Would you hand it back?

pebbles21 · 11-01-2012 01:55AM #1

Lost my wallet in a Knightsbridge bar last week with cash,credit cards,driving licence etc in it and never seen it again,I did ask the next day but no sign of it..

So just wondered if you found a purse,wallet with the persons name and address clearly enclosed in it ..would you be honest and contact them or keep any cash and feck the rest away?

Me ..if it was just cash i found and nothing else then its fair game,but if the owners name is there i would hand it back without a doubt..

starbelgrade · 11-01-2012 01:57AM

I would hold it for ransom. Every day that I didn't get the ransom, I would chop off part of a credit card & send it to the owner in the post.

nix84 · 11-01-2012 01:58AM

Definately. I just know my conscience would gnaw at me if I didn't.

44leto · 11-01-2012 01:59AM

Yeah I would, I have done.

Agricola · 11-01-2012 01:59AM

The tone of AH is so downtrodden lately, I expected this thread to be about Ireland and the British!

Sl!mCharles · 11-01-2012 01:59AM

next time something bad happened to me I'd blame my not handing the wallet....karma yaknow

Guill · 11-01-2012 01:59AM

I would hand it back, minus the cash of course.

superstoner90 · 11-01-2012 02:00AM

Money: Finders keepers kinda thing.
Wallet with details: Id have to hand it in.
Wallet with out details: take the money and pbin the wallet, Unles it was real leather!

joshrogan · 11-01-2012 02:01AM

Yes for fear that if I didn't do it then I'd be catapulted into an Irish spin-off of My Name Is Earl and I'd eventually have to pay you back somehow, better to just get it over with by giving it straight back to you.

MungBean · 11-01-2012 02:03AM

I'd take cash and think no more of it but if there was a name and face to go with it I'd do the right thing and get their stuff back to them.

Opics · 11-01-2012 02:03AM

I would hand it back because I am a decent member of society that was raised well by my parents

minus the cash, of course

Vain · 11-01-2012 02:05AM

I would hand it back.

NomadicMe · 11-01-2012 02:06AM

Totally would- had my wallet stolen out of my bag- came back to me, bar the cash. Was so happy, even though I had already cancelled all the cards and replaced everything else!

Hope you find your wallet!

44leto · 11-01-2012 02:06AM

I can never understand people going out on the tear and bringing their wallets or their purses with almost their life in it.

When I am going out I bring cash only and more then enough to get me through the night, \i think that is sensible.

starbelgrade · 11-01-2012 02:06AM

Opics wrote: »

I would hand it back because I am a decent member of society that was raised well by my parents

You wouldn't steal a wallet, but I've seen your post history & I really don't know how can you live with the shame...

Opics wrote: »

I have been living in a rented house since September 1st and we don't have a tv license.

D1stant · 11-01-2012 02:07AM

Id make a thong out of the wallet, eat the cash and use the credit cards to get photos developed to send back to you. Mmmm

I read in a Finnair inflight mag about 10 years ago that as an experiment they dropped 10 wallets (cash,cards, ID) in Helsinki and monitored what was returned. All of it apparently

Badgermonkey · 11-01-2012 02:07AM

Knightsbridge eh?

Russian oligarchs, Ukranian hookers and playboy Sheikhs.

Pure class.

Yakult · 11-01-2012 02:07AM

I would post it back to the rightful owner, minus the money for postage tho

Larianne · 11-01-2012 02:10AM

Money on the ground - finders keepers.

Money in a wallet with someone's name etc in it - nope. I'd try returning it to them.

RickRoll · 11-01-2012 02:10AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

You wouldn't steal a wallet, but I've seen your post history & I really don't know how can you live with the shame...

You've way too much time on you're hands, is it because all of your unpaid interns are doing all of the work for you? No wonder you can afford to drive an Astra. :pac:

Dublinstiofán · 11-01-2012 02:12AM

Definitely, because somebody did it for me once.

I got supa pissed at a lock in, headed to Zatoon's for a Kebab and left my bag
at the taxi rank on Dame street where i sat down to eat my kebab. Didn't even
realize it was missing until about 3pm the next day when i went looking for it.

Got a call from the Gards a week later saying i could collect it from Rathmines
Garda station. Was dead chuffed to get the bag back with all my college notes
in it and they were even good enough to leave my wireless headphones.
Wallet however was gone but i didn't mind that there was no cash in it and i
had already cancelled all my cards.

Cops must have gone to the trouble of calling the college as my name and
course code was on one of the books.

Kidchameleon · 11-01-2012 02:13AM

If it was an Irish persons wallet, then of course I'd give it back. If it was a British person, I'd burn it with the money inside

Babybuff · 11-01-2012 02:13AM

I always do. I find a lot of others peoples stuff in my line of work, usually wads of cash that they carelessly leave around and always put it somewhere safe for them.

admiralofthefleet · 11-01-2012 02:13AM

knightsbridge as in the arlo?

it was gone before it even hit the floor sunshine

pebbles21 · 11-01-2012 02:15AM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

knightsbridge as in the arlo?

it was gone before it even hit the floor sunshine

Yep,kinda thought that myself

D1stant · 11-01-2012 02:20AM

Dublinstiofán wrote: »

Got a call from the Gards a week later saying i could collect it from Rathmines
Garda station. Was dead chuffed to get the bag back with all my college notes in it .

p.s. your college notes aint worth stealing

zenno · 11-01-2012 02:28AM

pebbles21 wrote: »

Me ..if it was just cash i found and nothing else then its fair game,but if the owners name is there i would hand it back without a doubt..

If there was an address with the wallet I would just call the person and give it to them. I would hate to have lost my wallet with driving licence and everything else including money that i hardly have so I would give it back no problem.

Bluefox21 · 11-01-2012 02:33AM

Don't lose all hope. I found a wallet a couple of weeks back with a name and address but no phone number. Wasn't bothered calling out to the house but put it in the post and sent it to the address..

Dublinstiofán · 11-01-2012 02:35AM

D1stant wrote: »

p.s. your college notes aint worth stealing

Courier bag and wireless headphones worth €150 were though!

superstoner90 · 11-01-2012 03:13AM

Kidchameleon wrote: »

If it was an Irish persons wallet, then of course I'd give it back. If it was a British person, I'd burn it with the money inside

previous user · 11-01-2012 03:21AM

I've found three wallets in the last ten years all containing many credit cards and plenty of cash ,I've returned all of them to the Gardai, (I can only imagine the anxiety it causes a person who loses their wallet) the last one I found was in December a couple of days before Christmas, fingers crossed for a reward

Would you hand it back?

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