If you found money

dxhound2005 · 28-04-2013 12:05PM

Maudi wrote: »

recently while tut tuting the american couple in front of me at the cash machine for taking so . long i found eighty quid.when they had finished..in the cash slot..i went after them to return said notes..man they were so happy..lesson..as a human ..dont take greedily anything you dont own.

Thousands of people leave money behind in ATM's. Here are two recent examples from the local papers.

http://www.independent.ie/regionals/carlowpeople/news/darcy-helps-hunt-for-atm-cash-owner-29028193.html

http://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/local/mystery-good-samaritan-returns-forgotten-atm-money-to-kildare-man-1-5014420

“The next thing I got a tap on the shoulder, and a woman said ‘you left that behind you’, giving me the money,” said Patrick.

“I was stunned, I still can’t get over it,” he added.

Why should Patrick have been stunned? Would he not have done the same himself in the same situation. Why would he expect anything less off others? The "Thank God there are still a few honest people left" attitude puzzles me, I don't remember any golden age when people were more honest.

Celly Smunt · 28-04-2013 12:17PM

If you find a wallet,keep the cash and hand in the wallet.The cash is your reward for saving her/him the hassle with bank cards etc etc

cloud493 · 28-04-2013 12:32PM

Keep it. I left my wallet on the bus last week, called the bus depot at clontarf, it was there. Went all the way to get it, someone had taken 30 quid out :pac:

Duvetdays · 28-04-2013 12:39PM

Found a purse left behind once in the little shop I worked in as a teenager. There was no contact number in it so rang the bank and gave her card number and asked could they ring her and tell her that her purse was in X shop. They were very nice and had no problem doing it.

The nicest thing was when she came in she had a thank you card for me with £20 in it and had tears in her eyes as she explained to me that she'd recently lost her son and all the pictures of him in her purse were her favourites and she carried them everywhere. She thought she'd never get them back and was just so grateful, didn't give a fiddlers about money, cards or her licence only her photos.

cuana · 28-04-2013 02:37PM

Twice I've misplaced my wallet and both times someone has been kind enough to get back to me. I'm ever grateful to them and returned the favor by giving them a thank you card with a small token for them.

Once Learning experience which angered me!! I work in retail one of our regular customers came in one day who stopped and picked up a bag on the road side so left it into the store. I've often handled lost goods if persons don't come back within a period of time I'd drop it into local Garda station many people often coming back to say thank you!

Anyhow it turns out the owner of the bag did return saying she thought she had dropped her bag while driving away from the store that morning it was in fact her bag I remembered her as I had personally served her myself and would have returned approx €30 in change. Sadly for her the contends of her bag were there including wallet but no the cash was gone. I thought nothing of it she was grateful to get her bag back much to my horror Gardaí arrived back later she had implied that I had taken €300 I was mortified & deeply insulted.

I had clearly seen her wallet earlier and I can tell you there wasn't that amount of cash there!! Also pretty hard to conceal etc! Regardless I also told her that it was another person who had dropped the bag in. She had also stated that she thought she had dropped it out of her car. She was told the circumstances when she collected the bag had elected not to tell the Gardaí this. I had to review CCTV proving she had indeed left the shop with her bag, show the return of the bag and show her original transaction with her wallet in full view of CCTV (grateful!). I also knew the fella that dropped the bag in so they were forced to go talk to him too needless to say I don't think they believed her that she even had that amount of cash on her either. :mad: A kind gesture by one man resulted in us been questioned I doubt if someone was kind enough to drop bag in they wouldn't have fcuken robbed the contents!

daithi1970 · 28-04-2013 02:46PM

UCDVet wrote: »

I found 50 euro. Naturally, I reported it as income so that I could properly pay taxes on it.

Anything less would be stealing!

Surely you should be paying capital gains tax rather than income tax:D

discus · 28-04-2013 03:33PM

cuana wrote: »

TI thought nothing of it she was grateful to get her bag back much to my horror Gardaí arrived back later she had implied that I had taken €300 I was mortified & deeply insulted.

Unfortunately, I suspect she was trying to fraud her insurance.

cuana · 28-04-2013 03:49PM

discus wrote: »

Unfortunately, I suspect she was trying to fraud her insurance.

yes its likely! but what did she expect of course they'd investigate, it was deeply humiliating! horrible person

stefan idiot jones · 28-04-2013 03:59PM

I found fifty euro in a book I had bought in a charity shop. It could have been there for years, almost definitely nothing to do with the shop so I kept it. Spent some of it back at the shop buying more books.

kerry4sam · 28-04-2013 04:11PM

Omar187 wrote: »

As the title says.
Say like IF you found some money outside, do you keep it?
I once found a tenner outside a chipper and was chuffed,
Not thinking of the person that lost it.
Thoughts folks.

Have found several wallets with cash & cards inside and all but one was returned to owner with assistance from the banks. The one that wasn't: I found a wallet at work with cards inside; phoned relevant bank who said they'd contact & inform person of where his wallet is. That was over 2months ago & wallet and cards still in drawer at work.

