Would you hand back a 50 ?

thelurch · 24-08-2008 11:24pm #1

Considering a 50 euro note buys you diddley these days, If you found a lovely crisp 50 on the street, or perhaps in a pub toilet, would you bother handing it into a garda station or giving it to the barman in the pub, saying...I found this, or would you just pocket it ???

Jigsaw · 24-08-2008 11:27pm

I would pocket it without a moment's consideration. If it was a personal item like a wallet or a piece or jewellry then I would hand it in.

Peared · 24-08-2008 11:31pm

Jigsaw wrote: »

I would pocket it without a moment's consideration. If it was a personal item like a wallet or a piece or jewellry then I would hand it in.

Yep.

But I would check for string and a camera crew as I am paranoid.

brianthebard · 24-08-2008 11:35pm

Have found a fifty in the jacks at uni before,pocketed it.My policy is if someone can lose money and not notice they have too much.

Wurly · 24-08-2008 11:44pm

I would put it in my pocket. No apologies!:D

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 24-08-2008 11:49pm

Straight into my pocket - it will buy me a few beers. If people aren't responsible enough to keep their things, then why should I do them any favours?

Holsten · 24-08-2008 11:49pm

Into the pocket she goes.

bluto63 · 24-08-2008 11:50pm

Defo in the pocket. What point is there handing it in somewhere? They'll just pocket it themselves.

thelurch · 24-08-2008 11:51pm

Holsten wrote: »

Into the pocket she goes.

I love a straight answer !!

RobertFoster · 24-08-2008 11:52pm

Peared wrote: »

But I would check for string and a camera crew as I am paranoid.

I decided against picking up a fiver in Smyths toystore the other day for the very same reason. That, and it was beside the second hand games bin, in a toy shop. Plus, it was only a fiver and not worth breaking my stride for.

ZygOte · 24-08-2008 11:52pm

hand it to a barman? are ya mad :rolleyes:
He already took my other 50 :pac:

6ix · 24-08-2008 11:52pm

Depends on situation, someone may just have dropped it, so I'd be watching for that. If I couldnt see anyone looking for it or who had obviously dropped it, then I'd pocket it as you can be damn sure the next person who comes along certainly will if you don't.

Edit:

brianthebard wrote:

Have found a fifty in the jacks at uni before,pocketed it.My policy is if someone can lose money and not notice they have too much.

While I would've done the same, the fact is that the person may have dropped it and not notice for quite a while if they're not going to the bar. It doesn't mean they're automatically flush with cash if they mislay some.

all the stars · 24-08-2008 11:54pm

Today, i keep it.

Generally, if i see someone drop something i chase them down with it...
(i also am imagining me, chasing someone- screaming "oooooiiiiiii" while thay run away frightened

)

If its just there, looking helpless on the pavement - i give it a home... im nice like that

DmanDmythDledge · 24-08-2008 11:55pm

If I found it on the street I would pick it up but if I found one in a shop, pub, hotel etc I would hand it in and have done so before.

thelurch · 24-08-2008 11:56pm

all the stars wrote: »

Today, i keep it.

Generally, if i see someone drop something i chase them down with it...
(i also am imagining me, chasing someone- screaming "oooooiiiiiii" while thay run away frightened )

If its just there, looking helpless on the pavement - i give it a home... im nice like that

cson · 24-08-2008 11:59pm

One of the funniest things we did in Uni last year was gluing a €2 coin to the path outside our house. The amount of trouble some people will go to get it is unreal.

Peared · 25-08-2008 12:02am

cson wrote: »

One of the funniest things we did in Uni last year was gluing a €2 coin to the path outside our house. The amount of trouble some people will go to get it is unreal.

See now, this is how people get paranoid about string and cameras.

Quazzie · 25-08-2008 12:09am

on a night out I was waiting in line for the drink link and the guy in front of me left €200 in the slot. I gave him a shout and gave it to him but he was a total w*nker about it, looking at me as if I tried to rob it on him. Two weeks later I won €150 on a horse that the teller in the bookies miscalculated and gave me a grand... Karma rocks!!!!

thelurch · 25-08-2008 12:19am

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

on a night out I was waiting in line for the drink link and the guy in front of me left €200 in the slot. I gave him a shout and gave it to him but he was a total w*nker about it, looking at me as if I tried to rob it on him. Two weeks later I won €150 on a horse that the teller in the bookies miscalculated and gave me a grand... Karma rocks!!!!

