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
I think the solution will eventually be some form of "smart cash" that can be "cancelled" if lost - remember reading an article about it somewhere and it would make robberies and muggings a thing of the past as there would be little point.
 
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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yep, me too.

but i would probably keep it.
 
tiler65 said:
Who actually owns the £20 note in that case Darren? The B of E possibly?
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If you take it to a police station and it is not claimed within that police forces acceptable time then the person taking it in can claim it back. So if you take it in and nobody claims it then it is yours after 14/28/30 days.



IF your post is saying who owns it in the definition of theft then "unknown" can own something. The charge would include:

....belonging to a person unknown......



If is an interesting act, the theft act. The definition which is virtually "general knowledge" is

A person is guilty of theft, if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it; and "thief" and "steal" shall be construed accordingly.

which is what I was saying earlier but this leave all manner of silly "get outs" which had to either be plugged at the beginning or later with extra acts/case law.

Electricity is not property so you cannot be guilty of stealing it with the above definition (the above is section 1.1 of the theft act) so they had to make a special section just for it (abstracting electricity). Also people might remember the problem with "joy riding" that we had years ago. This was caused by the thieves stealing cars and saying that they were not going to keep them but would abandon them. So they could only be charged with theft of fuel or damage to the car etc. This is when they added "UTMV" to cover that eventuality.
 
cowasaki said:
If you take it to a police station and it is not claimed within that police forces acceptable time then the person taking it in can claim it back. So if you take it in and nobody claims it then it is yours after 14/28/30 days.



IF your post is saying who owns it in the definition of theft then "unknown" can own something. The charge would include:

....belonging to a person unknown......



If is an interesting act, the theft act. The definition which is virtually "general knowledge" is

A person is guilty of theft, if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it; and "thief" and "steal" shall be construed accordingly.

which is what I was saying earlier but this leave all manner of silly "get outs" which had to either be plugged at the beginning or later with extra acts/case law.

Electricity is not property so you cannot be guilty of stealing it with the above definition (the above is section 1.1 of the theft act) so they had to make a special section just for it (abstracting electricity). Also people might remember the problem with "joy riding" that we had years ago. This was caused by the thieves stealing cars and saying that they were not going to keep them but would abandon them. So they could only be charged with theft of fuel or damage to the car etc. This is when they added "UTMV" to cover that eventuality.
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What I am saying is does the bank note belong to the B of E....... isn't the note just a loan of funds?
 
Try this. Take a tenner into the police station make sure its your own cash tell them you found it.

Go back 30 days later to collect your cash they will tell you it was claimed you say who by they say sorry we cant tell you that its data protected information.
 
On a similar note re honesty, I stuck a few "extras" in with items I sold recently via the classifieds and only one of the recipients contacted me to ask if I'd done so in error....
 
What are you lot talking about? This thread is about GOLF! ;)
 
I`d send it to Matty, on the understanding that he would lock all threads like this.
 
I found £20 on the way to primary school when I was a kid. I handed into my teacher and heard nothing more about it. A few weeks later our local Bobby came into school and awarded it to me.

I found a £5 on our local playing field when I was about 17 or so. It had been run over by the grass cutting tractor and was in two bits. I managed to spend one half in one shop and the other half in another shop. No idea what the rule is about spending half notes but I've often wondered about trying it again.

If I find any money now - I keep it.

If it was in a wallet - I would hand it in.
 
I found a twenty lying on the floor of a corridor in Coventry Hospital.
I was on the sixth floor, and there was nobody to be seen in any direction. So I pocketed it.

Then the hospital got most of it back when I had to pay for two hours parking.:thumbsdown:
 
srichards said:
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.
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I'll put my goody two shoes hat on, when I find money in the street I put it in my pocket, then I donate it to a charity and claim the gift-aid too so they get even more money.
To be brutally honest if I lost £20 it would be a minor iritation and no more, I know I'm lucky to be that well-off (I'm not actually well-off but I'm not skint either, just about OK). So I feel I have a moral duty if I find money to put it into a better cause than my bank account, so I voted "hand it in".

