Let's say you were walking your theoretical dog early one theoretical Friday morning when you come across a backpack on the curb of an open street. There's an open beer can next to the backpack. There's not a soul around. You prod the backpack with your shoe. You can't see what's in it as it's not light out enough yet. Rather than leave what could be some kid's homework and books next to the street, you take the backpack home with you.
After coming home from work later that day, you open the backpack. Inside is beer, pills of some indiscriminate variety, beads, raver cards, 1 pen, some cords, and a laptop. Nothing inside has any names or addresses of any kind.
You turn on the laptop in hopes that you might find something with identification on it. The battery's dead but there's a power cord for it in the backpack. The screenname is "Kevin", and Kevin was stupid enough to have set his password as "password". The laptop is virtually empty, except for a dozen pictures and a few techno/raver songs added the day before. The pics are of several teens with brighty-colored dyed hair and facial piercings (none of whom you have ever seen before) at an apartment complex you don't recognize. Any one of them could be "Kevin" or none at all if he was taking all the pics himself. Further delving produces that the laptop itself is brand-new and was first accessed AT ALL the day before.
Since then, there have been no signs in the area for a missing backpack/laptop. Nothing posted on CraigsList. No indication of who this stuff belongs to except a first name.
Your choices are:
1) Put the stuff back and hope against all reality that it makes its way back to the proper owner.
2) Keep the stuff. Why not? Free beer and a laptop. Toss the gay-ass raver crap and mystery pills.
3) Post "found" signs around and deal with all the bullshit of people contacting you in hopes they can get free beer and a laptop.
What do you do, hotshot?
WHAT DO YOU DO???!?
7 years ago
4 comments:
I'd take it to the local police station. Turn it in with a location and time found. If no one claims it in something like 90 days they'd call and I'd get to keep the laptop. The pills and beer and all that jazz would be disposed of no doubt... but hey, free laptop and clean conscience!
Hmmm, any way to clean it by next weekend?
ok, sooooooo you are hoping most of us will say its ok just keep it. right? or option four,
keep the beer and pawn the laptop. well, think of it as an indirect christmas gift to you.
what does your gut tell u?
-Darknight73
My gut tells me there's CRAP with any option available.
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