If you found £200...

I'd hand it in to the police and wait to see if it got claimed. At the end of the day it's not mine and I'm not desperate for cash like some people could be these days.

I lost my wallet in Hamley's once. When I went back to ask someone had handed it in, but taken all the cash out. Even the 25p I had in change in there too. Scum.

PK!
 
I'd hand it in.

Surely, if the police could be bothered, they could look up the CCTV tape. So if some one does come in to collect they can check that they look roughly the same.
 
Different scenario but still getting money at someone else's expense:

I recently made a purchase at a shop and through a variety of contrived circumstances (their own fault) they have ended up giving me store credit for the entire purchase rather than the token 10% apology they agreed to give me for the inconvenience.

Thus far I haven't gone over the 10% they planned to give me but it's been 2 months and the account balance is still there.

I can't decide what to do - it's a big faceless company who messed me about so in one respect I feel that it's their mistake, tough luck, perhaps they should have been more courteous the first time and I might have felt differently. On the flip-side I think about the individual who must have made a mistake somewhere during the process and assume that at some point (year end perhaps) the mistake will be noticed and he'll be for the high jump and think that I should tell them their error. Even if I do tell them, that individual has still made a mistake and will probably be in just as much trouble knowing the way big companies deal with disciplinaries.

I know what I should do from a moral point of view but the guy who made the mistake was a right jerk on several occasions over a few weeks. In fact, in subsequent dealing with the shop (due to store credit to spend) I've come to the conclusion their training scheme turns them into jerks - I don't think I've had one satisfactory dealing with them and I honestly don't have very high standards for shop staff; these guys are extraordinarily poor and have a reputation for it locally.

Does receiving poor service morally entitle you to capitalize on their mistakes? I'm still undecided at the moment.
 
I think it would be really situational. If I saw someone dropping it then i'd hand it to them immediately. If, on the other hand, it was just loose notes on the floor with no one around i'd pick them up. If it was rolled up in an elastic band, like posted earlier in this thread, then i'd probably hand it in and wait for it to be returned :D
 
When I was in my teens I found a wallet on the ground with $40 in it. I really needed the money for food so I kept it but put the wallet into one of the deposit bins on the side of a bank so it (and their ID and credit cards) would get returned to the owner.

If I were to find one now though, I'd just return it money and all as I'm not too bad off.
 
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