Lost & Found; Would You or Wouldn't You?

DublinWriter · 13-09-2006 07:28PM

OP - I wouldn't worry about the old bag (no pun etc), just think of all the Karmic Club-Card points you collected.

pbsuxok1znja4r · 13-09-2006 07:35PM

^LMAO @ Ban Badges

Terry · 13-09-2006 08:31PM

this comes up every so often and i revel in the telling of the time i found a wallet with about €300 in it and no ID whatsoever and it was right outside my house.

damn right i kept it.

Brian Capture · 13-09-2006 08:37PM

julep wrote:

this comes up every so often and i revel in the telling of the time i found a wallet with about €300 in it and no ID whatsoever and it was right outside my house.

damn right i kept it.

hard man.

Terry · 13-09-2006 08:48PM

where do you get that idea from?
or are you just throwing out random insults?

i liked you better when you had your head stuck in a fence.

Dave! · 13-09-2006 08:56PM

The other day 3 girls handed in €20 to a manager in the cinema I work in, saying they found it in the screen. The manager told them that if it's not claimed in 2 weeks, they can keep it, but they insisted that it doesn't matter, they don't want the money.

Idiots.

Gone West · 13-09-2006 09:07PM

Lost & Found; Would You or Wouldn't You?

would I or wouldn't I what?
To prank call her on her own phone and give her abuse, or to not bother and simply flog it on straight away?
I would, yes.

DublinWriter · 13-09-2006 09:08PM

julep wrote:

this comes up every so often and i revel in the telling of the time i found a wallet with about €300 in it and no ID whatsoever and it was right outside my house.

damn right i kept it.

Really? The lack of any id/video library membership/Tesco ClubCard/Mastercard/Visa/Organ Donation Card/workplace swipe-card would probably suggest to me that that the wallet belonged to an O.A.P.

Drinks are on you then, and you can 'revel' us with the story all-over again.

I remember watching a documentary on the Airport Police in one of Florida's major airports in the late 1990's. 'Entrapment' as a law enforcement technique is legally acceptable in the USA, so what they did was place a purse with a small amount of cash inside in a public area of the airport.

If someone found it and 'walked', they arrested them.

When the documentary maker asked the Sergeant why they were doing this, the reply was 'well, if the finder didn't report it, they're basically a dishonest person and deserved to be arrested'.

To me they just looked like an airport police force with too much time on their hands.

But I think all that's changed post-9/11.

Terry · 13-09-2006 09:12PM

DublinWriter wrote:

Really? The lack of any id/video library membership/Tesco ClubCard/Mastercard/Visa/Organ Donation Card/workplace swipe-card would probably suggest to me that that the wallet belonged to an O.A.P.

Drinks are on you then, and you can 'revel' us with the story all-over again.

nah. my old man always had ID with him.
still. too late now. that was a couple of years back and that money is well and truly pissed up against a wall by me and my friends.

Dave! · 13-09-2006 09:13PM

DublinWriter wrote:

Really? The lack of any id/video library membership/Tesco ClubCard/Mastercard/Visa/Organ Donation Card/workplace swipe-card would probably suggest to me that that the wallet belonged to an O.A.P.

Drinks are on you then, and you can 'revel' us with the story all-over again.

I remember watching a documentary on the Airport Police in one of Florida's major airports in the late 1990's. 'Entrapment' as a law enforcement technique is legally acceptable in the USA, so what they did was place a purse with a small amount of cash inside in a public area of the airport.

If someone found it and 'walked', they arrested them.

When the documentary maker asked the Sergeant why they were doing this, the reply was 'well, if the finder didn't report it, they're basically a dishonest person and deserved to be arrested'.

To me they just looked like an airport police force with too much time on their hands.

But I think all that's changed post-9/11.

Surely the person who "walked", could just argue that they were going to give the purse into a police station rather than the airport authority. Is there a law about having to hand money into the nearest authority?

Setun · 13-09-2006 09:18PM

Found a rolex and about €50 sitting in the locker rooms of the golf club where I work a while back. My mate ran after the guy who left them behind, who just got in his car and proceeded to drive off.

Feck!n golfers. I'll rob a packet of pro v's on him next time.

snickerpuss · 13-09-2006 09:21PM

If i find anything i always give it back because i hope someone would do that for me.

I once lost my wallet, i checked the shop and they didn't have it so i had to cancel my credit cards.

Turns out this chick found it in the changing room and took it home with her, then looked up my surname in the phonebook and called all of them (theres only 3) til she found one who knew me. So my parents went and picked it up because they'd got the call at home when i was out.
Only thing was they checked everything was in it and i had condoms in there.

