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

[maresedotes]

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.

I dream of finding a suitcase of used notes. Dream, drool and dribble.

moi aussi usualsuspect

Me too Hully, I am always so gutted in the morning as well. My mum remembers having a dream when she was about 4 of finding a load of threepences - she remembers it really vividly. I wonder what dreaming about finding money means.

oh my days, keep it. And why assume she will base all future moral decisions on this moment - I doubt she's given it half as much thought as we have!

And once she's eaten her sweets and promptly throws up she will have totally forgotten where the money came from - they do normally...

Angel there's no need to be quite like that.

I still remember the sheer unbounded joy and excitement of finding a 50p at the seaside when I was 8.

Life has never quite lived up to that moment.

I would go out of my way to hand in £5 or over. I would hand in £1-2 if I was passing a police station or it wasn't too inconvenient. I wouldn't bother with less than £1. £5 may not sound like much to some posters but I've been hard up enough in the past that loosing £5 would have meant missing meals. I couldn't keep the money in case that was true for the person who lost it.

I'm not sure where the idea that the police can't be bothered to log lost money has come from, I've never found that to be true. The idea that you're dragging police away from fighting crime is ridiculous, you are just speaking briefly to the officer at the front desk, who will be covering the front desk regardless.

Stealing money from a cash machine is pretty bad IMO.

I can't remember the last time I found some money TBH. DS2 is always finding pound coins.

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I found a whole stash of fivers in a sofa a few years ago and got all overcome. But they were forged. The heartbreak.

The various occasions in which I have mislaid cash have taught me to me less of a careless plonker. It would never have occurred to me to report myself to the local police station as being such a careless idiot.

I would make her give it to a charity to teach her a life lesson and subtly reimburse her yourself with the same amount. But wouldn't bother the police.

I dropped a wallet in Kilburn once and it arrived in the post. Wallets with traceable details are completely different.

it would cost me more than £5 to get to a police station to hand it in, so even if I got it back when no-one claimed it, I'd be out of pocket. Then I wouldn't be able to afford the polish for my halo...so, all things considered, I'd keep it and not give it a second thought.

NO way - is that true Hully?

(I am secretly giggling at the concept of handing a pound coin into the police station - sorry, I know that's rude but I can't help it)

I can just imagine the laughter at the police station when you pop in with a £1 coin you found attheendoftheday.
Surely you are taking the Mick!

Yes, is true. Imagine the highs and lows. Gutted.

My dad once took a 10p into the police station and insisted it was forged and that they address the preponderance of forged coinage. But he was drunk as a sack.

Sorry- can't stop laughing! You must be a regular laughing stock, because it's relatively common to find a £1 lying around.

How bizarre - was it in a second hand sofa or did it come like that from DFS?

Also...Why? Why would someone do that, unless they were the trial run of fivers. I saw an amazeball forgery the other day. It was, quite literally, a piece of photocopy paper with a colour PHOTOCOPY of a twenty pound note on it.

Not at all. It's the principle of the matter. Why is behaving like a good citizen something to be laughed at? BTW I have never been laughed at handing in money (not £1 but I have handed in £5 before).

I have to take the fifth now, Shirl

Keep It. Seriously would any of you hand it into the police? It's a fiver.

I one found two £5 notes feet from each, I was heavily pregnant with ds1 and I spent ot and bought some babygrows for him for when he was born.

I'm seriously getting cross now that all the tenners and fivers I have lost over the years were sitting in police stations waiting to be claimed after being handed in by so many honest people.
And I feel equally guilty about that £2 coin I kept two weeks ago that I found at the bus station.
I really have to change my ways, don't I.
And why is it I've always lost more money than I've ever found.
Oh, and I too dream of finding a suitcase full of notes, which I would also keep, because it would obviously be ill gotten gains, so the better thing would be to spend it wisely.

OK, update. I'm sorry but I didn't go with the majority because the hand it in brigade made a stronger case.

DH took DD1 to the police station and handed it in. She got a receipt and was very excited about it all. I don't feel bad about wasting police time because it wasn't a 'proper' policeman, it was a community officer (think that's what they're called).

Oh hurrah! well done maresedotes and your DD - she'll probably still get it back in a month anyway but she's done the Right Thing and had a good and interesting experience (and I bet they DIDN'T laugh at her either, did they)