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Just found £90 on the pavement

265 replies

berri · 18/08/2010 18:52

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?

OP posts:
DandyDan · 18/08/2010 19:41

You did the right thing. Keeping it would be theft.

We found £40 on a pavement twenty-odd years ago and handed it in. No-one claimed it and it came back to us a few weeks later and we got two seats at the theatre.

Goober · 18/08/2010 19:42

I would have kept it, Finder's keeper's and all that.

scurryfunge · 18/08/2010 19:43

It is down to the reasonable steps you take to locate the owner Ruby. You have just added your own steps by looking for the owner,ask in the shops etc. Handing it in to the Police is the best option because that is where people tend to go first.

Your last comment worries me....blame the victim, eh?

cat64 · 18/08/2010 19:45

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sorrento56 · 18/08/2010 19:45

berri - what I thought doesn't matter but you could have said you had handed it in to stop any thief comments. But really, I don't matter. I hope if it is Granny's pension or the single mums food money they get it back and are happy.

AprilMeadow · 18/08/2010 19:45

RubyBB, I wouldn't call the police if I lost any money, I would just be thoroughly pissed off with myself for not being careful with where I put my money and then make a mental note the next time I had a large amount of money on me..

RubyBuckleberry · 18/08/2010 19:46

its just that if i lost £90 i wouldn't blame someone for keeping it if it wasn't there when i went back to look. i would blame myself for being careless with 90 big ones!

ProzacTheGiggleFairy · 18/08/2010 19:48

I would feel really bad until I could hand it in to the police.

I am a great believer in karma, and I hope that if I ever lost an amount of money, that someone would have the decency of handing it in.

I have had good things come my family's way & I like to think it is because of good karma, especially as someone who I had never met before (known through a mutual friend) then donated £8k towards my son's electric wheelchair.

scurryfunge · 18/08/2010 19:50

If your child left a brand new bike in the park on the first day they had ridden it and another child helped themselves, would you let them keep it with your blessing if you later saw that child riding it?

RubyBuckleberry · 18/08/2010 19:50

perhaps it s good karma that you und £90 in the first place. perhaps it is the other persons karma that they lost it.

RubyBuckleberry · 18/08/2010 19:50

scurryfunge that is a ridiculous analogy!

scurryfunge · 18/08/2010 19:51

Why?

RubyBuckleberry · 18/08/2010 19:51

and i'd be furious at DC leaving a brand new bike in the park Confused

RubyBuckleberry · 18/08/2010 19:52

if they leave their brand new bike in the park maybe they don't deserve the bike!

scurryfunge · 18/08/2010 19:53

So victim stupidity aside, it is still ok for the other child to keep the bike?

hormonesnomore · 18/08/2010 19:54

For some reason I have found more money and purses than anyone I know - maybe I walk with my head bent or something Grin.

I have always handed them in to the police, or to the shop where I've found them. I ask for a receipt and leave my details. I've never had any returned to me, but I have had a couple of phonecalls from very grateful people.

I lost my purse a while back and it was handed in to a local pub. When I got it back, my cards were still in it, but all my cash was gone (I'd just been to the bank too). I was pissed off by that, I can tell you. Karma?? Phooey!

I'd still always hand money in though.

5Foot5 · 18/08/2010 19:55

Just wondering what people's cut-off point would be - i.e. what would be such a small amount that you think it is OK to keep and at what point is it significant enough to hand in?

A few months ago I found a £20 note in the street. There was noone around who might have just dropped it and I ended up keeping it.

Then just a few weeks ago when we were in town DD suddenly announced she had lost some money out of her pocket - funnily enough £20 - but it was two £10 notes. We hurriedly re-traced our steps to a car park we had just left and to our surprise and relief they were both still on the ground.

DD had been almost in tears when she thought she had lost it and it did make me feel a bit funny about the £20 I had pocketed a few months earlier.

So, to repeat the question, what is small enough to keep?

RubyBuckleberry · 18/08/2010 19:56

hahaha if i found £1000 bloody good karma hahahaha

RubyBuckleberry · 18/08/2010 19:57

don't know about the bike... hmmm...

RubyBuckleberry · 18/08/2010 19:58

i don't know how i would get the bike off the other child. how could you prove it. i'd be like Hmm at my own child for even leaving it in the bloody park!!!

scurryfunge · 18/08/2010 20:01

I would certainly be livid at my own child and assuming you could prove the bike belongs to you (recent purchase receipt maybe)I doubt you would let it go with a "hey ho, one of life's lessons".

I think you would want your bike back.

ArseHolio · 18/08/2010 20:05

It is legally defined as theft unless you have made reasonable steps to trace the owner.

If you don't take reasonable steps you are intentionally & permenantly depriving someone of their property which is the definition of theft according to the police and criminal evidence act.

porcamiseria · 18/08/2010 20:07

keep it, I am having a day when I am seeing karma come bite me like a bitch but I still think KEEP IT

expatinscotland · 18/08/2010 20:22

There's no such thing as karma. That's why arseholes like Phillip Green can go around fucking people over left and right and only get richer.

porcamiseria · 18/08/2010 20:25

does he??? I know he's tacky as fuck, but he did keep his business going and provides employment for 1000's of people

I dont love him, but I dont get why everyone hates him.....

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