[herr_oberst]

The Fuchs-find thread got me thinking. (ouch. I gotta stop that)

• You buy something and sell it for a lot more than you paid, because the seller didn't know what he had. Do you make it right by offering the seller part of the profit?

• How about this. You buy a desk at a yard sale, and when you get it home, you find an envelope with a huge stash of cash taped to the bottom of one of the drawers.
Keep the cash? Give it back? Give part of it back?

• Or, you buy a painting at goodwill, because you like the frame. When you take the dust cover off the back, you find a certifiable first draft of the Magna Carta, thought to be lost for centuries.
Who owns that valuable document? You? Goodwill? The state? Great Britain?

• Maybe you're putting a sprinkler system in the backyard and you find a coffee can full of gold doubloons. Yours to keep?

I have a pretty good idea what I would do in each of these cases:

The Fuchs and the doubloons would be my profit to keep.

The envelope of money, I like to think I'd give it back. Fortunately, I haven't been in that position.

The Magna Carta would be sold to the highest bidder. A generous percentage to Goodwill.

Hows about youse guys and gals? What would you do?
Ever been tested? What did you do?