[Closed] Found money

I found £20 in the office bike shed once. I did send out a circular to the cycling group asking if anyone had "lost anything in the bike shed" but received no replies. So I spent it on beer.

Some police forces have stopped accepting any sums of money. Just not worth the paperwork.

I tried handing some money to a police officer and he wouldn't accept it. To top it all the bastid still charged me too. 👿

Cfh, when you say how much for police to get involved...

They have an obligation to get involved (and your guy at the station probably risked his career to avoid the paperwork) regardless of the sum. Personally £50 I would hand in. £5 I just gave to the next homeless guy I found. £20 is probably the grey zone that depends how far to nearest official, and the local area / how likely someone was to try to find it / miss it / if it might be a kid's savings.

Now how much warrants a publicity campaign is a different question. That said social media means a local community cop can achieve a lot of positive relationship building very easily.

I think to what extent they get involved depends on how easily the legitimate owner can be identified. A fistful of used notes - nobody can make a convincing claim of ownership. But if you the money is found in conjunction with something that is identifiable - for instance if money was found [i]in[/i] something - then you can ask the claimant to describe the thing it was in.

So on the reverse of that - finding anything of value where the owner can reasonably be traced is 'theft by finding' of you don't make those reasonable efforts. So in flashy's case finding loose cash in a busy environment is finders keepers - you couldn't trust the validity of anyone who came forward to claim it- finding a wallet with cash and ID is theft by finding if you keep it.

A pal of mine was threatened with prosecution for 'theft by finding' because he had an old shopping trolley in his yard and used it to transport some boxes back from the shops. The trolley was already in the yard when he took the lease so he hadn't stolen it - he found it there. But because it had 'Sainsburys' written on the its was considered to be reasonable he could trace the legitimate owner.

If its in a shop I'll hand any amount in.

On the street I'd say maybe 50 + . Don't live near a police station and I'm not convinced it would see itself back to its rightful owner anyhow.

If it's a small weird affluent village then it might be as much as a tenner.

Take the money and run!

Pretty much any amount-possibly requires more than one note???- and certainly any waller irrespective of content

Recently handed a guy back his wallet he lost in a pub - did not trust the staff and he was over the moon as it had his weeks wages in it - about £200. Wallet had his licence in so I took it round

he was amazed it was both returned and all there...both a terrible sign of the times.

did not trust the staff and he was over the moon as it had his weeks wages in it

Indeed...liklihood of that getting handed in and returned to rightful owner is pretty much zero

Once saw someone who was next in que after someone forgot to collect their cashback from the self service till. Cheeky xxxx just pocketed it. Looked a bit sheepish when I suggested they perhaps hand it in to a member of staff..

£50 a week is all some people have to live on so I'd be handing that in £20 I'm not so sure about.

That said I have handed a cashier £10 before that I've found near the till.

Someone "found" my £10 cashback in the self service checkout, they got the bastard eventually though and now have a police caution

£50 a week is all some people have to live on so I'd be handing that in £20 I'm not so sure about.

And so is £20

While there is a lower limit, is there an upper lower threshold where you would keep it? No ones losing £10k by accident, if you chance upon that, £5k, £1k?

I'm not sure anyone would lose £10k on purpose unless they're buying a posh watch.

I'm going to hell

I remember Warrington climbing wall had a 50p cemented into the floor 🙂 the number of people who tried to pick it up...

I handed in a wallet containing £80 which the police got back to its owner via a blood doner card that was in it

A few years ago the women behind the reception desk at our local police station turned out to be bent and was stealing all sorts of stuff handed in.

I found 50quid in crumpled 5's and 10's just out side the door of my car once in a shopping carpark. It was Xmas time and I figured it was someone's Xmas savings

I handed it in to the shop never expecting I hear anything and it went to the police and I got a Letter after 3months to go get it.

It would have cost me more than 50 in fuel and time to go get it so I called in and said to put it to charity.

Found £5 the other day 🙂

I found £80 crumpled up on the floor in Costco's car park in Croydon a couple of years back.

There was nobody around so I assumed it must have fallen out of someone's pocket as they got in the car.

I just kept it.

I handed a pound in the other day! (I was working in a Primary School!)

I was once in Durham town centre in the rain. A guy came out of a shop and barged past us and ran off covering his head. He dropped a £20 note on the way.

I shouted him to come back and he gave me two fingers.

That was lunch sorted.

Of course, they may be suspicious about the origins of this money and are hoping someone comes forward to claim it so they can investigate.

Anyone remember Social Security Cheques? Well BITD when these things existed (about 1987) I found one in the Square in Ironbridge (where I used to live) near the greengrocers. I handed it into the Post Office next door but one (where I suspect its claimants were about to cash it) and gleefully Gillian (the Post Mistress) took it off me and said " oh thats for Elsie, she's just been in, thanks luvvy"

And, I was helping out clear the White Horse Inn in Ironbridge, it was due for renovation from an old derelict Coaching Inn into a more modern restaurant.. anyway as we were pulling up the floorboards I found an old American Share Certificate.. My mates Dad (who was running the renovation) said 'keep it, might be worth something one day" So I did, sadly it's long since lost.. probably in amongst all my Uni books and papers at Mums.

I shouted him to come back and he gave me two fingers.

That was lunch sorted.

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I found a crisp £5 on the floor walking through Canary Wharf last Xmas. I bought a fivers worth of scratchcards and won £100 so I stuck it in the charity bucket at the station much to the amusement of the bloke holding the bucket. Figured anyone in the wharf could probably afford to lose £5 so didn't feel too bad about it...

I once forgot to take my £50 out of the cash machine (I just took my card and forgot about the money as I was in a hurry). The next day I asked in the supermarket that the cash machine was outside of but they had not had anything handed in. I just wrote it off to my own stupidity and assumed that someone who came along behind me had found a nice treat.

8 years later, I got a letter from the bank saying they had done an audit of their cash machines and noticed I'd withdrawn £50 but it had been sucked back into the machine. They refunded it with interest - about £120 in total if I remember correctly.

A fistful of used notes - nobody can make a convincing claim of ownership.

The rightful owner would know the amount in question, no?

Once saw someone who was next in que after someone forgot to collect their cashback from the self service till. Cheeky xxxx just pocketed it.

This happened to me a few months back. I'd got like ten yards away when I realised, went back to get it and it'd gone, couldn't have been more than several seconds since I left. I looked at the guy now using the till, pointedly back at the slot, back at him, blank face.

I said, "er, excuse me, but was there money in the slot here?" He looked at me without saying a word, face glowering like a slapped arse, and after the longest pause ever he reluctantly fished my £20 out of his back pocket and (still wordlessly) handed it over. Shitehawk.