Found a 50euro note outside a supermarket one day; dropped it in to Customer Service who took my details. Phoned me a week later saying no-one had called enquiring and asked if I wanted to collect it

pebbles21 · 28-04-2013 04:26PM

Just about to walk in to a pub on xmas eve a few years ago,there on the ground outside, were four €50 notes stuck to the wet pavement...:eek:

Dived on them,and just as I was peeling them off the ground,this old woman from across the road started to shout out to me "heeer,heeer youngfella!!.....Ye dropped another one!!".waving another €50 note at me..

I said "Thanks very much,your very honest"took it off her and skipped into the pub...:D

wolfeye · 28-04-2013 04:37PM

A few years ago i lost my wallet with credits cards,atm card etc and about 60 euro cash.
I had'nt even realised i had lost it when the guy who found it tracked me down to my work place.
He told me his wife lost her purse before and he knew the hassle it caused with cancelling cards etc.
I offered the guy 20 euro reward and he insisted he didnt want it but i made him take it.
Anyway the next day a rainy day i was walking by the court house and there were about 20 members of the travelling community standing around outside talking about up comming cases.
Then i spotted a wet 20 euro stuck to the footpath directing in front of them.
I said to myself will i take it,there has to be a catch here,this is a set up.
This is too obvious.
Any way i put my foot on the 20 euro ,bend down and picked it up.
I was waiting for the whack on the back of the head or something.
But nope off i went with it and no one noticed.
I checked the note yup was genuine.
I guess it was karma for giving the 20 euro to the guy the previous day.

Katunga · 28-04-2013 04:41PM

When I was working at the time of the Galway races I fount a 50 note and 4 €20 notes and 2 fivers all a different locations through out the night.

If I found a wallet I would try to return it to its owner with all it's contents, but cash by its self without seeing someone drop it or looking for it, it's mine then.

Latchy · 28-04-2013 05:53PM

Cash on the floor and no obvious owner around it's mine but wallet or purse with ID in it I would return however, wallets returned to rightful owners are not always grateful or appreciated.

My OH remember when as a 12 year old ,she found a wallet on her street with a large amount of money with some ID inside and recognising the owners name as somebody who lived further down their road , she went and knocked on the door and the owner who without as much as a thank you, took it off her and just shut the door in her face .

When she explained to her dad what she had done with the wallet and the response of the neighbour he confronted the guy and told him in no uncertain terms ( to put it mildly ) ''he was a ungrateful bollix '' who should have shown a bit of gratitude towards his daughter who was only doing what she had been brought up to do and he didn't deserve to have his wallet returned .Of course yer man was all apologetic then ....but to late .

Eunan Plumb · 28-04-2013 08:36PM

Katunga wrote: »

When I was working at the time of the Galway races I fount a 50 note and 4 €20 notes and 2 fivers all a different locations through out the night.

If I found a wallet I would try to return it to its owner with all it's contents, but cash by its self without seeing someone drop it or looking for it, it's mine then.

I have to say that would be my approach too.....be a bit reluctant to hand in at the cop shop given the recent happenings in Balbriggan Gda Stn.

Only the tip of the iceberg I would say.....

tomboylady · 28-04-2013 11:04PM

I found a purse in the grounds of a hospital car park a few years ago. There was a fair sum of cash in it, as well as cards, photos, mementoes, etc. Handed it in at the front desk, gave my name and number and explained where I had found it. Thought no more about it. A couple of hours later I got a call from the elderly woman who owned the purse to thank me for being honest and handing it in. She was delighted to have it returned.

A few days later I was back at the hospital again and was walking past the desk when the receptionist called out to me. She recognised me and handed me an envelope. It was a thank you card with €50 inside from the owner of the purse to say thank you. It was such an unnecessary gesture on her behalf and then I felt great about handing it in in the first place.

cassid · 29-04-2013 01:30AM

When I was about 7, the school had us clean up the school grounds (days before health & safety) and I found £5.00, to a 7 year old many years ago that was serious money. Being the honest child I gave it to the teacher who told me she would drop it to the Garda station after work. Never saw the £5.00 again.
Next time I found money I kept my mouth shut and put into my pocket, and myself and friends overdosed on E numbers.

ColeTrain · 29-04-2013 01:36AM

I found €600 once. It was in a wallet left in some old mans back pocket on the bus.

oppenheimer1 · 29-04-2013 01:58AM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Thousands of people leave money behind in ATM's. Here are two recent examples from the local papers.

http://www.independent.ie/regionals/carlowpeople/news/darcy-helps-hunt-for-atm-cash-owner-29028193.html

http://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/local/mystery-good-samaritan-returns-forgotten-atm-money-to-kildare-man-1-5014420

“The next thing I got a tap on the shoulder, and a woman said ‘you left that behind you’, giving me the money,” said Patrick.

“I was stunned, I still can’t get over it,” he added.

Why should Patrick have been stunned? Would he not have done the same himself in the same situation. Why would he expect anything less off others? The "Thank God there are still a few honest people left" attitude puzzles me, I don't remember any golden age when people were more honest.

If they had left the cash in the drawer of the ATM after about 20 seconds the machine would have taken the cash back in and cancelled the transaction.

MaroonAndGreen · 29-04-2013 02:01AM

I'd definitley keep it

BetterThanThou · 29-04-2013 03:33AM

Depends, if I can easily identify the person who owns the money, for instance, finding a wallet or seeing someone in the area looking for it, then I'll give it back, or hand it in somewhere if it's a wallet. However, if I just find money on it's own, I'll keep it.

If you found money

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