WWYD if there was a suitcase with £1m in your garden

[JugsyMalone]

You are totally innocent - you have done nothing and in the morning you wake up and find a suitcase with £1m in the garden.

WWYD?

If you reported it to the police, do you get any of it?

I'd roll over and go back to sleep.

Actually no.... I would just shout at the dog for dragging the case into the garden...

"no Fido... that is Mummy's spare change pot... you naughty boy... "

Call the police to report
If you report it to the police as being less than the actual amount you would probably get done for tampering with evidence or something so that may be quite a risky suggestion!

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What is the legal position?

Obviously I have not found said suitcase. If you report it to the police - do they say "cheers" and you get nothing?

one and tell you whether you would get it back if you reported it.

You didn't find said suitcase? Oh.

I'm sure I read in the paper that someone found money in the train or something and handed it in, and then got it back after the allotted period. It was a substantial amount too.

How would you know there was £1m in it unless you counted it? Then your fingerprints would be all over it so the police would not believe you had not stolen it yourself. Catch 22!

if you find it and hand it in, I beleive if no one has claimed it after 6 months then it is yours!!

It'd kill me but I'd have to leave it there. I'd be afraid drug dealers/crims would come looking for me if they found I took it !

I would, um, oh, oo er, I don't know!

Tempted to keep it but I would report it to the police because you have to

I'd take it round to our neighbours - DP & I are utterly convinced they are secret lottery winners, and are trying to get them to out themselves.

NEE NAW NEE NAW NEE NAW

FREEZE

POLICE!

Hand over the suitcases....NOW!

I'll look after them, rubs hands < shady >

Actually, you've got me thinking.

I need more details.

Does it just appear in the garden overnight?

Or is it buried?

My neighbours are lottery winners they don't leave cash in the garden .....although sometimes they post some through my letterbox, but for legitimate not criminal reasons.

Id run away with it
To the coast somewhere

I'd post on MN and go with those who say keep it the majority .

Actually I have no idea. Probably fantasise about keeping it but hand it in (wuss)

Honeydragon our neighbours are secret lottery winners. .

I'm sure the OP would donate it to the EDL.

I wouldnt be able to keep it for worry that the notes were fake or marked or the numbers had been noted or something!

I would do the old handing it in thing and hope like hell no one noticed they had lost it :o

I would have to hand it in as I would assume it was stolen and, if I kept it, I'd have scary people hunting me down to get it back.

I'd wish I could keep it though!

(I found a tenner on the floor in M&S once, handed it in and, two weeks later got the call to say I could pick it up from customer services as noone had claimed it )

When I was about 10, I found a wallet with £10 in, but nothing else, in a leisure centre - a tenner was a fortune then. We handed it into management and it wassn't claimed so after 14 days I could collect it. I was told I was 'a very honest girl'

I believe the same is true of police stations - but I'm not sure if you get to keep a suitcase with £million

I would keep it.....I wouldn't even consider handing it in. I'd take my chances against the Mafioso or Fraud Squad knocking at my door!