GAA widow · 13-09-2006 09:29PM

bad form on the rich b***h's part for not giving some kind of reward. my brother found a wallet and credit cards before and handed them into the bank - he got a really appreciative call from a woman who insisted on forwarding him a thank you card and 20 euro (big bucks for a 12 year old at the time!)

DublinWriter · 13-09-2006 09:42PM

DaveMcG wrote:

Surely the person who "walked", could just argue that they were going to give the purse into a police station rather than the airport authority. Is there a law about having to hand money into the nearest authority?

True, but as I wasn't in charge of the airport police in that particular Florida airport that carried out the sting operation I can't really dispute your point.

DublinWriter · 13-09-2006 09:48PM

On a related note, about 10 years ago I was walking down Lincoln Place in Dublin towards Merrion Sq. when I noticed a 'chavtastic' guy about ten paces in front of me ducked down and picked up something from the pavement.

What was it? He proceeded to go postal. It was a bank-fresh one-inch thick bundle of 50 punt notes still fresh in a bank wrapper.

He started leaping about the place, going "look what I found" and "I bet you wish you had been here 5 seconds earlier Bud!".

A tazer, a tazer, my kingdom for a tazer. There must have been at least 10K worth of punts in that bundle.

theTinker · 13-09-2006 09:51PM

Im impressed with you OP.

I ALWAYS give the stuff back and refuse to accept any reward out of a matter of principal. That 20k woman though is a complete washout of a person.
Ive had people go on for 15 minutes about how thankful they are that i gave them back a ****ty phone or something, showing a nice level of gratitude makes it completely worthwhile imo. Usually its the more personal things like phone numbers n stuff in the phone but i found a wallet once with 160€ in it. Found the person over the next few days who it belonged to. She was SHOCKED that it was all there and really grateful. Offered a reward but as i said i dont take them, I feel great enough about being decent to another person. Ive never had someone not show it meant alot so i dont consider graditude lost at all.

theTinker · 13-09-2006 09:56PM

DublinWriter wrote:

I remember watching a documentary on the Airport Police in one of Florida's major airports in the late 1990's. 'Entrapment' as a law enforcement technique is legally acceptable in the USA, so what they did was place a purse with a small amount of cash inside in a public area of the airport.

If someone found it and 'walked', they arrested them.

When the documentary maker asked the Sergeant why they were doing this, the reply was 'well, if the finder didn't report it, they're basically a dishonest person and deserved to be arrested'.

I could understand if they left a fake baby or something as bait, at least you could catch real criminals but a purse is just absolute nonsense

Trinity · 13-09-2006 10:06PM

What a waste of time and resources baiting dishonest people. They didnt exactly steal it could they charge them?

Found a purse once full of money, handed into shopping centre security, left name and number never heard a thing.

another time found car keys still in the boot of a car in ballymun shopping centre, handed them into security, they chased me next time i was in the shops to say the guy was so so grateful and he left ten euro for me. I was mortified so spent the tenner on cakes for the security guys.

lad walking in front of me on way into shop in ballymun dropped 60 euro from his pocket a while back i called him and gave it back, he was shocked, he said oh my god you are so honest!!

wouldnt have it any other way, he couldve being buying food or medicine for his kids or something is the way i see it!!.

Dave! · 13-09-2006 10:11PM

he coulda been buying heroin! lol

Trinity · 13-09-2006 10:16PM

DaveMcG wrote:

he coulda been buying heroin! lol

God dammit i never thought of that. Still though, i'm not too sure that supervalue are stocking that just yet

MarkR · 13-09-2006 10:36PM

Was in vegas a couple of weeks ago and found a mobile under one of the slot machines when heading back to my room. There was a attendant nearby so I handed it to him. Walked by five minutes later to see an old lady giving him a nice tip for getting her phone back. :rolleyes: Karma baby!

Twenty quid on the ground in front of some young mum. She was wrestling with her kids and shopping and could see she was about to loose more, so reckoned it was hers.

Saying that, years ago I found 40 dollars when working in the airport just sitting there. Kept that.

Oh, and used porn. Left that.

astrofool · 13-09-2006 10:40PM

littlebug wrote:

I found a 2 year old child outside (yes outside) a shopping centre a couple of weeks ago. I got someone to call the security people and sat down and chatted to the wee one til her mother and aunt arrived. The aunt was friendly and polite and thanked me while the mother just grunted, lifted her and walked off.

The wee girl was safe anyway.. I suppose that's the important thing.

