So if You Found a Wallet?

[venus]

If you found a wallet say at a gas station with cash & credit cards would you attempt to contact owner ? If cash was $1.00? $100.00? $1,000.00? What would you do?

[sblake01]

Amazing thing is, my wife and I were just discussing this today because of a segment we watched on the TV news today. I would attempt to contact the owner. If I was unable to do that I'd turn it in at the local police department. At the point I'm at in my life, I don't need anyone elses money. I know how hard it was to get where I am.

Edited November 12, 2011 by sblake01

[george71z]

Reminds me of a wallet I once found. I was walking with my (very) young son to the park, and found a wallet. Wanting to teach him the value of honesty, we looked thru it for some ID. Got home and checked the phone book, (pre-internet) and called the number at the address. Seems a young lady lost it, and would appreciate its return. I drove to her home, turned the wallet over to her father; and he said she would be in touch. She came to my house a short time later, thanked my wife profusely, as I was not at home, and asked if she could buy me a bottle of scotch for my trouble. My loving wife said, No, he doesn't drink scotch. Never told her my booze of choice was bourbon. So much for honesty.

[doradox]

Found one out in the Imperial sand dunes while riding. Found a business card and an ID in it. The guy worked in Yuma and I returned it on our return trip to Tucson.

[cajunz]

I was walking out of Walmart right before Christmas a couple years ago and found four crisp $20's folded in half. I went back into the service center and told the lady that I'd found some money and left my number. Next day an elderly lady called and said she'd lost $80 in brand new bills. She came by the house and I thought she was gonna kiss me on the mouth. She told me that the money was all she had left for groceries for the rest of the month.

[cygnusx1]

I have reported credit cards that I found in a parking lot. I would do the same with a wallet. If I found a brown bag of unidentified cash....that's a different story.

[grantf]

I am with x-1. A wallet with cash I would try to find the owner. But I would not go to the police with it. Sorry to say this but I trust the Seattle police about as far as I can thow a feather into the wind.

[Brubaker]

While on vacation out west, we stopped at Meteor Crater. When we left we stopped at the nearest gas station and found a wallet with money. Couldn't get a hold of the guy who lived in New York for a few days. Told me to keep the money just send him his wallet. Didn't want to send money through the mail so wrote him a check for the amount he had. He was a very happy guy, as I would be.

I would give the money back no matter how much there was. Cajunz, great story but I would be concerned that unidentified cash would somehow not find its way back. You and the Wal-Mart employee did a great thing. I have found money in parking lots, the most was $20 and kept it.

[sblake01]

Cajunz, great story but I would be concerned that unidentified cash would somehow not find its way back. You and the Wal-Mart employee did a great thing.

Remember, he didn't leave the money at Walmart; only his phone number and told them that he'd found money without disclosing the description/amount if I'm reading it proprely. That would make it difficult for anyone but it's rightful owner to claim it. If that person didn't call after a reasonable amount of time he'd have likely kept the money. What other choice would he have had? Edited November 12, 2011 by sblake01

[John Coffey]

If I found a brown bag of unidentified cash....that's a different story.

I used to think that too until I watched No Country for Old Men. I don't want to meet Anton Chigurh.

[cajunz]

sblake01 is right. I didn't tell the Walmart employee how much I found. I just told her that if anyone came in asking about the cash to call me. The elderly lady woman was so grateful to get her money back and it was a good teaching experience for my kids. I lost about $400 in cash at the Mall one year at Christmas and never got it back, so I know what it feels like.

[sblake01]

If I found a brown bag of unidentified cash....that's a different story.

I used to think that too until I watched No Country for Old Men. I don't want to meet Anton Chigurh.

Either that or it could be a setup like we saw on the TV news. i.e. the bag is being watched by a news crew in a nearby mini van ready to pounce on you and get you on video as soon as you pick the bag up.