Guess what I found on the side of the road?

[unionrdr]

I would probably call the distributor. I would be tempted to keep it though. I don't believe the OP was doing anything malicious here. Sometimes it's good to sit and think a second about the best course of action.

Many times I've been given change for a purchase that was more than I paid in the first place. I admit, as I walk out the door counting my money and realize I gave the lady $5 and she gave me change for a $20, I am tempeted to keep walking. I try to let the better part of me prevail and turn around and explain what happened. Have I always made the correct decision? No. Does this make me morally superior to anyone else? No.

I've been in that situation with the amount of change given. More often as not,I get it taken care of. Especially with a store I deal with a lot. But knowing what I do about foodstuffs & the law,keeping it would turn out the same either way. Good deal on the keg return,certainly.

 

[finsfan]

Son: "Daddy, why did you take that?"

finsfan: "Because, son, it belonged to a rich person, he won't miss it."

Son: "So it's OK to steal?"

finsfan: "No, no, of course not. It's only OK to steal from people so rich that they'll barely notice it."

Son: "But how do you know if someone is rich enough that it's OK to steal from them?"

finsfan: "That's the great part, son! You get to decide!"

haha this is laughable. You are jumping to huge and terribly wrong conclusions here about me. I have never stolen anything, from any company or person. Did i even mention I had or was going to? No, but that didnt seem to stop you here. I only mentioned that keeping a keg from AB is a little different than keeping one from a craft brewer. Anything else you'd like to completely embellish and falsify?

 

[Shooter]

OK, official apology to OP.
Sorry fellow brewer.

It is easier to look back now and see that your intentions were not malicious.
Once again I say to thee: "Enjoy the beer"

Nah, you're good, this is a hot topic and things get heated. I don't think you were over the top at any point at all.

 

[kombat]

I only mentioned that keeping a keg from AB is a little different than keeping one from a craft brewer.

And I'm trying to point out that it's not.

 

[Chad_C]

What if I pay the deposit on a keg, I can keep it then right?

 

[Frige]

Well I would do the right thing. So you have to return the keg. The best way to return the keg is empty since the beer could spoil and endanger public health. So first you need to drain the keg, I would pour down the sewer, now if you run it through your body first thats ok.
So in effect you protected your fellow motorist by removing a obstruction from the road, removed the potentially spoiled product and returned the property to its rightful owner.
Congratulations are in order.

 

[Shooter]

What if I pay the deposit on a keg, I can keep it then right?

Oh, sure...no, wait, no you can't!!! This is so hard!!!

 

[finsfan]

And I'm trying to point out that it's not.

That is your opinion, and I have mine.

 

[brewkinger]

What if I pay the deposit on a keg, I can keep it then right?

I would call the distributor back and tell them you have decided to charge a "finder's fee".
If they wish to deny payment of this fee for your good service, then I would think that all is settled and square.

Chuckle chuckle.....

 

[LandoLincoln]

You shouldn't take any chances. Cut some words out of a magazine that say, "If you ever want to see your keg alive then pay me one hundred dollars" and paste the words onto a piece of paper and then take a brick and put the paper around the brick and then take some string and tie the paper around the brick and then throw the brick through the window of the brewery. And then just keep the keg.

 

[Clonefan94]

I forget the details but, I was once buying some bulk speaker wire. Was supposed to be s'thing like $5 a foot and got rung up at $0.55 a foot. I saw the total and flat out said "That can't be right. Look at it and try again." And the very cute cashier re-rang the items up at $0.05 a foot. I said, "Are you sure about this" she said "Yes. Definitely!"

Yep. I walked.

lol, I had a guy give me $20 more back in change one time at a gas station than i should have gotten. Tried to return it and he threatened to call the cops on me. He said, "I've heard about these scams, you give me that 20, then I have to give you back other change and you end up ahead." I told him, "No, just trying to give you this 20 back." and left it on the counter. When he finally said, "I'm not touching that, if you leave it I'm calling the cops!" I just pocketed the 20 then.

Back to weather or not the OP was stealing. I really do think this one falls into grey area. Technically, in my neighborhood, items left by the side of the road are considered free for the taking. The whole trash day thing. So, I thnk in the end, you just have to do what feels right to you. If I found a car sitting in the street, with the keys in it, I wouldn't assume it's OK to take. I know a car is different value from a keg of beer, but in my mind, I know where the keg would have come from, I know it wasn't set out for trash, so for me, I probably would have at least attempted to let the driver know he had lost a keg. I certainly wouldn't have delivered it to him though. My back just doesn't like lugging kegs around anymore. I don't know if I would consider what the OP did was stealing, but I wouldn't have felt right just taking it home to drink either.

 

[krackin]

All I found was a coon skin cap in the rough.

