If you found £15 in the street

[Thatsthatthen87]

Would you hand it in at the police station as you are supposed to?

Because I found £15 this morning, no one around and it was in the process of being blown onto the road. Obviously, I still have it but a quick Google tells me that it's considered theft. So, would you hand it in or not?

No I wouldn't

honestly - no. £15 I wouldn’t bother. £150 yes.

No

Put it in a charity pot if you're bothered though.

Why would you Google for a small bit of money? If it was a bag full of bank notes then fine, but nobody is going to ask at a police station for 15 quid.

I would keep it

I don’t know where the local police station is, so no.

I think the equivalent of handing it into a police station these days is putting a post on the local fb page.

The police station here has closed.

I’d keep it, I found a tenner once when I was 11 which was like a lottery win. My dad made me knock on the door of every single person on our road to ask if they’d lost it.

They all said no so I did get my tamagotchi.

Ive always kept random found money but anything that remotely identifiable like shopping or a wallet of course i’d hand in.

@Thatsthatthen87

if you do you get it back in 6 months if no one claims it.

zould you go to cops to say you lost 15 ?

Curiosity, same reason I Google most things.

No. I would keep it.

Have you never found money before?

Was it a £5 and a £10 note? Lucky for you that they hadn't blown off in separate directions.

I would keep £15 with a clear conscience, I wouldn't give it to charity either

In a wallet, yes. Blowing around, no! How would anyone even identify it? (Makes mental note to go around all police stations claiming to have lost £50).

I found a £20 note on our high street. It had been dropped by a teenager who had just been paid from her job in a cafe. I posted on the local forum to say I’d found something and that if anyone had lost anything around such a time, could they message me. Her mum messaged.

Yea, a quid here and there, why?

Keep it. The chances of finding the owner is very remote.

Nah, finders keepers.

I found £20 in the co op one day. Winner.

I'd give it to charity. I would feel bad keeping it.
I once found a lot of money on a petrol station forecourt and handed it in to the girl behind the till. When I told people I'd done this everyone took the piss and said she will have kept it. But that's on her. As far as I'm concerned I did the right thing and to this day I swear I would have done it again or maybe driven it to the police station but that was a long way out of my way and I was running late for work.

Yeah, especially as it's pretty windy here.

I’d keep it. You can’t identify the owner. If you take it to the police station or hand it in to a shop it’ll just end up in someone else’s pocket.

I found £20 on a path in a park years ago. No-one around and I kept it. That evening there was a trailer on tv for a programme about morality or something, asking "what would you do if you found £20?", and I was convinced that the programme would feature footage of me stealing a planted note. It didn't, but I did wonder whether it was a complete coincidence.

Hand it it, it’s not mine and it’s wrong to keep it.
As for what happens to it after that it’s none of my business, I did the right thing and that’s it for me

I’d post on a local fb page (if you are in a small town) that you had found a small amount of money and see if anyone claims it.

If you are in a city I would just keep it.

It would cost me that in return bus fare to get to a Police Station. It's not theft if you've found it. If you have a conscious about keeping it, donate it to a charity. True owner is unlikely to be found.