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If you found a wallet with €2,000 in it

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  • 16-08-2010 11:56am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭


    Not likely, but say you came across someones wallet with 2k in it on the side of the road. It contains their ID, bank cards, pics of wife inside amongst everything you'd usually find...

    Would you do the decent thing and hand it in?

    Or go shopping?

    OR take the money out of it and hand the wallet in?

    --

    I don't think I could live with it.. I'd definitely hand it in.. Hopefully the gentleman would be nice and reward me for it. It would be a bitch if he turned around and didn't say thanks which is also a possibility.

    So what would you do with the small fortune?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 33,790 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Karma is a bitch..

    hand it in.

    :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Post on boards and see what the general consensus was and let them decide for me.


    And maybe buy a PS3.


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,834 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Pfft.. obviously I'd hold it for ransom for €4,000.


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Sykk wrote: »
    Not likely, but say you came across someones wallet with 2k in it on the side of the road. It contains their ID, bank cards, pics of wife inside amongst everything you'd usually find...

    Would you do the decent thing and hand it in?

    Or go shopping?

    OR take the money out of it and hand the wallet in?

    --

    I don't think I could live with it.. I'd definitely hand it in.. Hopefully the gentleman would be nice and reward me for it. It would be a bitch if he turned around and didn't say thanks which is also a possibility.

    So what would you do with the small fortune?

    I'd hand it in but keep the pics of the wife if she's in the nip or in her sexy gear :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Banned Account


    Is the wife good looking and likely to be home alone if I were to return it - this is the crux of the issue.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    I would hand it back and put my hand out for a reward. If no reward was coming Id smash 2000 worth of windows :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I would burn it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭the drifter


    id take the money and run....but im a c*nt anyways...


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,099 ✭✭✭mathie


    Sykk wrote: »
    I don't think I could live with it.. I'd definitely hand it in..
    listermint wrote: »
    Karma is a bitch..

    hand it in.

    :cool:

    Catholic guilt and 'the world will punish bad somehow'.
    These concepts are for pu55ies.

    Wax the lot on hookers and Natural Jelly Company Fizzy Snakes.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭phill106


    Whats the photo look like?
    Fapworthy?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭cleremy jarkson


    I'd hand it in. Wouldn't be able to live with myself.

    Although if it was something like 50 or 100 I'd be inclined to keep it to be honest!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    Id hand it back.

    Presumably the chap would be so delighted that I would be rewarded!


    Note: In saying that, I was behind some chap at an atm a couple of years back that withdrew about €500 quid, but left it in the drawer of the atm and walked off. I called him back and alerted him to his mistake - the cheeky baxtard didnt even say thanks!


  • Registered Users Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Menengroth™


    Cha-ching.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    mathie wrote: »
    Wax the lot on hookers and Natural Jelly Company Fizzy Snakes.


    I have been in this situation before. An elderly man left his credit union book on the bus with about €1800 in it. We returned it and it was definitely the right thing to do.

    But that was before Natural confectionery co. fizzy snakes were around. They are scrumptious, so I don't know what I'd do now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    Everyone sounds like you'd be so noble..
    I hope you guys find my wallet when I loose it.

    Honestly..
    I'd probably take the money and hand in the wallet.
    Karma bloody owes me some goodness from the last few years,
    so I'd take finding a wallet as the universe finally rewarding me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    I actually found a wallet with €110 in it about a year and a half ago.

    It had a guy's ID in it so I handed it into the Garda Station, telling them not to give the owner my contact details if he claimed it.

    I don't know if he ever claimed it. But seeing as we're talking two grand, and not €110, I'd hand in the 2k wallet along with my details, and hope for a reward.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭bazmaiden


    Imagine the guy was some kind of gangster

    and that 2 grand is from drug money, how would you feel about it then


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    I'd hand in the cash but keep the wallet+ID.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    bazmaiden wrote: »
    Imagine the guy was some kind of gangster

    and that 2 grand is from drug money, how would you feel about it then


    Can I be rewarded in drugs?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭Notorious97


    bazmaiden wrote: »
    Imagine the guy was some kind of gangster

    and that 2 grand is from drug money, how would you feel about it then


    may aswell put it to some good use for me so :)

    Id keep it, prick i know but i think most saying they would hand it in would keep it.

    a while back a girl did leave 200 in ATM and i went after her with it, dont feel guilt if i find it alone haha


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,476 ✭✭✭Samba


    bazmaiden wrote: »
    Imagine the guy was some kind of gangster

    and that 2 grand is from drug money, how would you feel about it then

    I'd feel hard done by that there was only 2k in the wallet.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    bazmaiden wrote: »
    Imagine the guy was some kind of gangster

    and that 2 grand is from drug money, how would you feel about it then

    Thats a no brainer, hand it to the cops then when the gangster dosent claim it after the required period of time, it becomes yours. Then go to your local drug dealer and buy 1000 euro worth of high quality coke, then go down the road and hire the services of a quality street hooker.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    There's no such thing as Karma, but there is a thing called being an asshole.

    So I'd hand it in.


  • Registered Users Posts: 78,321 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Wazdakka wrote: »
    Everyone sounds like you'd be so noble..
    I hope you guys find my wallet when I loose it.
    We hope you have €2,000 to lose and that we find it. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    listermint wrote: »
    Karma is a bitch..

    hand it in.

    :cool:

    Fcuk karma. I'd head straight to the local antiques shop & get myself that rare victorian porcelain doll ive had my eye on for the last few months.

    Cheeky litttle monkey she is.:)


    screaming sounds


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 539 ✭✭✭piby


    It depends on my own financial situation.

    If it was to happen to me now I'd hand it in with perhaps the hope of a reward tingling at the back of my mind. Nonetheless I could the self righteousness that would accompany being such a noble citizen and shove it in everybody's face :p

    If, however, I was struggling to provide for my family it might be a different story. It might be hard on the old conscience though if there was a picture of his family in there!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭Gang of Gin


    Considering the amount of cash I'd probably hand it in. A couple of years ago me and a mate were having a few pints in the Bleeding Horse and came across a wad of about 300 quid by the bar. I was tempted to pocket an easy twenty just to cover the few drinks but equally as tempted to hold onto it and get lashed for free, but my mate decided to leave it with the barman with details as we were on the move and weren't hanging around to see if anyone returned - I'm not sure why he did that, as I can only imagine what the barman did with it *thank you very much, fella!*


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Hand it in of course. I've found smaller sums before that I have handed in, wouldn't consider keeping it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭consultech


    A wallet with €2000 walking around cash in it?

    Financial loss is relative. I think we all know the answer.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Where exactly would you be handed this hypothetical 2,000 in to?


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