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RE: Contractor Finds Loot In Clients House, What is You... - 12/15/2007 3:06:04 PM    appliedlips Posts: 1705 Joined: 1/30/2005 Status: offline     I think the homeowner sounds like a jerk.Why wouldn't he be more willing to share?If it were a stranger I was working for,I would keep every dime of it and not have said a word.I try to be honest in all things,but being stupid is completely different.Nobody was losing anything,only gaining so why shouldn't it be the finder.The friendship is the only thing that would have made me tell the owner and feel obligated to share it but would have been pissed if he tried to slap me in the face and hand me 10%. (in reply to kastoo) Post #: 21

RE: Contractor Finds Loot In Clients House, What is You... - 12/15/2007 3:09:53 PM    RedGinger   Posts: 992 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline No good deed goes unpunished. (in reply to appliedlips) Post #: 22

RE: Contractor Finds Loot In Clients House, What is You... - 12/15/2007 3:26:41 PM    lobeycat Posts: 3803 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline he should have sealed her up behind the wall _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD8XDgVe2EU long lost recipe (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 23

RE: Contractor Finds Loot In Clients House, What is You... - 12/15/2007 3:58:02 PM    JGUIS   Posts: 1705 Joined: 3/18/2006 From: New Lexington, OH Status: offline Being a contractor from Ohio, I figured I'd chime in.  I find things all the time working on old houses, old coins, papers, etc.  If I like it, I keep it.  I only involve the owner if I have to.  If I am crawling around in insulation in an attic that's 115 degrees, and find something rare, it's mine. Because if someone hires me to do work that they are either unable to do, or don't want to do, that tells me that they'll never find it, and it could go to waste.  If it were cash, especially old cash, the guy went above and beyond for his friend.  If it were a stranger, I guarantee he wouldn't have said a word.  This happens alot more than you hear about, mostly because the finders keep quiet.  And for the record, all the cash in my house is mine, I don't care who signed it or marked it.  They've taken enough for my lifetime already. _____________________________ A pipe gives a wise man time to think, and gives a fool something to stick in his mouth. (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 24

RE: Contractor Finds Loot In Clients House, What is You... - 12/15/2007 11:37:54 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3668 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline Hahahahah !!Man you should run for president Lobe. _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 25

RE: Contractor Finds Loot In Clients House, What is You... - 12/15/2007 11:44:09 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3668 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline Hey Reds if its only money send a few Gs my way I need to buy some bottles . _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 26

RE: Contractor Finds Loot In Clients House, What is You... - 12/15/2007 11:57:33 PM    RedGinger   Posts: 992 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline I think you're set in the bottle department (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 27

RE: Contractor Finds Loot In Clients House, What is You... - 12/16/2007 12:00:46 AM    Just Dig it   Posts: 299 Joined: 5/7/2007 Status: offline How many contractors do you know who would call you and say YO!!! i was up in your wall and i found some 1,000 dollar bills can you come home and help me count it all? personaly i would have  given him 50% if he was my  friend...money is man made.junk paper..the government can print up an infinite ammont to control any situation it backs itself into...Dont even get me started on comparing 911 and pearl harbor..welcome to the new world order.they now have us caged like little animals...it only took 60 some odd years (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 28

RE: Contractor Finds Loot In Clients House, What is You... - 12/16/2007 8:12:39 AM    I_dig_bottles   Posts: 65 Joined: 8/31/2007 Status: offline To me the thing to remember is that the contractor is an employee. He has been hired to do a job. He is being reimbursed for his time and efforts for the fee that was agreed upon before the job was started. I would expect that if I brought a contractor into my home “especially a friend” that I could trust them and they would not steel from me. I would not expect them to take home and keep what I have lying around my house weather it is inside a wall or on a table. Tique if I did dig a dump on abandoned land I have not been HIRED to do so, I would not go looking for the owner to share my finds. But then again even abandoned land is owned by someone. And as reasonable and professional bottle diggers and good citizens should try and get permission before digging someplace that doesn’t belong to us! If Joe homeowner hired me to come and dig an old dump I would be paid to either clean up the old site (I keep what I find) OR the guy wants to know what is there and hires an expert to do it for him in witch case (I give him what I find). I think the home owner would be a nice person to share it with the contractor found BUT I honestly don’t think she should be obligated! Maybe Ohio state law will see it differently I would not. But then again there are a lot of laws that I don’t agree with. Some of them I follow and some I don’t! (in reply to Just Dig it) Post #: 29

RE: Contractor Finds Loot In Clients House, What is You... - 12/16/2007 8:34:08 AM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3668 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline If I am set,thats means I can't dig any more....NOT! _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 30

RE: Contractor Finds Loot In Clients House, What is You... - 12/16/2007 9:28:02 AM    cowseatmaize Posts: 2135 Joined: 12/2/2004 From: Metro West, MA Status: offline I'd say more research on the Dunnes is in order. That guy probably stashed it when the market crashed. Terrible things happened including murder. If the man was killed or died naturally... what happened to the wife and kids if any. State care? orphanage? The money wasn't thrown out with the trash, it was being protected and banks weren't an option. _____________________________ My 10¢ worth (inflation) Eric If you love what your doing it might be illegal, so watch your back. (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 31

RE: Contractor Finds Loot In Clients House, What is You... - 12/16/2007 4:10:12 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1758 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin, S.C. Status: offline I'm glad to know we got all these righteous souls out there. Still I would have got it. As opposed to took.Quoting Daffy Duck "mine,mine all mine". And if it was rat crap or asbestous the home owner would not wanted any part of it or pay the contractor for the removal of said. The home owner would have expected it. It's easy to say "I would have given it back" I don't belive any of it. Not one single soul out here among us I doubt has ever came across that much money or held 183k in there hands. I'd bet each and everyone of us would have taken it, might have felt bad about it but still taken it. Give it all to the Dunnes or split it three ways. (in reply to cowseatmaize) Post #: 32

RE: Contractor Finds Loot In Clients House, What is You... - 12/16/2007 8:36:03 PM    California Dream N   Posts: 187 Joined: 12/28/2006 Status: offline I understand where alot of you are coming from. Is money worth losing a friend?? Depends on the money and the Friend...but when you buy a property you buy it "in total" unless someone holds the mineral rights or water rights...etc..At least in California the $$ belongs to the property owner with the only chance of someone claiming... might be a family member of Mr. Dunne.... Is this right??? You be the Judge but I certainly do not think the contractor has a right to 100% legally or morally...Should have kept his F***ing mouth shut to begin with and he would have been better off....I am very curious to see how the law in Ohio sees this... (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 33

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