Would you take the wallet or give it back?

AnonoBoy · 04-02-2012 12:30PM

Funnily enough when there was more money around I would have been more inclined to keep it. Now that I'm a bit more strapped for cash I think I'm more conscious that other people are too so I would definitely give it back.

Of course maybe it's just that I'm growing up.

Novella · 04-02-2012 12:35PM

I would definitely give it back. Wouldn't even think for a second about taking something that wasn't mine.

boobar · 04-02-2012 12:48PM

whatsamsn wrote: »

You are walking along the street and some guy drops his wallet. You are in a position to take it. No one is going to see. Contents of wallet are unknown.

So what do you do?

(A) pick it up for yourself
or
(B) inform him he dropped his wallet and give it back.

Morality test time boards :pac:

I'd give it back every time.

I was walking down Grafton Street one day, and a guy dropped a large wad of notes out if his pocket.

I picked it up, and politely asked him if he had lost anything. He said no and looked at me like I was a complete nut and was actually quite rude. I had to persuade him to check his pockets.

I could have easily walked on when he said he hadn't lost anything, and I'd have cleaned up.

Abi · 04-02-2012 12:50PM

Give it back without hesitation. So many times I've copped people leaving wallets, purses, phones and bank cards behind. I would have a sh1t haemorrhage if I lost anything like that, do the right thing and give them the heads up.

df1985 · 04-02-2012 12:59PM

give it back, majority of people wouldnt carry wads of cash. its just a headache for people to cancel cards etc when they lose wallets.

I know people said dont mention to karma, but i found an ipad on the train at xmas and found the owner. recently lost my iphone and the person got it back to me. its the decnt thing to do!

Daniel S · 04-02-2012 01:08PM

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

I'd give it back but if I found a bundle of 50 euro notes on the street I would keep them.

That's a tricky one. If I knew who owned it I'd give it back straight away. I'd probably think of a way to let the gaurds know a sum of money was found, but I would be hanging on to the money if nobody calls about it.

languagenerd · 04-02-2012 01:21PM

I'd definitely give it back. People have done that sort of thing for me, so I'd always try my best to get anything I find back to its owner.

Lost my phone in college last year and the person who found it sent a text from it to the last person I'd texted, telling them that they were about to hand the phone to security desk in the Arts building and that I should go there to get it back. So nice of them, it had fallen out of a loose pocket and I wouldn't have known where to start looking for it!

So yeah, I'd do the same for anyone else.

5T3PH3N · 04-02-2012 01:51PM

Found a wallet with €2,500 in it when I was about 16, and gave it back, owner gave me a 50. About 2 weeks later I won €1,500.
I'd do it again even if I got no fifty or won the 1,5k cause it felt good handing it back!

Seachmall · 04-02-2012 01:57PM

5T3PH3N wrote: »

Found a wallet with €2,500 in it when I was about 16, and gave it back, owner gave me a 50. About 2 weeks later I won €1,500.
I'd do it again even if I got no fifty or won the 1,5k cause it felt good handing it back!

Do you know what else feels good?

Head from a €2,500/hour hooker.

You seriously missed out man.

Local-womanizer · 04-02-2012 02:07PM

I'd give it back. I wouldn't miss the contents of the wallet as I never had them.

It's a pretty ****ty thing to do considering if you seen the person just drop it.

Just because Karma doesn't exist it would still make you an arsehole for taking it.

audi a4 2008 · 04-02-2012 02:08PM

i was in my loved city (cork):D,just walking around when i was crossing the road when i got pushed from the back from a person rushing for the bus.
and with that his wallet fell on the ground,picked it up started to call out to him anyway got his attention he came back and snapped yes snapped it out of my hand. :mad:

no thanks no speech out of him at all.now he was a ungratefull git but at the same time it was his .i would allways hand in anything i find as i find you will be rewarded later in life:).

Tar.Aldarion · 04-02-2012 02:25PM

given them back before, would do again. Was hard enough as a kid when it was hundreds of pounds and I'd never seen so much

im invisible · 04-02-2012 02:28PM

I cant be the only one who thought 'Id take it and give it back'?

Johnny Foreigner · 04-02-2012 04:24PM

I would keep it.
His loss, my gain.
A man should take care of his wallet.
I found an iphone once, sold it for 300 Euro. Then I flew to Ibiza for the weekend, had a free night out.

goat2 · 04-02-2012 04:28PM

i would always err on the side of honesty, i would feel sorry for anyone who dropped their wallet, as they have cards. identity, driver licence in there,
i also believe in the saying,
what goes round, comes round

TheMilkyPirate · 04-02-2012 04:34PM

If the person was walking in front of me and they dropped it i'd call him and give it back, If i found a wallet in the street with money in it i'd keep it.

saa · 04-02-2012 05:55PM

I would give it back, I'm not looking for a few quid thats nothing compared to someones life that basically condensed into a wallet.

This has got me thinking a wallet I would go out of my way to give back but If I found a tenner on the ground I probably wouldn't bother if there was no there obviously I know thats terrible but the person probably wouldnt go to the gaurds, but then I thought you don't see [sober] people dropping notes anymore really do you.

dxhound2005 · 04-02-2012 06:00PM

saa wrote: »

I would give it back, I'm not looking for a few quid thats nothing compared to someones life that basically condensed into a wallet.

