2007-03-06 16:18:56 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Depending on your circumstances, it is either a test or a blessing.
You are the only one that can best determine what to do.
If you know someone in need, help them. If somehow you have done something worthy of this finding and it is at a time of personal need, this my friend is your karma.
2007-03-06 16:26:31 · answer #1 · answered by lee f 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be honest, I'd probably leave it on the ground where I found it. I'd be too chicken to take it. I'd probably think that the person who owned it would come around the corner the moment I touched the thing and say "Hey, why are you trying to steal my wallet?" Well, actually I probably would take it to the front desk of the nearest place or the store I was in. I've done that twice before.
Lol. That reminds me about when I was doing a small business. I made these $100 flyers and dropped them on the ground. Folded up they looked fairly real---you should see in a small town how people react when they see a hundred dollar bill on the ground. Sometimes I just went a little distance off to watch what would happen. It was the best! People giving it a wide birth as they walked by, people exitiedly grabbing it, people picking it up and then frantically looking all around for the owner . . . man, if ever I wanted to hire for honesty, I'd do something like that. What great memories!
2007-03-07 00:28:01 · answer #2 · answered by Laurel W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You place an ad in the newspaper. Wallet found. Identify color, contents. Call xxx-xxx-xxxx. If somebody calls and it's really theirs, you return it. I don't know how anyone could sleep at night or live with themselves if they didn't. What comes around goes around. What if they had been saving that for ages and were on their way to buy........whatever. My parents bought their first house with three thousand dollars cash which they saved for years, which he had in his wallet when they went to sign the papers. Imagine if he had lost his wallet on the way? Where would he, his wife, and 4 children be then? Bottom line, you never know the consequences of your actions, the impact your one act, whether for good or evil, will have on other's lives. Do the right thing, even when you think nobody's looking! Because in the end, God is always looking. And you have to live with yourself. Bottom line is and always has been: DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU. What would YOU want somebody to do if YOU lost your wallet with heaps of cash?????
God, reading some of these answers from young people is truly shameful and says much about their moral standards or total lack thereof, and the kind of parents/upbringing they had.
2007-03-07 00:43:10 · answer #3 · answered by mhiaa 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What I would do is take the money and put it a savings account. I do not know who it belongs to, because there is no I.D. If there was an I.D. I would try to get a hold of the person who lost the wallet and give it back for the simple fact that is what I would want.
2007-03-07 00:34:53 · answer #4 · answered by no.#1 Mom 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No ID? I'd hang around a while and make sure I didn't see anyone looking for a wallet they had dropped. Otherwise, I'd keep the money. I've had some instances where I got to keep it, and others where there was an ID or a person who had come back to the spot to look, so I gave it to them.
2007-03-07 00:24:32 · answer #5 · answered by callmeplayfair 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
***With ID, I'd make a call and even offer to deliver it.
***Without ID, I would leave my number with the place I've found it (or the police station) and say that I have found "something" (but not say what) and if someone has lost it to call me. If someone calls and describes it accurately then i will give it to them. This will ensure that the people who take it from me don't pocket it. Hey if the rightful owner isn't going to get it, then I'd rather keep it than an employee of a place keeping it.
***Without ID and no one calls to claim it. It's mine.
2007-03-07 00:26:45 · answer #6 · answered by TJTB 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would try to locate the owner and would hope perhaps that person might give me a reward for my honesty.
It wouldn't be as much as keeping the wallet and its contents, but I would sleep better knowing I had done the right thing in this circumstance.
2007-03-07 00:23:51 · answer #7 · answered by Warren D 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i did once, with $1500 and a payroll check. i just waited there a couple of hours till someone came back and asked if anyone found a wallet. turned out it was his rent money and his daughters birthday money. man, would i have been sad if that were me. he gave me $50 though. It was worth it for that man to see a nice, honest person.
2007-03-07 00:22:49 · answer #8 · answered by Stamping Machine 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
What else is their to do but keep the money if there's no i.d.? For the sake of being real, if rent is due, who's to say most people wouldn't keep the money if there was I.D. in it?
Do you want me to lie and say I'd donate it to an orphanage? I can't. Apparently, I'm a thief, not a liar! LOL
2007-03-07 00:22:59 · answer #9 · answered by wendy_the_pyro 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Turn it in at the police station. They give like three months or something for someone to claim it. If they don't it's yours. Bad karma to keep it anyway.
The Syko Ward
2007-03-07 00:25:00 · answer #10 · answered by The Syko Ward 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