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Survey what would you do from a novel Windfall "James Magnuson" simple yes or no please.
- Thread starter Ron from Michigan
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This type of scenario is something all treasure hunters like us should prepare their minds for ahead of time. Sooner or later a situation like this could present itself as much as we are out looking for stuff. That being said, its a wonderful excersize in thought..Just exactly what would you do if you found it and decided to take it? Its easier to not take it in the first place, but not any fun to think about that! To adopt a line from "No Country for Old Men", where did you get that? At the gettin' place...
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Nobody really knows how they'd act until the situation is presented to them. I often wondered the same thing when I heard of people suing for huge sums of money due to a personal injury. Would I do the same thing?
Then one day I was on a farm and getting drunk with the farm hand and another guy. He and two of us took a ride in a gas powered Gator (like a golf cart). We kept telling him to slow down but he wouldn't listen and just then he ran into a deadfall tree hidden by high grass. I saw branches coming at me and raised my right arm to protect my face. We went from about 30 miles plus an hour to a dead stop in an instant. I looked down to see a large piece of wood about twice the diameter of your thumb sticking just about all the way through my forearm. Out of instinct I pulled it out and saw a gaping hole. Bad idea, because it was just up the arm a bit from my wrist. Had I severed an artery I could have been dead in minutes.
They rushed me to the hospital and I had surgery for the first time in my life to remove the debri and clean/fix the wound. Luckily it had also missed all my tendons or I might have lost use of my hand. The next day I ran into a husband in relation to a family member and he happened to be a lawyer who specializes in civil lawsuits. He had found out the farm owner was worth about $50 million in property value due to the housing developments in the area taking over property (the farmer's family is wealthy and owns many hundreds of acres in prime realestate). He kept telling me that "now the farmer is worth $49 million", and that he'd sue without it costing me a dime unless we won. When I told him I wouldn't do that, he then switched angles and told me the home owner's insurance would cover the bill and it wouldn't cost the farmer a dime.
I'll just say that for a few days I imagined myself being on a beautiful exotic beach somewhere drinking expensive cocktails and enjoying myself. But then I realized I wouldn't be able to really ever enjoy any amount of money I got, no matter how little or much it might be, so I declined to sue. After all, we were all drunk. According to what the lawyer family relation told me the fact that we were all drinking didn't matter, because he was the one driving. But for one thing the driver was a good friend of mine who I didn't want to see lose his job either over the whole thing, and besides even if that wasn't the case the whole "moral" issue of getting money for an accident, and also due to my own error in judgement of getting into a piece of farm equipment with a drunk operator...Well, that right there was the bottom line for me.
So now I know...If I was presented with that kind of situation I'd do the right thing, or so I would like to think I would now. In a way I'm glad the whole accident happened to I found out what kind of person I am, or should I say am trying to be anyway. So on that point I can at least say I'd like to think I'd never do to my brother and sister what they did to my other brother, my other sister, and me. For years we had all agreed the roughly half a million dollar estate of my Uncle would be split among us since he had no kids and had told us it would be. Then when they found out he didn't spell it out in the will but rather just put the two oldest siblings in my family in charge of the estate...Well, let's just say I've got a brother and sister I'll never talk to again. They both had good jobs, and yet two of us have been struggling in this economy. They often show up at my mom's house with expensive Harleys (the brother bought TWO Harleys) or Mustang GTs, and take trips to Vegas to gamble. When I drive by and see those vehicles around I just keep on driving, because I want nothing to do with either of them.
My one sister is stuck in a foreign country married to a man she no longer loves, and was planning on her share of that money to move back home and go to nursing school. Needless to say she wasn't very happy to hear what was going down. My other brother had planned to pay for his daughter's college education. The oldest brother/sister named as control of the estate? They didn't need it for any issues like that, but rather have had a great time with the money buying toys and taking trips. They wouldn't even tell us what was happening, but rather had a lawyer send us a letter to state they had no intentions to split the estate with us and that if we didn't sign a waiver we'd be dragged into court to force us to.
Greed does funny things to people, despite how moral they claim to be until the situation is presented to them to make that moral choice. My sister is a regular church goer who "prides" herself on making a show of that to people. If she ever does try to talk to me again, the only thing I'll say is that the bible says things about charity beginning at home, and that Jesus said a rich man has as much chance of getting to heaven as a camel does passing through the eye of a needle. That doesn't mean being rich is evil, it means that what you do with your wealth can be. I don't claim to be a regular church goer, but seems to me she doesn't do much listening in church if she overlooks some key parts of what the preacher is talking about. One of the reasons why I guess Jesus raged against organized religion, because a relationship with God is more than sitting in a building and following human made custums.