Karma is out there !!

stovelid · 25-08-2008 12:24am

Found one in Stephen's green a while back, believe it or not. Nobody around so I pocketed it.

No way would it end up funding a Garda Christmas party. Would try and get back money to someone if it was in a wallet, but not otherwise.

TheZenWithin · 25-08-2008 12:31am

i would pocket it cause chances are the barman or guard would instead if i didnt:D:D:D:D:D:D

Wishbone Ash · 25-08-2008 12:39am

thelurch wrote: »

would you bother handing it into a garda station

Would I be correct in saying that you have never went to a Garda Station to declare money that has been found?

One doesn't have to 'hand it over' but merely report the find. The Gardai will then take details of anyone reporting lost money and contact you accordingly .

Dave! · 25-08-2008 12:49am

I'd pocket it. In fact I did find a 50 on the grounds of UCD before, and pocketed it. I felt as though I should give it to charity, but then decided that I don't have enough money myself to concern myself with charity.

Emma08 · 25-08-2008 1:04am

if i see one i pick it up.. god left it der for me

arybvtcw0eolkf · 25-08-2008 1:08am

thelurch wrote: »

Considering a 50 euro note buys you diddley these days, If you found a lovely crisp 50 on the street, or perhaps in a pub toilet, would you bother handing it into a garda station or giving it to the barman in the pub, saying...I found this, or would you just pocket it ???

No, I wouldn't.

However back in the day when a pound was a punt I handed £95 punts back to a bank the next day when I discovered that the cashier had given me too much.

Yes, the bank is richer but it was still the cashiers mistake and I couldn't live with myself thinking that someone might get sacked just so I'd be up £90ir.

pwd · 25-08-2008 1:13am

i backed a 50 to 1 bet once.
it won too. €750 I got from that. on da pwd

SuperSean11 · 25-08-2008 1:18am

No i wouldnt hand it in. Someone else would pocket it. 10% to charity and thats that:)

ExoduS 18.11 · 25-08-2008 1:20am

thelurch wrote: »

or perhaps in a pub toilet,

give it a nice rinse, blast under the hand drier then into the back pocket !

Lazarus2.0 · 25-08-2008 1:25am

SuperSean11 wrote: »

No i wouldnt hand it in. Someone else would pocket it. 10% to charity and thats that:)

Nah , 10% to PaddyPower in case it's your lucky day !

Sam Vimes · 25-08-2008 1:29am

i found a 50 lying on the side of the road once and kept it but at the local shopping centre i saw one at the bottom of some steps and i realised the guy in front of me with the very baggy tracksuit bottoms dropped it so i ran after him and gave it to him. So the answer is, it depends

rainbow kirby · 25-08-2008 1:38am

I'm so broke that I'd have to say "finders keepers" if I saw a 50 on the ground.

Lazer Smart · 25-08-2008 2:13am

I found a 50 on the pub floor last night. I waited about 2 hours to see if anyone was looking around the floor for it then i bought a round for my table. The round ended up costing 60 - finding money is overrated:D

c - 13 · 25-08-2008 6:31am

If the cash is just lying there with no people around who may have dropped it i'll pocket it. If I see someone drop it i'll definately hand it back.

Personal items that cant be traced such as jewelry the shop nearest where I found it will be notified and then the item taken to the police station.

Wallets/Mobile Phones etc I will go to a lot of effort to track down the owner as I know how much of a bitch it is to loose one of these.

LolaLuv · 25-08-2008 7:11am

I saw a fiver on the street a while ago and left it. Even though it was abandoned on the street, I felt bad picking it up because it wasn't my money. Then I saw the person a little ways behind me pocket it and I felt sort of silly.

Mossy Monk · 25-08-2008 8:24am

thelurch wrote: »

Considering a 50 euro note buys you diddley these days

:eek:

It would buy me food for 2 weeks.

Ross_Mahon · 25-08-2008 9:53am

If i found a briefcase full of money, i would keep it.

seamus · 25-08-2008 10:05am

The way I see it, if the vaue of the money found is less than it would cost me to actually find the owner, then hold onto it.

