If you found £200...

I suppose you could play a silly prank on someone though, even if the money doesn't exist.

Make a flyer and put it up in your local newsagent/pub saying you have found £200 and you are looking for the owner. Put your mates mobile number on the flyer.
 
I'm not being funny, if it was a wallet with any amount i'd hand it in, and have done.
but dosh in an envelope found in the street, how is someone going to claim it, theres no way for anyone to proove it's theirs. So i'd pocket it obviously.
 
this attitude is one reason why the economy is in a state, people take what they can get not whats theirs. selfish loser mentality tbh
 
Didn't even need to think on this one - I'd hand it in.
I'd like to think that if I was silly enough to lose money myself that the person who found it would be honest enough to hand it in.

If it doesn't get claimed then I get to legally keep it.
 
I would not be too sure about the hand it into the police and if no-one collects it in a certain time it is yours. I found a bag with a purse and £30 in it back about 15 years ago. I handed it in and the police said if no one claims it, we will contact u and you can claim it.

It went the time limit (cant remember now how long, 28 - 30 days, I think) and I had a phone call saying the legal time have past, it now yours. Got down the station and then I was told that it was claimed just 5 mins before I got there (I got there in 10 mins as I dont live far). I asked if they could prove it, but they said the paper work is somewhere.

I think one of the officers took it at some point during the waiting time, and rather than admit it they fob me off. No one claimed it in the xx days, funny within 10 mins the owner had come to claim it. So, unless I had an address and could return it to the people directly myself, I would just keep it rather than hand it in.
 
After reading this whats my chance of going to the police station and saying

'Hi, i lost £xxx yesterday, is there any chance anyone has handed anything in?'

If it was just in a brown envelope they have nothing to prove I'm lying :D

I walk away with some n00bs cash ;)

Of course i wouldn't do this but what is to stop someone from doing so?
 
My brother found a N95 ages ago and handed it to the police. He rang to see what happened to it a few months later and it had "vanished" This is Gwent constabulary though....
 
Gustov said:
After reading this whats my chance of going to the police station and saying

'Hi, i lost £xxx yesterday, is there any chance anyone has handed anything in?'

If it was just in a brown envelope they have nothing to prove I'm lying :D

I walk away with some n00bs cash ;)

Of course i wouldn't do this but what is to stop someone from doing so?
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Where did you lose the money?
What size envelope? A4, A5, letter etc?
How was the £200 made up? E.g. 10x£20 notes, 20x£10 notes, mixture of both.

I'm sure the police have plenty of questions for dealing with this situation.
 
If I found it on the street in all honesty I would probably walk away with it and feel guilty for a while.

If I saw the person drop it I would certainly give it back to them.

If I found it inside a building I would probably give it to reception, as if I lost money that would be the first place I would ask.
 
I think the circumstances are the most important factor.

If you find something in an unmarked envelope it's very unrelatable, unlike finding a wallet with ID because you look at that and think "this is someones wallet, heres is their picture".

Guilt is a very powerful force but the human mind has ways of getting around it.
 
Keep it.

If I had seen the person leave it there or drop it then I would have picked it up and handed it to them but as it's in a brown envelope with nobody around then keep it.

If you are a believer in Karma then hand it in otherwise you will wake up in the morning a 20st female texan trucker.
 
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