Trying to do the right thing

SirIrish

I found a purse over the weekend and all that was in the purse was a load of money and a couple of tesco club cards. So with no I.D. in the purse I called the tesco clubcard number and told them the story basically I found the purse and wanted to get it back to the owner and could they give me a contact number or address. He sounded all interested and asked for the numbers on the cards ( there were 2) and as soon as I gave him the numbers he said sorry can't give you that information give it to the gardai. What a gob****e all he was interested in was canceling the cards. I'm not giving it to the gardai because of the amount of money in it and well let's just say I'd be amazed if it made it to the person. Any idea's??

funk-you

stick up a couple of posters saying a purse was found and if anyone can tell you the amount of money and what cards were inside give it back to them. if its not claimed wait a month then go spending.

Lump

Yea, do what Funk-you said, if you give it to the cops, they'll say it's yours after a month, but I doubt anyone every gets the item.

John

Sleipnir

Lump wrote:

Yea, do what Funk-you said, if you give it to the cops, they'll say it's yours after a month, but I doubt anyone every gets the item.

John

I thought it was still "a year and a day" before they give it to you?

Baz_

The data protection act bars the man in tesco from giving you that information, however if you give it to the gardai they can find out, the gardai may even decide that you're a good enough soul to give you the address or number so you can contact the owner.

If you don't trust the gardai, bring a witness with you when you leave it with them, letting them know that you know exactly what is in the purse.

I think the man in Tesco is right, and if you put up posters you'll get every nutjob in the place ringing you.

Cactus Col

well .... if the chap from tesco had access to the information, he could have offered to call her, and give her your contact details.

Kingsize

the gardai will give you a reciept detailing everything in the wallet, i found a wallet when i was a kid & got to keep it a year & a day later complete with the £ 25!!!& as grandpa simpson would tell you- back in those days it was a lot of money!!!!!
mind you i found a german passport a few years ago & tried to do the right thing - the gards in the station were just C-u-n-ts
(i ended up giving it to a motorcycle cop)

Beruthiel

Cactus Col wrote:

well .... if the chap from tesco had access to the information, he could have offered to call her, and give her your contact details.

I would call him back and ask him to do that
also
if I lost my wallet, my first call would be to the cop shop in the hopes that some kind soul might have dropped it in.

Kernel

Blow it all on shoes and cocaine?

drunkenfool

screw buying shoes, blow it all on booze AND cocaine...
how much cash are we talking here.
0-100 a
100-500 b
600-1000 c
1000-more d

if its anything passed c, keep the cash, its their own fault for carrying that much without id.

**** it, if its a, b, c or d, KEEP IT!!!
KEEP THE CASH!!

monkeyfudge

I don't use a club card myself...

But doesn't it print the your name on the till reciepts when you use it?

You should try the club card out in Tescos and see what's printed on the reciept.

MorningStar

SirIrish wrote:

I'm not giving it to the gardai because of the amount of money in it and well let's just say I'd be amazed if it made it to the person. Any idea's??

While I am no fan for the service they provide they are genrally more trustworth than your average joe. They probably won't contact Tesco to follow up but the person might find the purse/wallet if they contact the Gardai. They will also give you a receipt so if it is not collected the money becomes yours. It is both the legal and moral thing to do.

MrVestek

Nah as far as I'm aware, it just prints the card's ID and how many points were earned on that receipt.

Flukey

With money involved it is probably not a good idea to put posters up. You'd get all sorts of weird callers. Anyway, even the genuine person may not know exactly how much was in it. Tesco people cannot give that information out. Genuine as you may be, they cannot give personal details out by law, so the guy was only doing his job. Either drop it into the nearest Tesco, at their customer service desk, or give it to the Gardai. If you don't want to do either of those, instead of spending the money on yourself, give it to a charity. They are all looking for money for Niger at present, or you could give to some other cause. You'll have lost nothing and you will have done a good deed, which seems to be your intentions anyhow.

Le Rack

monkeyfudge wrote:

I don't use a club card myself...

But doesn't it print the your name on the till reciepts when you use it?

You should try the club card out in Tescos and see what's printed on the reciept.

the name should be on the clubcard, you have to sign the back of it, signature security and all

impr0v

Shoes and cocaine get my vote.

I found a wallet on the street before with id and the whole lot in it plus some cash, bank cards and *JACKPOT* a pin number. Fun was had taxing that person's stupidity.

karlh

impr0v wrote:

Shoes and cocaine get my vote.

I found a wallet on the street before with id and the whole lot in it plus some cash, bank cards and *JACKPOT* a pin number. Fun was had taxing that person's stupidity.

i hope you're joking.

MrVestek

karlh wrote:

i hope you're joking.

So do I. I had my wallet stolen quite recently, you're the kind of scumbag that this country seems to be full of these days. I say stolen, I left it at the atm quite forgetfully and went back only a minute later for it to be gone. Not that I still expected it to be there, thankfully I had put my bank card and money from the withdrawal in my pocket at the time for whatever strange reason.

bush

Finders keepers, looser weepers

Rabies

I would have just held the money for myself. Any cards credit/bank I probably would have destroyed, the owner would cancel them anyway. Drivers licence or passport would have gone in to a postbox.
After alll that, I would go an spend my hard earned money.

