What would you do if you found a wallet?

becost · 05-06-2013 4:46pm #1

I recently found a wallet on the bus. It had ID cards, credit cards, ATM cards and a €50 note. I contacted the credit card company and told them I had found this guys wallet with all his cards and gave them my personal details to pass on to him as he was sure to contact them to cancel the card. I stuck the €50 in my back pocket as my payment for going out of my way to get this guys wallet back to him. Anyway the next day I get a call from him and we arrange to meet up at the Spire. The guy is over the moon and full of thanks. He says he has to give me a reward and opens up an empty wallet, looks at me for a second and then says, come with me. We go over to the nearest ATM and he takes out a €50 and gives it to me. I did feel a little bit guilty for keeping the €50 in the wallet but I had no way of knowing he was planning on giving me a reward and a few years previous to this, I found a handbag out side a very posh pub with several hundred euro, possibly a few grand and when I brought it into the pub and found the owner, I didn't even get a thanks.

kylith · 05-06-2013 4:48pm

For a start I'd have refused to take any more money from the man I'd just robbed.

NothingMan · 05-06-2013 4:49pm

I would return it with everything I found in it and not steal €50 and call it my reward to try justify being a petty thief.

mathie · 05-06-2013 4:50pm

becost wrote: »

I recently found a wallet on the bus. It had ID cards, credit cards, ATM cards and a €50 note. I contacted the credit card company and told them I had found this guys wallet with all his cards and gave them my personal details to pass on to him as he was sure to contact them to cancel the card. I stuck the €50 in my back pocket as my payment for going out of my way to get this guys wallet back to him. Anyway the next day I get a call from him and we arrange to meet up at the Spire. The guy is over the moon and full of thanks. He says he has to give me a reward and opens up an empty wallet, looks at me for a second and then says, come with me. We go over to the nearest ATM and he takes out a €50 and gives it to me. I did feel a little bit guilty for keeping the €50 in the wallet but I had no way of knowing he was planning on giving me a reward and a few years previous to this, I found a handbag out side a very posh pub with several hundred euro, possibly a few grand and when I brought it into the pub and found the owner, I didn't even get a thanks.

2/10

ITS_A_BADGER · 05-06-2013 4:50pm

eh you stole a fifty from him and you feel good about giving him back his wallet

becost · 05-06-2013 4:50pm

Is it not an unwritten rule that you keep the cash if you find a wallet?

mathie wrote: »

2/10

true story bro...

Seachmall · 05-06-2013 4:50pm

OMG YOU TOOK 50 EURO?! IT WASN'T YOURS TO TAKE! JUST BECAUSE YOU FOUND IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO ROB THE PERSON!! AND THEN YOU TOOK THE ADDITIONAL REWARD?!?!?!

This is how I would have responded if this weren't so obviously a troll.

artanevilla · 05-06-2013 4:51pm

I'd go out of my way to get the wallet back because I'm a decent person and not a thief. Wouldn't accept a reward either.

donvito99 · 05-06-2013 4:51pm

Eat it.

Seachmall · 05-06-2013 4:52pm

becost wrote: »

Is it not an unwritten rule that you keep the cash if you find a wallet?

No, that's the unwritten rule if you steal the wallet.

If you find the wallet you're allowed to keep any family photos they have in it and nothing more!

Sir Gallagher · 05-06-2013 4:52pm

becost wrote: »

I recently found a wallet on the bus. It had ID cards, credit cards, ATM cards and a €50 note. I contacted the credit card company and told them I had found this guys wallet with all his cards and gave them my personal details to pass on to him as he was sure to contact them to cancel the card. I stuck the €50 in my back pocket as my payment for going out of my way to get this guys wallet back to him. Anyway the next day I get a call from him and we arrange to meet up at the Spire. The guy is over the moon and full of thanks. He says he has to give me a reward and opens up an empty wallet, looks at me for a second and then says, come with me. We go over to the nearest ATM and he takes out a €50 and gives it to me. I did feel a little bit guilty for keeping the €50 in the wallet but I had no way of knowing he was planning on giving me a reward and a few years previous to this, I found a handbag out side a very posh pub with several hundred euro, possibly a few grand and when I brought it into the pub and found the owner, I didn't even get a thanks.

You're either a Tea-Leaf or a Tin-Roofer, i don't know which is worse.

The Backwards Man · 05-06-2013 4:53pm

I find wallets, phones, ipods, everything under the sun, in the course of my job.

I have never taken so much as a cent from any of them, and I have never received or looked for a reward for returning them either.

I call bullsh1t on this story.

endacl · 05-06-2013 4:54pm

becost wrote: »

Is it not an unwritten rule that you keep the cash if you find a wallet?

true story bro...

Nah. You give back the cash and keep the wallet. Once you do this enough times you'll have enough leather to make a jacket. When you wear it, people will know they can trust you, and you'll never have to pay a deposit again. For anything. Ever.

Lelantos · 05-06-2013 4:54pm

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

You're either a Tea-Leaf or a Tin-Roofer, i don't know which is worse.

Obviously a tin roofing tea leaf!

05-06-2013 4:57pm

After Hours, After Hours, After Hours.

As per the charter.

OP Banned.

What would you do if you found a wallet?

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