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to not hand in £5 to the local police station?

199 replies

maresedotes · 19/10/2011 20:15

On the way home from school DD1 (9) found £5 outside the local pub. I told her to keep it. DH thinks she should hand it in to the local police station.

I will honestly tot up the answers and do whatever the majority tell me to do!

BTW, if it was a wallet or purse I would hand it in.

OP posts:
Kayano · 19/10/2011 20:17

Donate to a charity?

Andrewofgg · 19/10/2011 20:17

Give it to whichever charity has your support.

Andrewofgg · 19/10/2011 20:18

X-post!

squeakyfreakytoy · 19/10/2011 20:18

Does your husband realistically think that anyone will have reported it lost?

Let her keep it. She found it, she didnt steal it.

Or take her to the charity shop, and let her spend it in there on something that she likes. That way the charity benefits, and so does your daughter.

cosmologist · 19/10/2011 20:19

Maybe get DD to give a quid or two to charity then keep the rest. All to charity seems a little over the top!

SpookhettiTwirlerAndProud · 19/10/2011 20:19

Charity is a good idea!

SausageGoulsAndFruitSpooks · 19/10/2011 20:19

I agree with giving it to charity.

mousesma · 19/10/2011 20:20

Keep it, it's only a fiver and I doubt it would ever be reported stolen.

Ragwort · 19/10/2011 20:20

I think you should encourage your DD to hand it in to the Police Station - presumably if it is not claimed it will be given to her in a few months?

Imagine if your own DC had lost a £5 note of hard saved pocket money - wouldn't they be thrilled to know someone is honest enough to hand it in?

ScaredBear · 19/10/2011 20:21

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spookshowangellovesit · 19/10/2011 20:21

ummmm keep it. its not like some one can go in to a police station and prove that a specific fiver is theirs. let your dd1 get herself something nice with it. perhaps from a charity shop.
my dd found a 10 pound note recently she was very excited i count these kind of things as lost and found its the kind of thing that happens to everyone over the course of their life. finding and losing money.

borderslass · 19/10/2011 20:21

Keep it a friend and I found £20 when we where kids her mum made us take it to police station we got it back 4 weeks later, as its difficult to prove who it belongs to.

PandaG · 19/10/2011 20:22

hand it in. If it is not claimed it will legitimately become hers anyway, and whatever the outcome it is the right hing to do.

whostolemyname · 19/10/2011 20:23

Let her keep it. No one is going to go to the police saying they lost £5. And she is only 9.

susiedaisy · 19/10/2011 20:23

Charity or keep it!

ThePumpkinKing · 19/10/2011 20:24

Keep it. THe police have got better things to do than deal with untraceable £5 notes.

cantpooinpeace · 19/10/2011 20:26

I know a girl who found a tenner in a shopping centre.

She put £5 on lottery and gave £5 to charity.

She won £250,000 on the lottery :) how cool!

Casmama · 19/10/2011 20:30

Tell her to keep it. It will be a useful lesson to her that is she is careless with her money and loses it then it is gone for good.

wigglesrock · 19/10/2011 20:31

I would have kept anything under a £10, but having spoken to my much nicer and law abiding husband, he assures me that the Police log it in a few minutes, put it away and if no-one claims it within 28 days the finder get it returned to them.

eslteacher · 19/10/2011 20:32

With an amount as small as this, I'd definitely let her keep it.

Marne · 19/10/2011 20:36

I would let her keep it, i found a £10 note when i was a child, it must have been outside a while as there wasn't much left of it, i took it to the post office where they exchanged it for a nice new one (luckily my dad knew the owner of the post office because i don't think they would have let me swap it other wise as so much of it was missing). My mum let me keep it (finders keepers and all that) Wink.

Heavensmells · 19/10/2011 20:37

Let her keep it!

I lost a fiver in asda the other day. Only realised when I got home and after the initial grrr feeling of being a bit annoyed with myself I thought oh well it's probably brightened the finders day up a little!

warmandwooly · 19/10/2011 20:41

Hand it in to the police and then as other posters have said if no on claims it she'll get it back (don't know how long it will take etc). It's the right thing to do and reinforces messages about honesty)

happyinherts · 19/10/2011 20:43

Keep it.

Is anyone seriously going to wander into the same police station and log a missing fiver.

Do you trust the police on this anyway? Wouldn't it just go into one of their charities knowing that no one would report it as missing.

If it was in a wallet with an address, I'd think differently, but an untraceable fiver found in the street - definitely keep. I think we all have.

CobOnTheCorn · 19/10/2011 20:44

I agree with warmandwooly.

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