OAP Loses £80k After Leaving It On Car Roof

I think being honest I would pick up the notes & stuff them up my jacket & run home. Once home though when the buzz had gone down a bit & i read about the old boy i would take it back to him & get the reward.
The feel good factor & the smaller but clean money would out weigh the guilt & the dodgey money.

At least that's what I'd hope to do anyway, Money does strange things to folk, I've seen it. :(
 
FortyFive said:
I think being honest I would pick up the notes & stuff them up my jacket & run home. Once home though when the buzz had gone down a bit & i read about the old boy i would take it back to him & get the reward.
The feel good factor & the smaller but clean money would out weigh the guilt & the dodgey money.

At least that's what I'd hope to do anyway, Money does strange things to folk, I've seen it. :(
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You probably wouldn't get a reward.
 
britboy4321 said:
I smell a rat.

Wait for it ..

£24220 a year AFTER he paid his tax on his earnings -- all neatly tucked away as cash under his bed, during the hay day of his young adult life ...

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/historic-inflation-calculator


Yea, sure ... :/ And you have 'no records at all' of all this. Of course mate ..
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Must admit, I'm on the major sceptical boat with you on this one.

Old man hoping someone rich will feel sorry for him and gift him £80k. £80k is never found, nor spent.

Currency from 40 years ago wouldnt be spendable now - how and when did he exchange his outdated notes for new versions, and which banks did he do this at? Huh? :confused:
 
matt_fsr said:
Must admit, I'm on the major sceptical boat with you on this one.

Old man hoping someone rich will feel sorry for him and gift him £80k. £80k is never found, nor spent.

Currency from 40 years ago wouldnt be spendable now - how and when did he exchange his outdated notes for new versions, and which banks did he do this at? Huh? :confused:
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As and when the currency changes and as you get older you generally have more disposable money. 2k a year is likely, to only be an average, rather than literal sense.
 
Greebo said:
Didn't know you could be done for "theft by finding"?

I thought if you found something that somebody else lost, then that was the end of it.
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I thought I'd heard everything until I read this post. :eek:


I can't believe how stupid this person was, having £80k at home leaving it vulnerable to theft, fires and floods and then taking it to work everyday. It's a shame to see what results from such paranoia, maybe he could have benefited from an anti-psychotic...

britboy4321 said:
I smell a rat.

Did a bit of googling. He said he has been saving £2000 a year for 40 years.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average
 
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Barely any sympathy, why on earth would you keep 80 grand in your car? In fact, I'm sceptical as to whether there is any truth in this story -
Maybe explicable, but:
Why would someone take the money but not the bags - what did they carry it in?
I'm still not sure I believe anyone other than a drug dealer would think it perfectly reasonable to keep 80k in the car all the time.
Also, I just wonder whether he made up this story to get some publicity, and maybe some sympathy money - after all, no real evidence apparent.
 
This has got to be false, as the above posters have pointed out. Allso £80,000 and he didnt want to get a fantastic top of the range safe for £5,000 which would have all many of private security benifiets aswell as 'safe insurance' for up to £100,000.
 
about 5yrs ago I (as a pedestrian) waved down an old dear who was driving off her drive with a cardboard box on her roof - I had to almost step out in front of her to get her to stop!
it was a box of valuables she was taking to have, well, valued!

my dad also reported his wallet lost, found it the next morning on the roof of his car, has driven from the local petrol station, and parked on the drive overnight and it was still there!

poor guy - hope that wasnt his only pension!
 
sounds fishy.... wonder how much he got for selling his story.

The government used to guarantee the first 50,000 of savings in a bank institution... it's even more since the recession.

Hope this story is not true.
 
steve-h said:
Didn't sound like he was going to spend it anytime soon...

The question is... if you found 80K - would you give it back to him?
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Yes. 100% yes I would hand it in. I'd hope to Hell taht I'd be able to keep it if nobody claimed it though!

If I found 80k I would be thinking some drug dealer would come find me and murder me in teh face.
 
I can't help but feel sorry as others have said...

... but even as an old man how can you be so stupid?

It was like the guy who drove down the autoban in a convertable with the money to buy a car or something? Flew everywhere!

That is pretty tragic though. I very much doubt that money will come back now, hopefully whoever took it can't live with their conscience if they have decided to keep it.
 
britboy4321 said:
Give back = 100% chance of reward and you're a nice guy

Not give back = About 75% chance of getting caught (CCTV, police looking for large out of character bank deposits/goods spending etc), you actually getting zero money and maybe a criminal record to boot ..
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Just don't spend it and avoid suspicion by taking it with you to work..... no wait. Feel bad for the guy but jesh what an idiot.
 
If I found 80K I'm not sure I would hand it in as my argument would be that the person would be 95% likely to either:

1: Not need it
2: Be scum/dealer/theiving person
3: Not deserve it or earnt it
4: Combination of above

So I'd probably pocket it and then not be stupid with it. Aka, not walk into Barclays and pay in 80K in a lump sum.

I would feel bad for doing this...for a while...then I'm sure I'd get over it. :) Does that make me a bad person. Not really imo.
 
jaybee said:
If I found 80K I'm not sure I would hand it in as my argument would be that the person would be 95% likely to either:

1: Not need it
2: Be scum/dealer/theiving person
3: Not deserve it or earnt it
4: Combination of above

So I'd probably pocket it and then not be stupid with it. Aka, not walk into Barclays and pay in 80K in a lump sum.

I would feel bad for doing this...for a while...then I'm sure I'd get over it. :) Does that make me a bad person. Not really imo.
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*bad person alert*

:p
 
So he's saved 2k for 40 years of work? £2,000 was a lot of money in 1970! £24,000 indexed to todays prices.

Is this story true I wonder? Has he embellished it slightly?
 
jellybeard999 said:
So he's saved 2k for 40 years of work? £2,000 was a lot of money in 1970! £24,000 indexed to todays prices.

Is this story true I wonder? Has he embellished it slightly?
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I doubt the old boy meant that, he probably said he put a couple of grand away a year just as an off the cuff remark and some wet behind the ears reporter has taken that as gospel and reported it as £2000 a year flat.
 
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