Poll: Pocket it or hand it in?

[floatindolphin]

So you're walking round a big supermarket and you spot a bundle of notes on the floor in the Fruit n' veg aisle. You pick it up.......blimey it's £200 cash!

now, what'dya do?

Pocket it, thank you very much finders keepers or be a good boy/girl and hand it in?


I was going to add a vote thingy but I can't find out how to do it. Or do I need to be a posting god to add one?

(yes, this happened last friday)

 

[floatindolphin]

I handed it in. The woman behind the counter just took my name and number on a scrap of paper. She said she'd ring if no-one claimed it. (no she wasn't fit)

when I paid I popped back and asked her if anyone came for it. she said they did.
shesaid the guy was gonna ring me to say thanks - no one ever called

I'm beginning to think she could have just pocketed it herself!

 

[floatindolphin]

weirdly I had £200 of my own in my wallet (stopped using cards). I had to keep double checking it hadn't managed to jump out of my wallet, out of my pocket and onto the floor.


How gutting would that be?? Hand your own money in by accident...

 

[floatindolphin]

Me and my friend when we were 14 once found a wallet randomly in the dark in a gutter. We went through it and were not sure what to do.

We did take the money, but the worst thing is the pin number was in with the debit card with a bank statement. We decided we could have handed the wallet in. But instead we chopped the card up and ripped the number up and threw it away. And had the cash.

70 quid was a lot to 14 year old kids, and this guy did not have a small amount in his bank so we thought ok.

If found by the wrong person tho, a lot more money could have been taken.

Now i look back i would hand it in, but we were kids so. At least we did the correct thing with the card though (imo)

it wasn't in the pocket of a dead body on a train track? It's all a bit "Stand by Me"

 

[floatindolphin]

That's what I thought. Chances are someone had gone there to do a big Xmas shop and was a bit loose pocketed. I'm hoping it's someone who would appreciate it being handed in and not some tit. Maybe the guy lost my number on his way home.

Maybe he lost his shopping too....

 

[floatindolphin]

Wow. I must say, I've lost a lot of respect for many of the posters in this thread.

To you it's something you could've been none the wiser. To someone else, that could be their child's first christmas. Hand it in.

Just what I'm thinking. It's probably just all the same people who say they'd "hit" the girl from Harry Potter trying to big themselves up and look hard.