What would you do if you found a £20 note?

What would you do if you found a £20 note?

  • yes keep it

    Votes: 82 87.2%

  • no hand it in somewhere

    Votes: 12 12.8%
  • Total voters
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I just read on a thread that if you find money on the street and keep it then it is "theft by finding".

So if you were walking along the street and saw a £20 note would you keep it?

I would without even thinking twice, finder keepers, losers weepers!
 
A £20 on the floor, with 0.00001% chance of finding the owner. In the pocket it goes.

If there was someone nearby, walking away from a cash machine for example, or it was something identifiable, then of course try and return it or hand it in. But you have to be realistic.
 
I would hand it in to the nearest bookies.
 
If I saw a little old lady drop it then I would give it back to her, other than that, keep it. Never happens to me though, the odd 1p is all I ever find (and I do keep it:lol:).
 
£20 could be the end of the world to the person who lost it, hand it in.
 
I found £200 sticking out a cash machine once handed it in to the bank (should have took it to the police) heard nothing. But I've found loads of money whether it's a quid or 20 quid always kept it *** the chance the owner is gonna come back are slim I've also lost money aswell do it's all balence.
 
as I said in the other thread about finding stuff etc

Here's the way my system works.

Back when I was 13 I had my wallet stolen and in there was £30. The wallet itself cost around £15 as it was leather. I was down £45 and back then when I was 13, £45 was a lot of money. I was into penny sweets back then so £45 would have got me 4500 penny sweets.

Fast forward to now and my tipple is real ale. A pint of which is around £2.70. I'm owed 4500 of my tipple so therefore I am owed £12,150 by karma. Over the years luck has gone my way to chip away at this figure and I'm down to about £10,000 I reckon. Until my £10,000 is paid off I'll happily accept goods sent to me when they shouldn't have etc.

When my balance is clear with karma, I'll start sending things back/handing things in etc :lol::lol:
 
It's not yours. You know it isn't yours and keeping it is depriving someone else ie the rightful owner. It's theft whether you like it or not. Just because someone loses something it doesn't automatically belong to anyone that happens to find it!

If there is no chance of finding the owner then giving it to charity is another decent use for found money.
 
joescrivens said:
what would be the chances the person looking for it would get it back though?
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Hand it in where?

If it is to be the police station...would it be announced on Crimewatch that a £20 note has been found and would the owner please step forward.

Then to prove you lost it and it was yours you have to provide DNA and fingerprints to see it it was indeed in your company at one point.

How else could it be proved, beyond reasonable doubt, that it is your £20 note?
 
Joe, what were you doing with a wallet at 13, what a geek you must have been.

£15 for a leather wallet all those years ago.......must have been jewel encrusted.
 
joescrivens said:
as I said in the other thread about finding stuff etc

Here's the way my system works.

Back when I was 13 I had my wallet stolen and in there was £30. The wallet itself cost around £15 as it was leather. I was down £45 and back then when I was 13, £45 was a lot of money. I was into penny sweets back then so £45 would have got me 4500 penny sweets.
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What were you doing with £30 when you were 13 anyway? That's a lot of money for someone that young!

£45 then is probably worth £100 max now anyway. Are you certain it was stolen and you didn't lose it and it was just found by someone with the same attitude? If you had found this £20 when you were 13 would you have handed it in then before your wallet had gone?
 
Actualy its only theft by finding if you have a reasonable chance of finding the legal owner and make no attempt to do so.

Is it reasonable to find the true owner of a £10 note in the street? ALso the owner has to prove he is the owner. Under uk law there is no finders keepers rule as people think.

But if you can PROVE an item was abandoned then you can take legal right of ownership over that item. Doubt if you could prove a £10 has been abandoned though.

There is an ongoing case with tesco at the moment. They threw away food a woman picked it up and got arrested for theft.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ok-thrown-Tesco-food-handcuffed-arrested.html
 
joescrivens said:
what would be the chances the person looking for it would get it back though?
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Better than you keeping it for yourself.
You could hand it in at a nearby shop, or at least leave your name and address so that if the person who lost it came to check they would be able to recover it.
Or hand it to a police officer/station stating where you found it - no it won't be on Crimewatch but at least there is a chance to recover it.
Where does your conscience draw the line ... £50, £500, £5000, £50000?
 
