Ethics question

Chihlidog

Chihlidog

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So I found an iPod nano the other day, there was nobody around and it was about to rain so had I not picked it up it would have been destroyed. I picked it up obviously. I checked and there are no photos, no identifying info on it at all. I put it up on craigslist under lost and found, nobody has claimed it.

The question is obvious - at what point would you feel OK saying "screw it" and selling it?
 
Chihlidog said:
So I found an iPod nano the other day, there was nobody around and it was about to rain so had I not picked it up it would have been destroyed. I picked it up obviously. I checked and there are no photos, no identifying info on it at all. I put it up on craigslist under lost and found, nobody has claimed it.

The question is obvious - at what point would you feel OK saying "screw it" and selling it?
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I think after 24 hours and no responses in "Lost and Found" you've done your due dilligence and then some.

That's your Ipod now.
 
Chad said:
I wouldn't sell it, I would use it. Or let my kids use it.
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My 13 year old has an iPod touch. I have my phone. My 7 year old has a cheap MP3 player, and my wife and my youngest arent interested - that and I could use the extra cash!
 
Chihlidog said:
My 13 year old has an iPod touch. I have my phone. My 7 year old has a cheap MP3 player, and my wife and my youngest arent interested - that and I could use the extra cash!
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I think you have done what you should have and am not saying you would be a bad person to sell it.
 
Chad said:
I think you have done what you should have and am not saying you would be a bad person to sell it.
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Oh I totally didnt take it that way. If I had use for an MP3 player I'd keep it but we're just covered.
 
Keep it- or bring to a Go-Go bar and offer to trade for favors.


Si hoc legere scis numium eruditionis habes.
 
A year or so ago someone broke into my car and took my cheapo MP3 player. I'd love to see their face when Pete Seeger started playing banjo on it. And when the pawn shop offered them $1.50 for it. :snooty:
 
Gary Blanchard said:
A year or so ago someone broke into my car and took my cheapo MP3 player. I'd love to see their face when Pete Seeger started playing banjo on it. And when the pawn shop offered them $1.50 for it. :snooty:
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Several years ago I was playing a gig after work and had left my lunch bag (which kind of looked like a camera case) in plain view in the front seat. Somebody smashed the window and stole the bag.

I would have loved to have seen their face when they saw that they had stolen some Ramen noodles and a can of soda.
 
Prages said:
Several years ago I was playing a gig after work and had left my lunch bag (which kind of looked like a camera case) in plain view in the front seat. Somebody smashed the window and stole the bag.

I would have loved to have seen their face when they saw that they had stolen some Ramen noodles and a can of soda.
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Probably the same look you had when you realized some one broke your Window just to steal some ramen and a soda :grin:

Someone smashed a window in a buddy's car last year and rummaged through the whole car only to find a couple pennies in the ash tray. Apparently this pissed the guy off so much that he ripped off the unlocked glove box door and put a cig out on the drivers seat
 
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Lerxst said:
Probably the same look you had when you realized some one broke your Window just to steal some ramen and a soda :grin:
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Well, there was that. They had also used either a hammer or a tire iron to knock out the window and they hit the metal trim around it and dented the trim as well.

Of course, insurance covered the repair, but it was the middle of winter and it was a cold ride home at 3:embarrassed:0 in the morning.

Plus, I lost my lunch bag. :mad:
 
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