So if I found €50, then the time and cost involved in going to the Garda station would be greater than €50 so I wouldn't bother.

I'd like to think I would go to the Gardai for €100, but I can imagine myself picking it up and thinking "jackpot". Any more than that I'd definitely report it.

My logic being that if I lost €50 (and probably €100) on the street, I'd be in a bad mood for the rest of the day, but the cost involved in reporting my loss would just compound my losses, so I wouldn't bother.

I don't recall finding much money on the street. I think I found £20 once, can't be sure. I do remember finding a black sack full of shredded fake £20 notes on the side of the road though.

If I found a briefcase full of money, I'd report it, but probably take a small finder's fee for myself.

Davidius · 25-08-2008 10:27am

Regardless of where I find it, it just wouldn't feel right to take it.

I'd hand it in, I'd rather the person who owned it waste it on drink than the next person to walk by.

Captain Ginger · 25-08-2008 10:32am

On the flipside here, if any of you lost a 50 on a night out how many of you would honestly report that you lost money?

I know I wouldn't, I'd cut my losses and live with it.

Same as I'd keep money I found. You win some you loose some.

fitz0 · 25-08-2008 10:40am

If I found a 50 in a pub I would definately hand it in... in exchange for alcohol and bacon fries of course.

Captain Ginger · 25-08-2008 10:44am

fitz0 wrote: »

If I found a 50 in a pub I would definately hand it in... in exchange for alcohol and bacon fries of course.

There better be cheese on those fries, otherwhise you're doing it wrong.

fitz0 · 25-08-2008 10:57am

Of course. What do you take me for? Cheese is a given.

baldbear · 25-08-2008 10:57am

I found a tenner in Barcelona. Went over, did the old stand on the lost note routine, then this little lad about 4 came running out of his parents car and said thats my money.(it was in his hole) So i slapped him and ran off. No i didn't.... i let him take it the little fecker. He learned me.:)

Sam Vimes · 25-08-2008 11:35am

Captain Ginger wrote: »

On the flipside here, if any of you lost a 50 on a night out how many of you would honestly report that you lost money?

I know I wouldn't, I'd cut my losses and live with it.

Same as I'd keep money I found. You win some you loose some.

i think i might pop into the local garda station and report that i lost €50 at random points around the city and see if i get any responses

Dun laoire · 25-08-2008 11:35am

I'd be giving it to the barman alright

Captain Ginger · 25-08-2008 11:36am

fitz0 wrote: »

Of course. What do you take me for? Cheese is a given.

Phew, had me worried there for a second

Defenestrate · 25-08-2008 11:42am

When I was a schoolboy I found a £5 note on the ground and handed it in to the school's lost and found. It got me some serious abuse from the other lads at the time!

I got called to the headmistress' office about a month later though (usually only happened if you were gonna get expelled/suspended) where I was told that I was an exceptionally honest young man, that I was going to get a letter sent to my parents saying what a good boy I was, and that I was getting to keep the fiver as it hadn't been claimed. Score!

TequilaMockingBird · 25-08-2008 11:56am

It has never occurred to me to go to the Guards when I have lost money...

Steve01 · 25-08-2008 11:57am

Screw ethics. Times are tight - finders keepers!

Dave! · 25-08-2008 12:05pm

sueme wrote: »

It has never occurred to me to go to the Guards when I have lost money...

True dat. If it's €50 or less I just write it off and get on with my life... Even if it's more, I don't think I'd bother going to the Garda station.

No, I'm not rich.

marti101 · 25-08-2008 12:10pm

baldbear wrote: »

I found a tenner in Barcelona. Went over, did the old stand on the lost note routine, then this little lad about 4 came running out of his parents car and said thats my money.(it was in his hole) So i slapped him and ran off. No i didn't.... i let him take it the little fecker. He learned me.:)

Isnt if funny the way people react,stand over the money and they make it more obvious.Better off just going over and picking it up and walk away.Ive found plenty of money in my time and kept it,but if i seen someone dropping it or found a wallet i would hand it back.After all i would like to think if i dropped my purse someone would hand it in.

Would you hand back a 50 ?

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