you find a wallet

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by noonereal

You place it in your pocket, say nothing and act casual while walking away quickly but not conspicuously.

It's cash. No owner. Not at all like finding cash in a wallet.

Anyone can and will say it's theirs if you ask.

Yep, it's anonymous and whomever dropped it could have been in the next state or anywhere when they missed it. Apparently it was loose in a pocket or purse and not in a wallet or billfold. Still, it's not a trivial amount and may have been someone's bill-paying money or road money and they missed it big-time. There were times that extra $5 saw me thru the last week to end of the month, $20 was much better if I wanted to splurge with a motorcycle ride out-of-town day trip and cover house-hold needs if it didn't have to go elsewhere.
Another time I found $40 on the ground in a parking lot outside a restaurant in Ga. going to the Honda Hoot in Ashville, N.C., it made a huge difference as I was on a very tight budget to make that trip happen. The Hoot got moved to Knoxville a few years later and then was discontinued permanently in the recession, so that was over for good and still sorely missed as a great destination ride/ get-together into and thru the Smokies.

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by 4-2-7

Famous last words...

LOL!

Pete

[MrPots]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

I once found IIRC $300 in $100 bills on the ground next to a gas pump off the interstate, nothing else to ID. Other then the clerk the place was basically mine alone, nobody else in sight. I really had no idea at the time what to do with it and ended up keeping it, I still don't know what I should have done with it.

I'm of the mind that if one is so careless with that much money, the amount must be trivial to that person or he/she would have been more careful with it.

[Ike Bana]

Is this a test? Is testing a requirement for membership?

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by MrPots

I'm of the mind that if one is so careless with that much money, the amount must be trivial to that person or he/she would have been more careful with it.

That's the way people rationalize doing something they pretty much know is wrong.

The last thing like this that happened to me was finding a pair of $5.00 bills on the ground beside a parked car. Before I'd gotten more than 20 yards away, a young, fairly cute homeless woman approached me and asked whether I thought the neighbors in the area would object to her sleeping in a vacant lot nearby.

I said I didn't know but pointed to all the Teabagger type bumper stickers on the cars in the neighborhood and suggested that camping there might not go down well with the owners of those cars. Then I split the money with her.

John

[MrPots]

I've never been lucky in the "finding money or winning the lottery" way.....

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by MrPots

I've never been lucky in the "finding money or winning the lottery" way.....

Well, that ten bucks is my all-time big score..............

John

[HarmanKardon]

Lost and found office

[d-ray657]

So, if you can tell me the serial numbers of the $100 bills, you get them. Otherwise tough luck.

Regards,

D-Ray

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

Lost and found office

That's what I do with found keys, cellphones, ect, if there is a logical place that is somehow connected with where I found something identifiable where it might be traced back. Otherwise I may turn it over at the town hall or nearest police station. The problem with anonymous items like money is that it's frequently lost as in my instances in place and in a way that the person cannot know with certainty where or how they lost it to back-track the loss, nor can identify the find specifically as theirs.