Matt
 
Hmm of TP 84% happy to benefit from someone else's misfortune ... wonder what this says for things like classified sales :thinking:

caveat emptor I guess!
 
gramps said:
Hmm of TP 84% happy to benefit from someone else's misfortune ... wonder what this says for things like classified sales :thinking:

caveat emptor I guess!
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I would be very surprised if the 84% percentage wasn't representative of humans in general - nothing TP specific about it at all.
 
If I found a £20 not randomly in the street with no one obvious around then I'd keep it. If it was in a wallet/purse etc I'd hand it in to the police without a doubt.
 
If anyone finds a £20 note that i have dropped, keep it ;)
 
Checked cotton shirt, brown cords and a pair of brown brogues

More history teacher than gangsta :D
 
gramps said:
Hmm of TP 84% happy to benefit from someone else's misfortune ... wonder what this says for things like classified sales :thinking:

caveat emptor I guess!
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I found it to be an age thing, almost all the not-received claims I got were from under-25s and, again almost all from new (under 3 months/100 posts) members.

It would have been interesting to know the age breakdown of each response in the poll...
 
Is this theft by finding? :)

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Flash In The Pan said:
On a similar note re honesty, I stuck a few "extras" in with items I sold recently via the classifieds and only one of the recipients contacted me to ask if I'd done so in error....
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The others were probably too embarrassed to ask about the soiled Y-fronts in with their delivery.
 
I'd pocket it. Handing it into a police station would be a fruitless exercise, I hardly think someone is going to come in saying oh I've lost a £20 note... the cops would probably just stick it in a kitty anyway.


bass_junkie83 said:
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.
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yep, this.

I approached a cash machine once which was beeping and a bank card was sticking out. I managed to grab it just before the machine sucked it back in and a bystander pointed in the direction of the person who owned it. One very quick question of his surname and a few seconds later and he had his card back. But a £20 note laying about somewhere totally random... it probably won't even be missed!
 
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I'd hand it in to the police.

It doesn't matter whether there's any chance of the owner claiming it, or what happens to it. It certainly doesn't belong to me, and it wouldn't cross my mind to pocket it.
 
How many people would go to the police if they lost £20? I certainly wouldn't bother them with such a trivial issue!
 
grotty said:
The others were probably too embarrassed to ask about the soiled Y-fronts in with their delivery.
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I was going to send you a pair, but then I remembered it was just the Thai ladyboys' ones you collected :naughty:
 
Flash In The Pan said:
I was going to send you a pair, but then I remembered it was just the Thai ladyboys' ones you collected :naughty:
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Exactly, and you are by far my most reliable source.

On the subject, I'd keep it unless I'd seen who'd dropped it - there's pretty much zero chance of it ever getting it back to its former owner otherwise and handing it in to a near-by store wouldn't increase that chance.
 
Only 11 people handing it in. This is much more in line with what I was expecting. Handing in the note is not a common occurrence.
 
This is a true story

I was about 9 (1966) I think, my friend was handing out mars bars to everyone in the school playground before school started, teachers wondered why everyone had mars bars, anyway they found out it was down to my friend Les, they asked him where he got them, he said hed found the box, when teachers spoke to his grandma as he lived with them, and she looked in his bedroom, to see if he any more, when she went in the bedroom she was confronted with lots of washing lines set up with £10 notes hanging up to dry, so when the truth came out he'd actually found a bag of £10 notes in the canal in the reeds behind their house, she handed them to the police along with the bag, (she was an ex traffic warden) what transpired was the bag of money was the precedes of an armed robbery on a local mill wages office, the police must have got wind of the robbery and were waiting and as the polices struck the thieves tried to make their escape along the canal side, discarding/dropping the cash as they fled most was retrieved but some wasnt

I have another story that happened to me one day in town centre I was walking along I saw an old man coming out of the bank next thing the whole street was covered by blowing (as it was windy) £20 notes, Julie and I ran after them as did other people and gathered it up and gave it him back, I think he got it all back, funny now to look back on but it wasnt for the old man at the time,
 
If there was any way of identifying who it genuinely belonged to then i would hand it in, otherwise, sorry folks but it's mine.
 
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Flash In The Pan said:
On a similar note re honesty, I stuck a few "extras" in with items I sold recently via the classifieds and only one of the recipients contacted me to ask if I'd done so in error....
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I hear you there, done the same, and also sent the odd free extra print but never a word of thanks.
 
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