zombie
Jr. Member
- Aug 30, 2016
- 36
- 52
- Detector(s) used
- Garrett AT PRO, Bounty Hunter DISCOVERY 1100
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
So far I think my best find was a horseshoe and a nice carbine once. Not really that much.
My question is more about personal ethics I guess, not so much the legality of it.. Finding something valuable and making some money selling it would be great, I'd like to do it all the time. However, that ring I might have just found belonged to somebody before I found it.
Do they deserve to get it back?
Do I deserve to have it because I actively went searching to find something?
I know that there are things that I have lost that I would dearly love to have back in my possession, some valuable and some not.
I would like to think that if (and when) I find something of value that I would actively pursue finding the owner to return it. It would seem to be the right thing to do and lets face it, I think karma follows me around sometimes just waiting....
I would love to sell a ring I found for $10,000 and buy a new bike with it but would I always feel guilty? and should I?
I just read a post about someone returning a class ring and the owner was over the moon about it. A really good experience for him and the finder of the ring.
There must be the times though when you go through all of that only to get a mediocre thanks or even less. Or return something that the person had replaced by insurance, a win for them.
Has there ever been a time that you regretted either keeping an item or returning it? Did karma catch up with you?
My question is more about personal ethics I guess, not so much the legality of it.. Finding something valuable and making some money selling it would be great, I'd like to do it all the time. However, that ring I might have just found belonged to somebody before I found it.
Do they deserve to get it back?
Do I deserve to have it because I actively went searching to find something?
I know that there are things that I have lost that I would dearly love to have back in my possession, some valuable and some not.
I would like to think that if (and when) I find something of value that I would actively pursue finding the owner to return it. It would seem to be the right thing to do and lets face it, I think karma follows me around sometimes just waiting....
I would love to sell a ring I found for $10,000 and buy a new bike with it but would I always feel guilty? and should I?
I just read a post about someone returning a class ring and the owner was over the moon about it. A really good experience for him and the finder of the ring.
There must be the times though when you go through all of that only to get a mediocre thanks or even less. Or return something that the person had replaced by insurance, a win for them.
Has there ever been a time that you regretted either keeping an item or returning it? Did karma catch up with you?
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