banks. There are a myriad of things the money could be for. Most likely though, the money is probably from some illegal source. So you hand it over to the police and 100 people come forward and claim they have lost it. Obviously most of these people are unethical because they haven't lost $100,000, they just want to try to get it for themselves. But as you said, there is no way to identify the owner or the cash so the money goes into police storage. How many times have we heard about this type of unidentified money, drugs, firearms or anything of great value going missing while in the police coffers? Not to mention the stuff that we don't hear about. So you don't get it, but some other corrupt person does. What is right or just about that? I say that if you actually did find the money, keep it. Why not, luck was on your side that day! (Just make sure you are able to sleep at night!)

This happened to my brother but not with $100,000 however at the time considering his age it seemed like $100,000 to him. He turned it over to the police - jewellery and cash. One year later the police called and gave him all of it. It had not been claimed. He showed strength of character, which has followed him, all of his life. You can live without the money but you need to be able to live with yourself. Though it might be tempting to keep it and justify doing so it would be best to turn it in.

I am going to answer my own question. first, i did not find a bag containing $100,000.00. if i had, i definetely would have turned it in. i asked this question, to see just how many honest and dishonest people would submit an answer. i still have confidence, in the american public, to make the right choice, in this situation. i see this happening everyday when people call the police to turn over found property. sorry, if i mislead you. please pretend it was just a survey and the results were, that the people who answered this question, are honest.

The easy thing to do is keep the bag. But then, a lot of the things people do are the easy thing to do. When I grew up, people were encouraged to do the moral thing and turn such finds into the police. As long as the police are not a law unto themselves, as they are in some nations, this is the right thing to do. You will receive a case number and a copy of the written report describing what you turned in. Policies concerning such finds are clearly laid out in police regulations and the law. It is a common policy that, after a certain period of time has elapsed, unclaimed finds are turned over to the person who found them. The length of time you wait is often dependent on the value of the find. You would need to wait a bit for a $100,000 gift bag, while a bicycle or a camera would likely come your way faster. If you get to keep what you found, then you have tried your best to return the find to the rightful owner. If something of real value has been lost, the legitimate owner will make the effort to report it lost. In fact, there may already be a police report describing such a loss, so the rightful owner could be reunited with his or her property that much quicker. Anyone who makes such a claim will be required to provide proof of ownership or an accurate description of the item before it will be released to them. Goods obtained through other means (e.g., crime) may not be reported by the person who lost them. Again, there may already be a report on them from their rightful owners. And if no one deems it of value or if no one steps forward with a valid claim, it usually ends up in your hands. I could easily wait a year, if need be, to receive a bag of bucks.

It is someones property and they would like to recover it. No good would come to you if you kept it. There is a great movie based on this premise called "A Simple Plan".

If I where you i would not have let anyone know that i found the lerge amount of money. i would have put an add in the new paper stating a missing item was found and if someone called you or email you with the correct information to what was in the bag then it would be given it back. Putting out to much information like that can result in harm you have to becarefull on what you do. You are very lucky to have found that money just be wise on what you do with it.

If this is about finding property in general, such as a wallet, handbag, or dayplanner, then I would take it to the police department, or call any contact numbers contained in an effort to get it back to its owner. I would be wary of this hypothetical "black bag", however. In fact, I would leave it just as I found it. Chances are, that amount of money would not simply be left somewhere, so it's likely that it's there for a reason. It would stand to reason, then, that it was being watched as well. I certainly don't want someone following me home to claim their $100,000. Especially, since they probably don't want anyone to know about it.

Thats a hard but good question. I have been sitting here thinking and a few bucks in my pocket wouldn't hurt but i could never keep it all. I don't even know if i would keep some. I am the one that gives back extra change check my pay stub if my check looks high, honestly i think i would dip into the bag just a little sorry

Well, assuming there is NO WAY to identify to whom the money belongs . . . as the song says, "Go on take the money and run . . ." If they cannot be identified, how can you return it to them. CHAAACHING!!!

another solution is to research, by going to the police and asking if there were any large amounts of money reported stolen

Turn it in, or karma might kill you

Id like to think that the owner would turn up to find the bag in which case you hand it over however if the owner doesn't turn up after one week of waiting i would place it into a swiss bank account and spend it on people that are lonely because if i had handed it in then the policeman's ball would have free funding!!!!

Hold onto the bag and the cash. Inform the police that you found a "container" with something valuable in it. If someone inquires about a lost bag filled with $100,000 in cash and you are made aware of it during one of your weekly inquiries to the police department and they can satisfy the police as to what they were doing carrying that much money around in a bag, then you are morally obligated to return it to said person. You'll feel good about yourself!

Give it to me!

