Poll: Pocket it or hand it in?

[Glaucus]

Bugger that.

Money now > Money in 6 months time.

60 days isn't it?

 

[scorza]

Hand it in. Honest citizen > thieving scum.

 

[Cosimo]

Set it on fire.

Have you heard of the recession?

 

[adamph]

Hand it into police!

I used to work at a supermarket and found £150 in the carpark in an envelope and did the right thing and handed it in, turns out a little old lady had lost it earlier that day.

would have felt so guilty if I hadn't.

 

[qqg3]

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)

On your way to heaven already I think...

 

[RDM]

Hand it in. Generally people that use cash on a regular basis don't tend to have a huge amount of it so £200 will mean a lot more to them than to me.

 

[memphisto]

pocket

 

[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"

 

[Weebull]

I'd hand it in, but ask me again in a few weeks when I'm probably broke, and I bloody wouldn't.

 

[dangerstat]

IMO you'd have to be a very very dark person, at this time of year and in this climate not to hand it in. Sad to see the vote at the moment shows that most wouldn't do the right thing

 

[Col_M]

£200 would go to the police if I was in the UK. Here I'm not so sure, I don't think I'd trust the police or the supermarket staff, so I'd probably put a note up in the supermarket saying that I found some money on XX day at XX time and my contact, if someone can give me the exact amount and a reasonably good idea of the notes that make it up then I'd hand it over.

 

[Pilky01]

Pocket. If you hand it in to the police it will just sit in the office for ages

 

[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....

 

[Lamo]

Report it at police station, wait a while as nobody will probably claim it, then its legally yours.

PK!

+1

I have done this before and once you get it back you feel a lot better than you would if you just kept it.

 

[dangerstat]

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....

Exactly my parents tend to us cash, and they dont have much money at all. So I can imagine my parents loosing £200 pound by accident (they're getting on) when out buying presents for my neices and nephews or even food or stuff for themselves, the idea of some numpty on here not handing it in and instead buying themselves some stupid graphics card makes me sick

 

[ZX-10R]

Hand it in.

I know now a Omega Seamaster that I Handed into the Police once

 

[Viper²]

Actually if you hand it in and collect it in a few months time, the value of the cash might have dropped, so yeah spend it.

 

[Sawell]

Have you heard of the recession?

Is it because everyone keeps setting their money alight?

 

[Greebo]

Before I would have said hand it in. But in the early nineties i was working a posh hotel bar in London and found a wallet on the floor when we were shutting up.

It had gold, platinum cards, switch, drivers licence and about £500 cash (over a £1000 in todays money)

I found his phone number and rang him to tell him we had his wallet.

He came in next day, made sure everything was in his wallet and said thanks and walked out.

I thought I would have got a £20 tip at least. I mean I could have either not rung him and split the money between the bar staff or split the money but rung him and say we found his wallet but we know nothing about the money (no cctv to prove otherwise).