I voted keep it. Obviously if I'd seen someone drop it I would go after them but if no one around then its highly unlikely anyone would report as lost property to the Police.

A couple of years ago I was walking up the main A65 minding my own business when I found a £20.00 note. I hadn't passed anyone walking and there was no one ahead of me. With each few steps I found another £20.00 until I'd found £100.00 in notes and a cheque of some considerable value. I was concerned enough to look over the wall into the field in case I saw a body of someone who had been mugged or even worse, you just never know.

When I got home I firstly rang my mums friend who owns a farm close by with a caravan park and a holiday cottage to see if she had anyone staying there who was likely to have dropped it or mentioned to her that they had lost some money. Then I reported it to the Police.

The Police station where is live is not manned most of the time and the only time I could have handed it was during the day when I was at work, however, they agreed if I kept hold of it for a set number of days, I think it was 28, and no one had claimed it then I could keep it. I figured as I'd given all the details off the cheque who it was written out to the account number of who had written and all the other details my chances of still keeping hold of the £100 after 28 days were remote. I still don't understand to this day how someone can afford to not report it missing, however their loss was my gain and it went towards some new camera equipment I'd been saving for. I actually kept it way longer than the 28 days just in case. Whether the police even tried to find out via the cheque who it belonged to I have no idea but they had every opportunity.

I have walked up the A65 on many occassions since and not been as lucky.:D
 
tiler65 said:
Joe, what were you doing with a wallet at 13, what a geek you must have been.

£15 for a leather wallet all those years ago.......must have been jewel encrusted.
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I was one of those ultra cool skateboard dudes back then so it was a leather animal chain wallet. You know the ones, the bigger the chain the cooler you were. :lol::lol:

Unfortunately I wasn't using the chain at the time it was stolen :'(

srichards said:
What were you doing with £30 when you were 13 anyway? That's a lot of money for someone that young!

£45 then is probably worth £100 max now anyway. Are you certain it was stolen and you didn't lose it and it was just found by someone with the same attitude? If you had found this £20 when you were 13 would you have handed it in then before your wallet had gone?
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Well I was a rare child in that I actually worked to earn money rather than having it given to me. I started working when I was 9 years old with my dad on his milk round. By the time I was 13 I did a full milk round 3 mornings a week before school, up at 4am finished by 8am, also working weekends so I used to earn my money.

Yes I know it was stolen as my wallet was in the milk float one minute and when I came back to it, it was gone. Stolen !

I can't answer the last question as it never happened - who knows what I thought back then, i've drank a lot of ale in that time I can barely remember what happened last week
 
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gramps said:
Better than you keeping it for yourself.
You could hand it in at a nearby shop, or at least leave your name and address so that if the person who lost it came to check they would be able to recover it.
Or hand it to a police officer/station stating where you found it - no it won't be on Crimewatch but at least there is a chance to recover it.
Where does your conscience draw the line ... £50, £500, £5000, £50000?
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How is it better than keeping it for yourself?

If you keep it for yourself you can spend it on something you want. Handing it in means someone else will spend it on something they want, with very little chance the original owner will reclaim it.
 
joescrivens said:
How is it better than keeping it for yourself?

If you keep it for yourself you can spend it on something you want. Handing it in means someone else will spend it on something they want, with very little chance the original owner will reclaim it.
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joescrivens said:
what would be the chances the person looking for it would get it back though?
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You keep it and spend it there is no chance they will get it back ... you report it/hans it in there is some chance that they will get it back. Whatever, it isn't yours to keep, it belongs to someone else who may have great need of it ... e.g. a pensioner.
 
Tbh i would NEVER hand money into a police station. If my moral compass was twiching then i would put it into a charity box.
 
If I saw someone drop money I'd hand it back to them. If I found someone's wallet I'd return it to the address on some ID if there was any or hand it in if not. Cash on the floor could be anybody's and it'll never be returned to the owner if it's handed in so I'd keep it.
 
pepi1967 said:
Tbh i would NEVER hand money into a police station. If my moral compass was twiching then i would put it into a charity box.
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But that wouldn't get it to its rightful owner either.
 
A few years ago I'm afraid my conscience didn't draw the line at £540 in a field of corn when I was walking my dog. It was getting dark, there were no other people in the area and the money was simply folded and lying on the ground.

