Unbelievably, tonight I went to the cash machine and drew £40 out, I was in a hurry and grabbed my card and forgot the cash (very stupid), I turned and walked away, the guy behind me in the queue didn't say anything to me and took the money, instead of just tapping me on the shoulder as I walked away, or saying something. So I guess karma got me back extremely conveniently. First time it's happened to me and the timing is so strange after what I wrote earlier.
Taking stuff that isnt yours
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Well, generally, if you lose something valuable, you would phone your local police station (or the one local to where you suspect you lost it). If someone has handed it in, the police say so and it can be collected.
The police don't trek the entire constabulary with a big box of lost and found asking if anyone lost stuff. They won't try and actively find the owner but the original owner at least has a sensible route to try and seek what they lost that way.
Seriously, is it that hard to figure out?
Seems fairly simple to me.Did you actually see him take the money? Because normally if you don't take the money within a certain time the machine sucks it back in, unless you saw him take it how do you know? And if you did see him take it, why didn't you say something?
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If you steal something, its quite simple...don't go on the internet to justify it and don't tell anyone about it.
I really don't give a **** if some members on here have so-called questionable morals, what I can't understand is why you'd make a thread about it. Just take/give in the stuff and be done with it.
Of course stealing is wrong, but obviously that's not going to stop some people from doing it.
EDIT: And another thing, piracy is just as bad but I bet many more people do that and don't think twice about it.
I really don't give a **** if some members on here have so-called questionable morals, what I can't understand is why you'd make a thread about it. Just take/give in the stuff and be done with it.
Of course stealing is wrong, but obviously that's not going to stop some people from doing it.
EDIT: And another thing, piracy is just as bad but I bet many more people do that and don't think twice about it.
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man house?
Well, generally, if you lose something valuable, you would phone your local police station (or the one local to where you suspect you lost it). If someone has handed it in, the police say so and it can be collected.
The police don't trek the entire constabulary with a big box of lost and found asking if anyone lost stuff. They won't try and actively find the owner but the original owner at least has a sensible route to try and seek what they lost that way.
Seriously, is it that hard to figure out?
Did you actually see him take the money? Because normally if you don't take the money within a certain time the machine sucks it back in, unless you saw him take it how do you know? And if you did see him take it, why didn't you say something?
The money has gone out of my account so he did take it unfortunately, I realised after a few minutes and returned to the shop and asked if he'd handed it in but he hadn't and he had gone from the cash machine.
If I found a purse or wallet: I'd try and find contact details of the owner. I would want to hand the belongings back. Say there was £50 cash in there too. I'd buy myself a drink or two (if someone found something for me I'd buy them a drink or two to show my gratitude) and then give them everything back. I figure being the decent citizen is good but also I would take a (small) amount for my troubles as I'd do the same for someone who was honest enough to help me. This is the only situation I'd actually take a drink or two/ travel costs to meet the owner out.
I'd never take something that wasn't mine such as a drink from the bar or a bag full of stuff I found somewhere. I'd try and hand anything I found in frankly... no /ebay for me.
I'd never take something that wasn't mine such as a drink from the bar or a bag full of stuff I found somewhere. I'd try and hand anything I found in frankly... no /ebay for me.
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Hard money, I keep as there is no proof or way to detect who's it was, unless you figure it was someones later on, then you return it. Anything with phone numbers, addresses, I will return the lot as that's what I'd like done for me. Sadly I've lost items of vaule £100+ and not had them returned. I still still spread the good karma round though. 
i lost my blackberry in sydney 2 months ago, last week i got a call at work from a shady charctor named bob, he had my phone!
Awesome i thought, a good soul was returning it to me... no, he wanted me to buy it back from him!!
for 150 bucks plus money for a charger he had to buy... grrr i was annoyed but it was cheaper than buying a new phone.. so i met him and paid him them moneys (didnt give him all the money)
i try and hand in anything i find
Awesome i thought, a good soul was returning it to me... no, he wanted me to buy it back from him!!
for 150 bucks plus money for a charger he had to buy... grrr i was annoyed but it was cheaper than buying a new phone.. so i met him and paid him them moneys (didnt give him all the money)
i try and hand in anything i find
Lol unlucky, well lucky that you got it back at least I guess.
If my phone got lost I'd send a txt with a special word that would activate GPS and then message me back its current location.
As long as it was turned on I would be able to see where it was ¬_¬
Android ***!
If my phone got lost I'd send a txt with a special word that would activate GPS and then message me back its current location.
As long as it was turned on I would be able to see where it was ¬_¬
Android ***!
Now that IS disgraceful
I can't imagine having the gall to offer to sell someone's property back to them.
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tl;dr - OP is a thief?
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Guest2 you are a total idiot.
If you think what you have said above is the right thing to do then well, seems you missed out somehow on a trait called decency, what a childish approach to life you have.
That is ridiculous.
You also had to pay for a charger he bought?
I would have reported him to the police. Sounds like he was going to use if for personal use or was about to sell it on but then thought about it getting blacklisted and instead used you to make some money.
Pay the little bit extra a month and get insurance, then the minority of money grabbing ***** like the guy that did this to you won't be able to!
You sir, are what is wrong with society. When you lost your items would it not have been brilliant if someone had had the decency to return them to you or hand them in?
I always hand in anything I find... within the last year that's been a Nokia N95...I phoned the last dialled number and told them that I had this persons phone, a wallet full of cash which I handed in and a handbag.. I'm sure there were a couple more things but I can't remember right now..
What comes around, goes around..
this. is something is not yours you dont keep it
You admired the people who took your stuff so much that you wanted to be just like them?
If you met one of them, would you thank them for being so admirable? Would you pay them for the lesson you say you learned from them?
Decent people do the right thing because it's the right thing to do. That's the point of doing the right thing. It's not a difficult concept to grasp. Your honour is about what you do, not about how much or how little other people thank or pay you for it.
So you're a thief and a coward. A thief because you steal and a coward because you don't even stand behind your thieving. Instead, you pretend that stealing off other people is just "in return" for you either losing your stuff or having it stolen off you.
I got mugged once, by some random stranger. Does that mean it's OK for me to punch a random stranger in the face and steal their wallet?
I'd punch a random stranger "in return" for the inconvenience of picking the things up, obviously. That would be the right thing to do.
Do you see a difference between finding something by chance and stealing it? Your post implies that you don't.
If something isn't mine, I don't keep it. Other people's dishonesty is not an excuse for being dishonest.
