OAP Loses £80k After Leaving It On Car Roof

[britboy4321]

If you utter 'Finders Keepers, losers weepers' the law can't touch you*


* May not be true

You're slightly mistaken.

The actual legal way to proceed is to be the first to scream

'Baggsy the money is mine'

Which is 100% legally binding and can't even be overturned by the UN. If only Saddam Hussain had known this and screamed 'BAGGSY KUWAIT IS MINE' the world would be a very different place ..

 

[Spyhop]

The question is... if you found 80K - would you give it back to him?

Rephrased: Who's a mercenary F'er?

 

[lcg]

He's a very foolish man. Not only did he not invest it, he put it in his car when he went to work?

 

[Glaucus]

I thought if you found something that somebody else lost, then that was the end of it.

How can you think that.

 

['Wes]

you gotta laugh really

 

[britboy4321]

Trust the media to bring out the worst side of a story.

Why not make the world a slightly happier place, by instead reporting


'ASBO holding unemployed 17 year old oik finds 70 grand, spends on cocaine and hookers'.

I know I'd have been a little happier reading the nicer side of this story ..

 

[Burnsy2023]

He's a very foolish man. Not only did he not invest it, he put it in his car when he went to work?

Maybe it's just my mood, but I don't have any sympathy. It's just an idiot tax.

 

[Glaucus]

Maybe it's just my mood, but I don't have any sympathy. It's just an idiot tax.

Yeah I can just imagine some of the doom sayers on here doing this. We are doomed, banks are evil, I'm only going to have cash or more likely gold and then loses it or gets robed.

 

[lcg]

Maybe it's just my mood, but I don't have any sympathy. It's just an idiot tax.

Neither do I. I agree.

 

[Greebo]

How can you think that.

What I meant to say was that if you didn't do anything like handing it into the police then that was the end of it.

All the times I have found things like wallets I have tried to trace the owner or handed it into the premises where it was found.

So if you find a tenner on the street and you don't hand it into the police station then you can be done for theft?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

What a silly mistake

 

[britboy4321]

I smell a rat.

Did a bit of googling. He said he has been saving £2000 a year for 40 years.

So bearing in mind inflation (as he got no interest to counter act it) .. that means 40 years ago, 1970, AT THE START OF HIS CAREER WHEN PRESUMABLY HE WASN'T ON A MASSIVE WAGE, he was putting in to this savings pool todays equivelent' of ..

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 ..

 

[Glaucus]

So if you find a tenner on the street and you don't hand it into the police station then you can be done for theft?

pretty much (although not sure on exact details), just like the women who got done for spending money from a bank mistake.

 

[gillywibble]

Sterling job!

 

[cheets64]

Mo money, mo problems

 

[HamZilla]

Is he Victor Meldrew?

 

[Von Smallhausen]

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?

Damn right I would.

 

[britboy4321]

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?

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 ..

 

[Jumblejug]

Bet his next of kin are gutted

 

[4T5]

I feel sorry for the old boy.