Turn it in, if no one claims it, it is yours, (O:

Ok, so i found a bag containing $100,000 cash. what if i did this: contact the police and make a matter of record report. i have satisfied the legal aspects of finding the cash. if someone contacts the police and can identify the bag and cash, its theirs! next, i take an ad in the local newspapers announcing my find and a number to call, if someone can identify the bag and cash. i have fulfilled the morale obligation of find the bag and cash. Heres the kicker.....until someone comes forward and can positively identify the bag and cash, what if i deposited the $100,000 in a savings account and let it draw interest?? What do you think?? If a legitimate owner comes forward and identifies the bag and cash, should i keep the interest it has drawn?

hey this just happened on Toronto , not $100,000 but several thousand. In 3 months it goes to the finder if not claimed. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2006/07/25/samaritan-cash.html

Keep it.

I'm glad you admitted that you didn't really find the black bag with $100,000 in cash and that you're sorry for misleading me because up until you did I was really convinced it was true. N O T If there's no way to identify the owner then it would do no good to turn it in. The only things that could happen would be somebody steals it or it would be claimed by the state and used for who knows what. If you were intent on doing the right thing and the guilt of keeping it was too overwhelming then a better idea would be to give it to a charity or using it for the good of mankind. Atleast then you would be sure it was being used for the right thing. If it was me I'm confident I could live with the guilt, I would keep it and kill anyone necessary to ensure it. So at that point questioning my moral character based on keeping money that wasn't mine would be irrelevant, there would be much bigger moral issues at hand.

I'd hand it in, mainly for practical reasons including: - That much money lying around in a black bag is likely either: a) counterfeit, b) from drugs or other dubious projects or c) being filmed with a hidden camera by some TV programme who wants to test the morality of society. - If someone reports it missing, with the amount of CCTV cameras and undercover policemen around these days there's a fairly good chance it would get traced back to me anyway and I'd get in trouble for taking it. -If I hand it in and nobody claims it after a set time period, and there's no evidence of it being dodgy, according to UK law, I get to keep it anyway (found this out recently). Even if it does get claimed, there might be a cash reward. All in all, the odds of a positive outcome are better for handing it in than they are for keeping it.

i'm 68 years old and been down many many roads and have returned large amounts in the past. i would definitly keep the money----- learned my lesson---

Well I am English anyway.. I would keep it go on a few nice holidays, buy some clothes, games, dvds, and that. If you hand it back 9/10 you wont get nothing from it and if nobody collects it then it goes to the state.

Take the money and donate it to a charity. Most likely if you find a bag full of that much money its probably dirty money. Honest people don't go around carrying there life savings around and just happen to lose it. You could turn it over to the authorities, but there will be lines of dishonest people waiting to claim if word were to ever get out. Maybe it does belong to one of those people, but if they are dumb enough to put that much money in a bag and lose it, and NOT HAVE IDENTIFICATION FOR IT, I think they shouldn't get it back. Theres plenty of needed people, let a charity of the finders choice have it.

I would turn it in, not because I am a nice person and would feel guilty about taking someone’s money, but because: 1) Who would have a bag of money that big? Im not into illegally acquired money thanks. 2) Cops probably have the bad under surveillance. 3) Money is probably in sequence and therefore easy to trace, in connection to #1 or #2. 4) I don’t want some rich person finding out I stole their money and have them kill me.

In keeping with your question and asusming that it was impossible to find the owner then there is no question but to keep it. Life throws a lot of crap our way so if something like this happened to me I would keep it and try and do some good with it.

the best way is that u should announce it three times if someone claimed so request him to tell u the sign if he told u the correct signs of that piece i,e the color bag or wat else is there in bag so give him otherwise u can keep it with urself

If the government is just going to snatch it up,then, I would proberly just keep it!

I would keep it, bank it for a year, then spend it. If somebody dropped 100k then they must have plenty more where that came from and won't miss it.

where did you find the money? Was it in public? on private propery? the best thing to do is burn it, and then send the money to the Treasury ask them to replace it. They will and it would be impossible for them to trace it to the coke dealer who lives next door

Just keep it!!!!!!

oh well i would donate it to Charity. WOW, that was a lie. I would TOTALLY KEEP IT! and I'd spend it ALL ON ME! Thats why i would never be lucky enough to find such a bag

shove that in my bag.

I'm keeping the money. That's the way it is.

I would keep it.

OK this is what I would do. I would not give it to any security at the rest stop nor a policeman out in a car. I would take it to the police station in person so that I know it got there!

Tell someone what? How much money I found and how I'm going to spend it on absolutely anything and everything? (depending the amount)

what bag??? what money??? i didnt see anything .

Off it goes to the police with a receipt and case number in case it is not claimed within 90 days--then it is all mine.