You just found a wallet with 150K in it. The driver license says:

[valis]

Dick Cheney. What do you do?

[iamjoy]

1. Donate The Money To Emily's List

but in Dick Cheney's name, of course.

[Radical Activist]

38. Great suggestion

[sasquatch]

49. What's Emily's list

[ghostsofgiants]

59. "Supporting pro-choice Democratic women running for congress and governor"

http://www.emilyslist.org/

[smartvoter]

89. Turn it in because right is right and shower with Lysol. nt

[blondeatlast]

97. Perfect!

:rofl:

[hippiechick]

2. Give $50k each to the 3 closest homeless shelters

... and mail the empty wallet back to Dickhead, COD (after I wipe all the prints off of it).

[Abelman]

82. I like the COD

that's a nice touch.

[hyphenate]

3. Remove the cash

to support myself for the next 4-5 years, and send the empty wallet back to Dickhead.

[Strawman]

4. Wipe my ass with it and then return it

And smirk every time I saw Dick Cheney cuz he had handled my ass pennies.

[Norbert]

60. You wouldn't want Cheney cooties would you.

Probably worse than herpes.

[Strawman]

71. Good point

[valis]

5. So, you would not hope for a handsome reward?

:P

[iconoclastic cat]

6. Buy LOTS of lesbian-themed porn.

[iamjoy]

78. And Send It to His Daughter?

Or his wife (who might have some experience with that sort of thing)

[pbartch]

84. HAHAHAHAHA this is the best answer yet.

[Jara sang]

7. I'd give it back to him.

Cash intact.

[fortyfeetunder]

42. Me too

It's tainted money.

[Carla in Ca]

47. Ditto

n/t

[Madrone]

8. Turn it in.

I'm better than he is - after all.

[joeybee12]

9. Try to change it into smaller bills so it can't be traced...give to

charities, and make sure the charities know it's from him so he gets thank you notes from Planned Parenthood, Glaad, teh Dem. Senatorial Comm....

[KamaAina]

10. Turn the license in to DMV

so they could check for prior DUIs :evilgrin:

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Straight to PFLAG! Or ACT-UP

Truthfully, though, I would return it. And i would write a letter to go with it that says "returned by a democratic Christ-loving PATRIOT".

I'd want to add "you old evil fucking goat man" but I wouldn't.

I'd also notify the media that I was returning the wallet, and I was returning it because I was raised with good liberal democrat-voting values that say stealing is wrong in all situations, and that as a good American Citizen it is my duty, and my pleasure, to return something that was lost.

[GainesT1958]

12. Dip the cash in gasoline...

Let it dry, put it back in the wallet and FEDEX it back to Cheney, with a note...asking him if Halliburton can clean the gas off the money for him!:eyes:

B-)

[mark414]

13. whoever said they'd give it back is lying

[Jara sang]

14. Who me? No, I'm not.

It would be hard but I'd do it. Cheney would expect you to take the money and do whatever with it. I'm not like that.

[valis]

15. I'm wondering what Trump would think...

[mark414]

22. i am just

being facetious

[Madrone]

18. I'm not lying either.

I'm a BIG believer in karma - and karma's a raging BITCH.

[mark414]

23. hey...you...over there

look up

[Madrone]

29. Okay - ;)

I still stand by my assertion that karma's a raging bitch, though!

BTW - thanks again for the heads up on the new common album. I can't wait!

[mark414]

30. you are very right

i take my karma seriously...and no prob...the album is killer, i can't wait to actually go buy it.

p.s. poster below...look up..UP!

[ContraBass Black]

74. Common, as in, Common Sense?

[mark414]

79. you know it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3266679&mesg_id=3266679

[efhmc]

26. You are very wrong and since you do not know me I will just think that

you lump all people together as corrupt and go on about my day. Just because the wallet contains a great deal of money from an evil person will not turn me into an evil person. Thank you very much.

[nini]

34. I would and I'm not lying

I would do this for me not him. I've gotta live with myself.

All kinds of things would run through my mind to do with the money, but ultimately I'd do what I would want someone to do for me if they found my wallet (not that I'd ever have that much money in it)

[efhmc]

16. Give it back to its owner after asking a few questions for id puposes.

[tuvor]

17. Look around to see who's trying to bait me.

[ReadTomPaine]

58. Good answer.

I grew up in a large city as well. ;)

[Mojambo]

19. I wonder what kind of asshole carries 150K in cash in their wallet

Oh yeah, Dick Cheney...

[MrScorpio]

20. What wallet?

:shrug:

[BlueJazz]

21. Improve my Credit Rating immensely. n/t

[lildreamer316]

24. Lesbian-based charity.

sorry--hitting where it hurts.

