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?

no, it isn't untraceable. you take it to a police station if someone claims it then it has been traced to the owner. or you could put up a sign, a shout out on a radio station. there is a rightful owner of that money.
untraceable my arse. you just want £90 for nothing. nice attitude.

Fine I'll walk into the police station tomorrow and say I lost a a twenty somewhere between Oxford street and Chiswick high road chances are I'd get free cash, you people are too honest, you are letting go of cash to people who are richer then you or just scamers.

You reckon you'll get free cash? Go on then - make an arse of yourself at the police station (instead of on here) and report back here tomorrow night. Do you honestly think the police haven't heard that one before??! Genius!

You never answered my question - did your parents just forget to teach you it's wrong to steal? Or was there something good on the telly that day and they opted out?

how the hell do you know people are richer than us? some people live hand to mouth and if they lost that amount of money they literally woudn't eat. i could not have taht on my conscience. you however sound lke a prize twat. why the hell would you want to take £20 that wasn't yours?

you'd have to say what time and date, and be a little more specific.

Just like when the money had been handed it it would have been very specific as to where it was found and what time.

They'd even want to know what it was made up of ( 1 x £20, 2 x £10s, 2 x £5 + 1 x £10 etc)

maisie she wouldn't tell us the true outcome anyway, she isn't honest enough.

I was walking around ASDA in a state of mental numbness, due to a shocking bereavemnet I will spare you the details, when I realised I had lost the £80 I had in my hand.

I was so lucky someone handed it in.

Do the right thing.

Booyhoo - 'tis true! It'll give the duty officer a laugh, if nothing else though. I've got several friends who are police officers - that scam has been done to death. Sorry Ryoko!

Even if that were true Ryoko doesn't change the fact that I didn't steal it from someone who needed it.

As a child, I remember my dad coming home, having lost a week's wages (in cash in those days), and how he and my mum felt, even how I felt. We needed that money to live, to pay the rent and to EAT. Thank God some kind person handed it in and didn't keep it.

Booyhoo - Yes the irony in my post was intended - well actually no, I realsied as I was writing it that it made my point and was comically ironic too, so left it as it is.

What I meant was that I am being honest on here and stating what i was really do if I found £90 loose cash on the street - not, as I believe some others on here are doing, just pretend I would hand it in.

I know it's not totally honest to keep it, but I would. Wallets and mobiles etc I have found many a time and always made sure they see their way back. I see loose cash with no obvious owner as fair game.

Shoot me.

Police station all the way

Couldn't keep it, no matter how broke I was.

My Stepfather once found a tenner on the floor by the checkout we were using...he was of the 'Just pocket it' attitude

I made him hand it over to me so I could take it to Cust Services, as I couldn't bear the thought of someone having lost their last tenner before payday.

Cust Services were practically laughing in my face for handing it in.

But I felt better for it

And then a week later I won £35 on a scratchcard. I like to think that's karma paying me back

If you find money in the street it could belong to an impoverished single mum who is struggling to feed her kids or it could belong to a thug who would buy a weapon with it, or someone who would buy drugs with it and overdose - we don't know so there's little point in speculating.
As the research posted earlier shows - what people say they would do and what they actually do with money they find are two different things.
I think it is very telling how shocked the policeman was that the OP handed the money in and that he said no-one had ever handed money in before. I think most people would hand in a purse but most people would keep cash. I wouldn't even bother phoning the police station if I lost cash - that's how sure I would be that it wouldn't have been handed in.

I was found £50 on an escalator in a tube station. There was a Police station just along the street so I took it along there, they logged it and 4 weeks later I was invited to go and collect it. So, I received a guilt-free, bonus £50 simply for having done the right thing. At the time I was earning very little money so it was even more welcome.

I'd have handed it in. A pound, fair game - but 90 quid is a lot of money! I remember how it was to be a totally broke student, counting pennies.

Once I was sent a cheque for quite a lot of money for winning an essay writing contest. I never entered any such contest - but the cheque was written out to me, all the details were there etc. I was soooo tempted to cash it in, but I didn't. Was totally broke at the time, but I really am glad I didn't.

Honesty is the best policy!

I found a fiver on the street near the local park yesterday and kept it

But I would have handed it in if it had been anymore. Once I found a debit card and sent it back to First Direct. A few weeks later I got a cheque from them for £50.00.

"I see loose cash with no obvious owner as fair game".

Another one whose parents forget the thieving is wrong talk?

I didn't think people could 'own' cash - doesn't it remain the property of the Bank of England (well, if you are in England)? So it wouldn't be 'theft' to keep money you found on the street.

A friend of mine had a bank machine spit £100 out at him recently. There was no one around, i.e. did not belong to someone who'd just walked off and forgotten to take it. So he kept it. I would have done the same.

very sad how many people would pocket such a large sum of money.
Also very sad how many people seem to think the police are dishonest. As others have said however, it really would not be possible for the police to pocket it as there are proceedures to be followed when lost property is handed in. As others have said, appears to be an attempt at justification for keeping it.

Any decent person would hand it in as the OP has done.

I would and have handed money in in the past from £30 to £150 in a purse with no name.
Never got to keep any of it so it must have been claimed but Dh lost a credit card that someone returned to the bank and ds lost his wallet with cash, cards and driving license in and that was handed in to police.
On both occasions we sent a card and a voucher as thanks so that our appreciation was noted.
I couldn't ever keep anything that wasn't mine.

Dishonest people need to think everyone is the same as them so they don't feel bad about themselves.

Bolloocks Coco - what a crap excuse for simple thieving behaviour.

So glad the scummy posters with a complete lack of morals are in the minority on this thread.

but starbuck, what is so great about being honest on here when you have jsut told everyone you would steal £90 off someone? you seem to be expecting credit for your honesty on here but your honesty loses all credibility because clearly you are intent on being dishonet. it doesn't make sense.

exactly morloth.

it's that mentality of "everyone else is doing it so it's ok if I do." when actually all that does is make the perpetrator feel better about their crime.