Registered: Aug 2000
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Last summer I was on the other side of the country in Oregon. Being without work or proper shelter I'd spend hours walking the streets looking for a job or anything short of whoring for money.

One day while passing a bank, an armored car pulled up. As I approached, a guard got out with a canvas bag of cash in each hand and walked into the bank. Walking pass the armored car, I looked inside it's side door that had been left wide open. Inside was a HUGE stack of money bags and not a guard in sight. I froze. For a good ten seconds I stood there staring at that cash that I so desperatly needed. That ten seconds seemed to slow into a week's worth of thought. I considered how easy it would be to grab an armful of bags and haul ass. All my concerns about cash would be gone. I could buy food! No more sleeping in the woods. More than anything, I could feel like a regular person and not a cretin on the street begging for work and dignity.

Just as fast as those thoughts came they passed, replaced with visions of prison and long nights of enforced ass love.

I wieghed the options, considered the risk involved and decided in the end to keep walking. Since then I've stayed awake at night considering whether I made the right choice. The money was right there in front of me. I could have gotten away with it I'm sure.

Did I make the right decision? Late at night I wonder about that.

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I'd bet money you were on camera.

Amen.

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No doubt I was on camera. Still, I wasn't from around there and seriously could have disapeared with the cash like DB Cooper.

I think that it will forever be a coulda, woulda, shoulda moment.

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damn tefl -- I could have used a personal whore and I would have fed you.

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I would have fed you.

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hey! I make a mean shepherd's pie, honky. I wasn't BORN a veg-head.

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Telf...you did good.
Let's say you went for it,dissapeared,got away with it,ect.
You can't open a checking account for you have to account for the money.
You could buy a house but you still have to account for the money.
You could buy food.
You could get an apartment cause landlords gotta pay whether youre there or not.
Then there's the "I know what you did" senario.
Your life would have been far more difficult,I think.

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you could've taken it, hidden it, and kept it there if and when you went to jail, and you could've spent some of it on ass-repair after you got out of prison in 10 years and used the rest to buy a steak dinner.

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Trust me, you can do some bad things when you're broke. Hold off, times will get better.

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filthy hippie parasite

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Trust me, you can do some bad things when you're broke. . . .

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Reminds me of the joke about the guy stuck on the roof of his house during a flood. Three seperate times rescuers in boats stop by to offer him help, but each time the man refuses by saying "No, the lord shall provide for me." Eventually, the house collapses under the force of the rapids, and the man is swept away and drowns. He awakes at the pearly gates in front of st. pete whom he asks, "why did the lord forsake me in my hour of need?" and peter replies, "the lord sent help three times, stupid, what the fuck were you expecting?"

Have you ever considered that maybe Jesus wanted you to have that money, tefl?

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Originally posted by Tefl
No doubt I was on camera. Still, I wasn't from around there and seriously could have disapeared with the cash like DB Cooper.

I think that it will forever be a coulda, woulda, shoulda moment.

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Originally posted by Tefl
No doubt I was on camera. Still, I wasn't from around there and seriously could have disapeared with the cash like DB Cooper.

I think that it will forever be a coulda, woulda, shoulda moment.

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I think you did the right thing.

Also, you get a class pernt for knowing who D.B. Cooper is.

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Did I make the right decision? Late at night I wonder about that.

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you should have climbed inside the truck, waited for the guard to return. Shot him in the face, walked into the bank, executed everyone and emptied it, Burned down the district to take care of any witnesses and then found an empty treestump wherein you could masterbate yourself to sleep while whimpering softly about your long lost Barbie doll.

Cheers
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No doubt I was on camera. Still, I wasn't from around there and seriously could have disapeared with the cash like DB Cooper.

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I think you did the right thing, Tefl. Although desperate times call for desperate measures, do you think you could handle the time if it all come on top?

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You're better off having not done it. I reckon it'd be something you'd regret even if you didnt get caught. Ya might have hung around and told the idiot guard to mind his truck better in future.

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In retrospect I'm glad I didn't take the cash. The headache of trying to cover it's trail and laundry it would have taken much of the fun out of it although I'm certain that I could have figured it out someway or another.

I think besides the prospect of prison the main reason I didn't grab the cash was my upbringing. Years ago as a child I stole some fireworks and got caught. My grandmother told me then that a person that will steal a million dollars would steal food from a child's mouth. In the end there is no difference between the two.

If a person was religious I could see it as a test of sorts. Like Thegamecat said, maybe God intended me for me to have it. Then again, maybe the Devil set the situation up to tempt me in my moment of need and weakness. I personally am not religious and so do not look at it in those terms but the essential basis is still the same. Had I taken the cash it would have been no stretch of the imagination to assume I'd take from anyone.

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God clearly thought that regular forced sex with a variety of black men would cure you of your racism and homophobia. You have evaded His plan for now, but He'll get you in the end.

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in the end.

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You did the right thing, Tefl.

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now lets say that he had nicked that money bag and gotten away with it

did he do the right thing?

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