Monday Hypothetical...

lolz

is exactly what i’d do/want done…

not a full wallet, but the other day on the bike path behind Dan Murphy’s near Coo-burg Train Station i found $35 (20 10 & 5 $ notes). picked it up, rode back to a guy who had headphones on that had just come from that way, asked if it was his. he politely declined, so i pocketed it and continued on my way home.

/coolstorybro

found a wallet when i was at uni. it had $80 in it or something; $80 i could’ve really used. i got in contact with the owner and she gave me $100.

That was mine.

One time my Dad lost his cellphone. The next day he got a phone call from a homeless guy who said he found it. He rang the number listed as ‘home’ in the contacts, and told him that he could have it back if he came to X park with $50 cash for his trouble.

Some of my good friends in highschool found a sportsbag with about 20k in cash and shitloads of travellers cheques inside at Woden bus interchange in Canberra.

They were like 14 at the time. They debated for ages about what to do, then took it to the cops. Some really stressed out guy claimed it straight away and bought them all cheeseburgers as a ‘reward’.

I’ve never found shit myself.

On that note; what is the smallest amount of money you will bend over and pick up? I pick up anything, if 1 & 2c coins were still legal tender, I’d pick them up, too.

I once found a stack of practice chips at the Adelaide casino, though they were legit and spent about an hour planning my retirement.

edit: and in answer to the above, I’ll pickup any amount of money… So many times I’ve gone down the videoshop for $2 tuesday with a handful of change and come up 5c short for a second/third movie.

I always think about taking the money but i never follow through with it

chased a guy down swanston st for a hundred metres or so to give him the $100 that he forgot to take from the ATM. Was seriously tempted to just keep it and let him pay for his inattentiveness but i figure it was the right thing to do.

Who the other person is doesn’t even matter. It belongs to them.

Paedophile? Nazi? Kardashian?

I’ll be honest- if the wallet had a lot of money in it I’d at least ask for a reward when I handed it back. If they say yes I’ll give back a couple of hundred I took as insurance, if they say no reward I’d keep the money. Win win?

I like the term “finders fee”

Entitled much Horatio?

If I found your wallet I’d take everything valuable and use the ID to implicate you in serious crimes.

But only after you’d returned my headset tools.

PM’ed (sorry)

I hope your Dad brought the 50 in one dollar coins in a sock and ‘gave it’ to the shake down dude

Ha ha, nah he didn’t, but he sure was dark about it. I was rooting for the homeless dude to be honest.

It’s wrong to steal … unless it’s from a bank or corporation.

^ But Mitt says corporations are people too.