Question:
The Army published a story which can be found [here] about some troops that found a block of gold worth 110 thousand dollars being used a doorstop in their workplace.

There is no way to see how any specific person here voted, so please be honest. This could be an interesting poll.

If you had found the gold block, would you have turned it in or kept it?

Choices:
I would have turned it in.
I would have kept the gold block.

 

I have to say, if I believed I could get it home without being caught, I think I would have kept it. It may be dishonest, and wrong, but I still think I would keep it.
But as I always say, you never truly know how you will react until you are put into that situation yourself.

How many troops do you tink are picking up every rock they see hoping that it may be gold?

I want to say I'd give it back but as Sgt. Hammy said, "You never truly know how you will react until you are put into that situation yourself."

I'd probably be hoping for a cut or finder fee at least.

Maybe a 69 Camero or a 06 Mustang perhaps would prevent me from weeping over all the dough that slipped out of my fingers.

I know I will be looking a little more closley at everything now. We mostly have traliers and wooden shacks over here, but there are a few Saddam era buildings around. Who knows, mabey I'll get lucky. lol

If I knew of a "black-market" that I could get this off my hands to, I would strongly consider taking it and selling it. The one thing you'd have to remember if you ever though about doing something like this would be to keep it to yourself and don't tell ANYONE!

If you turned it in, you would not get a finders fee. You'd probably get something like, "How long have you had this?" or ""Why did you decide to turn it in now?" More like an interregation, than a "Thank You"

I would probably have turn it in, no matter how much money I've ever find I've always turn it in. money is good, but greed is one of the deadly sins and I hate to have going to hell because of $100.000 that I'd probably blow on something I didn't need.

"grass always look greener on the otherside"
"But when you go to hell there's no elusions"

If I could have gotten it home without getting caught I would have kept it.

I would have kept it

I believe I would have kept it if I could have kept it a secret. What an enhancement to a retirement check!

Regardless of the consequences, I would have turned it in at the earliest possible opportunity.

There are ways of keeping something like that secret, but the moral cost would have been far too high.

You're behaviour would change.
Your lifestyle would change.
Your attitude would change.
People would notice these changes.

There isn't a one of us that could pull it off.

We had the 'opportunity' to buy some gold when we stopped over in Bahrain during Desert Storm, but as far as I know, nobody did. If they had, it probably would have been stolen right out of their coffin lockers.

ATTENTION TO DETAIL.....yeah, who would've been playing with the door stop - probably all the ones who had nothing better to do!

Lol, I would've had a hard time with that. If I could've kept it, I probably would've. Paid a few bills and give my mom half lol.

I work as an archaeologist in the civilian world, and once found a pristine Spanish doubloon on an excavation worth $10,000. I turned it in, and it's probably in the basement of a musty museum somewhere. Everyone tells me that I was crazy to do it.

I would have turned it in hoping that the unit would reap some benefits from it like putting the money in a MWR fund for the company so that everyone could enjoy the benefits. And have some fun.