[Beware the Beast Man]

25. Leave the money, but shit in the wallet.

It's better to give than receive. :evilgrin:

[SheilaT]

27. I'm trying to imagine the size of the wallet

that contains 150k. That's one thousand, five hundred c-notes. Which is a mighty thick stack.

[valis]

28. George Costanza managed it :)

[Mojambo]

31. He had a filing cabinet under half of his ass! n/t

[unblock]

80. just 15 salmon p. chase's would do the trick!

i mean, what possible use would the dickster have for small change?

[SheilaT]

92. Keep in mind that the largest bill

in circulation since 1969 is the 100 dollar bill.

[unblock]

94. but cheney has access to bills that aren't "in circulation"

[SheilaT]

96. I really doubt that.

I'm under the distinct impression that when the thousand dollar bill was withdrawn from circulation, they were destroyed as they came into Govt hands. The ones still out there are in the hands of collectors. They aren't actually legally tender any more.

So every time I hear someone blithely talking about bills larger than a 100 dollar bill, I go a little crazy.

[unblock]

98. the larger bills are used for intra-government transactions

they are legal tender in the sense that the government will exchange the bills for you, and also in the more direct sense for intra-government purposes.

but you're right, they're not legal tender in the "for all debts, public and private" sense. only public (government) applies now.

and my original post we more in jest than anything else....

[SheilaT]

101. Are you sure they're actually used intra-governmentally?

I know that once upon a time there were very large bills, like $10,000 denominations that were used that way, but I understood that these days it was all electronic.

Oh, well. I actually understand the point of the original post was what would any of us do if we found a very large sum that clearly belonged to that man. Heck, even as much as a few dollars could be extremely tempting to lots of people.

Several weeks ago, I had a twenty dollar bill snatched away from by by strong winds, and about a week later a twenty materialized in my mailbox. I never told anyone of the first loss, nor of the second gain. I know that no one could have seen me lose the first bill and decide to replace it anonymously, but it was quite odd. and I have no idea where the "replacement" came from.

[MrSlayer]

32. Keep the money and throw the wallet down the sewer.

A Hundred and Fifty grand is a nice score.

[izzybeans]

33. I donate it all to PFlag n/t

[Left Is Write]

35. I'd wonder what the hell he was doing walking around with 150 Gs

in his freaking wallet.

[valis]

37. Just got his cut from Halliburton, I suppose...

[all.of.me]

68. getting ready to pay jeff gannon

[Elidor]

36. I blackmail him for $3 million more.

:evilgrin:

[Lorien]

39. Donate it to the wilderness defense fund

n/t

[48pan]

40. Give it back...

You are a Democrat and you are honest.

[hyphenate]

56. Yeah

But I'm currently living on $300 a month (and no, that's not a typo!). So yeah, the money would be used to keep me alive and kicking. Lately, I've decided I'm the charity case I need to support the most.

[Arkana]

41. Donate 50K to gay rights groups, 50K to homeless shelters,

and the remaining 50K to the DNC, then I mail the wallet back to the White House.

[PartyPooper]

43. This happened to me when I was in college in 1967.

And, it wasn't Dick Cheney's wallet! And, it was more like $300.

As poor as I was, I returned it. And, there was no reward.

But, as my dear grandmother would say, "When you go to heaven, there will be a star in your crown." Gee, I hope so.

O8)

[giant_robot]

44. I would alert the media before returning it with the cash...

...and when they ask why I did it, I'll tell them that just because this administration steals from the lower classes, and just because this administration lies about social security, war, and torture, it does not make it okay for me to steal. Maybe by walking the walk as well as talking the talk people would listen.

[Dee625]

45. I would be scared

Wondering what he was doing in my neighborhood to drop it.

Then I would turn it into the cops like I would anybody's wallet I found. Yeah, I'm just that honest.

[BikeWriter]

46. There's a chance the police would steal it then...

I had $500 stolen from me by County officers about three years ago.

[Dee625]

52. True

But I'd still rather be rid of the "hot potatoe".

[Robeson]

48. Take it. Keep it.

[sleipnir]

50. Burn it.

It's obviously a trap set by Satan, or other name, Dick Cheney.

[Goldmund]

51. That's a whole lot of time with Gannon.

I'd give it back to him.

[KitSileya]

53. I'd give it back.

A couple of weeks ago, I was in town, and noticed a $100 bill flutter to the ground as a young woman turned a corner and started opening the door to a shop - I shouted at her to stop as I picked up the money and said 'I think you dropped this'. The astonished look on her face as she realized that a, she had lost the bill, and b, someone had picked it up, and c, was giving it back to her instead of taking it was chilling.

We are better than they. We're the one's with real morals. So handing the money back, regardless of whose it was, is for me the only option. But I wouldn't be averse to informing the press about it to show an example of real morals in contrast to Cheney's.

