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[Closed] AIBU to want £20 that son found and handed in??

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This is mind boggling.

True, dat.
Don't call the police, let them deal with actual consequential crime.

Well, it's easily argued that a crime has been committed, as many have pointed out.
While you are at it make sure you make a sizeable donation to the PTA for being a ridiculous self entitled person.

Entitled in what way, exactly? Enquiring minds want to know.
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School has apparantly taken legal advice and has now contacted me to say that they will be returning the £20. Quite why they needed to take 'legal advice' to realise that they were in the wrong staggers me...

Result! Someone obviously had a quiet look at themselves in the mirror and came up wanting.
But not wanting £20 that someone else was entitled to.


 
Posted : 20/07/2017 6:01 pm
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[i]School has apparantly taken legal advice[/i] = asked on schooltrackworld forum.


 
Posted : 21/07/2017 9:35 am
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Just read through this article on Flipboard and I thought it might make interesting reading carrying on from this thread:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/07/lost-phone-japan-170719102107315.html


 
Posted : 23/07/2017 1:13 pm
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Fascinating read, thanks for that.

I'm curious as to how "Under Japanese law, if the owner claims the object, then they are obliged to pay the finder a reward of between five and 20 percent of the item's value" works with things like credit cards, though. Presumably there's no reward as there's no material value?


 
Posted : 23/07/2017 2:15 pm
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Good point, and one that doesn't seem to be covered; actually, as I was writing that it occurred to me that there probably wouldnt be a reward because the card would be cancelled immediately and would have no intrinsic value.
Interesting that the system probably wouldn't operate if they had a higher crime-rate, because there wouldn't be enough police available to do it.


 
Posted : 23/07/2017 4:47 pm
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School has apparantly taken legal advice and has now contacted me to say that they will be returning the £20. Quite why they needed to take 'legal advice' to realise that they were in the wrong staggers me.................

Legal advice - the last refuse of the morally bankrupt ???


 
Posted : 23/07/2017 5:23 pm
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I wonder how much school money was wasted paying for legal advice.
Even the schools administrator would have spent about 2 hours dealing with this.. That's gotta be worth £20.

What an epic waste of time and resources on the schools part.


 
Posted : 23/07/2017 7:22 pm
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I wonder how much school money was wasted paying for legal advice.

Nothing; they'd have rung the LEA.


 
Posted : 24/07/2017 6:46 am
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Called the LEA? Are there any schools left that aren't academies?

Probably did call a legal team who said that handing the £20 back would be best as appearing in the papers might bring unwanted scrutiny on what the chain were doing with much bigger sums of money. 😉


 
Posted : 24/07/2017 9:20 am
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Mysterious double post!


 
Posted : 24/07/2017 9:20 am
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Mysterious 3rd post!


 
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