Would you hand in cash to a police station?

[Vicky.]

If you found, for example, a hundred quid cash on the street..would you hand it in?

I'm not talking about in a purse or anything..so realistically the owner couldn't be identified.

Inspired by a thread on DS where I was made out to be some kind of monster for saying the police would probably spend it so I would keep cash (but hand a purse in) :joker:

[Jordan.]

Definitely not

[reece(:]

Definitely not
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[Saph]

no

[Drew.]

No because i know if i dropped that kind of money someone else would keep it.

[Kizzy]

They must be a bliddy virtuous lot on that DS...

[InOne]

Definitely keep it

[Novo]

Go to the bookies put it all on Red then double it, hand it in to the police and keep the winnings and you kill two birds with one stone

[Loukas]

i would probably keep it tbh but if you had it in and nobody claims it, don't you get to keep it after a certain amount of time?

[Shaun]

nope.

clearly god wants me to go shopping.

[Jessica.]

I would most certainly keep it.

[GypsyGoth]

I would keep it, and I have done in the past when something like that happened.

Also I agree about the police spending it on themselves or putting it in petty cash for their own use.

[joeysteele]

No I wouldn't.

[Ramsay]

I would obviously keep it

[Vicky.]

i would probably keep it tbh but if you had it in and nobody claims it, don't you get to keep it after a certain amount of time?

On paper yes. But I highly doubt it would happen :laugh:

[Josy]

If it was just cash with no way of knowing who lost it then yes I would keep it.

If it was a purse/bag etc then I would definitely hand them in, I know how it feels to lose them :laugh:

[Loukas]

On paper yes. But I highly doubt it would happen :laugh:

but i know if i lost say £100 i would not go looking in a police station for it, would you? I would presume that somebody took it and kept it. :laugh:

[Ninastar]

it depends how much it was. if it was anything more than like £100 I'd hand it in. Imagine if you found out someone had been attacked/raped and dropped their money they've earnt from working late shifts or something.

£100 is pretty replaceable, but i think anything more than that is difficult.

so under £100 yes, i'd keep it, but any more than no, i'd hand it in and wait to hear something back

[Calderyon]

If it wasn´t on a wallet/purse or near it, i would keep it. It really depends how much there is. (On the situation that there was only money on the ground, not if the was a wallet/purse)

[joeysteele]

it depends how much it was. if it was anything more than like £100 I'd hand it in. Imagine if you found out someone had been attacked/raped and dropped their money they've earnt from working late shifts or something.

£100 is pretty replaceable, but i think anything more than that is difficult.

so under £100 yes, i'd keep it, but any more than no, i'd hand it in and wait to hear something back

That is one really thought provoking point, I never looked at it that way.Well said.

[Doogle]

No way. I was annoyed my friend took the twenty quid she found to the school office the other day

[Ninastar]

That is one really thought provoking point, I never looked at it that way.Well said.

thank you! :blush2:

[Vicky.]

but i know if i lost say £100 i would not go looking in a police station for it, would you? I would presume that somebody took it and kept it. :laugh:

Nope, I would think it was totally pointless (plus from experience.. reporting something as missing doesnt go down well in the police station, they seem to view you with suspicion)

[Daniel.]

Lol no :umm2:

[Ninastar]

if it was more than £100, maybe I'd post on mumblr (huge fb group with more than 5000 people in my town) saying something like found something on blah street, if anyone has lost something, message me and let me know what it is. Not saying as everyone would claim it etc. then if someone said they dropped that exact amount of money, i'd ask things like was it all in 20's or what etc

[andybigbro]

If it was just cash on the street, I would keep it.

If it was a wallet or purse, I wouldn't take the money out, I'd hand it all in.

[Sophiee]

no way, I'd keep it for sure.

[Kazanne]

They must be a bliddy virtuous lot on that DS...

Either that or we are a load of villians:hugesmile:

[Kizzy]

There is that.... :joker:

[Ammi]

...I possibly wouldn't hand it in to the police if it was just cash lying there but I don't think I would feel comfortable spending it either so I'm not quite sure what I would do with it...if I did take it/keep it, it would probably just sit there forever while I thought about how it got to be lost/who it belonged to etc...

[Natalie.]

If it was just cash then I would keep it

[arista]

They must be a bliddy virtuous lot on that DS...

Bang On Right

[arista]

But handing it in
they tell you after a time if no one collects it
its yours

[jackc1806]

If it was just cash on the street, I would keep it.

If it was a wallet or purse, I wouldn't take the money out, I'd hand it all in.

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[Marcus.]

hand it in or if I can see who dropped it give it to charity

[arista]

hand it in or if I can see who dropped it give it to charity

What!


Charitys are run by Crooks


They keep getting in the news



Moral high ground ? - No the look after their own wallet.


Life In The Fast Lane

[Niamh.]

If it was just cash with no way of knowing who lost it then yes I would keep it.

If it was a purse/bag etc then I would definitely hand them in, I know how it feels to lose them :laugh:

This ^

[Kyle]

I would hand it in.

We all lose things, I would take much more satisfaction from knowing someone got their possessions back if they had an I.D in it. If they don't I'd still hand it in regardless.

[Cherie]

I think I would hand it in too, if someone has gone to the trouble of withdrawing a 100.00 quid they need it for something, if the police want to dip into it that is on their conscience not mine then.

I was behind a woman at an ATM last week and she walked off leaving the money she had just withdrawn still in the till, I called her back and she was so grateful it was lovely really.

[daniel-lewis-1985]

I would hand it in but only because now I have a conscience. When I was younger I was working in a bar and this woman was pissed, she walked away and left £80 on the bar so I took it, I also saw someone drop their mobile phone in a club pissed and I picked it up and sold it on envirofone.

I didn't care then but I feel awful now.

What if that person needed the phone in an emergency or that woman needed that money to pay rent.

See how grown up and sensible ive become? Its not very fun.

[Cherie]

I would hand it in but only because now I have a conscience. When I was younger I was working in a bar and this woman was pissed, she walked away and left £80 on the bar so I took it, I also saw someone drop their mobile phone in a club pissed and I picked it up and sold it on envirofone.

I didn't care then but I feel awful now.

What if that person needed the phone in an emergency or that woman needed that money to pay rent.

See how grown up and sensible ive become? Its not very fun.


naww good for you.


My sister lost her phone, the woman who found it phoned my Mom (as her number was in the phone obviously), and passed on her details to pass to my sister, when she went to pick up her phone the woman said she had left her handbag on the tube in London after getting off a flight with passports and everything in it, she got it back with everything intact so she always goes the extra mile if she finds something to get it back to the owner as she was so grateful.

[Livia]

Brown paper bag full of cash - keep.

Wallet, handbag, purse or something else to suggest it was personal cash - hand in.