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What do you do?

Return it money and all?
Return it without the money and say that's how you found it?
Take the money and throw out the wallet with credit cards?
Take the money and try to use the credit cards?
Go one step further and steal their identity?

There was a time in my life where I would have taken the money and returned the wallet. Lied and said the money was gone.

There was NEVER a time in my life where I would use the credit cards. I suspect some would say "that's okay the credit card company won't make them pay for what I purchased".

Even worse if they use your debt card. Pure scum.

Identity thieves should be executed. Send a message to other people who would do this.

I had a college roommate once who found a phone back in the 90's. The person who lost it called him and he fucked with this person for days. Told them to meet him and then he would not show up. Talk to them on the phone. Infuriate them. He ended up being a real creep but boy was this an early sign. Sociopath for sure.

Also regarding ethics. I suppose if it's a rich looking person and just $100 or a poor looking grandmother who's carrying around her rent in this purse you just found.

What if you found $30,000? I have to be honest. I might be tempted to keep it. I know that's a scummy thing to do but I'm just being honest.

Why am I posting this? I'm watching "Scary People". Remember those con artists murdering bodybuilders in Miami back in the 80's? The Rock did a movie about these guys. Just horrible people. Do anything to make money.
 
What do you do?

Return it money and all?
Return it without the money and say that's how you found it?
Take the money and throw out the wallet with credit cards?
Take the money and try to use the credit cards?
Go one step further and steal their identity?

There was a time in my life where I would have taken the money and returned the wallet. Lied and said the money was gone.

There was NEVER a time in my life where I would use the credit cards. I suspect some would say "that's okay the credit card company won't make them pay for what I purchased".

Even worse if they use your debt card. Pure scum.

Identity thieves should be executed. Send a message to other people who would do this.

I had a college roommate once who found a phone back in the 90's. The person who lost it called him and he fucked with this person for days. Told them to meet him and then he would not show up. Talk to them on the phone. Infuriate them. He ended up being a real creep but boy was this an early sign. Sociopath for sure.

Also regarding ethics. I suppose if it's a rich looking person and just $100 or a poor looking grandmother who's carrying around her rent in this purse you just found.

What if you found $30,000? I have to be honest. I might be tempted to keep it. I know that's a scummy thing to do but I'm just being honest.

Why am I posting this? I'm watching "Scary People". Remember those con artists murdering bodybuilders in Miami back in the 80's? The Rock did a movie about these guys. Just horrible people. Do anything to make money.
Using the credit cards would be illegal. Taking the cash from the found wallet would not. It might be immoral, but not illegal.
 
I didn't rob McDonald's in 1987 when I was an auditor and closing manager and that was 100k in cash in the safe.

In college when I worked the front door of a hotel bar the bar charged $3 to get in if you were not a guest of the hotel. At the end of the night I always made myself a 10% partner. So I took $30.
 
Using the credit cards would be illegal. Taking the cash from the found wallet would not. It might be immoral, but not illegal.

So uncomfortable lying. But they should just be happy to get their credit cards, license, insurance cards, and whatever else they keep in their wallet back.

If the guy was a monster scary looking guy on his license and he had $1000 in hundreds in his wallet, I would just put the wallet in a US Post office mail drop. Cause the cops are going to want to see your information if you take it to the station. Then tell him who you are. Fuck that! He wants his $1000 back. LOL. Even if the wallet was empty I'd drop it off anonymously. Still gonna blame me.
 
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I do my best to return it all to its owner, just as I would hope my belongings to be returned to me if I lost them.


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That is the right answer. I'm not perfect. That's what got me to start this thread. I'm watching Very Scary People. This one particular episode, these guys will do anything for money. They are at the high end of the spectrum, you are on the low end. I'm somewhere in the middle. If you are a 1 maybe I'm a 3 or 4. I'm not a 10. LOL.

I watch Murder Tapes, Interrogation Cam, Court TV, Evil Lives Here, Evil Next Door, Scary Neighbors. All these shows show people who are closer to 10 on the spectrum.

Where would you put the UnitedHealthcare Shooter on the spectrum? He wouldn't murder you or me or a baby so he's not a 10. But he did something you or me would never do.

Where would you put the 13 cops who murdered the handcuffed prisoner?
 
Even if the wallet was empty I'd drop it off anonymously. Still gonna blame me.
Thats not a bad point.

P.S. - You never responded in the comedy thread. Was it Eric Andre that you were talking about who goes on Howard Sterns show?
 
As a young dumb punk, I would have probably kept the cash and maybe mailed the wallet back anonymously.

Now I would make the effort to return all of it.

But if there was no identification, Finders Keepers.
 
Thats not a bad point.

P.S. - You never responded in the comedy thread. Was it Eric Andre that you were talking about who goes on Howard Sterns show?
I haven't gotten to that one yet. Yes, that's him. It's funny but not clever. Something about it is lacking. I was thinking about this yesterday. Stand up comedy has been dead for a long time. So have sketch comedy. What stand ups and SNL are doing today doesn't come close to what they did back in our day. I'll talk to you in that other thread more about this.
 
As a young dumb punk, I would have probably kept the cash and maybe mailed the wallet back anonymously.

Now I would make the effort to return all of it.

But if there was no identification, Finders Keepers.

If I found $100 in my parking lot I'd keep it. If I heard the person crying about losing it I'd give it back.
 