Lump

To be honest, I'd keep it.

John

Baz_

tbh I wouldn't post here if I found it.

But fair play to sir irish for trying the light side of the force.

Rabies

But the dark side gets to spend the money

MrVestek

bush wrote:

Finders keepers, looser weepers

I wonder why boards has to be full of so much juvenility sometimes.

Mossy Monk

if i found something like that, with no id of any kind i'd probably keep it

super_furry

bush wrote:

Finders keepers, looser weepers

Rubbish if you can get the wallet back to it's rightfull owner and you choose not to, then you're a thief.

StupidLikeAFox

...or just lucky.

Im so broke at the moment id prob take the money, but if i didnt have any money worries id hand it in.

Flukey

The person that lost it may be the person with the money worries.

derek27

i have lost money on countless occaisions throughout the years as i'm sure many other people have, sometimes very substantial sums, and on some occaisions with contact details in the wallet too, and i never gotten it back by anybody. if there were contact details, i'd most definately give it back to the original owner, whether they need it or not, but i think i'd be classing this one as something to brighten up my day... a tax-free cash prize you might call it, with the thought in my head hat goes around, comes around.

Kernel

Flukey wrote:

instead of spending the money on yourself, give it to a charity.

**** that, Live8 sorted all that crap out, no way I'll give to charity anymore.

I must confess that before I was into shoes and cocaine, I did find a wallet in a pub I worked in. The pub was an oul lads place, so I thought it might be a pensioners, so I gave it back, cash and all. It was an old guy, so I'm glad I did. But to OP, maybe God wanted *you* to have that cash, so He initiated a sequence of events that ended with someone He wanted to punish - losing their money. The meek shall inherit the earth my friends.

SirIrish

There is over 400 euro in it about 460 or 470 . I still have it and I guess I'll go to the gardai with it. I quiet honestly just don't trust them which I guess is a sad state of affairs when ye can't trust the "law" :mad:

Victor

Take it to the cop shop, get receipt.

I understand you are legally entitled to a cash reward of 5%.

Kernel wrote:

But to OP, maybe God wanted *you* to have that cash, so He initiated a sequence of events that ended with someone He wanted to punish - losing their money. The meek shall inherit the earth my friends.

God is testing you.

Dizzyblabla

I found a wallet last year stumbling home and picked it up... It was full of ID's and bank cards and €27.37 (I know the exact amount because the garda counted it all in front of me and gave me the receipt for it too).
Funnily, I didn't give the garda permission to give the girl my number, but she still called that evening to say thanks and that she hadn't even realised she'd lost it when the guards called her!
Hand it in, you'll feel better for it...

StonedParadoX

bloody hell
400 euros ?.. no ID = keeps

i have a habit of stealing so.. im not a very good citizen and most likely a thief in that muppets eyes

IceHawk

StonedParadoX wrote:

i have a habit of stealing so.. im not a very good citizen and most likely a thief in that muppets eyes

Actually, if you have a habit of stealing, you are a thief, in anyone's eyes.

Anyway, it's probably for the best if you bring it to the garda station. There's no doubt that it has been missed with that much money in it.

Rb

Unless you can't afford food right now i'd say bring it to the gardaí.
Makes you wonder why someone would be carrying so much cash around though..

Santa Claus

You have to bring it to the gardai...That could have been someones holiday money, etc....

Also, the days of stuff going missing in Garda stations is long gone, they are actually quite professional now..everything logged in triplicate and all that !

(Having said that I think Beruthiels idea about ringing tesco and asking them to get the owner of the clubcard to ring you is a good idea so you can tell them the gardai have it)

OLDYELLAR

I found a wallet when I worked in spar , the woman came back collected it an asked who found it , she wanted to give me a reward but another girl working there pretended to be me an pocketed me reward , dont even know how much it was , the sneaky cow kept denying it even though she was seen.
yea try tesco again an try get them to contact the person or something , ya really should hand it in to the guards though , like its not fair just keepin it an postin up about it while somebody else could be really strapped at the minute due to loosing a holiday deposit or insurance money or something.

Baz_

OLDYELLAR wrote:

like its not fair just keepin it an postin up about it while somebody else could be really strapped at the minute due to loosing a holiday deposit or insurance money or something.

Wow! I'd say you could give God a guilt trip, I nearly cried when I read that.

OLDYELLAR

yea but like , they might a needed that money for something , it really should a been handed into the guards or at least put up a sign or something.

Flukey

A sign will attract all sorts of chancers. That Gardaí or Tesco is your only line or charity, as I suggested before. I found one once and got it back to its owner, who was just a young lad, but very grateful for my honesty. If you are looking to do the right thing, then that is enough reward. The people here suggesting that they'd go and spend the money, would probably be in here complaining about some skanger off spending their money, if they lost their wallet.

GOAT_BOY

if there was id in it, i'd bring it back.. but the gob****es couldn't even do that so i'd definitely be keeping it.. however, you do have a choice, go into tescos and get them to ring the owner..

improv - if you're not joking then you're an ass, but that doesn't mean i have any sympathy for the owner of the wallet who left their pin no. with their atm card:rolleyes: they deserved what they got!