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
    94
back to the OP. Unless I saw someone drop it, would keep it, as who can prove who it "belongs" to??
 
pepi1967 said:
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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Mine was in a field....were you in a field? :)
 
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viv1969 said:
Mine was in a field....were you in a field? :)
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Yes thats mine too :suspect: When it comes to finding lost money i have a nose like a skip rat :D
 
RUTH :razz: You owe me some toast. Oooo cross penetration of a thread. Thats naughty that is. Ruth i want jam on mine:p
 
I think if I found money outside a shop/bank etc then I'd hand it in.
If it's just in the street/a field probably not, for £20.
£500+ though, I would never sleep at night knowing I'd kept that from someone! Would definitely tell the police.

I tend to think what would I do if I lost £20? Would I ask the police if they'd had it handed in? No, I'd think I was an idiot and bemoan my loss

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What's Karma? Is it really meant to justify theft?
 
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pepi1967 said:
Its a song that guy sang dressed as a woman. Think he had a chameleon:D
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:D He might have been onto something - how many chameleons are tea-leaves?
 
ZoneV said:
What's Karma? Is it really meant to justify theft?
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karma has lots of definitions but essentially is about destiny and fate. I like to think of it as the force that makes sure everything is in balance.

So the way I see it is that money I have lost in the past, if I see a note on the floor and it is presented to me with nobody around to claim it then it is karma giving me it back to try and reach the balance. So yes in that case for me it justifies it
 
joescrivens said:
karma has lots of definitions but essentially is about destiny and fate. I like to think of it as the force that makes sure everything is in balance.

So the way I see it is that money I have lost in the past, if I see a note on the floor and it is presented to me with nobody around to claim it then it is karma giving me it back to try and reach the balance. So yes in that case for me it justifies it
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Considering your brother gained £500 then I think you've more than redressed the balance of your stolen wallet!
 
srichards said:
Considering your brother gained £500 then I think you've more than redressed the balance of your stolen wallet!
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no way. my brother didn't give me any of that £500. Why should someone elses luck knock credits of my karma balance?
 
When I worked as a landscape gardener for my local council years ago (that's going back into the late 80' and early 90's), I was based at a coastal park and I, along with my three other work mates - whom I got on really well with - were always finding money of various value along the sea front and the park area. It's where people (usually old dears and drunks) open their wallets in windy conditons, notes flutter out and end up in bushes and flower beds never to be seen again . . . until we turn up to maintain those flower bed and shrubberies.
We made a worker's honour type pact that any monies that were found was put into a pot and then shared out amongst us every Christmas time. Weeeeelll, why not? It's not as if we are able to find the "rightful owners". Once I found a pair of trousers behind a tree, it was really mucky and dirty and as I was about to put it into a bin liner, the foreman who was within earshot of me said "hang on, I can hear chinking in the pocket, put your hand in it" - so I did that and pulled out £37 worth of loose change. I thought the trousers were heavy because it was soaked through and caked in mud!
Actually, I told a little lie, once we found a wallet containing £220 in a church yard we were working in, and the ID it came with it was enough for us to trace the owner so we handed that in. He gave us a tenner each as thanks - so we did have a cut-off point when it came to finding things.
 
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tiler65 said:
A swing to die for!!!
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It's the best in the business at the most important part of the swing though. ;)
 
joescrivens said:
karma has lots of definitions but essentially is about destiny and fate. I like to think of it as the force that makes sure everything is in balance.

So the way I see it is that money I have lost in the past, if I see a note on the floor and it is presented to me with nobody around to claim it then it is karma giving me it back to try and reach the balance. So yes in that case for me it justifies it
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Lol, that sounds like Scrivenskarma(tm) to me. :suspect:
 
joescrivens said:
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:
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That is one horrendous system! I suppose we should all be grateful your tipple isn't now methuselahs of Krug '96 or we'd all be paying you back that "debt" forever!

Thinking about it, maybe this is how all our bankers operate. It would explain a lot about the prevalent mentality in that industry!
 
i got 1,050 £20 notes taken from me at knife point... and get this... i was IN A BANK!

The police (well their dogs) caught 3 guys within half an hour.. who had CS gas on their clothing (that's what they sprayed me with in the robbery) and they were dressed in traditional chav tracksuits and homer simpson socks just as i described.

Did they get charged? No... walked away scott free... not enough evidence :bonk: even though their prints were on the glass doors of the bank and their saliva was found on the floor by a bench they were sat on prior to the robbery. I'd just love to know how many ways the cops split the cash :suspect:

So.. right or wrong... i'm owed big style. :thumbs:
 
Garnett said:
That is one horrendous system! I suppose we should all be grateful your tipple isn't now methuselahs of Krug '96 or we'd all be paying you back that "debt" forever!
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well, i'm 32, my tipple could easily change when I get to 50 and if my karma balance isn't zero then it will be converted so never say never!
 
