I found £1260 cash on the bus. What do I do?
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Re: I found £1260 cash on the bus. What do I do?Surely trying to get it back to the person who owns it is a fairer solution than charity...(Original post by mel0n)
Thanks for the advice people. I've decided I'll ring up the family lawyer and get some legal advice. The money can pay off my overdraft but I think I won't take that route. Charity sounds like a good option but I think I should definitely sleep on it for now. -
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Re: I found £1260 cash on the bus. What do I do?No... I wouldn't care.(Original post by Captain Hindsight)
you are a d i c k. If i said "i hope your mum gets run over" you'd be like "how dare you say that"
Why would I or anyone care? You're giving up £1260 you could use to satisfy your debts, bending over backwards to suit the needs of someone who you don't know or care about, who could easily be spending it all on heroin, running arms to Nicaragua or running child pornography rings.(Original post by Captain Hindsight)
but, by your logic "it's ok because i don't know her, and will never likely to meet her". Despite this, it's still not a right thing to say or do is it?
Since when do you bend over backwards to help random people you've never met before and aren't likely to meet? Why do they deserve the cash any more than you?
If you're going off who needs it the most why don't you donate all your spare cash to children starving in Africa? I doubt you do because you're a hypocrite.
What you wish or don't wish for doesn't make a damn bit of difference to me or anyone... but if you found a grand I had foolishly been carrying around on my person in a John Lewis carrier bag that I had been clumsy enough to leave on a bus, i'd consider you completely entitled to take it. In fact I would consider you stupid if you didn't. Of course, I would like it if you brought it back to me because that's in my self interest. I fail to see how it would be in your self interest though.(Original post by Captain Hindsight)
Do I wish your mum gets run over? No. Not because i'll never meet her, but because i'm not a complete d i c k
Yet you are completely oblivious to the fact it's a dog eat dog world, the very system our society is based on runs on this very principle.(Original post by Captain Hindsight)
we dont need you in society btw. -
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Re: I found £1260 cash on the bus. What do I do?My theory is that someone has had a win at the boookies/casino and then decided to get drunk in a pub somewhere to celebrate. One pint leads to another chaser and the rest is history.
Imagine the hangover. -
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Re: I found £1260 cash on the bus. What do I do?Hand it in. The police are fairly incompetent. I lost a wallet with £130 in it a few years ago, a family member filed a police report, it was handed in to the police and it took them A YEAR to get it back to me. It was at the station about 5 miles from me but it shouldn't have been that hard. I think the number of days before you can claim it is 30 so there's a fair chance even if it is reported and you hand it in that you'll still get to keep it.
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Re: I found £1260 cash on the bus. What do I do?Every note in circulation has a serial number on it. Police record serial numbers and record certain notes from time to time with some marking agent that i cant tell you about. They then place these notes in circulation with drug dealers, gang members etc. They are then able to see where the money goes, who it goes it and so on. Marked money is unable to be spent or handed into a bank once its marked. Hence the phrase "money laundering" where they exchange "dirty" or known notes for "clean" or unmarked or recorded notes.
Source: our bank time to time marks notes for the police. -
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Re: I found £1260 cash on the bus. What do I do?theft by finding a specific offence and the case presented in the OP is the classic scenario for theft by finding.(Original post by House MD)
This - which is why you might want to hand it over to the police. -
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Re: I found £1260 cash on the bus. What do I do?you've got a funny idea of 'money laundering' , money laundering is not about the specific notes it's about making criminally earnt money appear to have come from a legitmate source and/or obfuscating the source of money to such a degree that the effort in forensic accounting to trace it back to the criminal activities that earnt it is disproportionate .(Original post by Sol1dShot)
Every note in circulation has a serial number on it. Police record serial numbers and record certain notes from time to time with some marking agent that i cant tell you about. They then place these notes in circulation with drug dealers, gang members etc. They are then able to see where the money goes, who it goes it and so on. Marked money is unable to be spent or handed into a bank once its marked. Hence the phrase "money laundering" where they exchange "dirty" or known notes for "clean" or unmarked or recorded notes.
