Walking home from the pub, you see a wallet on the pavement near your house. You instinctively pick it up with the intention of contacting the owner.
When you get home you discover there is £300 cash inside, but not a single piece of identification. Do you......
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Told my son I handed it in to the police so he learnt some morals but paid of a couple of bills and left the rest of the bits in his wallet on his fence post.
The lack of ID is a temptation, I guess I'd wait for someone to put a notice up or go the police.
My mum once got into the back of a black cab and found a small velvet pouch with £2000 of diamonds in it. This was about '85 so was a good deal of money then.
Handed it into the OB and then 6 months later they called her to come and collect it cos no one had claimed it.
i rang oyster and tfl to tell them the id of the boy in case they could contact him and tell him that i had his wallet as i'd rather keep it all together.
they said they couldn't help me send it back to him direct, so they told me to send to them and they'd cancel the card, and his bank said to send it in to them as well.
so i sent them both back to the respective companies, and put the tenner in our fund as we were doing the race for life for breast cancer.
i hope he got the £50 credited back to him on his oyster.
that is well out of order in my opinion. If you know whose it is then you should return it to them intact. You have no right to the money, as good as stealing I reckon.
On the other hand if you found the money with absolutely no means of knowing whose it is then that is a different matter. Even so I'd still hand it in to the Police and then if not claimed after six months it's yours to rightfully claim, unless the Old Bill have half-inched it in the meantime.
Got handed in to the police minus the £250, so no dilemma, i'm owed still,
so i'd keep the csah and dump the wallet.
there are 2 types of people, the nice ones that take the wallets into police stations to hand in, who are probably those that don't get anything back if they lose something themselves. and then the others, that take someone elses stuff out of their wallet, and probably get their wallet with money in it back to them. whats that saying about nice guys finish last or something, its so true.
there are just selfish people around and you gotta hope if you lose something, you get one of those nice people that are left.
So i would most likely hand it in but ring the cops each week to see if anyone claimed.
My faith in honest humans was restored last year when I lost my train season tkt.
Was found in Oxford by a student, as I had a business card in the wallet he called me and put it in the post.
Saved a lot of hastle.
was that the 2-0 win in the early 90s? funnily enough, buckshee lost £70 on the terrace that day but some good person handed it in and he got it back. just as well cos that was his apprentice weekly wage! surging could be a costly experience.
Having thought about it, you hand it in...only a minor would have a wallet or purse without any identification whatsoever in it...and while £300 is a lot of money for a minor to have, it could well be money saved up to buy a present...booo to afka for even thinking about not giving a child back its money...father christmas will have taken note, you mark my words...
We looked him up in the phone book and he came and collected it. The boy barely got a thanks for his troubles yet alone a fiver. Tight git. All that agro of cancelling/renewing his cards etc saved.
There's any inner glow in it for you.
Definately tempted to not involve the police- a note where it's found saying to get in contact-
Definately gets harder the more money involved as i guess everyone has their price?????
what about sleeping with your brother in law while his wife is in hospital giving birth to a premature baby. now that is immoral. quite disturbing really.
ouch!
If no identitying features you may as well keep because the Old Bill will have away with any cash if you don't. If you feel guilty donate the amount of the found cash to a worthwhile Charity. That way some good comes out of it.