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Found wallet

What would you do

  • Kept the money, chuck wallet

    Votes: 35 21.0%

  • Hand it in

    Votes: 132 79.0%
  • Total voters
    167






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Cheeky Monkey

Well-known member
Jul 17, 2003
23,033
My dad worked for HMC&E at Gatwick and Heathrow in the 70s and 80s and they weren't nicknamed Gatnick and Thiefrow at the time for nothing. If your baggage came through the carousel at all you were lucky to find the contents all inside.
 




hans kraay fan club

hans kraay fan club

The voice of reason.
Helpful Moderator
Mar 16, 2005
61,256
Chandlers Ford
CHAPPERS said:
Take 50 quid and hand it in.
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Wrong-Direction said:
Have the money, give the cards back
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Ignoring the ethics of that course of action, you'd be pretty stupid to do that. You'd be on CCTV lifting the cash, and then have your name taken when you handed the wallet in. If you were going to nick the money, you'd want to lob the wallet in a bin.
 


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CHAPPERS

DISCO SPENG
Jul 5, 2003
44,771
hans kraay fan club said:
Ignoring the ethics of that course of action, you'd be pretty stupid to do that. You'd be on CCTV lifting the cash, and then have your name taken when you handed the wallet in. If you were going to nick the money, you'd want to lob the wallet in a bin.
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My sleight of hand is second to none.
 




Wrong-Direction

Wrong-Direction

Well-known member
Mar 10, 2013
13,415
Take the money, dump the cards.

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Napier

Napier

Well-known member
Jan 27, 2009
2,123
Devon
Hillian1 said:
Nope, looked in to see if the owners details were in but as I don't read Arabic that was a non starter, police counted it when I handed it in.
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Are you allowed to claim the money if they do not find the owner or no one comes forward after 28 days?
 






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Cheeky Monkey

Well-known member
Jul 17, 2003
23,033
Oh and if anyone dropped a fair sized packet of skunk in Lewes train around 10:15pm on Saturday evening just gone, do PM me and I'll arrange for its safe return.
 


spence

spence

British and Proud
Oct 15, 2014
9,814
Crawley
On a public forum most people will say they would hand it in. But in reality if presented with that amount of cash i think more would be tempted
 






spence

spence

British and Proud
Oct 15, 2014
9,814
Crawley
Hillian1 said:
Outside Gatwick North Terminal arrivals yesterday.

Inside was £850 in Sterling and 4000 of Saudi money, various cards with Arabic words.

What would you have done.
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I've also found a wallet before at Gatwick in a car park but no way near that amount of cash.
 


Deadly Danson

Deadly Danson

Well-known member
Oct 22, 2003
3,987
Brighton
Obviously morally hand the whole lot in, otherwise you're a thief but more to the point, as others have noted, you're on CCTV. Having worked at Gatwick I was present when someone picked up someone else's money they had just dropped off the floor by where I worked and kept it. Once it came to light an hour or so later the police boarded the perpetrator's plane, offloaded and arrested them. Missed holiday, criminal record all for not doing the right thing.
 


maltaseagull

maltaseagull

Well-known member
Feb 25, 2009
12,986
Zabbar- Malta
Husty said:
Frankly I'd keep it, if it was a British persons with less money in it then I'd hand it in but if it's some rich oil baron, shucks to them
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Could have been a Brit working in Saudi and you could be taking his wages :)
 






Hillian1

Hillian1

( . ) ( . )
Jul 15, 2010
15,364
Struggling for breath at the top of the stairs
Napier said:
Are you allowed to claim the money if they do not find the owner or no one comes forward after 28 days?
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That's what the plod said yes.

Am hoping the owner claims it though, turns out to be an oil baron and rewards my honesty by giving me 100 camels or something.
 




hans kraay fan club

hans kraay fan club

The voice of reason.
Helpful Moderator
Mar 16, 2005
61,256
Chandlers Ford
Hillian1 said:
That's what the plod said yes.

Am hoping the owner claims it though, turns out to be an oil baron and rewards my honesty by giving me 100 camels or something.
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Fingers crossed for you. I hope your honesty is rewarded. Maybe they will just be SO filthy rich, that they'll just shrug, and not even BOTHER trying to recover it.
 








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