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If you found a wallet on the street...

What would you do if you found a lost wallet?

  • Leave the wallet where I found it

    Votes: 1 2.3%

  • Take the wallet

    Votes: 1 2.3%

  • Just take the cash, leave the rest

    Votes: 2 4.5%

  • Just take the credit card, leave the rest

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Take it to a police station

    Votes: 4 9.1%

  • Try to track down the owner (via adress on the license)

    Votes: 30 68.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 6 13.6%
  • Total voters
    44
Sanitas

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What would you do?

The wallet contained fifty dollars in cash, a credit card, a drivers license, and a picture of a happy family.
 
I would take the wallet and keep it, because maybe it was a serial murderer who secretly planted that wallet, and who only kills people who try to return it.
 
Try to track down the owner via the address on the license. I have done this before except it was bank bag and I track the owner through who the checks were made out to and there was this other time I found a wallet with id in it and I returned it to its owner. Now if there is no way to ID the owner then I would keep it,for example I found a hundred dollars in a bank envelope no account numbers and no id so I kept it.
 
Singularity said:
I would take the wallet and keep it, because maybe it was a serial murderer who secretly planted that wallet, and who only kills people who try to return it.
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Rationalization is such a wonderful thing. :roll:


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I would try and track down the owner. I would be tempted not to, don't get me wrong, but I know how it feels. I lost my purse once and nobody was kind enough to do something like that to me and it was a huge pain in the butt- getting new ID card, cancelling cards, and all that. So yeah, it's just good karma.
 
I would track down the owner, and have actually done so with two wallets in my lifetime. I am like James though. If it is cah and no way to track down the owner, it's mine!;)
 
I'd take the cash and return the wallet; I know how much it sucks losing a wallet (having to cancel your credit cards, having to get a new driver's license, etc...) but I'm a greedy bastard. Consider it a wallet reunion fee.
 
I might or might not take the money, but I'd definitely turn the wallet into the police. If there's some sort of phone number I'd call that - otherwise the cops can track the person down

TOJ said:
Rationalization is such a wonderful thing. :roll:


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So is humor, buddy ;)
 
My brother lost his wallet in Scotland just before his honeymoon to Italy. The wallet was returned with all 700 ponds still in it.
 
Sanitas said:
What would you do?

The wallet contained fifty dollars in cash, a credit card, a drivers license, and a picture of a happy family.
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I would either give it to the cops or try to locate the person who owned it.

One time I was at the casino and a guy cashed out his ticket, took his money out of the machine and walked away. I looked at the machine and he had left a hundred dollar bill sitting in. For a split second I went "woohoo" even as I was turning to yell at the guy to come back. I think there's a part of our brain that wants to satisfy ourselves at all costs but hopefully we will always over rule it to do the right thing.
 
I would give it back to the owner via the address on the driver's license. As corny as it sounds, the good feeling one gets from doing something right like that is priceless and far greater than having a little extra cash.
 
I have tracked down the owner of the wallet and returned it and the money to them (the money in the RL wallet was substantially more than $50)
 
winston53660 said:
My brother lost his wallet in Scotland just before his honeymoon to Italy. The wallet was returned with all 700 ponds still in it.
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That sucker must have been really wet. :shock:


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I've had my wallet mailed to me with only $1 taken (over $200 left in it) and a note explaining it was used for shipping and handling.

I would do the same. If I couldn't determine the identity, I would not take it to the police though.
 
Khayembii Communique said:
I'd take the cash and return the wallet; I know how much it sucks losing a wallet (having to cancel your credit cards, having to get a new driver's license, etc...) but I'm a greedy bastard. At least you are honest, is nothing else. Consider it a wallet reunion fee.
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I benefitted from this (return the wallet) act of kindness..and this had a positive effect on me.... I think some are just fooling around..
Most of the reponders here seems to be decent, which is good. I think some are just fooling around..
Our nation needs a lot more kindness and less fooling around...Yes, I know, I am evolving into an old fuddy-duddy.
 
I would track down the owner or turn it over to the police. Others have done this for me, and I greatly appreciated it.
 
Sanitas said:
What would you do?

The wallet contained fifty dollars in cash, a credit card, a drivers license, and a picture of a happy family.
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I'd call the guy up and tell him I found his wallet.

One day I came home from the park with my kids and my paranoid father called to let me know the cops were looking for me. Being clueless as to why, I was unable to offer him a reason, so he assumed it was over child support (which was silly because I didn't owe any, but I digress).

Turns out my youngest (5) doped his wallet at the park. Someone found it and called a cop to take it. The cop found an old, spent gift-card from a mail-in rebate of mine which my son apparently took for his own. Calling the company the rebate was from, they had both my father's and my names, as we both have the same name and accounts with that company.

The cop called my father first, and my father called me before the cop could.

So the cop stopped by my house, gave my son the wallet back, let my boys check out his cruiser for a minute, and that was that.

Oh, and my paranoid father...I didn't answer his calls for the rest of the day just to make him think I got picked up :mrgreen:
 
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Is this a serious question? I've found things of far greater value than that. I always try to return it. Who would be engaged enough to post on political boards and do otherwise?
 
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Oftencold said:
Is this a serious question? I've found things of far greater value than that. I always try to return it. Who would be engaged en0ough to post on political boards and do otherwise?
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Maybe they think political types are crooks.;)
 
gunner said:
You really are that saint Jerry:)

Paul
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Well you know, that's the kind of guy I am, this way when his credit card bill comes in he'll know what happened :2wave:
 
Jerry said:
Well you know, that's the kind of guy I am, this way when his credit card bill comes in he'll know what happened :2wave:
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Thanxs for the drinks jerry. I got so smashed that night.
 
throw the wallet in the nearest postal mail box. The USPS will deliver to the owner
 
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