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?

Round these parts a woman was convicted for pocketing £20 she found in the local shop:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-39129975

Amazed they bothered to pursue it tbh

Crikey amuck thats scary

well I havent found any cash since. Not even a 20p 😂

A few weeks ago I found £20 on the floor in Morrisons.

I picked it up and took it straight to the Customer Service Desk - DH thought I was nuts - but apart from feeling better in myself for being honest, I was worried the security camera would see me picking it up and I was accused of theft.

I do wonder what happened to it though as no one asked for my details and I wasn't even thanked.☹️

It's very nice of you but why are you being a martyr? To one of the comments above saying post it on a spotted page, how the hell is someone supposed to prove they lost it?? Yes it is a shame for the person that lost it but if you hand it in they will probably keep it themselves. If I lost money I wouldn't go to a police station to ask about it. Just see it as a little bonus from the universe.

Or give it to charirty

Found a fiver on the floor the other day!

I found money left in a self service checkout at Sainsburys once and handed it to a member of staff, obvs someone had forgotten their change. Who knows what they did with it.......

I think 15 is probably too little to track down the owner. My dh and his friend found a bundle of notes totalling over 600 pounds on the street about 35 years ago. I insisted that they bring it to the police station which they did. They had to fill in forms and if it wasn't claimed after a year they could claim it. Dh went back after a year and there was no record of the money, presumably one of the cops stole it. Sad to think that even the police can't be trusted, but there are still some honest people out there, recently my dd lost her purse and someone left it into the police station with bank card, cash, everything still in it.

I'd pocket it without a second thought. Unless I actually saw the person who dropped it, in which case I'd give it to them, otherwise finders keepers. It doesn't make any difference to the person that lost it whether it ends up in the drain, the canal or in my pocket, it's still gone and no-one could ever prove who it belongs to.

Nope I just can’t cope with false morals on mumsnet.

DH found £50 a couple of months ago, 10 x £5 as though they'd just come out of a cash machine. It was early in the morning and they'd only just started to blow around so couldn't have been there long. He cycled back up the road and around a few side streets and there was no one around so he kept it.

Morals aren’t false. Be glad that some people have them.

Don't forget to add that the people who have 'lost' some money should form an orderly queue outside your house!😉

I wouldn't as I don't think anyone would bother going to check with the police station if they'd lost such a small amount of money.

Put it in a charity collection as has been suggested, if you'd feel guilty keeping it.

No

Ds once found an a4 popper folder with 350 in! We took it to the police station. And they said if unclaimed within a certain period he could keep it. And chances of it being claimed was slim as it was found in a location known for drug deals. And as no evidence this is what it was from it wasnt needed to be kept for evidence.

About 6m later a random call saying he could keep it and spend wisely. He was about 7 then, it was a lot of lego!

My local police station is never open so no I wouldn't

Loose notes found on the street unless it is a large amount I give to charity. Loose coins I give to my DD. (I've wasted money I've picked up before so it's better I just give it away to a good cause.)

Money in a shop or money found in a wallet/purse I hand in somewhere. If there is a bank card in it and there is a branch locally I hand it into that bank branch instead, else I choose a local train/tube station.

I didn’t say morals are false - comments on mumsnet are false. It’s the equivalent of the post on here about how little people spend on Christmas - it’s a competition. Oh you’d hand it in? Well I will donate to a food bank, You’d do that? Well I would donate to a shelter, Oh no I wouldn’t do that I’d personally knock on every door in town until I found the owner

No, if I just found loose notes on the street I'd keep them. No way of proving whose it is. I highly doubt you'd get arrested over £15.

If I found a wallet or purse, I'd hand it in.

Those statements are only ‘false’ if the person making the statement is lying. If they choose to do the right thing, rather than just keeping the cash, you should be pleased, surely? Unless you want to live in a community where it’s every man or women for themselves.

(Please PLEASE do not turn this into a gender argument)

*WOMAN not women!

Not specifically picking on you, but I’m surprised by the number of comments making the same argument about “you can’t prove who owns the money”.

Almost as if the people saying “you can’t prove who it belongs to” know that keeping money that you find in the street isn’t entirely honest, and worry about somehow getting into trouble for doing so. Their defence would be, “but you can’t PROVE who it really belongs to, can ya?”.

I'd treat myself to a McDonalds and a box of Guylian Seashells.

That's not really the point at all. I doubt whether a police station would even accept a banknote found floating on the breeze!

I've found the odd tenner over the years - I have kept them in exchange for the mo et I have dropped over the years!