i mean £10 or $20 where do you draw the line £400 or £4000 is wether you keep it detemeded by ho much you need it ?
if you really needed it would your morality get to to hand it to the police
2006-07-10 13:51:32 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
How odd. I just found money minutes before I read this question. It was only 2 bucks, and I have no way of knowing who it belongs to so I can't return it anyway, but it was a nifty coincedence.
If I have any way of finding out who it belongs to I give it back. Doesn't matter how much, how poor I am, or any other factors.
As far as handing over money to the police when there's no means of determining who lost it....that gets trickier. The two bucks I just found.... not worth the trouble to anyone. That one was easy. The 20 I found a few months ago in a parking lot on a windy day....same thing. Now if it were 1000 bucks I found I'd have to report that. Exactly where the cut-off is, I don't know. Fortunately I don't have to figure that out. All I ever need to know is if a particular sum I happen to find is above or below the line.
But again it's not determined by how much I need it. It's more a matter of how likely I think it is that the police would be able to determine who the owner was (a lone 20 dollar bill with no distinguishing characteristics, and no other objects found with it? The police won't hand that over anyway), would anyone go to the police having lost that sum, and is it worth the trouble at all.
2006-07-10 15:21:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
as long as it wasnt a ridiculously small amount such as 10p (where the police would probably laugh at you for handing it in)
I would hand in any amount if there was any chance of the owner being found
ie if i found a £10 note flying down a country lane there would be little or no chance of finding its owner
2006-07-10 20:10:52 · answer #2 · answered by mumoftheyear 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd look around to see if I can ask someone who dropped it. If no one around I would keep it, the more the better. Unless it was in a wallet then I would call up the person.
2006-07-10 13:55:53 · answer #3 · answered by Marge Simpson 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It might be fake, verify if its real.
Turn it in, over $100 is too much to just keep, it would be the right thing to do. Then you will sleep easy.
2006-07-10 13:57:54 · answer #4 · answered by The Shadow Lurker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on if there's ID attached to it. If there's no ID than the sky's the limit. If there's ID I would return all to the original owner.
2006-07-10 13:55:27 · answer #5 · answered by John H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I find like a dollar or two, I keep it. If it was a lot of money, I'd turn it in.
2006-07-10 13:55:15 · answer #6 · answered by Gennie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honestly, if I just found money, I would keep it. If it was in a wallet with an identification source on it, i would turn it in.
2006-07-10 13:55:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
my limit is $20 before i turn it in. everytime i find money less than that i donate it to charity.
2006-07-10 13:55:25 · answer #8 · answered by Pal G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitly hand it in. What if you lost money. You would want people to hand it in right?
2006-07-10 13:55:57 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no limit. as if in todays society you would do summit as daft as hand money in.
2006-07-10 20:14:36 · answer #10 · answered by tunachunks199 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