I like this. A natural philosopher robs a bank.
Shoppers are being asked by the police to hand back hundreds of pounds in cash which was thrown in the air by a bank robber as he made his escape.
At 10.20am on Tuesday, a man entered the Barclays Bank in Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, and threatened staff, who handed over £1,600.
But as the robber left the bank, he threw the money into the air for no apparent reason, according to police.
Detectives are now calling on members of the public who picked up the money to return it to their nearest police station as they say it is "evidence" in the case.
It is understood that only about £300 has been recovered so far.
Yeah, well. As the reporter hinted when he put scare quotes round the word evidence, would you hand cash in to the cops? Or would that just be rationalizing what you decided anyway? Or both?
Most people operate under the golden mean, defined by Aristotle as “you can take the piss, but you can’t take the piss too much.” Exercising fine judgment under this rubric I suspect what we have here is best classified as a windfall. At any rate, I bet such an assessment has already been priced into the bank’s insurance.
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