Was there an ID on her? I'm sure julep would have kept the child

Having worked in a garage, i'd always be finding wallets and keys, and would always try and return them to the owner, most were thankful, and just remember that those that aren't are going to die as*holes and there's nothing they can do about it.

Guy:Incognito · 13-09-2006 10:54PM

My dad dropped €700 out of the car door a few months back, it was in an envelope and was outside his local (he gets his dinner there after work 3 times a week as his g/f works there). It is 60 yards from his front door and he knows everyone as it's the street hegrew up on aswell. It was his pay packet and had his name written on it. Needless to say he never saw or heard of it again. Obviously not a lot of honest people around, even ones that know you.

smallpaws · 14-09-2006 12:07AM

I found a diamond ring once at a gas station. I turned it back in to the guy who worked there, and heard later that the owner was shocked that I had not kept it. It felt great, she said to the attendant that it had great sentimental value and she was sure it was gone forever and could not believe she got it back.

I once left a handbag in a classroom (only seven hundred bucks in cash in it, credit cards, check book, etc) and found out later from the campus's incredibly LAX security department who couldn't be bothered to look for roughly a half an hour though I told them the room number and the building it was in was DIRECTLY ACROSS the street from their office, that a young girl had come in with it and said she wanted to make sure whoever left it got it back as that was a lot of money and I must have really been worried. (Correct!) She also said, and this was sort of sad, that she didn't want to leave her name as the finder as she was afraid that she might be returning money to someone who would claim there was even more in my wallet before she got it. Sad, really!
I would have happily genuflected for the rest of the day in gratitude, I was scared to death to lose that much money.

CombatCow · 14-09-2006 12:10AM

Found a crappy old phone on the bus on the way into work, waited for the owner to call ( which he did ) and spent my lunchbreak that day going into the city center to return it. he was dead chuffed he got it back...as he was a poor student apparantly, lol.

Tho i lost my wallet on a dublin bus..... realised after 5 mins after i got off that it was mising, so i asked the driver of the nearest bus to contact the bus i had been on. alas there was no sign of my wallet, some dishonest fekker was 80 euro richer and also now had my voucher for a free 12'' apache pizza...that was the real kick to the balls

Id allways do my best to return whats not mine anyway....

CC

hairyfairy00 · 14-09-2006 12:16AM

My sis left her wallet in the bathrooms of a supermarket in Texas (she lives in the States), she didn't miss it until we had driven for 2 hrs and decided to stop for petrol, so we drove back but couldn't find it anywhere in the store.

Anyway about 3 days later a package arrived at the house, when we opened it out popped her wallet with a note saying " Sorry but i had to take out $3 to cover the postage".
It's good to know that even in a country as big as the U.S that people can still be so honest

Kastro · 14-09-2006 01:02AM

she prob didnt even realise it was gone...
ida nicked it

14-09-2006 05:30AM

Raskolnikov wrote:

The girlfriend was out doing some shopping recently. As she went to retrieve a trolley from the bay, she noticed a handbag on the ground. After opening up the expensive Louis Vuitton bag she found a wallet filled with credit cards, about €2,000, passport and numerous other valuable items.

You did the right thing by returning it to her. Not only would I have thanked you, but had I been this lady, I would have taken you two for a night on the town. After that, I would have wanted to stay in touch, cause you two are good people to know.

Muzzy · 14-09-2006 06:08AM

For a long time I did return what I found but rarely got any graditude for my actions.....

......The next couple times I kept what ever I found.

Was in a pub in London and lost my phone, the staff rang my cousin, the only UK number in the phone book and I got it back, I made sure I bought a round for all the bar staff and told the girl to keep the change(She was a feek!!)

Anyway, after that, I realised how lucky I was to get the mobile I always look for the owner of anything that I find........and I'm sorry but I will always take a fiver out of a wallet for a pint for myself.

Zillah · 14-09-2006 07:44AM

DublinWriter wrote:

I remember watching a documentary on the Airport Police in one of Florida's major airports in the late 1990's. 'Entrapment' as a law enforcement technique is legally acceptable in the USA, so what they did was place a purse with a small amount of cash inside in a public area of the airport.

If someone found it and 'walked', they arrested them.

When the documentary maker asked the Sergeant why they were doing this, the reply was 'well, if the finder didn't report it, they're basically a dishonest person and deserved to be arrested'.

To me they just looked like an airport police force with too much time on their hands.

That sounds like absolute nonesense. Entrapment is not legal in the US and such a project would be a complete waste of time and be completely unenforceable. I wouldn't be suprised if you dreamed it.

Lost & Found; Would You or Wouldn't You?

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