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if you found £100 at a cash point

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hatstand · 28/11/2005 15:51

what would you do? just sort of waving at you from the cash bit, the person who last used it was clearly a f/w and just left it there...

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chjlly · 28/11/2005 16:06

If it wasn't a busy cashpoint the money could have been taken back in by the machine as I think they so tha tafter about 3 mins (it happened to a friend once)

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hatstand · 28/11/2005 16:06

let's be quite clear about this - it's open house on hatstand's dh. he is a f/w, an idiot, a damn fool...

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chjlly · 28/11/2005 16:08

Yes I would have lots to say to my dh if he losrt £100 none of which would be polite!!!

Chloe55 · 28/11/2005 16:09
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Mercy · 28/11/2005 16:09

hatstand

Mercy · 28/11/2005 16:12

Munz: I think if a bank or any other large company overpays it's their problem (unless an employee gets in trouble) They're covered buy insurance surely?

suedonim · 28/11/2005 16:15

I'd hand it in. I lost a 20 pound note when visiting a friend recently and had no hopes of getting it back. But next morning it had been pushed through the letterbox, so there are some honest folks about!

Has your dh checked at the police station, Hatstand, in case it was handed in there?

IvortheEngine · 28/11/2005 16:18

I would definitely hand it in. I found a really lovely gold (looking or real, I don't know) bracelet some months ago whilst on a walk. It was on a little lane by some houses so I rang a door bell and asked the chap who lived there to try to find out if it belonged to anyone in one of the houses. I wish now that I'd left my details with him so that if no-one claimed it, he could give the bracelet and my details to the police and maybe I'd get it once x months had passed. Oh, well!

mazzystar · 28/11/2005 16:20

its crap that no-ones ahd the decency to hand it in.

i would make dh report it to the bank. just for badness

sparklymieow · 28/11/2005 16:22

I found 50 quid in machine, outside my work once, I knew there was no cameras on that area, and its was about 6am so there was noone about, but my honesty got the better of me and I handed it in.

BonyM · 28/11/2005 16:23

Several years ago I withdrew money from a cashpoint inside the bank and because dd1 was only tiny and I was therefore a bit dizzy and distracted, I forgot to take the money!

I realised when I got home and rang the bank to see if anyone had handed it in. They hadn't of course .

I was not, and never have been a f/w.

I was gutted that I had lost the money, as at the time, we really needed it as I was on maternity leave.

yoyo · 28/11/2005 16:26

I would hand it in. Surely the machine logs withdrawals so it would be fairly easy to trace the person who used it? I know how I'd feel if I'd done it - I couldn't take it especially knowing that it would be fairly easy to trace the rightful owner.

LadyTophamHatt · 28/11/2005 16:28

I'm awful aren't I!!

I have to say I'm not as heartless now, I found £60 on the floor in Peacocks a while ago and handed it in.

snowfalls · 28/11/2005 16:30

I would stand by the cash machine and wait so no-one else could take it. If it is not taken within I think 3 minutes it goes back in and safely back to the account it was withdrawn from.

dinosaur · 28/11/2005 16:30

It did happen to me, years ago in Cambridge - I handed it in at the bank branch where the cashpoint was situated.

expatinscotland · 28/11/2005 16:31

I'd chase after them. If they weren't in sight, I'd consider it finders keepers.

gloriainexcHELSIsdeo · 28/11/2005 16:31

At this moment in time I would keep it!

Chloe55 · 28/11/2005 16:32

TBH though LadyTH I would have considered taking it if I thought that it would just be going into somebody elses pocket or the bank for that matter but as it's been pointed out I guess the bank could trace who it belonged to. If I found a wallet/jewellery in the supermarket or such like I wouldn't think twice and would def hand it in.

ponygirl · 28/11/2005 16:44

I did this last summer at the cashpoint outside our local Co-op. I took out £20 and for some stupid reason didn't take the cash. Went into the shop, picked up milk and realised I didn't have the cash. Ran back outside, but it must have been no more than 2 minutes, but it was gone. I was convinced someone had taken it. It didn't show up as having been taken back into the machine. I went into my bank (Halifax) and I had to fill in a form. They said it could take 2 weeks to investigate as the machine was one of theirs, but at a supermarket. Strangely, a couple of weeks later the £20 reappeared in my account. The online statement showed the 2 withdrawals I made (I had to make another to cover what I'd lost). But when my actual statement came there was only one withdrawal, so I can only assume that the money was retained by the machine and the Halifax just wiped the whole transaction. I was quite cross about their manipulation of my statements actually, and about the fact that they never responded to my enquiry, but at the end of the day, I did get my money back.

dropinthe · 28/11/2005 16:44

I have worked in a bank and usually the machine withdraws it after an aloted amount of time.I would most deffo not take it as it would have been debited to someones account and so effectively you would have stole it from some poor sod like me who has massive overdrafts and not a pot to piss in!

Mercy · 28/11/2005 16:45

Dinosaur- you Cambridge lot must be an honest bunch, that's where dh 'lost' his money and it was handed back in

ponygirl · 28/11/2005 16:46

Sorry, the machine wasn't one of theirs.

Blu · 28/11/2005 16:49

I would definitley hand it in - sympathies to MrHatstand, fw-moment he may have had, but I could see myself doing the same sometimes!

mazzystar · 28/11/2005 16:49

i am really shocked that people would keep it. good upstanding mners of the community! it is theft and you could be prosecuted!

SoupDragon · 28/11/2005 16:50

Take it into the bank. I wouldn't give it to anyone unless they could prove they'd actually withdrawn it.