Careful if you see money on the floor & pick it up.

[GGizmo]

I remember when I was about 16 me and my cousin found a wad of £200 on a grass verge in a caravan park. We handed it in to the desk and they said if nobody turns up for it within a week come back and get it.

A week later we called in to the office and nobody had picked it up so they give it to us. We split it £100 each.

 

[SC0TTRS]

Goods handed over to the police
The usual police practice is that the finder can have the goods back and keep them if they are not claimed within six weeks. However, the police may want more time if there are special circumstances and they want to investigate. Once the property has been returned to the finder by the police, the original owner cannot usually then claim the goods.

They are guidelines only and vary depending on what force is dealing with the matter. In reality, you will not get the goods back within six weeks.

 

[Glaucus]

in reality you will and people have been.
as well as some police forces have stopped handling lost stuff, and advise advertising on social media.

 

[Mr Badger]

I found a fiver at hamsterley forest, just sat on a bit of fire road. Caught a couple of lads up who were just ahead and asked them if they'd lost anything. They said no, so I asked if they were sure. They rifled through their pockets and one said "oh damn, lost my fiver " He got his fiver back.

Hamsterley Forest? That popular dogging place? OK..............

The guy tells a perfectly innocent story about how he likes to follow young boys and offer them money and yet you have to make it sound like something sleazy.

 

[Orionaut]

Or fear. If someone you feel threatened by (police, aggressive shop owner, whoever) demands if you know something or did something, the first instinct of many will be to clam up and say "no". Surely we all learnt that at school, no?

Of course, you also learned at school that denial (When you knew that you had done the deed) only componded your guilt and made your punishment worse.

If she had immediately fessed up when questioned, apologised, and given the money back (Perhaps pleading ignorance as to "Stealing by Finding") then she almost certainly would not have ended up being prosecuted..

No?

 

[Fishbait]

There used to be a gay bar in York with pound coins glued to the floor...........

Some people fall for tricks like that at the drop of a hat

P.S. I went to York years ago & went into the York Arms with a mate & his misses.
Some random person that'd had one too many, went to the bar & said loudly "Here mate, is this a gay bar?"

Reply: "This is not a gay bar, it's a bar that gays frequent".

Got quite a few laughs from all & sundry

 

[Greebo]

Some people fall for tricks like that at the drop of a hat

P.S. I went to York years ago & went into the York Arms with a mate & his misses.
Some random person that'd had one too many, went to the bar & said loudly "Here mate, is this a gay bar?"

Reply: "This is not a gay bar, it's a bar that gays frequent".

Got quite a few laughs from all & sundry

iT WAS INDEED THE yORK aRMS I WAS TALKING ABOUT

 

[Fishbait]

iT WAS INDEED THE yORK aRMS I WAS TALKING ABOUT

Thought I recognised you from somewhere

Don't know if you recall Cert18, last I saw that had changed & was painted bright pink. Little John, last time went in there with some mates, place had changed too. Bright neon lights with only thing missing was Y.M.C.A. playing hehe.

 

[StriderX]

Of course, you also learned at school that denial (When you knew that you had done the deed) only componded your guilt and made your punishment worse.

If she had immediately fessed up when questioned, apologised, and given the money back (Perhaps pleading ignorance as to "Stealing by Finding") then she almost certainly would not have ended up being prosecuted..

No?

Horse manure, one rule for the pleb, another for people with influence... When the latter starts following moral compasses the former shall also do so. Being a good person is the quickest way to lose in current social mechanisms.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

My wife has only just told me this happened in a shop no more than 100 yards from my Mums in Blurton which means I only live 1/2 mile away.
We don't have criminals round here because we're quite posh for Stoke.