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Found wallet
- Thread starter Hillian1
- Start date
sydney
tinky ****in winky
good....i hope you get a bunch of flowers sent round or a high class escourt or something...
DumLum
Well-known member
The police had an unprecedented number of wallets handed in yesterday.
Strangely the majority were empty except for a Bournemouth v Brighton football ticket.
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
Remainer
The international standard finders fee for such scenarios.
Monkey Man
Your support is not that great
I was going to a game at the Amex last season and my wallet must have fallen out of my car door. It took me about five minutes for me to realise I didn't have it on me but when I headed back to where I was parked at the university there was no sign of it. Inside were my three season tickets, all my cards and £40 in cash.
A few days later I received a call from a Palace fan who had spotted the discarded wallet on the fast lane of the A27, stopped his van to retrieve it, and tracked me down. The cash was gone but everything else was there. Someone must have found the wallet at the university, trousered the notes and later thrown it out of a moving vehicle.
Good bloke – I gave him some wine as a thank-you but I know I would have done the same if I'd spotted a wallet in the road.
A few days later I received a call from a Palace fan who had spotted the discarded wallet on the fast lane of the A27, stopped his van to retrieve it, and tracked me down. The cash was gone but everything else was there. Someone must have found the wallet at the university, trousered the notes and later thrown it out of a moving vehicle.
Good bloke – I gave him some wine as a thank-you but I know I would have done the same if I'd spotted a wallet in the road.
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
Remainer
One for the impressively high number of Sparks fans on here
https://youtu.be/UkMTUN7xMls
Lost and found, a wallet from a man, careless man, careless man
Too bad, too bad, too bad, too bad
Lost and found, a wallet from a man, careless man, careless man
And all the streets are paved tonight, and we won't be their slaves tonight
And I ain't gonna feel bad at all, feel bad at all
Lost and found, a wallet from a man, careless man, careless man
Too bad, too bad, too bad, too bad
Lost and found, a wallet from a man, careless man, careless man
He's Robin Hood by accident
I need it more than he does and
I surely will not feel bad at all, feel bad at all, feel bad at all, feel bad at all, feel
bad at all, feel bad at all
Lost and found, a wallet from a man, careless man, careless man
Oh is there anybody out there by the name of Mister Jones?
No? No? Well, I tried
Lost and found, lost and found, lost and found, lost and found
Lost and found, a wallet from a man, careless man, careless man
Too bad, too bad, too bad, too bad
Lost and found, a wallet from a man, careless man, careless man
We sailed across the Barbary Sea, with Nina, Pinto, and Marie
And none of us will feel bad at all, feel bad at all,
feel bad at all, feel bad at all, feel bad at all, feel bad at all, feel bad at all
Yes, all the streets are paved tonight, and we won't be their slaves tonight
And I ain't gonna feel bad at all, feel bad at all
Lost and found, lost and found, lost and found, lost and found
https://youtu.be/UkMTUN7xMls
Lost and found, a wallet from a man, careless man, careless man
Too bad, too bad, too bad, too bad
Lost and found, a wallet from a man, careless man, careless man
And all the streets are paved tonight, and we won't be their slaves tonight
And I ain't gonna feel bad at all, feel bad at all
Lost and found, a wallet from a man, careless man, careless man
Too bad, too bad, too bad, too bad
Lost and found, a wallet from a man, careless man, careless man
He's Robin Hood by accident
I need it more than he does and
I surely will not feel bad at all, feel bad at all, feel bad at all, feel bad at all, feel
bad at all, feel bad at all
Lost and found, a wallet from a man, careless man, careless man
Oh is there anybody out there by the name of Mister Jones?
No? No? Well, I tried
Lost and found, lost and found, lost and found, lost and found
Lost and found, a wallet from a man, careless man, careless man
Too bad, too bad, too bad, too bad
Lost and found, a wallet from a man, careless man, careless man
We sailed across the Barbary Sea, with Nina, Pinto, and Marie
And none of us will feel bad at all, feel bad at all,
feel bad at all, feel bad at all, feel bad at all, feel bad at all, feel bad at all
Yes, all the streets are paved tonight, and we won't be their slaves tonight
And I ain't gonna feel bad at all, feel bad at all
Lost and found, lost and found, lost and found, lost and found
middletoenail
Well-known member
My mum is 'foreign' as is my wife, that's a pretty poor assessment in my eyes.
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Technically is it theft? I'm not sure how the law is applied here.
Justify it to yourself however you like - if you'd have kept the cash / wallet in the OPs scenario, or if you found it 'walking the dog late at night' you'd be a thief, plain and simple. There's really no argument.
A tenner found on the pavement really isn't the same moral argument at all. There's no realistic way of that being returned to it's rightful owner.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Over the past few years, I've separately found a phone, and a bank card, and handed them in. About three weeks ago, we'd just pulled into B&Q car park, and my husband spotted a wallet on the ground alongside our car.
We opened it and there was the owners driving licence, so after we'd shopped, we drove straight to his address to deliver it to him. He wasn't even aware it was missing. I don't know if there was any money in it, because once we'd read the driving licence, that was all we needed to know.
We opened it and there was the owners driving licence, so after we'd shopped, we drove straight to his address to deliver it to him. He wasn't even aware it was missing. I don't know if there was any money in it, because once we'd read the driving licence, that was all we needed to know.
Chinman3000
Well-known member
- Sep 28, 2011
- 1,269
This sounds very far fetched to me. What offence were they charged with?
The OP question appears to center around the morality of this but Is it ACTUALLY illegal to keep something you find? Where are the boundaries on this?
I've lost several wallets over the years and only once had one returned, minus the cash - which I kind of expected.
Chinman3000
Well-known member
- Sep 28, 2011
- 1,269
So you handed it in to Burgess Hill police station? Hows the guy ever going to get it back now? He might have had a slim chance if you'd given it to the Airport police but that just seems like a waste of time to me.
That's £1600 Straight into May's pocket.
No - its all recorded. The OP is the finder. The police will presumably make efforts to identify the owner so he can collect it, and if they are unsuccessful or if he does not come forward, the OP takes ownership after a set time.
Chinman3000
Well-known member
- Sep 28, 2011
- 1,269
I put my hand in the till and found the money....I found this car on the street......I found this money on the floor.... Is there any difference?
No , you are taking something that does not belong to you.
For goodness sake stop droning on. We get the message.
Good...Sadly once a thief always a thief !!