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Originally Posted by Lord_Crispen
psujohn, you're trying really hard to ignore 80% of the replies here.
Thanks for tell me what I'm doing. You clearly know better than I do.
FTR I actually agree with 90% of what's been written here. I also think a whole lot of it is irrelevant. I completely agree that if there's lost property and you can identify the rightful owner it should be returned.
I started with a more cynical assumption - the casino getting a lost chip would expend little if any effort in identifying the rightful owner and they'd just pocket it.
My understanding has moderated slightly. Now I think that if the chip is dropped in view of a camera and it's of significant value the might actually look at tape to try to determine the owner.
I'm still pretty unconvinced that there's any way to identify the owner if the chip is dropped out of view of the camera.
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Originally Posted by psandman
And the guy missing a black chip can't describe it and the approximate location?
That's kinda ridiculous on it's face. Can you describe they black chip you dropped? Yeah, it's a chiip and it's black.
Though I have to admit that if I went to security and say - I dropped a black chip somewhere. I was at locations A and B over the last 30 minutes - if someone found a black chip at location B and turned it in security might very well give it to the guy. Though given that location B is out of sight of any cameras I'm not 100% certain they would.
To be clear the lack of camera coverage is relevant in my mind only in that it affects the ability to identify the proper owner. Not in ability to get away with something I shouldn't do.
I'm pretty secure in my own sense of morality. I've walked half way across a room to give a guy leaving the table a redbird he dropped while racking up. I've turned in wallets found outside a grocery store with no one around. I've corrected cage and cashier errors in my favor.
This spot was a little different being a significant value chip and being in one of the rare spots in a casino that's out of view of cameras. I think I've been convinced that there's enough of a chance that the chip would be returned to the proper owner that it'd be worth turning it in.
I eagerly await Lord Crispen's return so that he can tell me what I really think.