$10,000 in a grave for the taking

[Vanlavak]

There is a grave in New Orleans that is stashing $10,000, the only catch is that it's a grave to a voodoo high priest.
Arguments?

 

[Prolescum]

I'm unfamiliar with the stash-$10,000-dollars-with-the-body ritual. Is it like putting coins in the mouth for the riverman?

 

[Vanlavak]

I'm unfamiliar with the stash-$10,000-dollars-with-the-body ritual. Is it like putting coins in the mouth for the riverman?

Possibly fellow voodoo followers paying respect in that manor.

 

[Prolescum]

I'm unfamiliar with the stash-$10,000-dollars-with-the-body ritual. Is it like putting coins in the mouth for the riverman?

Possibly fellow voodoo followers paying respect in that manor.

Wait... the grave's in a massive house? This is starting to sound quite implausible...

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

There is a grave in New Orleans that is stashing $10,000, the only catch is that it's a grave to a voodoo high priest.
Arguments?

Be careful, or the djab will eat you.

 

[CommonEnlightenment]

Actually this is starting to sound like a certain economic model.

Donnie, you say?

 

[borrofburi]

There is a grave in New Orleans that is stashing $10,000, the only catch is that it's a grave to a voodoo high priest.
Arguments?

Sounds like a waste of money.

At first I thought you were asking if I'd take it. I would, so long as it was legal to, and everyone involved was ok with it other than some voodoo priest who would "curse" me. Otherwise it would be theft, and I'm not ok with stealing.

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

There is a grave in New Orleans that is stashing $10,000, the only catch is that it's a grave to a voodoo high priest.
Arguments?

I would have written him a check.

 

[nasher168]

My first thought was "nice, I'd desecrate that."

My second thought was "perhaps I should give it to charity..."

I mean, they're not going to need it are they?

EDIT: the dead guy, not the charity. The charity will need it.

 

[Nordmann]

There is a grave in New Orleans that is stashing $10,000, the only catch is that it's a grave to a voodoo high priest.
Arguments?

Louisiana Voodoo does not have high priests. It used to have occasional "queens" at one time before its subsequent assimilation into the local christian hierarchies. Now it's populated mostly by so-called "reverends", "fathers" and even one self-styled "bishop".

In Haiti Voodoo there is indeed a high priest, a 75 year old biochemist called Max Beauvoir. If he's buried in a grave in New Orleans, with or without 10,000 dollars, he'll be in a rotten humour.

 

[lrkun]

It's a waste of 10k because that money is better of used for those alive.

 

[Welshidiot]

There is a grave in New Orleans that is stashing $10,000, the only catch is that it's a grave to a voodoo high priest.
Arguments?

Is this a "Let's see if we can get the atheists to admit to grave-robbing" schtick?

 

[australopithecus]

It does seem that way...

My opinion: it's their money, they can do what they want with it. Grave robbing is wrong. End.

 

[Nemesiah]

I see no moral problem at all with "aquiring" the money; sure, it would be dangerous since any zealot follower of the priest is might take the grave robing as an offence and try to harm the looter, ot he police might arrest them; but I think it is even worse to give somebody's corpse money that would prevent other people from starving. There should be a law against that; of what use is money to the dead? are we really supposed to be able to do insane stuff with our property? I mean sure It was his money so technically he can get burried in it, but can his freedom to do crazy stuff like that superceed the need of others? that arises an interesting point. If I have enough money to give my car a gold plating, should I be alowed to? Is my freedom greater than comonsense; then again who would say what ids common sense?

In my city you see single girls and boys of 16 years of age driving ultra expensive oil chugging hummers (allone) that are as big as my house, is that right? can it be regulated? should it be? by the same token should we regulate last wills and testaments to forbid crazy stuff like buring voodoo priests with tons of money? if it is part of a religion to be burried in such a way, could and should the religion be regulatad to stop such insanity? but then where would you stop, all religions (IMO) are to some degree insanity institucionalized, so I would regulate them all but that would go against freedom of belief.

Are freedoms more important than common sense? In the economic world this has gotten uns into many prbles as there are always people who overstep the freedoms of others to followe thier own.

Much to ponder over this

Then again being an avid D&D player I would beware "the curse of the voodoo high priest with the 10K gp"; might make for a nice D&D afternoon.

 

[Vanlavak]

It's a waste of 10k because that money is better of used for those alive.

Taking money out of the world is actually helpful to those who are alive; it decreases inflation by a every to tiny amount.

 

[borrofburi]

It's a waste of 10k because that money is better of used for those alive.

Taking money out of the world is actually helpful to those who are alive; it decreases inflation by a every to tiny amount.

And why, precisely, do we want to decrease inflation by a tiny amount?

 

[nemesiss]

for that small amount of money it would be a waste of time and effort for me to cross the atlantic, find the grave, cash in the money and return home.
at most, id probably only have 1500 euro's left after al expendatures.

 

[lrkun]

It's a waste of 10k because that money is better of used for those alive.

Taking money out of the world is actually helpful to those who are alive; it decreases inflation by a every to tiny amount.

Say that to those who eat once every three days.

 

[CommonEnlightenment]

1. Would the overall happiness of the followers of the voodoo priest be lessened?

2. Do followers of the voodooo priest exist?

Is it plain currency? Or are the valuables something that could collected by the state and shown in a museum. If it's a case of the latter then I would say that the money collected from the museum could be given to a charity or possibly back to the state to fund other programs.

Many questions arise from such a simple scenario.

 

[MRaverz]

Unmarked bills or the deal's off.