Ethical Question

Reply #21

BaristaExpress — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:32:49 GMT

YES I DO

As long as it wasn't attached to a wallet or a bank bag with the daily receipts from a business!!! And I will point out to a person if I saw them drop the money out of their pocket in front of me at the counter while paying for something! Now other than that if I find a 5, 10, 20 and so on in the parking lot or on the floor of a store then it's GAME ON and I will lay claim to it!

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Reply #20

KY Floyd — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:18:24 GMT

Cash is also a bearer instrument. Do you think that lost cash belongs to whoever finds it

Reply #19

C0w Pi3 — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:42:36 GMT

This is why you sign the back of your tickets

Reply #18

BaristaExpress — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:39:58 GMT

First off people most state lottery tickets are BEARER INSTRUMENTS . That in it self BY LAW makes that lost lottery ticket MINE if it WASN'T SIGNED .

I'm only going by the law and the law will always win out in a court of law! The Law is The Law and any judge will state that fact to you when you break it!! And the judge will also make that same statement when the law is on your side and the other party loses their case!! So all of this BULLSH*T about being ETHICAL is just that BULLSH*T... [ More ]

Reply #17

LANTERN — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:25:57 GMT

A winning ticket that you found claim the prize as soon as possible.

When you claim a jackpot if the previous owner of the ticket knows what numbers were on the lost ticket and checks he or she might think that there might be a chance that the ticket used for the claim might have been the lost ticket and he or she might tell the state lottery that the lottery prize might be his or hers.

The state lottery might then do an investigation.

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Reply #16

tiggs95 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:22:53 GMT

ridger babe amazing just amazing...Joe Friday has nothing on you and could learn from someone like you..Nice going ridger babe..tiggs is empressed..

Reply #15

rdgrnr — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:31:25 GMT

It also could be that the library was being plagued by an employee stealing things and it was all a setup and recorded just to see who the thief was.

Reply #14

HoLeeKau — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:09:40 GMT

I don't believe that Finders Keepers is a widely recognized legal concept.

I'd find a lawyer. Hopefully you could tell the lottery commission you found it and they could look for the owner. They know where the ticket was purchased and what day and time, so if someone came forward knowing that info, along with the title of the book it was found in, they're probably the rightful owner. I'd use a lawyer because if no one did come forward, I'd want an agreement in place that ownership was transfe... [ More ]

Reply #13

rdgrnr — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:56:35 GMT

Last time?

I ain't never heard about no time

Reply #12

Raven62 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:49:22 GMT

When was the last time you heard about any Government Run Agency care about anyones Right to Privacy

Reply #11

rdgrnr — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:32:02 GMT

There are supposed to be records kept for Obama's Patriot Act.

He wants to know what books everybody checks out of the library.

Bush had the Patriot Act expire after his term.

But Obama extended it.

Reply #10

B$Rizzle — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:09:40 GMT

If it was a big winner, I'd def try and track down the rightfull owner. You have to think about this for a second. What if it was a big winner and someone else claimed it? Then that person would always have to remember that at any given time, the rightfull owner could come looking for that winning ticket. It opens a whole can or worms down the road, like lawsuits, hatred, etc.

Who knows, the rightfull owner could end up rewarding the finder if they are honest.

Reply #9

Raven62 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:05:09 GMT

Someone with higher Library System Authority could/can View the Book Records after 5 minutes

Reply #8

Stack47 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:49:30 GMT

It's a little bit different than finding a Twenty dollar bill book mark because somebody knows they bought the ticket and where. I'd give them a month to come back and claim the ticket but I wouldn't put up a Found lottery ticket used as bookmark message on the Library bulletin board.

Reply #7

dk1421 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:39:23 GMT

Actually, no. There is a limit of 5 minutes at most where they can see who checked the book out. After that, it's automatically deleted due to privacy laws.

And they didn't discover the lottery ticket until after the time period was gone.

Reply #6

RJOh — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:35:52 GMT

I would wait to see if it won first, because chances are it won't win anything like 95% of all lottery tickets.

Reply #5

JonnyBgood07 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:35:02 GMT

if it's a QP,I'd keep it....but if they were picked numbers,chances are the person would realise it and step foreward.

Reply #4

sully16 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:28:08 GMT

Do the right thing, it will come back to you times 3.

Reply #3

Raven62 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:42:00 GMT

Finder Keepers is a Childhood Myth: In the adult world: Lost things of value are returned to their owners!

In cases like this: Follow the Golden Rule: If you lost something of value: You'd want the finder to return the item to you.

PS: In Modern Libraries: The librarian can pull up the Title of a Book and tell who checked out the book.

Reply #2

rdgrnr — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:50:14 GMT

That's a tough one!

She couldn't put up a notice saying a winning ticket was found and the owner had to describe it because anybody could just get the winning numbers and come in for it.

I guess it would come down to intent and dealing with the karma from that and what she did with the money.

Reply #1

dr65 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:48:10 GMT

Well...had the ticket been a big winner..the ethical thing to do would be to track down who had the book

last...since that piece of information would be easily attainable.

I don't really understand how it was not possible to know who had the book last or prior to the last

person who had it.

Anyway..I think ethics wouldn't play as much a part as conscience would. What if it was a big winner?

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Ethical Question

dk1421 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:13:52 GMT

I have a friend who works at the library. Someone had used a lottery ticket as a bookmark in a book they returned. Whomever had found it had already checked in the book, so the person's name was unattainable.

Now, this lottery ticket was for THAT night's lottery.

The ticket sat around on the countertop, where many librarians, pages, and volunteers go by. At the end of the night, it was still sitting on the counter, so my friend decided to take the ticket home.

Her ethical dilemma: what... [ More ]