[fabsroman]

Jabba,

We would all like to say that we will step in front of the bullet screaming toward one of our family members, but until the time comes there is no telling what we will do. So, whether or not I would take a shot at a monster buck would probably depend on the circumstances. I am not going to say that I NEVER would do it, because I just do not know.

I understand that if it was a doe they would not have shot her, but they wuold obviously shoot a buck. Kind of like saying to an undercover officer selling crack cocaine that if it was sugar you would not have paid for it.

By the way, taking $100,000 you find on the street without any is not stealing if it does not have any indication of ownership. We had this discussion a couple of weeks ago at a family dinner and I pretty much broke out the property law book to settle the issue. If a construction worker finds something in somebody's wall and the property owner did not know about it, it actually belongs to the construction worker. Personally, I thought it would have belonged to the homeowner, but not so. I am sure that case law varies among all the states, but I can bet that if you took $100,000 to the police department's lost and found and nobody claimed it after a certain period, you would be entitled to keep the money. Where most people go wrong is that they keep the money without informing the police that they found it. Now, if there is some type of ID in the suitcase, it isn't your property because you know who it belongs to, unless the only ID is Samsonite. The US pretty much believes in a finders keepers attitude if the finder does not know who the property belongs to.