A suitcase full of diamonds.

[Conan Edogawa]

Okay. I just watched one of the best movies I've EVER seen:

[glow=yellow,2,300]The Marathon Man[/glow]  http://imdb.com/title/tt0074860/

At the end there's Dustin Hoffman (as Babe) pointing a gun on Laurence Olivier (as 'The white angel' Szell), ordering him to eat the diamond in his suitcase.

At this very point I got the idea:

If you found a suitcase full of diamonds, how could you legally make the big money with it?

I just don't think it can be that easy...

[aussiewannabe]

If you found a suitcase full of diamonds, how could you legally make the big money with it?

I just don't think it can be that easy...

Very doubtful!

Surprisely, there have been several stories in the news about people finding large sums of money (one while walking his dog here in town, about 9K I believe) and he turned it in. Got a reward of $2000, but he insisted that it be donated to charity, which it was.

[beaky]

So what you want to know is....
Is it safe?



You couldn't do it legally, but I think the diamonds in question were stolen from people who were "liquidated" along with any record of ownership, so "Babe" might have easily gotten away with pocketing a few and pawning them... where else but in New York?

[Conan Edogawa]

Well, the point is:

Where do you go to, if you find a suitcase full of money, diamonds etc....

Police? Will you ever get a reward (the man aussiewannabe talked about must have had luck in that case)...

[beaky]

Well, the point is:

Where do you go to, if you find a suitcase full of money, diamonds etc....

Police? Will you ever get a reward (the man aussiewannabe talked about must have had luck in that case)...

The logical choice is to hand it over to the police, as they most likely got a report that the valuables were lost.
The police won't give you a reward, the owner of the valuables will give you the reward (maybe).
This happens often in New York: people leave Stradivarius violins and biefcases full of cash in taxicabs, that sort of thing.
But it never makes the news if the cabbie is not honest...

If the question is: am I guaranteed a reward if I am honest and do not keep the stuff?
The answer is: no guarantee, but a good deed is its own reward.

[Conan Edogawa]

...but a good deed is its own reward.

Yeah, absolutely...

[DONTREADMYUSERNAME]

maybe if you went out of the country and sold it some where else but its probably illegal.... besides that i cant figure out a way to sell it...

[ozzy72]

Hot diamonds? Antwerp

[eno]

A colleague of mine, back when I first drove buses, found a briefcase on his bus containing

[Hagar]

[quote]A colleague of mine, back when I first drove buses, found a briefcase on his bus containing

[eno]

The rule used to be that if lost property remained unclaimed after a certain period it was returned to the finder. Unless this has been changed the money was obviously claimed by someone. Either that or it mysteriously disappeared while in police custody.

If I remember correctly the phrase used when he asked about the 30day rule was "It will probably be needed as evidence." Which he interpreted as bog off you've got no chance.

[C]

If I remember correctly the phrase used when he asked about the 30day rule was "It will probably be needed as evidence." Which he interpreted as bog off you've got no chance.

Are you implying there are "bent" coppers out there? Never!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7059935.stm

At least they finally managed to catch the right bloke after 30 years. Shame about the chap they chucked in prison for 16 years...