Quote Originally Posted by Dreadnaught View Post
In your rage, you seem to have missed the point of the thread. The near-certainty that the staff would just take the thing put me in the position of potentially doing the same thing, once I had made a good-faith effort to get it back to the loser.
This 'good-faith' effort only appeared after people began calling you on your decision to keep it given that handing it in to the staff was (according to you) not an option.

So my question was more about the morality of that, as I saw it as an all-things-being-equal thing due to the particular nature of the staff there.
Consider your question answered.