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?

Nope I'm not in Winchester - looks like the people there disagree with the majority on here though if only £300 has been handed in out of £1600!

I did look around to see if there was anyone ahead of me etc who could have dropped it, but there was nobody and I was nowhere near any shops where I could have asked if someone had been in.

In any case I've reported it now so it's in the Police's hands rather than mine, but there are countless reports in our local papers at the moment about bent police (obviously this doesn't apply countrywide before I'm flamed...) but I guess if they pocket it then it'll be on their conscience rather than mine.

I'll sleep well tonight (not just because I've had 2 glasses of wine and a bag of maltesers...)

Left a purse on Hampstead Heath once. Some really kind soul handed it in. Couldn't believe my luck tbh. Restored my faith in human nature. Send a card and a £20 M&S voucher by way of thanks

Glad you handed the money back. You'll have warmed the cockles of someone's heart. Well done!

I'm not loaded - but I've been there when a small amount of money has been all I had to last me for several days.

It was bad enough having lost my bag on Sunday this week (actually it was bloody awful when I realised it was gone for good) but think of those many times when I've got £10 to last me 3 days with 3 kids to feed.....would be awful

It is interesting that the people who wouldn't hand it in can't believe anyone else would either.

Strangely enough I probably wouldn't return money stolen from a bank. But then I might feel a bit guilty/worried about the people who were in the bank during the robbery.

But banks suck so there you go. And yes if you remember from previous threads I am married to a banker!

and that last post makes sod all sense - I'm having trouble getting to grips with purpleturtle's laptop and had tabs opening all over the show as I was typing so lost track of what I was trying to say

handing it in definitely the right thing to do!
i got my phone back once after dropping it in the park-I was amazed and so pleased that someone had handed it in. As Quattro says, it sort of restores your faith in human nature...

I have clear evidence of bent police here, btw:

bent

I would have handed it in.

I always hand in things I find to the police or in the case of mobile phones I find "home" or "mum" in the address book and arrange to send it back to the owner. A few years ago, I got "payback" when I accidentally left my purse on the train. It arrived back in the post to me a few days later with all the money and all credit cards there. The only money missing was what had been used to pay the postage stamp!

snobear, anyone can produce evidence of bent police. it proves nothing except that some police are bent. it doesn't prove all police are bent.

there was a programme on a couple of years ago about bent postmen, stealing things in the sorting office. i have had family members have things delivered with stuff missing out of it, teh parcel having clearly been opened and resealed. taht doesn't mean all royal mail staff are bent and will steal. there are normal honest people everywhere. proof of a few bad apples does not make the whole box rotten.

booyhoo did you click the link? I think it was a joke...

Please hand in. Twenty years ago i found eighty pounds and handed it in. An oap claimed it, he was beside himself with worry

ahh i see you've clicked the link

yep, just later than i should have done.

It's great that you handed it in.

A few months ago, I took out £300 from the bank. Or I thought I did. I withdrew it and left it in the slot.

The bank is just across the road from me, and I got home, went to put it in my purse and couldn't find it.

I ran back to the cash point and of course it wasn't there. I was walking around, babbling to myself, I was just gutted.

And then, this lovely Italian guy said to me: "Are you looking for something?"

And I was "yes, I took some money out and I think I left it, and I don't know what to do and it's gooooone - waaaaah!"

And he said: "how much?"
And I said: "£300".
And he said: "is this it?"

And I screeched all over him and he gave me a great big hug and it was the best feeling!

So if someone does get it back, be assured that it will make them very, very happy! And you might get it anyway, if no-one claims it.

I once found £200 and handed it in to the police station (despite people telling me they would pocket it). Three months later they rang to say no one had claimed it and so it was legally mine... so I got to keep the cash AND feel virtuous! In the end I handed it in because I decided I couldn't live with the thought that it could be someone's benefit money that they really needed.

My ex found the equivalent of about $500USD stuffed into a paper bag in the toileta of a cocaine-loaded nightclub in Berlin.

He didn't turn it in.

It probably wasn't someone's shopping money for the week :o.

i would have handed in for the reasons weta gave - you either get it back to the rightful owner or get it yourself eventually

well, it might have been their shopping money, they were just shopping for coke rather than fruit and veg

People say the police will pocket it to try and justify theft.

with some nasty little fucker would hand my bag in...............

ARGH! Narky et. al., have you ANY idea how effing offensive it is to hear airy references to police pocketing money handed in at the station? To anyone who is, or is married or related to, a police officer, it's seriously fucking galling. When your partner spends his entire working life assisting in the aftermath of domestic violence, comforting knifed youths in hospital, scouring London for lost, drunk teenagers and taking them home to their mothers, spending hours searching for vulnerable missing people, and generally risking his life on a daily basis so that MNers who'd not think twice about pocketing someone else's money, trust me, this is so fucking painful and infuriating to hear it's UNBELIEVABLE .

There is a 'can feel safe' missing from that rant...anger does bad things to my typing skills!

at expat.

I didn't hand in or keep the carrier bag full of weed I once found in an alley as a teenager for much the same reasons.