If you found a wallet full of money

If you found a wallet full of money would you hand it in to the police?
If not - why not?
If so, why would you do that?

 

I found some money, handed it in and they said phone this number in two weeks and if nobody claims it then you get to keep it

so i did and now i'm £60 richer and have a clear conscience

 

i've lost a wallet full of money when i was in desperate need of money. that sorta clinched it in my head: give it back. unless you're starving or something. but i don't like stealing. i'd consider it stealing.

 

but i don't like stealing

Is that incase a muslim catches you and cuts your hand off ?

 

I found a 20 quid note fluttering in the wind at the bottom of my street. I handed it in to the police and eventually it was mine Ive dont the same with a mobile phone at a concert. Nice clean conscience

 

I found one, but it was a Gucci wallet with like $250 USD in it, I kept it and sold the wallet, that guy probably had another $1000 in his back pocket anyways and it was his fault for leaving it on the floor and didn't even come back to search for it.

 

one of my relatives found an moneyless one... we went to the police but they were closed. I think they contacted the person directly through their uni card thing.. or whatever it was. It was too long ago...

 

No. I am not saint Rah so I guess I would simply spend it on 12 inch singles from The Feeling to Chemical Brothers. Then I would purchase a 100 yellow teddybears from Hamleys and line them up on my shelves.

 

Id hand it back.. minus the cash. Credit card fraud is too complicated

 

i don't ACTUALLY believe in karma. but i for some reason, i'm a shitty liar and completely incapable of taking something that isn't mine. i just can't DO IT. doesn't mean i'm not tempted. but i couldn't live with myself. i couldn't enjoy anything i'd got. i'd just BURN, man. it would make me crazy. i have enough tarnishes on my character and stains on my soul to deliberately take on another.

 

I once found a wallet with 600 euros in it. But there was also some personal data so I called the person and returned the wallet and the money.

 

i wouldn't hand it in to the police but if there were ID in the wallet then I'd track the person down to give it back. if there were no ID in the wallet, well i'd probably count it as 'fair game'.

 

Oh my god this haunts me... found a tenner many years back whilst walking up to the shops (was about 17)... it was just laying on the ground noone about (lived quite rural then) Me and my best mate at the time deliberated for ages then thought "hey well noones gonna come back for it here"... went to the shop to buy fags n stuff yay!!!


Then on the way back down the hill some hour or so later we saw a guy looking franticallly around the tracks, as we approached he asked if we'd seen a tenner eeek!

Daren't tell him we'd spent it so just skuttled off... eeek... I still hate myself for it, seriousley!

Maybe he couldn't get home in the taxi he may have booked??

Maybe he'd saved for weeks to buy his girlfriend a welcome home from hospital present??

I'm the devil :leaving:

 

AHAHAH. i totally like that. i did that as a kid once, too. i still squirm, seems it was the kids lunch money and his parents didn't have more money. they were dirt broke like the rest of us. i spent it on ungrading my lunches. i was STARVING, man. but still, i'd managed to get by on the sandwiches and milk, but it was winter. for pete's sake, i wanted A HOT LUNCH. and a pear. i'd never had a pear before.

 

oo mangina?... mighty boosh?... or is that too bbc3 a reference for you over the pond? excellent none the less!

 

Id do this. I dont like dealing with the police, especially over something like that, itd be bloody useless and would go on their nights beer at our local station

But no ID or personal photos or anything, the money would be kept

 

not too bbc.

though people here use it to insult women who don't act "womanly."

though i never thought that stuff was very funny.

 

glad to know i'm not the only one.

 

So you failed the classic test. Dont you know that was the devil who put temptation your way and you took it then he gave you a chance to redeem yourself and you denied the truth and even your tinge of guilt cant save you now. When you die you will not go to heaven you will be sent to Bhagdad


those two guys bought me a coupla pints of beer not long back
In Islington

 

meh. some people just have a stronger conscience and sense of guilt than other peole.