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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2009 18:30:59 GMT
If you found a $50 note* on the floor outside of a bank?
Would you give it in to the bank, in hope the person who dropped it will come and ask for it?
Just keep it, after all, who's ever going to think that they will ever find it again?
Give it to charity.
*Or the equivalent in your country.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2009 18:48:27 GMT
I confess that I have always kept loose banknotes. I have always turned in found wallets.
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Post by traveler63 on Oct 31, 2009 20:37:01 GMT
You are talking to someone who found a hand saw sitting in a shopping cart in the parking lot of Lowes and went in and turned it in to the Customer Service Desk. Not mine, I would give it to the Manager of the Bank.
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Post by bazfaz on Oct 31, 2009 21:53:33 GMT
I'm with Kerouac on this.
At the town I last lived in in England I used to go to fetch the paper before breakfast. I always made certain I passed a certain pub on the way back because the evening before there were always drinkers outside and they were careless with their change.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2009 12:05:55 GMT
baz, I used to do a similar thing when I was a kid. When visiting a certain friend, I would pass a pub and I knew that the pathway that led to my fiend's house would have coins dropped on it from the previous night.
I think I would be inclined to pick up the note, go into a pet shop, buy cat and dog food and then give it to the SPCA.
Kerouac, I have also given in a wallet that I had found, it contained all kinds cards etc. I'm sure the person was happy to get that back.
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Post by spindrift on Nov 1, 2009 20:05:00 GMT
If I found the note in the street I would keep it. If I found a note in a store I'd feel duty bound to give it to the management in case the loser (!) would return to the store and ask about it. Both of these options have happened to me. In the case of the note I found in M & S..I handed it in, a record was made in a book and I was asked to return in 3 months to claim it if the owner hadn't reclaimed it. I actually remembered to enquire about it and it was given to me.
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Post by tillystar on Nov 1, 2009 22:16:11 GMT
Yep, I'd keep notes in street and hand a wallet in. If it was a large sum in an envelope I'd have to hand it in in case it was someone's money to pay bills or similiar. It's almost a wallet then.
I have handed wallets and bags in a few times (and recently called someone whose work diary I found on the train and arranged to post it to him) and it has done me well if you believe in karma as I have lost bags on public transport twice and they have been handed in both times with all the contents intact and left a laptop in a bar and it was handed in.
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Post by bazfaz on Nov 1, 2009 22:37:11 GMT
Going back half a century, I was making my first vist to Greece. A couple of girls I knew from university had a small boat (don't get illusions of wealth: only 5 metres long) and had a succession of 2 men to come and crew as they sailed round the Aegean. We stopped at the island of Skyros. We had a good look round and climbed up to a ruined monastry. I sat on a windowsill to admire the view. Leaning out I held on the the sill - and felt a piece of paper lodged between the stones. I pulled it out, saw it was a banknote, looked round to see I was observed and unfolded it. It was a note fora million drachma.
At that time the exchange rate was 80 drachma to the pound. Had I really found a note worth twelve thousand pounds?
We went on sailing - Skyros, Andros, Kea and then the mainland heading back to Pireaus. We docked one night and went to a taverna and had a meal and lots of retsina with a man who invited us back to his house. This was a wooden house in the middle of pine woods. At some stage in the evening, I produced my million drachma note. He snatched it from my hands and tore it into small pieces. It had been printed by the Germans when they occupied Greece in WW2. He had been a partisan and to make sure I didn't protest too much he opened a trapdoor in the floor and produced a submachine gun.
Shame. I had been a millioanire for about ten days.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2009 22:52:03 GMT
That's a very interesting story, baz.
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Post by hwinpp on Nov 4, 2009 5:23:46 GMT
I once found 60AUD, in 3 notes of 20 going home from school. I asked my father what to do with them and he told me to take it to the police station. They registered me and the money and after 3 months I went to pick it up. This was in early '74, a lot of money at that time.
I don't think I'd bother with turning it over to the police now...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2009 15:36:06 GMT
My bf found a case one time, in it was all this very expensive Camera equipment. He turned it in to the police, and as no one claimed it after 3 months, he was allowed to keep it.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 5, 2009 16:49:12 GMT
I've kept money (notes) found loose on the street, as there is no way anyone could claim it. But have always scrupulously turned in wallets, signed transport passes etc. Yesterday I took a CD that had been misdelivered to my address (it was unclear whether one figure was a 4 or a 7) to the rightful owner. Sadly, the person just shrugged.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2009 18:46:49 GMT
I think it's a shame we don't find more banknotes just lying in the street, actually.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2009 0:38:02 GMT
Do you know another way to find coins, is to look in those shopping carts where you have to put a dollar in to get it unhooked from the rest? People can't always be bothered to return them, so often the money is left in there and if you want to go through the trouble of bringing them back you get to keep the dollar in the slot. I know some kids make up to $50 plus a day doing this, triples during Christmas time.
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Post by rikita on Nov 11, 2009 0:07:21 GMT
deyana - people there must have a lot of money. here, everyone returns their carts and gets the money. i think it happens maybe once a year or something, that i see an unreturned car standing at a supermarket parking lot. what some of my friends made money with at teenagers was that in clubs they would collect empty glasses and return them to the bar to collect the deposit. also, homeless people of course collect empty bottles from garbage cans to return for the deposit, and when i was cleaning in the hostel, we'd also get to keep the empty bottles that people threw away and return them. though a couple of times there was trouble as people put the bottles next to the (overfull) garbage can, so we assumed they are meant as garbage - and then they complained we had stolen their bottles. as for finding stuff - i think i'd return most things that are kind of recognizable and worth something. with small things (like let's say a hat) i might just remove it from the ground and put it up at a prominent spot in hope the owner sees it better there when they come looking for it. wallets and stuff i guess i'd bring to the police (or if i find them in front of a bank, into the bank), with cash, if it was a really big amount, i'd do the same, but with a fifty i probably wouldn't. don't know... bf once found a very new looking stopper somewhere high up in a rock - looked like the person who placed it didn't have a device to remove it with, as it was sitting in quite well. bf removed it and kept it. after all, where would you turn something like that in? we said that if we see the people who we had seen leaving the rock when we arrived we'd ask them if it was theirs, but otherwise, i suppose they would not go looking for it anymore, after all they had given up on it.
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