Ethics Survey

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You sit down on a park bench and find your favorite brand of pen lying on the bench. You pick it up and try it, and it writes perfectly. Do you:

Slip it in your pocket?
3
10%
Look around for a claimant, and then barring any, put it in your pocket?
20
67%
Contemplate taking it, feel guilty and leave it where it was?
4
13%
Just leave it where it was knowing that its owner will probably come back looking for it.
3
10%
 
Total votes: 30

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Ethics Survey

Post by apropos of nothing » Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:35 pm

What would you do?

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Re: Ethics Survey

Post by NewYorkDave » Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:41 pm

I'd leave it the hell alone. Some Arab may have left it there, loaded with smallpox.


:mrgreen:

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Re: Ethics Survey

Post by bedbug » Wed Dec 31, 2003 1:00 pm

I'd leave it. Probably some hidden-camera reality TV prank thing. Man, I'm never falling for that again!

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Re: Ethics Survey

Post by markpar » Wed Dec 31, 2003 1:01 pm

Leave it there. Pens are easy to come by. Now a 67, on the other hand............. :twisted:

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Re: Ethics Survey

Post by marqueemoon » Wed Dec 31, 2003 1:05 pm

Hmm... Lots of cat avatars here.
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But I was very much bothered with my work!

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Re: Ethics Survey

Post by Rick Hunter » Fri Jan 02, 2004 8:00 am

Take it and sell it then.

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Re: Ethics Survey

Post by tenaciousjay » Fri Jan 02, 2004 11:31 am

I'd leave it, I've got plenty of pens.

But on a related note, we just played a last minute gig on Monday night. We thought we were playing first but ended up playing second to last (and we almost got stuck playing last! No fun on a Monday night). I had only brought a little weed with me - I don't generally smoke before shows anymore anyway, and I figured we'd be out of there early. But it was a slow night and we got there early so we smoked what I brought. But after a while of playing pool and just waiting for the FIRST band to start we started feeling like another session out in the van. So we asked the one 'head in the place that we knew of and he had none either. So resigned to our fate, we just hung around. I went to play some pinball and the other two guys hung by the bar. When I came back, the singer tells me that they were standing there talking to somebody and all of a sudden they noticed a baggie on the floor. They discreetly pocketed it and it was like a 2 grams of pot! We had a brief discussion about it but what do you do? Shout "hey! anyone lost a baggie"? The one guy who we thought it might belong to was dry (or at least that's what he told us), so we went out and smoked it and split up what was left.

On one hand it was perfect timing and could be looked at as cosmic payback for taking this gig, even though it only payed $25 (free beer always helps though), on the other hand I hope it didn't belong to the touring band or anyone else hard up for cash.

So for weed I guess it's "look around then put it in your pocket" and then feel kinda bad later on. But smoke it anyway.

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Re: Ethics Survey

Post by heylow » Fri Jan 02, 2004 12:56 pm

NewYorkDave wrote:I'd leave it the hell alone. Some Arab may have left it there, loaded with smallpox.


:mrgreen:

That's stupid...NObody can write with smallpox...not even Arabs. :wink:



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Re: Ethics Survey

Post by axial » Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:36 pm

pick it up , hold up to my face and scream at it "why must you taunt me little pen!, my favorite pen! Damn you! Damn you favorite, in perfectly finew woprking order pen!!! Damn you!" then I would drop it and run away!
don't worry we don't need to track, we'll fix it later!

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Re: Ethics Survey

Post by AstroDan » Sat Jan 03, 2004 10:43 pm

I would just want to make sure it wasn't Bruce McCulloch's, of Kids In The Hall.

"My pen! My pen!"

(Anyone see that skit?)
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Re: Ethics Survey

Post by junomat » Sat Jan 03, 2004 10:45 pm

NewYorkDave wrote:I'd leave it the hell alone. Some Arab may have left it there, loaded with smallpox.


:mrgreen:
i assume that is said in jest...

you from texas?

;)

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Re: Ethics Survey

Post by thunderboy » Sun Jan 04, 2004 12:57 am

Hmmm...
Everyone SAYS they would just leave it, yet only TWO have voted as such.
What a buncha big fat liars! :schuettel:
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Re: Ethics Survey

Post by I'm Painting Again » Sun Jan 04, 2004 2:11 pm

I'd pick that monkey up, pull down my pants and stab myself in the eye and pay myself not to tell anyone..

or find the person who droped it and give them a citizens arrest for littering..

or

or or

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Re: Ethics Survey

Post by AstroDan » Sun Jan 04, 2004 7:33 pm

So Sky...Would you stab yourself with that very pen in question, or would you use an alternate device?

Please respond. I must know before I turn in for the night.
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Re: Ethics Survey

Post by I'm Painting Again » Mon Jan 05, 2004 12:49 am

well as you can see I have a cold and been drinking too much robotussin..

I would stab myself in the eye with a tree branch, thats what usually happens when I go to the park, im kind of a branch target..I would not use the pen itself because I would not want to damage someones valuable property..BTW is this the kind of pen that has a girl on it and when you turn it upside down her cloths fall off? Because if it is I'm going to have to change my all my thousands of votes and replies..from when I was not born..ok?

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