• Cash run sparked on Texas highway as Brinks armored truck spills cash; people stop to pick it up and
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How does an armoured truck accidentally open?
[QUOTE=RAG Frag;47522710]How does an armoured truck accidentally open?[/QUOTE] Very carefully.
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;47521851]Oh no, a billion-dollar company has to pay a couple grand. That's a drop in the water, their shareholders will live. If they don't, they can piss right off and sell their shares for all they care.[/QUOTE] Wrong is wrong regardless of if it's the nice old lady down the street or a massive faceless corporation.
This is my town and it happened less than 5 minutes after I got off the freeway. I was behind the truck on the way into town. Of course, ethics aside, grabbing cash out of an armored car is a bad idea considering they have all the serial numbers for the bills.
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;47521851]Oh no, a billion-dollar company has to pay a couple grand. That's a drop in the water, their shareholders will live. If they don't, they can piss right off and sell their shares for all they care.[/QUOTE] I know, I'm not disagreeing with that. I was telling Snapster that transporting goods doesn't mean you own them.
I love the moralizers in this thread. In fact, I think it would be stupid to not pick up the money.
[QUOTE=Abeevau;47522984]I love the moralizers in this thread. In fact, I think it would be stupid to not pick up the money.[/QUOTE] What in the wide wide world is a "moralizer?" Regardless of any morals, it's illegal and a colossally terrible idea.
Some of you people are absolutely disgusting. The money might belong to a corporation that makes billions every year, but that [i]does not[/i] justify taking it. To insist otherwise is completely wrong on both moral and legal principles. It's still money that belongs to someone else, whether that be Brinks or one of their clients - taking the 'free' money is entirely theft and nothing else.
[QUOTE=GeneralSpecific;47523051]What in the wide wide world is a "moralizer?" Regardless of any morals, it's illegal and a colossally terrible idea.[/QUOTE] A moralizer is one who moralizes. The question of legality is pointless without enforceability. What exactly makes it a terrible idea?
This happened on a road about 10 miles from me it just so happened once. They caught all the people and made them pay a fine probably around twice what they got on top of having to return the cash.
[QUOTE=Abeevau;47523193]A moralizer is one who moralizes. The question of legality is pointless without enforceability. What exactly makes it a terrible idea?[/QUOTE] The fact that the truck is guarded by armed individuals, the fact that what you are doing is illegal and the fact that you are in a very public place with likely more than one camera recording you and the legal might of a huge corporation just itching to prosecute anybody they can over this isn't enough of a deterrant for you? you got some balls or you don't got brains.
[QUOTE=Cheshire_cat;47523124]Some of you people are absolutely disgusting. The money might belong to a corporation that makes billions every year, but that [i]does not[/i] justify taking it. To insist otherwise is completely wrong on both moral and legal principles. It's still money that belongs to someone else, whether that be Brinks or one of their clients - taking the 'free' money is entirely theft and nothing else.[/QUOTE] I don't think anyone said that taking the money was a good thing.
The whole story is really sketchy. A bag of money falls out the passenger door? Someone's losing their job over this.
Haha I-20 runs through my town too, I'm a few hours southeast tho.
[QUOTE=GeneralSpecific;47523266]The fact that the truck is guarded by armed individuals, the fact that what you are doing is illegal and the fact that you are in a very public place with likely more than one camera recording you and the legal might of a huge corporation just itching to prosecute anybody they can over this isn't enough of a deterrant for you? you got some balls or you don't got brains.[/QUOTE] From what I saw, there wasn't anybody watching over the money with guns. You also have to realize that showing up on a video is a far cry from being prosecuted, let alone convicted. I think if Brinks is going to prosecute anybody they'll pick a couple people and give them tawdry show trials to try and set an example. Who is to say how many people stopped by for just a little bit, grabbed some cash, and went right back on? The people who are going to be caught are those who let their greed get the better of them, or were the late bird and missed the worm. As previously stated, Brinks is a big company and the bills seemed to be twenties. In the end, as a business, they're going to take whatever action nets them the most money. At the same time, they also wish to avoid potential lost money, and any litigation they take may dip into their financial reserves, however faintly. Sometimes the most cost effective measure is cutting one's losses and running. One thing I like about the video is the dude they interview at the end. "Those who have some of the dropped money and don't turn it in to Brinks or the police department could face charges." He knows they won't catch most of the people who scooped some up, and he doesn't care.
Honestly, if I had been there, and had little chance to be caught, yeah, I would take what I could. Someone fucked up, money was sent flying, and people took it. Am I going to justify stealing it? No. It was stolen. Keep in mind though, morals don't put food on the table or pay bills. You do what you need to survive. Who knows, maybe this (un)fortunate event possibly helped someone who really needed it.
No, people cooperating and working with each other is what puts food on the table and pays bills, which is exactly what taking "free cash" isn't.
[QUOTE=Scot;47521416]Finder's keepers.[/QUOTE] What are you, 7?
[QUOTE=Abeevau;47522984]I love the moralizers in this thread. In fact, I think it would be stupid to not pick up the money.[/QUOTE] Or you know, do the right thing and not steal.