Source: our bank time to time marks notes for the police. -
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Re: I found £1260 cash on the bus. What do I do?oh yeah because everyone that hears that isn't going to phone up and claim to be the person that lost it ...(Original post by the bear)
Hand it in to the police and also ask the local radio station to mention it on air ... it could be really important to the person who lost it -
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Re: I found £1260 cash on the bus. What do I do?But it's not him. He's him and that's them. Who cares about a hypothetical situation? We're talking about a real life one.(Original post by Dmon1Unlimited)
Despite every fibre of my being saying "keep it"... you cant...what if you lost that kind of money, do you want some prick to keep your money? -
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Re: I found £1260 cash on the bus. What do I do?It can also include the swapping of money - we had some in the other day, had to call the police at once.(Original post by zippyRN)
you've got a funny idea of 'money laundering' , money laundering is not about the specific notes it's about making criminally earnt money appear to have come from a legitmate source and/or obfuscating the source of money to such a degree that the effort in forensic accounting to trace it back to the criminal activities that earnt it is disproportionate . -
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Re: I found £1260 cash on the bus. What do I do?Fortunately that is not how society works;(Original post by Stefan1991)
No... I wouldn't care.
Why would I or anyone care? You're giving up £1260 you could use to satisfy your debts, bending over backwards to suit the needs of someone who you don't know or care about, who could easily be spending it all on heroin, running arms to Nicaragua or running child pornography rings.
Since when do you bend over backwards to help random people you've never met before and aren't likely to meet? Why do they deserve the cash any more than you?
If you're going off who needs it the most why don't you donate all your spare cash to children starving in Africa? I doubt you do because you're a hypocrite.
What you wish or don't wish for doesn't make a damn bit of difference to me or anyone... but if you found a grand I had foolishly been carrying around on my person in a John Lewis carrier bag that I had been clumsy enough to leave on a bus, i'd consider you completely entitled to take it. In fact I would consider you stupid if you didn't. Of course, I would like it if you brought it back to me because that's in my self interest. I fail to see how it would be in your self interest though.
Yet you are completely oblivious to the fact it's a dog eat dog world, the very system our society is based on runs on this very principle.
also have you actually seen a dog eat a dog... i certainly haven't -
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Re: I found £1260 cash on the bus. What do I do?Keep it. £1260 in a carrier bag left on a bus? Stinks of dodginess.
At the moment we need more people putting more money into the economy and cash like that was probably to do with drugs or something so you'd be making much better use of it if you spent it on something from a small, independent shop for instance.
You could use it to pay off student debt but what would be the point in that? It's not like you're going to get the bailiffs round.
To be fair it's their own stupid fault for leaving it on a bus. If they thought that much of their money then they'd be more careful where they put it. Plus money is untraceable, nobody would have any real way of working out who the rightful owner is.
If I find a mobile phone or an iPod then I'll go through it and find some way of working out who the person is or I'll phone one of their contacts or something. I'd do that far sooner than handing it in because I wouldn't necessarily trust the people I'm handing it into to make as much effort or know how to use it as I would. I'd make that effort because it's a personal, private belonging and I know if I lost my phone I'd be panicking. Money is different. -
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Re: I found £1260 cash on the bus. What do I do?Yes because that's not the world we already live in(Original post by Rock_and_roll)
Yes, the world sure would be a better place if everyone was as selfish and inconsiderate ¬¬
I suppose when you have a job and you are in line for a promotion you will unselfishly let your colleague get the job instead because you are so considerate?
I'm sure when companies are increasing their market share and putting other smaller companies out of business, they stop and pause for consideration for the feelings of the little guy who's losing profit.
Or we can choose to live in this fantasy world you've dreamed up and pretend everyone is so considerate to everyone else even if they've never met. I'm supposing you've never lived in a big city?
The world doesn't work like this... and never has done. When it comes down to it everyone is making money or trying to get somewhere at the expense of others. That is how our society works.
The only reason we are fortunate enough to be sat here on our expensive computers with a roof over our heads, food to eat and clean water to drink is at the expense of the 3rd and developing world. Yet you care more about the person who carries over a grand with them in a plastic bag on the bus.
Someone who has more money than common sense.
So don't pretend people aren't "selfish" and "inconsiderate". What it really boils down is how close to home it is and whether it affects you with emotional guilt. Which is actually pretty selfish. -
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Re: I found £1260 cash on the bus. What do I do?Definitely hand it in. That person will be so stressed out thinking about the lost money. Maybe its their life savings? Maybe they needed it to pay off debts? Maybe its the only money they have to live on at the moment? You never know. Either way just think of what you'll be like if you lost £1260. Do the right thing.
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Re: I found £1260 cash on the bus. What do I do?What kind of idiot would forget that amount of money on a bus? If you keep it they deserve that punishment for being so careless and stupid. Then again buses have CCTV nowadays so that could be a drawback if you decide to keep it.
But personally if I was in this situation I'd hand in only half the money to the police. And when the person that lost the money asks for the rest, I'd tell the police that's all I found and since it'd be my word against theirs they wouldn't be able to prove that I took half the money.
