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Returning things to their rightful owner
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Have you ever found someone elses lost property, and if so what did you do with it?
Whenever I've found loose money (including notes) its obviously very difficult to track down the person who dropped it, so that goes straight into my pocket.
I found someones purse once, and it had some money in it and their bank details, so I just handed it into the bank (including all the money). I've found a few mobile phones too and always returned them to their rightful owner.
It's just the right thing to do afterall. My conscience wouldn't allow me to do otherwise.
Here's a nice story...
A Bangladeshi immigrant taxi driver in New York is the toast of the Big Apple after returning a $500,000 lost bag of diamond rings to their rightful owner.
Whenever I've found loose money (including notes) its obviously very difficult to track down the person who dropped it, so that goes straight into my pocket.
I found someones purse once, and it had some money in it and their bank details, so I just handed it into the bank (including all the money). I've found a few mobile phones too and always returned them to their rightful owner.
It's just the right thing to do afterall. My conscience wouldn't allow me to do otherwise.
Here's a nice story...
A Bangladeshi immigrant taxi driver in New York is the toast of the Big Apple after returning a $500,000 lost bag of diamond rings to their rightful owner.
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I'd like to think someone would do that to my things.
However when I've found money on the street I've kept it or given it top chartity
and handed in wallets
I don't think anything will top that guys $500,000 worth of diamonds... he really does deserve something (not sure what, but something) for his honesty.
The worst thing i did though when i found something, was a purse i found in a public loo. I took the money from it (£30) spent it on drugs, and also took their library card and got some books out which i wanted and never returned.
I feel worse about the library books than i do about the money.
Sorry. Its a very valid point. Well done for returning the kid. But did anyone else find this funny? The title of the thread was "Returning things to their rightful owner." I never thought of children as having "rightful owners."
(I know this is an old thread, but I'm bored and procrastinating from writing my essay)
My brother picked them all up and chased after him. The idiot wasn't even listening so he had to chase him for a minute before he realised. Of course, the tram started again and I had to wait for him to come by foot.
I once found a mobile phone in a club and went to her pictures and then looked around the dancefloor to see if anyone looked the same and I found her!
haha, thats well cool! not the losing the purse thing obviously.
When I worked at the shop a couple of years ago, quite a few people left their credit and debit cards at the checkout. We kept them for around three days before they were taken away. Most were, amazingly, never reclaimed.
yeah that's what i thought, they still looked surprised and people acted like i was some extraudinary yoof for returning it
Otherwise always come across things in the department so hand them in...nothing bigger than mobiles really.
Oh yes - always the usual sights for me - wallet, phone, manthongs...
Well it was either that or stick the kid on ebay ..
Having said that wasn't there a movie about a guy that finds a little girl and keeps her? Think it may have been a Tom Hanks movie - anyone know?