This has got me thinking a wallet I would go out of my way to give back but If I found a tenner on the ground I probably wouldn't bother if there was no there obviously I know thats terrible but the person probably wouldnt go to the gaurds, but then I thought you don't see [sober] people dropping notes anymore really do you.

Probably not but apparently thousands of euros are left every year in ATM's by absent minded people.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0516/aib.html

TheZohanS · 04-02-2012 06:03PM

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

I would keep it.
His loss, my gain.
A man should take care of his wallet.
I found an iphone once, sold it for 300 Euro. Then I flew to Ibiza for the weekend, had a free night out.

Hmmm...I hadn't completely made my mind up about you...but I have now.

johnty56 · 04-02-2012 06:09PM

I was going to edinburgh a few years ago, around 2002 when the euro had just come in, and I found a wallet in the airport with around 1500 in it and the boarding pass of its owner.. he was on the same flight as us. I asked someone working in airport where the security desk was so I could hand it in and they said I would have to go back out through security so, rather than do that I went to my departure gate and asked them to call the guys name so i could give it to him... they called a few times and he didnt come so I gave the wallet to the serviceair guy at the desk at the departure gate to give to the guy if he came as we had to get on the plane.. long and short of it , the dudes face lit up for that split second that he couldn't hide when he visualised the 'coke and hookers' weekend he was going to have.
I looked around the plane before we left, no empty seats so the owner of tjhe wallet obviously got the flight.. no smiling , relieved faces either.
I often wonder if he ever got the money:)

charlemont · 04-02-2012 06:10PM

I'd give it back but if the wallet was bulging I'd slyly mention I'm a bit poor in the hope that I would get a reward. I couldn't steal a wallet if I thought it belonged to some poor person I'd feel like ****.

Johnny Foreigner · 04-02-2012 06:42PM

TheZohan wrote: »

Hmmm...I hadn't completely made my mind up about you...but I have now.

Yes, I am a capitalist.

Oscars Well. · 04-02-2012 06:44PM

Of course I'd give the wallet back. I'd take out all the money first though.

Kirby · 04-02-2012 08:06PM

If somebody loses something personal like a phone or a watch or piece of jewellery....I would always return it. I have done in the past. This belongs to somebody. It has personal meaning to somebody and it always hurts to lose something you own.

Money though? I would probably keep it. Not a popular opinion perhaps but an honest one. The people who claim they would return the wallet......I find it interesting what they would do if a suitcase with a million quid in turned up at their door. Would they make an effort to return it or keep it.

I find moralists steadfast opinions on matters such as these changes somewhat when it becomes large sums of money....which tells it's own story.

PhlegmyMoses · 04-02-2012 08:14PM

I'd always try to return a wallet. I doubt the person gives much of a **** about the €50 note in there but the hassle of having to get bank cards, credit cards, possibly ID etc replaced.

Johnny Foreigner · 04-02-2012 09:23PM

Kirby wrote: »

If somebody loses something personal like a phone or a watch or piece of jewellery....I would always return it. I have done in the past. This belongs to somebody. It has personal meaning to somebody and it always hurts to lose something you own.

Money though? I would probably keep it. Not a popular opinion perhaps but an honest one. The people who claim they would return the wallet......I find it interesting what they would do if a suitcase with a million quid in turned up at their door. Would they make an effort to return it or keep it.

I find moralists steadfast opinions on matters such as these changes somewhat when it becomes large sums of money....which tells it's own story.

I don't believe you.
So if you found a Rolex watch you would hand it in to the Garda station?
Wise up.

Johnny Foreigner · 04-02-2012 09:30PM

My girlfriend found a 3 carat diamond solitaire engagement ring worth about 15,000 Euro. She handed it in to the local Garda station. Two weeks later the Guards phoned her saying the owner had got the ring back and was very grateful. That was it, no reward. More fool her. I told her to sell it, but no; she knew best and handed it in. She wished she had sold it now.

tdv123 · 04-02-2012 09:35PM

I had a dilema similar to this a few weeks ago. Not as bad a keeping a wallet but still a difficult decsion to make.

I had bought a roll, it came to like 3.50 I handed the shopkeeper a five euro note, she handed me back 46.50, she obviously must have thaught I handed her a 50 euro note.

Anyway I kept the money because I didnt want to make her feel stupid.

Mr. Presentable · 04-02-2012 09:38PM

Abi wrote: »

Give it back without hesitation. So many times I've copped people leaving wallets, purses, phones and bank cards behind. I would have a sh1t haemorrhage if I lost anything like that, do the right thing and give them the heads up.

Nice!

I have always handed up anything of that nature that I have found. I put myself in the mindset of the one who lost it and cold not do otherwise.

candy-gal1 · 04-02-2012 09:40PM

if i saw the person who dropped it/was looking for it i wouldnt have the heart to say nothing and keep it tbh, but if there was noone around then im going to be bad and say id keep it, i think.
thinking about it now makes me feel bad though, its not as if it was loose cash on the ground, it being a wallet its more like it belongs to someone else

Would you take the wallet or give it back?

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