check what i found!

[Huge_Vitae]

if you find £1.00 would you hand it in, or more to the point did you hand it in, even 50p or the float, disgorger or packet of hooks you found on the bank ?

and be honest now

Last thing I 'found' was a £10 note. I phoned the local nick and told them I had found it and would retain it until the owner came forward. to be honest, I remember losing a 10/- note and my Mother going ape. All that concerned me was some poor kid would get the sh!te beat out of him.

 

Of course, this was a long long time ago when Police Stations were open to the public.

 

It is all a matter of 'tolerance' and 'acceptability' but that is a deep deep subject best left.

[ayjay]

A friend of mine found a wallet on Hampstead Heath back in the 70s, it had over £300 in it which was a considerable sum in those days, (for a comparison I bought a brand new mini van in 1972 for £620).

 

He turned it in to the police station and then went back after six months to see if anyone had claimed it, it took them four hours to find it and hand it over, I suppose they were hoping he'd go away and they could pocket it themselves.

[Peter Sharpe]

I'm sure it's a very nice lamp, but you can buy brighter ones from Aldi or Lidl for a fiver these days.

[greg long]

if you find £1.00 would you hand it in, or more to the point did you hand it in, even 50p or the float, disgorger or packet of hooks you found on the bank ?

and be honest now

 

I found a wallet with over £700 in it Christmas week and only a health board card to identify the owners name, no address or phone No.

It took 3 hours, but the look on the old widows face when I knocked on her door and handed her the wallet and money was worth more than money. Saying that if I found a few quid blowing along the street I would just stick it in my pocket if there was no way of identifying the owner.

[Peter Sharpe]

I found a £20 note in a car park once and handed it in to the police station. I'm sure they all thought I was some kind of a nutter, but there was always the possibility that it was a young kid's birthday money or an old lady's pension.

I claimed it after a month with a clear conscience.

[jeepster]

Years ago when I was moving into my first house away from my folks, one of the friends I was moving in with was charged with the task of looking after our deposit, I forget the exact amount but it was probably a few hundred quid. When we turned up at the lettings agent, it turned out she'd lost the money sometime during that day, needless to say I was going mental, as being a slightly control freaky kind of bloke I didn't see why I couldn't look after all the cash!

We popped into the local nick on the off chance someone in Rotherham that day had an honest streak in them, though we all thought it was unlikely, it was worth a shot, and would you believe it, the cash was there, handed in by a woman who lived down the road from the house we were due to move in to. I made sure that I extracted 20 quid from the girl who lost the money to buy the finder a bunch of flowers

 

Since then I've always thought twice about keeping stuff I find, though I must admit, I now have a lovely new huge landing net, that I found on the banks of the River Wharfe the other day, not much point handing that in I thought, and it makes up for all the tackle I've left on the banks over the years.

[poledark]

Jeez Jeeps, I never thought I would see that net again

 

Den

[jeepster]

Thing is it's destined never to be used as I don't want the owner to see me using it, we obviously fish the same pegs

[chesters1]

i have a pair of seatbox legs i found on the bank ,bugger knows why the loser hasn't spotted they're missing (visions of angler sitting down and toppling into the pond) my and the head bailiffs phone numbers are in the permit but no claimants