alextheferret Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 I heard something like this come up recently,but what would you do, and why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guuuuuuuuu leeeeeeeee Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 take the money not the wallet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Nichols Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 I usually pay more for a wallet than £15.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitbat Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Turn it in, someone else has lost it and I have done that myself so know how shitty it is, and how good it feels when you find out someone else has handed it inAlso if you hand it in to police and the owner doesn't claim within 28 days (I think its 28 days), then its yours.Frooty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alextheferret Posted May 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 I usually pay more for a wallet than £15..I tried to keep it close to £10 so that i can see if its different if your taking money or an actuall item. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaRtZ Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Turn it in <reason>Frootyagree with you, but if I just realised I'd lost my wallet I wouldn't go the police station, Id try and find it myself, which made me say leave the wallet, but take the money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolfa Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 The good guy in me says I would hand the wallet + money in.In reality I'd probably keep the £10.Either way i'd hand the wallet in, it's such a massive relief to get your wallet back! This is assuming said wallet contains cards, licences, photo's and other such treasure, otherwise I wouldn't bother at all, I'd keep the money and bin the wallet probably! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 (edited) Wouldn't worry about returning 10 quid if I couldn't find the owner. Obviously if there were documents inside the wallet helping me to identify the owner, I'd return it to him as it was found with everything inside. Edited May 22, 2009 by Greetings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alextheferret Posted May 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 how about this, not speaking fom experience, honest!you find a wallet on the floor, you take the wallet and the money. Later on in the day you see a close friend who thinks alot of you, knows that you wouldnt steal or anything they say to you "Ive lost my wallet!", what do you do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolfa Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Say you found a wallet, and was going to keep it, didn't realise it was his/hers and be quite jovial about it...You wouldn't actually even consider keeping a close friends wallet, would you?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomN Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 I had my wallet pick pocketed. Grr i was peed not fussed if they took the money just not my cards and that, so i would take money and hand the wallet in ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali C Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 my wallet cost 99p If the wallet had cards and shniz in, I would hand it in (with the £10) if it had no important cards in, I would keep it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenLeacock™ Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Yer if there was cards etc, id hand it in, also if there was a large sum of money £100 +, don't police give it to the person who found it if its not claimed in the next 30 days anyway? I've lost and thankfully found my wallet a few times, and its a b*****d plays on your mind! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Hand in cards/drivers license etc to save the person all the hassle. Keep the money as a finders fee, no matter how much there is. Not bother with the wallet as i already have one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowy= leicester trials Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 i found a wallet with £30 in once i was over the moon haha what to do with it didnt even come to mind, it was instinct, but if it had his or hers driving licence debitcard national insurance etc in id just post them all in an envolope to the address Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Token Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 I'd like to think that if I lost my wallet with all my ID's in then there was some integrity left in humanity an it'd get handed in, which is why I'd hand in anything that didn't belong to me. Including any money, it's not mine. Don't forget if you've got at least a name on a bankcard in your wallet there's no reason it wont find your way back to you if it gets handed in to a po po station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si-man Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Me and Jay found a wallet ages ago with £200 in it. Kept both, split the money, bought a second hand Echo ES1 frame lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 If it's just a wallet with £10 in chances are it wouldn't be searched for by the owner anyway, so I'd turn it in and I'd probably end up with it myself - guilt free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendrix Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 I found £10 on the floor the other day, paid for lunch.They lost it, I found it - job done.Now, had it been a wallet with money in, I would have handed it into the train station office. Money on the floor though.. mine mine mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalf the Yellow Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 hardly a 'nice leather wallet' if its worth £15..steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 I found a wallet with a pass port and driving licence oh and money it had £30 and some change i got £11 out of it a freind who found it got £20 and gave the rest to his younger bother like £3 lol. The pasport and driving licence we gave in, we couldnt have done anything with it to be honest we was only 12 and a bit older. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendrix Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 I found a wallet with a pass port and driving licence oh and money it had £30 and some change i got £11 out of it a freind who found it got £20 and gave the rest to his younger bother like £3 lol. The pasport and driving licence we gave in, we couldnt have done anything with it to be honest we was only 12 and a bit older.If it's got ID in it, why not just hang it in WITH money in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si-man Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Its the finders fee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich J Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 I lost my wallet at Reading festival last year it had £10 in plus my bank card and id. Next day I got my wallet handed in, the £10 was missing however. If the person who found it took the £10 then handed it in to be honest I didnt care the fact I got it back was great. However if someone took the money dropped the wallet then someone else handed it in id be annoyed. Dont suppose ill ever find out now but still. If I found it id hand it all in. Just think how you would feel in the situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCircus Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 take the wallet leave the money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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