Just found £90 on the pavement

[berri]

Do I keep it???

DH reckons if I hand it in to the police it'll just make it into one of their pockets, but I can't help thinking it might be some little old lady's gas money...or not!

WWYD?

here we go again.

mmmm ILEX strikes again !

Ryoko - regardless of what you think of yourself, you are not very kind at all if you would even think of pocketing £90 that someone else has lost. Well done on finding all that money lying around - did you hand it in, or did you stick it in your thieving, grubby pockets? Hopefully you'll teach your future child a better set of morals than you live by yourself.

ILEX?

I'm a SAHM and I pay my bills at the local post office rather than by direct debit. I think these places need supporting but that's another thread.

For this reason I'm in our local little grocers / P.O frequently and I see the shaky-handed old ladies with poor sight struggling to put notes in their purse and loving having a conversation about the weather with the cashier. That'll be my Mum soon and me next.

On a few occasions I've followed them out when they are still trying to put the cash away and the people using the chemist for methadone next door are fucking vultures

People who might lose a large-ish sum of money such as £90 aren't always deserving of what they get because they're simply careless.

Ages ago I was queuing at the ATM behind a lady who waited for her cash, it didn't dispense, so she walked int the branch of the bank to tell them. When i walked up to the ATM, it dispensed the biggest wodge of dosh i had ever seen! It must have been a £500 cash withdrawal. I was about 16, no one was waiting behind me or stod nearby, so i took the money from the ATM and walked into the barnch, tapped the lady on the shoulder who was talking to a memver of staff and said 'er the cash machine gave this out when you walked away' and the woman took it off me and went 'oh, right'.

Thats it, not even 'thank you' !!! i would still do this, but if dcs were with me i would make a show of people forgetting their magic manners if they didn't say thank you!!!!

Saying that money you find may belong to someone not so nice is no more stupid than saying it could belong to someone skint - you don't know whose it is so it is pointless speculating.
My kids will probably keep money if they find it just like if they lose money it will probably be kept. Unless someone on here finds it because they would definitely hand it in .

Maisie - From what I have read of this threa d you have just accused at least 3 people's parents of not teaching them that stealing is wrong. I find that childish and unecessary! Also, I hate to break it to you but there is no such thing as Karma, lovely idea but it's no more real than Santa or the toothfairy!!!

I think this thread has shown one very important thing - that we all have different views of what is classed as stealing. I would never steal from a shop of steal something from someone's person or house for example. Money in a purse or wallet on the floor, money where someone has obviously just dropped it would always be returned right away by me. Money lying in the street with no obvious owner, nobody around etc would not be stealing, in my opinion.

Booyhoo - I do not wnat credit for anything, i was trying to point out that I bleieve (as public research also suggests) that many people who have said here that they would hand it in are in fact lying. Either that or the population of mumsnet is hugely disproportionate to the general jow public?

So those wh say they would always hand in cash as it is stealing otherwise, I have one question - would you hand in a tenner? a fiver? a pound? Surely stealing is stealing even if it is just a pound? Can you imagine the police officers face if you tried to hand a pound in?

I don't believe anyone would hand a fiver in to the police station ..and when you start correcting someones grammar and spelling on here ..you have lost the argument

starbuck are you really saying santa and the tooth fairy are not real?

Mumo/s : ILEX = Institute of Legal Executives (a soi-disant 'lawyer' on this thread who, with no sense of irony, moralises about appropriating other peoples' hard-earned !!! Lol from France

Still I know what ILEX is, just didn't understand the post. Oh well, its been a long day, must be more tired than I thought

I'm shocked. I seriously believe the general public is more honest than Mumsnetters
I've had full purses returned to me in central Brixton, for heavens' sake.

Is that right Grace?

I'm just coming back to qualify my post last night in which I said I am a SAHM and support using local POs because I am aware that I sounded like a bit of a twat.

I started using the PO for most of my financial transactions when I was a lone parent and we were given giros. I'd cash it and then pay the utilities and pocket the £20 or so to feed DD and myself for the week and buy replacement clothes as she outgrew them.

Since my circumstances have improved I still use them and do feel very sorry for some users, especially the shaky old ladies and gentlemen shuffling towards the people waiting for their methadone who are surprisingly sharp.

Yes, I loved your post. I also agree with you about supporting small local outlets.
Yes, true about Brixton.