 

[Dolomieu]

Your conscience may be clear but your moral compass is most definitely off.

Directly from the dictionary:
1) steal: to take surreptitiously or without permission

So to summarize, you took the beer and the keg without permission.

That is stealing.

Then you come on to HBT and look for people to congratulate you. Like some others have said, I think you are going to find the majority of HBT users are going to find that unacceptable.

Um....Finders keepers, losers weepers...

 

[GarageDweller]

The worlds smallest violin, playing a sad song for the poor lost kegs of the world....:cross:

 

[firerat]

Wow.....I bet a lot of you drive Prius's don't you?

Good job OP on calling the brewery. More than I would have done.

Enjoy the beer. Personally I'd be a bit weary of drinking from a keg I found on the side of the road. Kind of weary. Ok I'd drink it.

 

[TNGabe]

Good grief, would a mod close this thread or at least move it to the debate forum?

 

[wakers3]

It may have been stated already, but from a food/beverage quality and sanitation perspective, there is no way the distributor would put that beer back out into society by selling or redistributing it. So, you are doing the beer a favor by consuming it as it was already getting flushed anyway. I feel compelled to add that you are taking a risk also by drinking the beer. But, since you feel pretty sure you know where it came from and it wasn't in the ditch for a month or tampered with by disgruntled teens who couldn't figure out how to access the stuff, you should be safe.

A call about the empty keg wouldn't hurt. If you can't get ahold of someone to discuss the situation with in a reasonable amount of time/attempts - I would suggest that you made a good enough effort.

 

[nianticcardplayer]

Good Job on calling the brewery, I know a few drivers for distributors and when the truck is returned "light"...dented keg/ missing keg/ broken bottles whatever the driver will be paying for it and in crap head boss days losing a job as well. Ever hear of shrinkage anyone....that's what the driver would be accused of the material on those trucks is inventoried, and it is missed....

 

[TNGabe]

Do you try and lecture bums picking up cans for the deposits?

Son: "Daddy, why did you take that?"

finsfan: "Because, son, it belonged to a rich person, he won't miss it."

Son: "So it's OK to steal?"

finsfan: "No, no, of course not. It's only OK to steal from people so rich that they'll barely notice it."

Son: "But how do you know if someone is rich enough that it's OK to steal from them?"

finsfan: "That's the great part, son! You get to decide!"

 

[Denny]

Wow. I guess I'm in the minority. All kidding aside, it would never even occur to me to keep such a thing if I knew who the proper owner was.

I just got a little more disillusioned with humanity. I thought the folks of HBT were better than that.

Agreed. I hope the OP doesn't lose his wallet some day.

 

[Denny]

How do you get from that story, that I stole a keg of beer. Why not look at it like the truck driver was littering, and I was helping clean up the countryside? Some of you people really need to get off your soap boxes and move on. My conscious is clear on this one, I didn't steal a damn thing.

weak sauce

 

[finsfan]

Do you try and lecture bums picking up cans for the deposits?

haha i could see that, i think he is one of the Prius drivers

 

[firerat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM9jhGiIAFM

 

[Denny]

AB has 50% of the beer market, I think they can handle losing kegs here and there.

And yes it would be different if it were from Rogue or Stone. They are doing great things to the beer market and i think everyone here would return it to them, but it would probably be a small percentage who returns the AB keg. AB was just sued for watering down their beer, who knows how long that has been going on. How much do they think they stole during that period of watering down beers?

The watered down beer suit was completely specious.

I'm amazed that you find morals are situational.

 

[Denny]

Aaww c'mon guys. You tryin to tell me if you were in the same situation,that you wouldn't keep it?! They'd have to dump the beer legally anyway. And how could you know who lost it? I don't think the truck stopped in that spot,or he likely wouldn't have been able to walk away with it.

I have been in the same situation and no, I didn't keep it. I drove it back to the brewery and was rewarded by them.

 

[Chad_C]

Agreed. I hope the OP doesn't lose his wallet some day.

Go pound sand. This has been resolved.

 

[unionrdr]

Did they let you keep the beer? It's my understanding from my own experiences that they can't take returns on "foodstuffs" by federal law?...

 

[firerat]

I have been in the same situation and no, I didn't keep it. I drove it back to the brewery and was rewarded by them.

Sure you did....

 

[Denny]

Go pound sand. This has been resolved.

Calm down and cool the insults.

 

[finsfan]

The watered down beer suit was completely specious.

I'm amazed that you find morals are situational.

I'm amazed that you are siding with AB, I used to spend quite a bit of change on AB beers in college and hearing that they all could have been watered down ticks me off. They werent just being questioned about one beer, but TWELVE major beers which are probably their top sellers.