THE BAIS HAVAAD HALACHA JOURNAL: Volume 5775 Issue XV Parshas Bo 2:30 AM Windfall on the L.I.E. When Finders are Keepers by Rabbi Yehoshua Wolfe
I’m driving on the freeway and the armored truck in front of me dropped its cash. Can I pocket the money?
A question few stop to ask.
Especially while the green-backs are still plastered to their windshield.
It was reported that last Tuesday at around 2:30 am, a bag of cash fell out of a moving armored truck, spilling onto the Long Island Expressway. The rear door flew open, and $100 and $20 bills flew out. The drivers behind the truck raced out and collected most of the $170,000; the guard recovered $40.
This article attempts to examine several aspects of this puzzling episode. In such a situation, are the drivers, in fact, permitted to keep the money? What’s more, how about the gun-toting guard? Shouldn’t he have intervened?
Hashavas aveidah is one of the first mitzvos we are taught as children. Finders are not keepers - and lost property must be returned to its rightful owner. The following paragraphs, however, focus on when you may keep lost property. The times that finders are keepers.
I’m driving on the freeway and the armored truck in front of me dropped its cash. Can I pocket the money?
A question few stop to ask.
Especially while the green-backs are still plastered to their windshield.
It was reported that last Tuesday at around 2:30 am, a bag of cash fell out of a moving armored truck, spilling onto the Long Island Expressway. The rear door flew open, and $100 and $20 bills flew out. The drivers behind the truck raced out and collected most of the $170,000; the guard recovered $40.
This article attempts to examine several aspects of this puzzling episode. In such a situation, are the drivers, in fact, permitted to keep the money? What’s more, how about the gun-toting guard? Shouldn’t he have intervened?
Hashavas aveidah is one of the first mitzvos we are taught as children. Finders are not keepers - and lost property must be returned to its rightful owner. The following paragraphs, however, focus on when you may keep lost property. The times that finders are keepers.
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