[QUOTE=Jame's;47525074]Or you know, do the right thing and not steal.[/QUOTE] It's easy to claim you'd pick the moral high ground when you're sitting behind a computer screen, but a huge majority of people would go and take the cash. It's the same thing as picking a $20 bill off the ground - it belongs to someone else, but the massive massive majority of people would pocket it anyways. Also funny that people are so insanely critical of this when I'm sure 90% of the people in this thread have pirated music or games or TV shows or movies.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;47525118]It's easy to claim you'd pick the moral high ground when you're sitting behind a computer screen, but a huge majority of people would go and take the cash. It's the same thing as picking a $20 bill off the ground - it belongs to someone else, but the massive massive majority of people would pocket it anyways. Also funny that people are so insanely critical of this when I'm sure 90% of the people in this thread have pirated music or games or TV shows or movies.[/QUOTE] True, I thought the van had tipped over and people were ransacking the spillage. But if there was just piles of money laying around with no clear indication of where it came from I'd probably take some.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;47525118]It's easy to claim you'd pick the moral high ground when you're sitting behind a computer screen, but a huge majority of people would go and take the cash. It's the same thing as picking a $20 bill off the ground - it belongs to someone else, but the massive massive majority of people would pocket it anyways.[/QUOTE] I disagree. When you see 20 bucks lying on the ground, it could be anyone's money, and there's no way in hell you're going to find that person since anyone can go "Uhuh oh yeah that's my money, thanks bro". Besides, if I found more than 20 bucks on the ground I'd probably bring it over to the police since people are more likely to miss it. I know it's bad, but I hardly think that bring an unidentifiable bill to a police station will actually get the person that lost it his money back, mainly for the same reason as I listed before. This however, was a fuckload of money pouring out of a truck that was clearly in charge of it. You know who it belongs to, you know they didn't mean to get rid of the money, it's pretty common sense to just return it to them. [editline]14th April 2015[/editline] Actually, it seems like the truck wasn't really in sight of the people grabbing the money. Anyways, there's bound to be something fishy when there's this much money lying around, and my point still stands.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;47525118]It's the same thing as picking a $20 bill off the ground - it belongs to someone else, but the massive massive majority of people would pocket it anyways.[/QUOTE] Call me crazy but I think there's a pretty huge difference between picking a random $20 bill off the ground and picking a $20 bill off the ground when it's clear that there's been an accident. If you see someone accidentally drop a $20 bill on the ground right in front of you and you swoop in and take it and keep it, you're a thief. [QUOTE=.Isak.;47525118]Also funny that people are so insanely critical of this when I'm sure 90% of the people in this thread have pirated music or games or TV shows or movies.[/QUOTE] I don't, actually, but for the sake of argument, as people always point out in piracy threads, piracy is an act of copyright infringement where only a potential sale is lost whereas this is outright theft of property. Apples and oranges.
People who think taking money spilled due to an accident is not theft, what?
[QUOTE=Snapster;47520891]When does it become free money? It still belongs to brink.[/QUOTE] Y'know, he probably doesn't mean 'free money' in a literal, legal sense. It's money that's laying there, you can just take it, and there's no foreseeable consequence for doing so. It's free money. You walk around in the city with your wallet barely in your back pocket, just hanging out by a thread, you got free money for everyone else. And I don't blame anyone for taking it either, really. Talk about the bank and ownership all you want, if I need to pay my bills or feed my family, and there's just money up for grabs with the only victim being a fucking [i]bank[/i], I'm taking the money. Is it necessarily morally right? No. I just don't plain give enough of a shit if it means I can clothe myself, or feed my kids. For me personally, I'd take the money.
[QUOTE=RAG Frag;47522710]How does an armoured truck accidentally open?[/QUOTE] Usually these companies are just like other contract security companies. They don't give a shit about anything, they just need bodies to fill their positions so they can make their money on the contract they have with company XYZ. My girlfriend worked as an armed armored truck driver. She didn't receive a full uniform, she didn't receive her body armor until two weeks after she had been driving and she NEVER received her service weapon that they were supposed to provide for her. As for the truck, the AC was broken (and obviously the windows cannot open) so on a 90F+ day you can imagine how terrible that would be, the wheel could not turn all the way, the engine would stall randomly while driving and [B]HER DOOR LOCKS WERE BROKEN AND THE DRIVER DOOR WOULD JUST FLY OPEN WHILE DRIVING[/B]. All this while driving routes around [I]fucking Detroit[/I]. My woman has balls almost as big as mine. She was not an exception. Every truck they had was like this. They just do not give a fuck. I do not find this story hard to believe and am actually surprised shit like this doesn't happen more often.
I can't believe people in here are defending this, what a world we live in.
[QUOTE=Solid_Granite;47524540]No, people cooperating and working with each other is what puts food on the table and pays bills, which is exactly what taking "free cash" isn't.[/QUOTE] This is true but stealing and crime does usually put food on the table as well.
[QUOTE=DaMastez;47522807]Wrong is wrong regardless of if it's the nice old lady down the street or a massive faceless corporation.[/QUOTE] As GeneralSpecific pointed out, they almost certainly have insurance companies covering their stuff. It's not a complete bank heist where literally everything's gone. [editline]14th April 2015[/editline] Also there is some difference between entering the truck and grabbing money and finding it on the ground.
[QUOTE=leontodd;47525901]I can't believe people in here are defending this, what a world we live in.[/QUOTE] I can't believe there are people in here who don't get that people have bills to pay and food to put on the table.
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