Money Ending

 The winner is

B. Give the money to the police.

You decide that since this money doesn’t belong to you, however tempting it may be, you must give it to the authorities for them to handle.  When you get to the station and hand the police the money, they examine it and then chatter amongst themselves.  The police then question you about your whereabouts between 1 pm and 3pm the previous day.  You reply that you were with your friend at a bar.  The police check and confirm this.

When you ask why they wanted to know this, they explain the situation.

Yesterday there was a robbery in which a masked man raided the back holding the tellers at gunpoint stealing five thousand dollars.  The security cameras failed to capture the robber’s face and he eluded the police.  The money the robber stole was marked so if he or you had used it they would find out. 

You realize now that if you had used this stolen money you might have been locked up.

You’ll find another way to pay the rent.

The End

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