Boys catch $100,000 on fishing trip - What would you do?

Finding a bag with 100,000 dollars in it is VERY suspiscious. I wouldn't want to keep that money unless I knew nothing bad happened because of it. So I would turn it in to the police--and I believe if no one rightfully claims it and it is not proved to be involved in anything illegal, it gets returned to the person who found it--because it that situation it is rightfully theirs

Well I would probably let the police know, because after all if they can't find the proper owner for it they'll likely just let you keep it. Plus I think the likeliness of the owner not turning up would be high, because it's a little suspicious finding a bag in a pound with that much money; it's not like someone when cruising or something then turned around and their one hundred thousand dollar bag just fell out of their pocket and into the ocean. Maybe something involving money laundering or crime, in which case people wouldn't be to willing to claim it. If the money was old enough with no traceable relative to the owner you'll still get it (sand down all the family seals! xD). I honestly would spend most of the money on material objects, some for savings and some for investments to see if I can turn that one hundred grand into something more. One hundred thousand is a lot, but isn't really a "set for life" cash amount, so I would make sure to spend it on something worth while and lasting (if it was a few billion I'd start thinking gold statues and two floor water fountains).

If I have $100,000, I will spend it in invest to earn more money or I will give it to my grandmother for her spend in day. In my country, it's very expensive for live in a day.I will give a half and remain half I spend for me. First I spend is on education. The second is my travel. I love travel too much.

Hi Rawbill, Cash $100,000 is a lot of money. If this situation happened to me, I may probably just keep the money.Since the money come to me by itself, why should I reject it. At the same time, I will donate some the money to charities and spend some for holiday.

How old were these boys? If a friend and I found it, we wouldn't tell it to anyone. The chance of returning it is bigger when you tell everybody. They better just divided it halfways and put it under their matrasses:) Or put it on the bank for some intrest. But then people will ask you where did you get 100,000 flipflaps. "I found it" :) They can put a really big smile on their faces. Probably fishing is now the most popular sport in your region:) Take care

Wow! What a big fish! If i have money like that i will just keep quiet and deposit to my bank, some of it i will donate to charity and churches, i dont know where the money came from so it's better to keep it.

I might spend ten seconds considering it, then go out and buy proceeds the digital TV we want and some new clothes and a trailer load of plants for the garden and .... That amount of money, if spent over a year, wouldn't even make a splash, so virtually no chance of ever having to explain it. And since I can conceive of no moral or ethical grounds whatsoever to declare it, on the basis that that much money in a bag in the ocean has a .9999 probability of being the proceeds of crime, I would not lose a second's sleep over it. Lash

Tempting for sure! Considering that amount would pay most of my mortgage…Honestly I could not keep it though. It is a large sum of money and the fact that is was stashed in a bag like that makes me wonder how it was obtained. If I found it I would be tempted, consider keeping for a while and then hand it in to the Police!

Dear RawBill, First of all, checked whether the cash is 'marked'? Secondly make sure it is 'genuine' money not 'fake'. Thirdly ensure no one else know about it. Oh No, this is so tempting...seek for legal advise like the two teenagers did! However, in case I change my mind, I will not seek legal advise...shared it equally with the other guy and slowly dispose of the money....LOL I relly can't decide right now, perhaps when I really found those money, I will let you know! Ahoy!..., lets go fishing some treasures this weekend :)

This news really shocked people! I also make the hard choices to face with this situation . But I think the forces for justice will overcome evile in my heart.HAHAHHA

If i ever got this much of amount then i wont be returning to police or inform anyone else cause this will be one of the great opportunities in the whole life and it would be hard to get such opportunity.. if i got that much of money then i would first buy a big house and a brand new car..and the remaining will be spent on traveling and so on but this is just a imaginary..

I'd keep it, without a doubt. Although I'd sit on it a while in case anything on the news surfaced about something crime related in the area. Then I'd slowly spend it over a year or two so that nobody got suspicious.

If you find $100,000 in the river first off you have to think about what is the net worth of wet money? Then you have to realize what the person who lost it probably feels like, I know for me it would feel like a giant gaping hole right in my gut. But then you have to think what is a bag of money doing in the river in the first place? There are far to many factors in play for you to find the 100% correct way of handling the money, it all boils down to in your current mental state, how do YOU feel the money should be dealt with.