We (hubs and I and the dog) hung around for about half an hour to see if anyone returned looking for it, then we simply took the money home, and then a few weeks later that money paid for our boiler to be fixed.

Do I feel guilty? Not one bit. If that makes me a bad person, then I'm a bad person. I still sleep well at night
 
Milk rounds are usually conducted in the wee small hours when there isn't anyone about. I bet your Dad pinched it from you as he thought you were a flash git :D
 
gramps said:
You keep it and spend it there is no chance they will get it back ... you report it/hans it in there is some chance that they will get it back. Whatever, it isn't yours to keep, it belongs to someone else who may have great need of it ... e.g. a pensioner.
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When my karma balance is back to zero then I'll start handing things in again, until then, karma owes me.

As others have said, if I saw someone drop it, or it was in a cash machine I would do something to give it back. But a random note on the floor - that's going straight into my pocket and it's £20 off the karma balance
 
As my other post said their is very little chance of proving legal ownership over a tenner so to make sure some good came from it drop it into a cancer collection tin.

Keeping it wouldnt be right but neither would it be right for someone else to claim it if they were not its legal owner. Hedge your bets do the right thing and give it to charity.
 
srichards said:
Milk rounds are usually conducted in the wee small hours when there isn't anyone about. I bet your Dad pinched it from you as he thought you were a flash git :D
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lol, actually this was stolen whilst we were collecting so it was the middle of the day on a saturday
 
I am not ashamed to say I would keep it. I have lost money over the years, or been screwed in some way, worked hard and paid a lot of tax. If I dont keep it someone else will. Even if I found £10k I would proabably keep it. If someone is stupid to lose that amount they deserve not to get it back!
 
gramps said:
Better than you keeping it for yourself.
You could hand it in at a nearby shop, or at least leave your name and address so that if the person who lost it came to check they would be able to recover it.
Or hand it to a police officer/station stating where you found it - no it won't be on Crimewatch but at least there is a chance to recover it.
Where does your conscience draw the line ... £50, £500, £5000, £50000?
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What has the nearest shop got to do with it?!

Also, police station - no way, pretty certain they'd pocket the £20 themselves.

If it was £50,000 I think it'd start getting a little 'No Country for Old Men'.
 
cambsno said:
I am not ashamed to say I would keep it. I have lost money over the years, or been screwed in some way, worked hard and paid a lot of tax. If I dont keep it someone else will. Even if I found £10k I would proabably keep it. If someone is stupid to lose that amount they deserve not to get it back!
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That includes the majority of people, don't get too self-righteous ;)
 
If it was £50,000 I think it'd start getting a little 'No Country for Old Men'.

Their is a few on here that would start getting a little broke back mountain:suspect:
 
If it was found in the middle of a car park or street then i would keep it. If i found it in a shop etc then i would hand it over.
 
my brother found a roll of money to the sum of around £500 in the street once, when he was about 17. He ran as fast as he could to the beach, counted it then put it in his pocket.

I'd definitely keep anything under a grand if it was just laying in the street. More than that I think i'd have to seriously consider handing it in
 
It could have been worse he could have found the £500 ran to the beach and got arrested for his part in the bank robbery the £500 came from. A case just like that happend in austria a few years back. The poor guy got let off but spent a while on remand before his case got heard. All he did was pick the notes up off the floor.
 
pepi1967 said:
It could have been worse he could have found the £500 ran to the beach and got arrested for his part in the bank robbery the £500 came from. A case just like that happend in austria a few years back. The poor guy got let off but spent a while on remand before his case got heard. All he did was pick the notes up off the floor.
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could have been even worse than that.

It could have been a drug dealer who saw him run and chased and killed him
 
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joescrivens said:
could have been even worse than that.

It could have been a drg dealer who saw him run and chased and killed him
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Well after this comment Joe....no more wasting my time reading your OOF dribble...........jeesh!
 
If you found £20 in the street and held it aloft and said has anyone lost this I'm pretty sure most of the people around you would say yes. If its in the street chances are its been blown about a bit so could be from the next street away.
 
If you find ANY cash in the street at all ever. I lost it its mine. Dont forget its mine :suspect:
 
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