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Would you return $1 million bucks because is the right thing to do?


What do you think guys?
try to be honest.
Is hard to think it if you are not in the real thing but you can try.
I think is all about personality, ethic, values and needs.
i like to think the right thing to do is to give it to the police.
What would you do?

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Nah, if I was in the same position I would have kept it.

But then I'd also have left the country immediately after.

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i guess is worst keeping a part cause internal affairs will suspect if there is any money, and not the amount the drug dealers are saying
so better all or nothing.

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OFC I'd keep it and then move to the other side of the world.

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i wouldnt even return 20 bucks lol jk but hell no i wouldnt return that

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Ever seen Sam Raimi's 'A Simple Plan'? I'd return it for my own goddamn safety.







"Shot on celluloid. Projected onto a screen. What more do ya Ć’uckin' want?!"

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Ever read the book it's based on? An even better example.

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I you liked "A Simple Plan", you should watch "Shallow Grave". It's Danny Boyle's take on the same concept that actually predated Raimi's film.

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Yeah, a British classic. Though Siskel and Ebert were incredibly snooty about it. And since they were also a bit reluctant on Trainspotting - one of the best films of the 90s - it makes me think that you had to be a certain age in the UK to fully appreciate that time in cinema. Human Traffic was also a nice companion piece to Trainspotting during that time but again I doubt S&E would have been much more receptive to that.







"THIS IS THE NEEEEEWS."

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I give it back in a heart beat. All currency is marked and it would eventually be tracked down. My problem with the movie is that Richie is frowned upon for giving it back when its the only thing he could've done (this side of ending up 6 feet under or being forced to live in Rwanda).

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Hell no.

After forty years on skid row... (oops wrong film.)

Even if it meant stashing it for five or ten years and laundering it through as many banks as it took to avoid reporting laws and what-not. Even if it meant continuing working and using it sparingly to avoid suspicion from the taxman.

No effin way!

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My thoughts exactly.

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For sure . . . hmmm, but a reward would be nice

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10 dollar reward

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Works for me :)

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Simply put, No.

The only people besides Richie Roberts that would return a million dollars are those who already have considerably more money than that, or people who believe in Karma. Needless to say, I do not fit under either of those categories.

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I would never give it back

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