If I found $100 in my parking lot I'd keep it. If I heard the person crying about losing it I'd give it back.
A couple weeks ago I found a folded up $5 bill. It had a small amount of white powder in it. In my twenties I would have snorted that shit without question.
As a dude about to hit 60, I dumped that shit out and spent the money.
Too old for that crap, and now, who the hell really knows what that powder was.

Bet some dude was wiggin' out for his lost fix though. :laugh:
 
What do you do?

Return it money and all?
Return it without the money and say that's how you found it?
Take the money and throw out the wallet with credit cards?
Take the money and try to use the credit cards?
Go one step further and steal their identity?

There was a time in my life where I would have taken the money and returned the wallet. Lied and said the money was gone.

There was NEVER a time in my life where I would use the credit cards. I suspect some would say "that's okay the credit card company won't make them pay for what I purchased".

Even worse if they use your debt card. Pure scum.

Identity thieves should be executed. Send a message to other people who would do this.

I had a college roommate once who found a phone back in the 90's. The person who lost it called him and he fucked with this person for days. Told them to meet him and then he would not show up. Talk to them on the phone. Infuriate them. He ended up being a real creep but boy was this an early sign. Sociopath for sure.

Also regarding ethics. I suppose if it's a rich looking person and just $100 or a poor looking grandmother who's carrying around her rent in this purse you just found.
I would return it all. But I'm not above hoping they might offer a little "reward"...which I would never ask for or imply is necessary. But I'm human so yeah, I'd think about that.
 
I once found a wallet on the sidewalk around Christmas time. It had about 200 dollars in it as well as some labor union member cards. I took it to the guy's house and the cheap fucker gave me one whole dollar as a "reward."

Another time, I was rummaging around in a dump near a mill. Someone had dumped a bunch of stuff that looked like it belonged to an old lady who passed away. There were a bunch of purses and clothes, and inside the purses were bills of different denominations. All total I found a little over $450 in them, and kept the money.
 
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A couple weeks ago I found a folded up $5 bill. It had a small amount of white powder in it. In my twenties I would have snorted that shit without question.
As a dude about to hit 60, I dumped that shit out and spent the money.
Too old for that crap, and now, who the hell really knows what that powder was.

Bet some dude was wiggin' out for his lost fix though. :laugh:
Fuck yea he was! He was looking all over for that shit. That's HILARIOUS.

I fucking agree with you even if I was offered coke, today I would not do it. I'm in my mid 50's. Even back in the day if I found that and I was sober I would probably not do it. I remember finding joints when I was younger and even that I wouldn't smoke. I'm not that desperate.

Damn I miss good coke. Back when I did it, I met a dealer. He didn't have a car so he would pay me with a $100 bag to drive him around to do his deliveries. The last time I ever took him he went to get the coke and before he would give me my $100 he went into a business to use the bathroom and took forever. When I got home I realized what he was doing was cutting my shit. I don't know if fentynol was a thing back then. God knows what he cut it with.
 
No good deed goes unpunished.

I found a wallet in a Food Lion parking lot, it had already been rifled for cash and cards but the guy's driver's license and some other stuff was still in there.

I looked him up, called, and told him where to pick it up......He acted all shitty like I had stole his money and cards!

I just told him if he wanted it back it would be in the newspaper box and hung up.

What a dick!.....It was gone the next day so I guess he came by and got it.
 
I remember as a kid, we were doing a canoe trip deep in the BWCA, about three days of paddling from any civilization.
We found an ammo box at one of the portages between lakes that had their wallet, car keys, and other important crap someone wouldn't want to lose.
We left a note with contact information and started paddling across the massive lake.
When we reached the next portage some people were coming through and asked if we found an ammo box and described the contents.
Lucky folks and we saved them miles of going back.
 
I once found a wallet on the sidewalk around Christmas time. It had about 20 dollars in it as well as some labor union member cards. I took it to the guy's house and he gave me one whole dollar as a "reward."

Another time, I was rummaging around in a dump near a mill. Someone had dumped a bunch of stuff that looked like it belonged to an old lady who passed away. There were a bunch of purses and clothes, and inside the purses were bills of different denominations. All total I found a little over $450 in them, and kept the money.

Okay I'm a scumbag but I was unemployed, only getting $750 every 2 weeks unemployment insurance, and working on the side with my friend under the table. This alone isn't right. LOL. He had a black mold removal business. If a house had mold, we cleaned everything. Every page of every book and every magazine. Either that or throw it out. The couple died and the kids paid to have the house cleaned out. I found $200 in old $20 bills and 10 silver coins. I'm not gonna lie, I kept it. I was SHOCKED when the coin shop gave me $20 for each silver coin. I really needed that money at the time and the kids never missed it.
 
I remember as a kid, we were doing a canoe trip deep in the BWCA, about three days of paddling from any civilization.
We found an ammo box at one of the portages between lakes that had their wallet, car keys, and other important crap someone wouldn't want to lose.
We left a note with contact information and started paddling across the massive lake.
When we reached the next portage some people were coming through and asked if we found an ammo box and described the contents.
Lucky folks and we saved them miles of going back.

I say you did the wrong thing even though it turned out to work in their favor. LUCKY you ran into them. If not, you fucked them. You should have left it where you found it. Right?
 
Return it all.
When I managed apts and had to make a money drop at the bank, a few times I had to push someone elses bag further into the box because the previous depositor didn't shove it in there far enough.

What goes around comes around. And karma eventually bites so be safe and do the right thing, in my opinion.
 
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