For that reason nobody really knows what they'd do until it really happens. So in that small way I'm glad I had the chance in my own small way and opted for the the moral choice. That said, even with the gold class ring I found the other day, I still played that game in my head for a good part of the day, so I still wonder if I'll make the right choice if another different situation ever comes along again.
Then one day I was on a farm and getting drunk with the farm hand and another guy. He and two of us took a ride in a gas powered Gator (like a golf cart). We kept telling him to slow down but he wouldn't listen and just then he ran into a deadfall tree hidden by high grass. I saw branches coming at me and raised my right arm to protect my face. We went from about 30 miles plus an hour to a dead stop in an instant. I looked down to see a large piece of wood about twice the diameter of your thumb sticking just about all the way through my forearm. Out of instinct I pulled it out and saw a gaping hole. Bad idea, because it was just up the arm a bit from my wrist. Had I severed an artery I could have been dead in minutes.
They rushed me to the hospital and I had surgery for the first time in my life to remove the debri and clean/fix the wound. Luckily it had also missed all my tendons or I might have lost use of my hand. The next day I ran into a husband in relation to a family member and he happened to be a lawyer who specializes in civil lawsuits. He had found out the farm owner was worth about $50 million in property value due to the housing developments in the area taking over property (the farmer's family is wealthy and owns many hundreds of acres in prime realestate). He kept telling me that "now the farmer is worth $49 million", and that he'd sue without it costing me a dime unless we won. When I told him I wouldn't do that, he then switched angles and told me the home owner's insurance would cover the bill and it wouldn't cost the farmer a dime.
I'll just say that for a few days I imagined myself being on a beautiful exotic beach somewhere drinking expensive cocktails and enjoying myself. But then I realized I wouldn't be able to really ever enjoy any amount of money I got, no matter how little or much it might be, so I declined to sue. After all, we were all drunk. According to what the lawyer family relation told me the fact that we were all drinking didn't matter, because he was the one driving. But for one thing the driver was a good friend of mine who I didn't want to see lose his job either over the whole thing, and besides even if that wasn't the case the whole "moral" issue of getting money for an accident, and also due to my own error in judgement of getting into a piece of farm equipment with a drunk operator...Well, that right there was the bottom line for me.
So now I know...If I was presented with that kind of situation I'd do the right thing, or so I would like to think I would now. In a way I'm glad the whole accident happened to I found out what kind of person I am, or should I say am trying to be anyway. So on that point I can at least say I'd like to think I'd never do to my brother and sister what they did to my other brother, my other sister, and me. For years we had all agreed the roughly half a million dollar estate of my Uncle would be split among us since he had no kids and had told us it would be. Then when they found out he didn't spell it out in the will but rather just put the two oldest siblings in my family in charge of the estate...Well, let's just say I've got a brother and sister I'll never talk to again. They both had good jobs, and yet two of us have been struggling in this economy. They often show up at my mom's house with expensive Harleys (the brother bought TWO Harleys) or Mustang GTs, and take trips to Vegas to gamble. When I drive by and see those vehicles around I just keep on driving, because I want nothing to do with either of them.
My one sister is stuck in a foreign country married to a man she no longer loves, and was planning on her share of that money to move back home and go to nursing school. Needless to say she wasn't very happy to hear what was going down. My other brother had planned to pay for his daughter's college education. The oldest brother/sister named as control of the estate? They didn't need it for any issues like that, but rather have had a great time with the money buying toys and taking trips. They wouldn't even tell us what was happening, but rather had a lawyer send us a letter to state they had no intentions to split the estate with us and that if we didn't sign a waiver we'd be dragged into court to force us to.
Greed does funny things to people, despite how moral they claim to be until the situation is presented to them to make that moral choice. My sister is a regular church goer who "prides" herself on making a show of that to people. If she ever does try to talk to me again, the only thing I'll say is that the bible says things about charity beginning at home, and that Jesus said a rich man has as much chance of getting to heaven as a camel does passing through the eye of a needle. That doesn't mean being rich is evil, it means that what you do with your wealth can be. I don't claim to be a regular church goer, but seems to me she doesn't do much listening in church if she overlooks some key parts of what the preacher is talking about. One of the reasons why I guess Jesus raged against organized religion, because a relationship with God is more than sitting in a building and following human made custums.
For that reason nobody really knows what they'd do until it really happens. So in that small way I'm glad I had the chance in my own small way and opted for the the moral choice. That said, even with the gold class ring I found the other day, I still played that game in my head for a good part of the day, so I still wonder if I'll make the right choice if another different situation ever comes along again.