Funny how there are always at least two ways of looking at something :p

I like to think of that £30, and £15 wallet, as Karma's way of fining you, in advance, for making the rest of us suffer the likes of this thread or this one. I make it you still owe her a significant amount :)
 
dod said:
Funny how there are always at least two ways of looking at something :p

I like to think of that £30, and £15 wallet, as Karma's way of fining you, in advance, for making the rest of us suffer the likes of this thread or this one. I make it you still owe her a significant amount :)
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:thumbs:
 
Presumably the wallet was taken by someone who was also trying to square the karmic debt.
Unfortunately, if they all lay claim to 2700% interest rates, there won't be anything left for anyone not using this wacky system.
 
dod said:
Funny how there are always at least two ways of looking at something :p

I like to think of that £30, and £15 wallet, as Karma's way of fining you, in advance, for making the rest of us suffer the likes of this thread or this one. I make it you still owe her a significant amount :)
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now come on, theres been a lot of joy in those threads!!!
 
Garnett said:
Presumably the wallet was taken by someone who was also trying to square the karmic debt.
Unfortunately, if they all lay claim to 2700% interest rates, there won't be anything left for anyone not using this wacky system.
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No I doubt anyone else uses the same system as me. Like ZoneV said it's scrivenskarma(TM)
 
Like a lot of people, if I found cash on the floor with no way of tracing the owner then I'd keep it. If on the other hand, I found a wallet or purse with some sort of ID in it then I'd return it to it's owner asap.
 
well over 80% would do the same as me so I consider myself pretty normal for once :lol:
 
The definition of theft is:

Dishonestly
appropriate
property
belonging to another
with the intention to permanently deprive

So..

appropriate - YES by picking it up and taking ownership of it
property - YES a £20 note is property
belonging to another - YES it clearly does not belong to you
with the intention to permanently deprive - YES by spending it

This just leaves "Dishonestly"....

If you were arrested for this all 5 parts need to be proved. "Dishonestly" is a wishy washy term though.... It would be up to the jury/magistrates to decide on this point of law.

If you held the reasonable relief that the owner could not be traced and therefore believed that you couldn't find the owner and that you were therefore not being dishonest then it would not be theft....

If you found a phone in the same circumstances then this would clearly not be the case.
 
Who actually owns the £20 note in that case Darren? The B of E possibly?
 
tiler65 said:
Who actually owns the £20 note in that case Darren? The B of E possibly?
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It seems the propery (including money) remains the property of the owner, unless it was deliberately abandoned by the owner, which makes sense.

Theft by finding is where the finder doesn't make a reasonable attempt to return their find to the owner - such as handing it in at a Police station. If not claimed within a certain time period you get to keep it anyway. :thumbs:

Here's an interesting article explaining this kind of tea-leavery and the "finders keepers" mentality: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8129534.stm
 
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I found a fat wallet of dosh in Morrisons once, 2 in the morning down the freezer isle, the place was deserted, handed it in to the bacon slicer of course....as ya do.

In a pub in Cornwall, a couple we had been talking to left, and on the seat where they were sat was another fat wallet, presented that to the bar lady.

And a tenner in the foyer of Asda not long back, fag counter lady got that.


:shrug: what is there to be so twisted about, I didn't lose anything
 
I have been in this situation a couple of times as a kid

First one was a £10 note that stuck to the dog poo on my bike tyre, I handed that in, to the local shop in exchange for sweets and pop and a £5 note that didn't smell of poo

2nd time, was dancing to records in a nightclub, found a tenner on the floor, bent down to get it, noticed another and another and another, £60 in total, I handed these over to the nightclub bar staff, and got £30 of booze as a thank you for been honest and just incase the local curry house owner had a dance before work I handed £30 in to him also
 
joxby said:
I found a fat wallet of dosh in Morrisons once, 2 in the morning down the freezer isle, the place was deserted, handed it in to the bacon slicer of course....as ya do.

In a pub in Cornwall, a couple we had been talking to left, and on the seat where they were sat was another fat wallet, presented that to the bar lady.

And a tenner in the foyer of Asda not long back, fag counter lady got that.


:shrug: what is there to be so twisted about, I didn't lose anything
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Nope. But you missed out on the opportunity to gain much more!

The wallets I'd have handed in. The tender in asda would have gone on 3 bottles of tribute (cos they sell that in there)
 
thieving out of a till is an opportunity, picking it up off the floor is simply easier.
 
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