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?

The police wouldn't be interested here. If I found a wallet or purse or cash £50 or over, I'd hand in.

I'd pass it in to the nearest shop, it's an obvious place for someone to ask if anything had been handed in.

No. They'd probably just keep it. I've never seen an appeal 'cash left in the street, please come to claim'

I'd keep it. I've actually found £10, £5, and £60 before and kept it. Came in really handy.

Because, it means you aren’t keeping it for yourself when it’s not your money and it means it’s going to a worthy cause if you put it in a charity box.

I doubt the person who lost it would care one way or the other. They still wouldn't have the money. Knowing it had gone to a worthy cause instead of in the pocket of a mum who might use it to buy her child a rare treat for example doesn't change the fact they don't have it. How is spending money that is not yours any better than donating money that also doesn't belong to you?

Keep it. I’ve found money on floor before and always kept it. No police stations nearby (a good hour away to nearest one) and no chance I’m going to all that effort.

No. I picked up a £10 note in Waterloo station last week. I looked around, no-one was obviously looking for it. No-one was walking along with their bag tipped on its side.

If I took it to the police station it would not have been claimed. I pocketed it and I don't feel bad. I'll put £10 in the collecting tin next time I buy a poppy.

Straight in my pocket.

Nobody can prove a note (or coin) was theirs anyway.

Anything under £50 I'd put in the church plate/charity collection. Over that I'd report it.

I would keep but keep an eye on the local community page in case someone says they’ve lost it

I think if it wasn't obvious who had dropped it I would keep it.

There was a case on the news a few years back of someone being taken to court for not handing in a small (£20 iirc) amount of money. It was headline news at the time, wonder if it was local.

The main reasons she was in trouble were that she'd found it in a shop and so there was a fair chance it could have been handed in and reunited with its owners, and also possibly that she had lied when the police came knocking (assume cctv in the shop altho I can't imagine the police getting involved).

I think the advice was that if you find a small amount of money and there's a reasonable chance of the owner being identified then you should report.

Don't think I would for £15 in the street. Def wouldn't go out of my way to take it to police station, guess you could call them and say you've found it. Doubt owner will go to the police.

I’d keep it. No one who lost £15 would believe for a second it was sitting there at the police station.

Or you could buy £15 of tins of meat and give them to the food bank, they would love that.

I found £20 last year and donated it to our local young carers group.

I think the money had been dropped by our local drug dealers as one of them wasn't far away.

No one is going to go to their local police station if they’ve lost £15. Im sorry but I have to think some people on here are just being self righteous, oh I would walk to the ends of the earth and back again to find the true and rightful owner because that’s the right and honourable thing to do. It’s £15 in the street; it’s not going to end up on crime watch.

If it was local to my area at a push I'd put it on local Facebook page. "Small sum of money found".

But really anyone could claim it, even if they said they'd lost £25 you have no way of knowing if it was £25 and £10 has blown away.

But in bigger town or city I'd pocket it. The odds of it getting back to the right person is so remote that it would be pointless doing anything else with it.

Totally different if it was in a purse or wallet I'd hand that to the police.

Of course not

This. The people who carry cash around to pay for stuff, and are likely to fumble notes and drop them, are usually children or old people.

I found a £20 note on the street (residential) last year. A guy was getting stuff out of a car nearby so I asked whether it was his. It wasn’t. He suggested putting it into a charity collection box but I’d have felt bad if it had been dropped by a kid or a pensioner. They might not have wanted their £20 to go to charity. So we concocted a cunning plan and put it on top of the low wall of the house nearest to where I found it, weighed down by a stone so that someone looking for it could find it.

Who knows what happened after that? But I’d have felt a real heel if I’d kept it.

No - I found £40 once and kept it.

No because people would think I have a family to feed, it's perfectly fine to do this sort of thing you know, you have to turn a blind eye.

The other thing is, who actually knows where they dropped the money? By the time they have realised its missing it could be ages later.

I would keep it but we found £10 in m and s and the staff said to donate it as it would just go in their donation box. My DD insisted on giving it to a homeless person. I felt quite ashamed of myself as she could've kept it and spent it on herself and I would've done that if it was me

I did once find about £200 in a cash machine and caught up with the person who had left it there and gave it them though.

Do you really think that anyone who doesn’t keep cash that they find on the street behaves in that way because they are afraid of being prosecuted?

And, nobody has talked about ‘walking to the ends of the earth to find the true and rightful owner’ or anything similar.

I suspect that you feel aggrieved because you’d just pocket it and you can’t cope with the fact that other posters think that is dishonest.

I was in a club and there was a £10 note on the floor trodden on - a bit manky but hey it bought me and my mate a drink

When I was 16 I found £150 on the floor in M&S. This was 2003ish

They weren't interested and nor was the police. So I spent it on clothes for my first job interview, study books, shoes and my first handbag. And the train ticket to London for a university interview

Whoever dropped that cash, helped me get into college, University and my first ever proper job!

Keep it OP