£60k found floating in waterway!!

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Ignoring the fact most of the notes were burnt, would you hand it in?
This bit surprised me;

"If the money cannot be reunited with a legitimate owner then it will become the subject of a further court forfeiture order."

I always thought that if no owner was found any money, or object for that matter would then be "Finders keepers" ?
Proves how wrong you can be huh?
What that does do IMHO, is encourage people to not hand things in!

I once found a £20 note on the floor in Tesco's, and took it to the customer services point, they just said, "oh...thanks" and took if off me nothing more said!!!
Didn't ask for my name or anything!!
I now wonder what happened to it.
Might ring 'em and ask them their policy on found items, especially money.
 
Yeh, I'd hand it in. If not you're a thief. Fact!! Honesty costs f*** all!!
 
BRASH said:
Yeh, I'd hand it in. If not you're a thief. Fact!! Honesty costs ILIKEBARBIEDOLLS all!!
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This :thumbs:

A couple of years ago I dropped my wallet out of my pocket as getting out of my car, in not exactly the most salubrious part of the city, when I got home I phoned the police to report it as it had my national insurance card, my drivers licence and bank cards plus cash etc...amazingly it was handed into the police the following day completely intact :thumbs: I only wish the police could have given me the details of who handed it in as I'd have loved to reward there honesty :thumbs:
 
Another, similar, recent story here. The upshot - a builder renovating a house finds £18K stashed in bundles in a kitchen cabinet. Hands it in to police. Police can't find the owner but because they find minute traces of cocaine on some of the notes decide the money must be the proceeds of crime and keep it! Builder gets nothing.
 
Spuff said:
Another, similar, recent story here. The upshot - a builder renovating a house finds £18K stashed in bundles in a kitchen cabinet. Hands it in to police. Police can't find the owner but because they find minute traces of cocaine on some of the notes decide the money must be the proceeds of crime and keep it! Builder gets nothing.
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I'm sure I read a statistic many years ago that a surprisingly high percentage of bank notes have a trace of narcotics of them :lol: :eek:
 
Spuff said:
Another, similar, recent story here. The upshot - a builder renovating a house finds £18K stashed in bundles in a kitchen cabinet. Hands it in to police. Police can't find the owner but because they find minute traces of cocaine on some of the notes decide the money must be the proceeds of crime and keep it! Builder gets nothing.
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I think you'll find Proceeds of Crime money is NOT kept by the Police but goes to the Treasury!!
 
BRASH said:
I think you'll find Proceeds of Crime money is NOT kept by the Police but goes to the Treasury!!
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No s*** Sherlock :rolleyes:

And there's me thinking the old bill would be sat round a table divvying it up.
 
Spuff said:
No tummy mud Sherlock :rolleyes:

And there's me thinking the old bill would be sat round a table divvying it up.
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Well state the facts correctly then:rolleyes:

I've no idea what tummy mud means is it similar to jog on?:)
 
BRASH said:
Well state the facts correctly then:rolleyes:
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It's called paraphrasing - the detail was contained in the link that I considerately included for the pedants amongst us.

I didn't type tummy mud, I typed s*** although I can see how tummy mud might be derived from that. :thumbs:
 
neil_g said:
tummy mud = brown stuff that starts in your stomach.. ;)
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I figured. Certainly plenty of that spoken on here at times and some tummy mud heids an' awe;)
 
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MWHCVT said:
This :thumbs:

A couple of years ago I dropped my wallet out of my pocket as getting out of my car, in not exactly the most salubrious part of the city, when I got home I phoned the police to report it as it had my national insurance card, my drivers licence and bank cards plus cash etc...amazingly it was handed into the police the following day completely intact :thumbs: I only wish the police could have given me the details of who handed it in as I'd have loved to reward there honesty :thumbs:
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I`m surprised it didn`t automatically fly back to your house with all the Moths that were in it Matt :D
 
u8myufo said:
I`m surprised it didn`t automatically fly back to your house with all the Moths that were in it Matt :D
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Oh, oh. Speaking of tummy mud heids:p
 
u8myufo said:
I`m surprised it didn`t automatically fly back to your house with all the Moths that were in it Matt :D
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Amazing really :) the moths had gone on annual leave back to their first home down in Bath ;)
 
Have to say I would rescue what I can and keep. Call it karma, but at times I have 'done the right thing' and its bitten me so am now more cynical and will take an opportunity like this. DIfferent story if it was a wallet I found, would always try to chase owner or hand in (unless it was the CEO of an energy company!)
 
cambsno said:
Have to say I would rescue what I can and keep. Call it karma, but at times I have 'done the right thing' and its bitten me so am now more cynical and will take an opportunity like this. DIfferent story if it was a wallet I found, would always try to chase owner or hand in (unless it was the CEO of an energy company!)
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Not really a different story. Theft is theft!! Two wrongs don't make a right blah, blah, blah!!
 
I stole a 5p carrier bag from Morrisons today! :lol:

Actually, I've done that more than once :exit:
 
Eddzz!! said:
I stole a 5p carrier bag from Morrisons today! :lol:

Actually, I've done that more than once :exit:
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Go to Asda, they give them away free.

I've stolen a few fair maidens hearts.
 
BRASH said:
Not really a different story. Theft is theft!! Two wrongs don't make a right blah, blah, blah!!
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Well it is different. I mean, if you found £1 would you keep it? Probably but that is still theft.
 
cambsno said:
Well it is different. I mean, if you found £1 would you keep it?
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No I certainly would not as a matter of principal. Like I said theft is theft, regardless of the amount.
 
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Well it is different. I mean, if you found £1 would you keep it? Probably but that is still theft.
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If i found £1 (or any small ammount clearly not worth handing in to the police) I'd chuck it in a 'help for heroes' bucket , or other similar collecting tin

If i found a large ammount i'd definitely hand it in - apart from the fact that it could be on the up and up and be reclaimed by the rightful owner, if it was proceeds of crime would you really want to keep it and risk its owners coming looking (a la 'shallow grave' )
 
Regarding that article itself, I've heard of a river bank but this isn't what I had in mind.
 
I found close to 800 euros in the park (no wallet...loose notes) bout 4 years ago.
Who was I supposed to give it to?
Did I keep it? Yes
did I exchange it for GBP? yes.
Do I feel guilt? Not in the slightest.
 
viv1969 said:
I found close to 800 euros in the park (no wallet...loose notes) bout 4 years ago.
Who was I supposed to give it to?
Did I keep it? Yes
did I exchange it for GBP? yes.
Do I feel guilt? Not in the slightest.
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Are you a Thief. Yes!!o_O
 
BRASH said:
Are you a Thief. Yes!!o_O
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Oh I'm sorry......You must have mistaken me for someone who cares.
My question stands.
Who was I supposed to hand the cash in to?
 
viv1969 said:
Oh I'm sorry......You must have mistaken me for someone who cares.
My question stands.
Who was I supposed to hand the cash in to?
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Your duty id to hand it to the Police. The fact you don't care makes it worse!!
 
As an aside.....my brother is a police officer of 30 years.
His advice was "for heavens sake don't hand it to the police"
 
See above.
And yes, you'd have handed it to the police too, right?
 
If you found something, such as £1 in the street - it is not theft as you have not taken it away from someone and there is no way possible of tracing the previous owner (unless you say them drop it.)

I have knowingly taken advantage of Tesco's "double the difference" offer in their T&C's on every customer service desk, whereby if the shelf price is lower than till price they give you double the difference? Am I stealing from them? No. I am playing to their T&C's and accepting their offer to put wrong the right.
 
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