[NMMNG]

54. The breakdown

$75K for me (pay off bills, grad school fund, savings since the way things are going SS may not be there when I retire)

$75K to a whole bunch of worthy charities

[DrDebug]

61. Set up the grad school fund, but return the rest

Anonymously of course after wiping fingerprints, removing any hairs etc.

Taking money which doesn't belong to you is bad karma, but in an ideal world you would receive the ability to be properly educated, so it's not right but it's okay IMHO

[NMMNG]

62. But how much of that money actually belongs to *him*?

Did he really earn it? Or is it actually just ripped off from the hardworking taxpayers?

So then...college fund and the rest to charities? Cheney doesn't need any of it.

[DrDebug]

63. Of course he doesn't need any of it

A lot of money has been made the easy way, but that's his bad karma. It's about the tainted money thing mentioned earlier.

Setting up a college fund with tainted money isn't real wonderful, but that's one of the cases where being an oppurtunist can help, since having an college education will enable you to significant difference and not having any generally - unless you are able to excel in a certain subject - means that you are stuck on the bottom.

If you give it to charity then the charity assumes that it is properly earned money, but it is now double tainted money.

[valis]

73. Good point! It's stolen anyway!

[Spirochete]

55. Take it to a gay bar

and claim I found it there.

[Swamp Rat]

57. Give it to me!

I know what to do with it. ;)

[Orangepeel]

64. Turn it in. It's a trap

There is no way that greedy bastard lost $150K. Try to keep the money and you'll end up in Gitmo.

[pinniped]

65. Shred it, people were killed for that POS's blood money.

I would say burn it but that will contribute to the depletion of the ozone layer.

Shred the license too.

[underpants]

66. I have no idea what you are talking about

Wallet? What wallet?

:evilgrin:

[newfaceinhell]

67. give it back- wouldn't want any of his blood-stained money

[all.of.me]

69. give it to our andy!

return the wallet

[CBHagman]

70. Return it.

We do things on principle at DU!

:bounce:

[amazona]

72. mail back his driver's license

I'm a nice guy, I'll save the jerk a trip to the DMV. As far as the cash goes, it's losers weepers, finders keepers.

[valis]

75. OK, I'd keep it. No brainer for me.

The only reason I'd give it back to somebody is if I suspected they needed it. If I KNOW they don't need it because they are already wealthy, then there is no way in hell I'd give it back (especially, if I know the owner is a crook).

[Merrick]

76. Buy 150,000 tacos

yummy.

[redqueen]

77. Return it to him, of course.

:shrug:

[dolo amber]

81. Booze and hookers

[pbartch]

83. Keep it. Take GREAT SATISFACTION in cutting his DL up in

LITTLE......TINEY PIECES AND SCATTERING THEM TO THE WIND!!

[valis]

85. I'd donate 20K to DU!!!! OK?

[VOX]

86. That $150K is totally blood-soaked and loaded with bad karma.

As tempting as it would be to pocket it, I wouldn't want it. I'd have the dollar amount certified (so I couldn't be accused of bagging the $$$ after the fact), and send the whole wallet and its contents back to the miserable SOB.

valis, this is actually a very, very good thought-question! :thumbsup:

[valis]

87. Hmmm, but if you do something good with bad karma money....

Doesn't that balance things out? For example, give it to people who need surgery and they cannot afford it... Just wondering...

[DrDebug]

88. It will make things worse

Because you will not inform the people who you give the money to that it has a dubious background. It may be good karma for them but not for you. Karma is action + intention. So both the action and the intention are wrong.

If you found $100 and put it in your pocket and spend it and later one you felt guilty and couldn't repair it with the original person then giving $100 to charity would balance it out again, because the action + intention would be good in that case.

[valis]

90. I'll trust the karma experts on this. OK?

[Taverner]

91. Donate $100K to the ACLU

pocket the rest...maybe donate to NORML

[ok_cpu]

93. Thought you were gonna say

The license cold said "Santa Claus"

[LibraLiz1973]

95. Disperse 3 ways..

50k to D.U.
50k to Planned Parenthood
50k to The Democratic Party

[DelawareValleyDem]

99. Have my name legally changed to Dick Cheney

[DS1]

100. I realized that Cheney has just screened "Surviving the Game" with Ice - T

and is probably adjusting his windage as I rifled through his 'bait' - and I run like hell.

[skygazer]

102. I'd turn it in

Why is this a hard question?

[Mutley]

103. I returned a wallet once that only had $20 in it

and the guy accused me of stealing the rest of his money! now that's what karma got me.

I told him that if he thought I stole something from him then call the cops, but of course the jackass didn't because he knew he was full of shit.

[ScreamingMeemie]

104. Give it back. I won't stoop to their level of thievery.

:hi: