Lost and Found

[Beef Burger]

4 weeks ago I lost a wallet with all my cards, a wedge of money, some spare keys, and lots of other personal stuff inside, and it almost gave me a mental breakdown having to cancel all the cards/re-order and take steps to protect myself from fraud.
Yesterday, I got a letter from a storage facility telling me they are in possession of my wallet and to contact them about collecting it. I've just been to the facility to reclaim my wallet and to my surprise the £560 cash was still inside it
I don't trust people or the human race much these days but this has made me re-evaluate my outlook slightly and consider that there might actually still be some good people left in the world.

What would YOU do if you found a wallet like mine? Be honest and don't post a reply just to make yourself look good to other members and get likes.

I can honestly say that I would've taken the cash for sure but I still would've handed the wallet into reception if I found it on a business premises and it had personal stuff/other important stuff inside that could affect someones life (bank cards, keys, photos, passwords, home address details etc).

 

[Beef Burger]

Do you routinely carry over £500 in cash?

Sometimes, Yes. That day I had just done a job for a customer who wanted to settle the balance in cash upon completion of the job. I deal with a lot of cash customers in my line of work as many people are too scared to pay by bank transfer now due to all the stories about fraudsters and advance payment online.

 

[Beef Burger]

I'd spend it all on cheese burger deliveries to your address, to prove a point.

What point would that prove other than to show that you're a total nutter/psycho lol ?

 

[Beef Burger]

Are you a drug dealer?

Logistics company (ltd and registered with CH).
No we don't sell or transport drugs, dummy

 

[Beef Burger]

I hope you are paying your tax correctly.

No comment lol
Stay on topic matey.

 

[Beef Burger]

- a guy walked away from a cash machine leaving about £250 in notes in Tottenham Court Road.

How is that even possible?

But what happened when I lost MY wallet in a pub which had cash in it? It got handed in... with the cash removed. **** other people.

That ^ is what most people would do IMO but most people won't admit it.

A scumbag might try to use your cards/access your bank account or even come to your house and burgle you or steal your car if keys were in the wallet with your address. That's what worried me the most when I lost my wallet. The money wasn't that important.

 

[Beef Burger]

You're really not a very nice person, are you?

Actually, I'm a decent man in most ways but I'm ruthless when it comes to money and my own survival.

Nice? That's not a character trait I've ever aspired to.
"Nice" is something I look for in potential serious girlfriends/partners.

 

[Beef Burger]

I vote for a name change from Beef Burger > Artful Dodger

And I vote that your name be changed to PC Plod

 

[Beef Burger]

In that case - the person who found your wallet maybe should have just kept all the money.

To be fair, Yes, that's what I would've expected coz that's what I would've done myself.
Hence why in my first post I expressed my surprise.

 

[Beef Burger]

come on who is the OP really

You've made it clear a few times that you don't like me much and that's okay but don't take it to a personal level and keep trying to belittle me.

Try to be mature even though you're just a "teen" wolf.

 

[Beef Burger]

no reward OP is scum

Oh dear, you've really got a serious problem with me haven't you
Grow up and get your emotions under control. This is a public chat forum not a battleground/warzone.

 

[Beef Burger]

Wrong. It's a warzone. Only the fittest survive.

I'll leave you and the ground force troops to fight in the trenches and on the frontline while I sit comfortably behind my desk at HQ making the big important decisions

I want my username changed to General Beef Burger so you all understand my superiority on this forum

 

[Beef Burger]

Earlier this week, I found a handbag left in a trolley. We go to look for names, anything of value. My colleague found her mobile phone in there with no screen lock. Found a number under Home. She rang the number on work’s phone. Customer confirmed descriptions of bag, purse, phone etc. Took some ID - passport, bank statement.

Customer was grateful for us keeping the handbag. She cancelled the cards. Nothing was taken including the £150 cash.

Within your own workplace that was the right thing to do and I would do the same myself in or around my own work environment but I don't think I'd act that professionally anywhere else. I know there really shouldn't be a different mentality depending on where a wallet was found but, for some reason, I wouldn't be as honest if I found a wallet in the car park of a business (for example). The cash would be pocketed and the wallet handed to reception but I'd make an exception and do the decent thing if there was a driving licence in there that showed the money belonged to a pensioner.

 

[Beef Burger]

What's that old saying? "a thief believes everybody steals"...

There's a huge difference between actually stealing something from someone/being a thief and generally being an honest-decent person most of the time but believing in the concept of "finders keepers losers weepers".

It all boils down to morality I suppose and your life experiences with other people. I've tried to help a lot of people/strangers over the years when I didn't need to or want to but I've always found the majority to be totally undeserving and unappreciative in return so if you're careless enough (like I was) to lose an important wallet you've only got yourself to blame and whoever finds it isn't necessarily a thief/bad person because they pocketed your money. They just capitalised on your stupidity and negligence.

 

[Beef Burger]

Well, i

You can't be an "honest-decent" person and a thief at the same time, they are mutually exclusive*

Maybe you should familiarise yourself with the concept of "theft by finding" before trying to pass yourself off as an apparent upstanding member of society.



Correct, you're either a thieving scumbag or you're not. You've made it pretty clear which side of that you're on.




* where someone has no choice but to resort to stealing food as the only means of feeding themselves/their family becomes more of a grey area in my mind, but only where all other options have been exhausted

So in your opinion I'm a scumbag then. That's okay.
I can still sleep soundly at night knowing I'm a good (but not perfect) person in my community though.