Students: If You Found a University Parking Permit, What Would You Do?

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I'm pretty sure what I'm going to do now, but I just wanted to see what others would do in this situation. As all students know, parking permits are pretty expensive. Here it's about $100 a quarter or at least $300 a year without summer school. The parking permits students can buy only cover one quarter at a time. The staff permits cover the full year but only cost the staff $30. The parking permit I found is a staff permit, so it covers the full year. It goes far enough into next year that it should expire before I graduate. There is a good chance that I could use this permit if I wanted to, and no one would ever catch me as they really don't check. If I didn't want to use it, there is also someone who offered to buy it off me so that I could buy a legal parking permit and they could have the whole year. So I have basically 3 options: I can use it myself, I can sell it, or I can give it back to the school where it may or may not find its rightful owner. So what would you do with it? After today, I wish I never found this thing. At first, I thought it was cool because I wouldn't need to pay for parking. Then someone else found out and wanted to buy it. Then I decided selling it would be safer. And then I got to thinking that I should probably return it, even though that option obviously sounds the worst to a working student like myself who has a much better use for money than parking permits. At first I was thinking I wasn't going anywhere near the school anytime soon due to the summer, but then I realized that I am going to be at school next week. And just my good fortune, summer hasn't ended but I have no permit and need to do a project for a few hours. So my plan is this: I will use this for the few hours considering I have no need to buy a summer permit when I'm not taking summer school. Then when I'm done with my research that day, I can drive over to 20 minute parking, run like mad over to the office that sells these things, and drop it off there in case someone reported it missing. I know it's kind of bad that I'll use it once, but I'm not paying $100 to park for a day and there is no temporary parking lot near where I'll need to be, only staff and student parking (and there's no way I'm buying a $100 pass to park for one day when I have this evil parking permit that it is not my fault I have). You would think that being an atheist I'd be able to just sell this off or something, but I guess I'll just have to work the two days to pay for a parking permit like I've done for the past 6 years of school.