Lost and found

[Winston]

There's a story here about two 18-year old girls who found a bag containing 80,000 kroner (€10,000) in the street in the small town where they live. The black leather bag was on the sidewalk next to a garbage can, and one of the girls picked it up and zipped it open out of curiosity. Seeing all the money, she called her dad for advice and he told her to turn it over to the police.

As it turned out, the police had already gotten a call from a man who was missing the money, he had somehow lost it while on his way to buy a used car that day. So the guy gets his money and, as is the custom, rewarded the girls with a 10% share of the amount. The girls went clothes shopping for days, and everyone's happy.

Now the question is, how would you react to such a situation of finding a bag with €10,000 next to a dustbin with nobody around to claim it, or even witness that you found it?

[Lancer]

Turn it in.

[Kuciwalker]

Bananas

[Snotty]

Take the big bag of money and run!

Of course if it were someones wallet it would be a completly different matter

[Ming]

I would check the local papers to see if somebody "legitimate" lost the money, and if so, then return it.

If there was no mention of the missing money in the press, I would assume it was drug money or some other illegal gains... and keep it without a second thought.

[Adagio]

With that amount of money I would probably give it to the police

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Adagio
With that amount of money I would probably give it to the police

[Dr Strangelove]

I've encountered this situation before, only with a smaller amount of money. I turned it in to the mall security office.

[Provost Harrison]

That amount of money? Well, you've got to be pretty stupid to lose that amount of cash...I rarely carry anything over £30 with me in cash...

[Tuberski]

Somebody loses that much money, deserves to never see it again.

ACK!

[Solver]

Same as Ming, return it if there are signs of it being a legitimate loss, else, take it. Probably the main reason I wouldn't simply turn it over to the police is corruption - there would be a real high chance then of the police taking the money themselves (10k EUR is big money here).

[General Ludd]

Bonfire.

[Jaguar]

Give it to the police. If it's bad money, and they're tracking it, you could get into big trouble.

[Dis]

General Ludd took my response

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Ming
I would check the local papers to see if somebody "legitimate" lost the money, and if so, then return it.

If there was no mention of the missing money in the press, I would assume it was drug money or some other illegal gains... and keep it without a second thought.

Same here.

And this from somebody who has turned in 3 wallets to security with a combined total of 200$ in them.