Finding Paper Currency - FOG!

When I was about 10, I got this from either my mom or grandmother, it was folded up and crammed into a tiny, quarter-inch square, clear box attached to a keychain.. probably came out of vending machine or from the carnival... anyway.. I opened it up and still have it..

 

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I found a wallet last year with $20 in it. I drove to her house and returned it, she gave me a hug and the $20.

 

Years ago, in college, I found a $5 on the floor of the college bookstore. When I turned it in, they asked for my telephone number--and 30 days later, they actually called me to say that nobody had claimed the $5, and that I could come in and pick it up! I was not expecting that....

 

Sometimes people's honesty "gladdens the heart". It's very good to hear of the times (above) when people did the "right thing".

Excellent.

 

I think you should always find the owner when you have information to go on (ID, credit card, insurance card, phone, etc) but cash is yours to keep.

 

Once, when I was finished jogging in a park and heading back to my car, I found a $100 bill. In the parking lot there were 2 ladies and I asked if they lost any money. One lady checked her pockets and quickly said she had lost a $100 bill. I have it to her, she briefly thanked me and drove away in her Lexus SUV. At times, I think I should have kept my mouth shut, but deep down I know I did the right thing. Thanks mom and grandma for teaching me to do th e right thing

 

I've found 40 dollars folded up in 711. That's the most I've found.

 

On a rainy day in early 2017 I found a wallet at a bus stop at my university with approximately $295 inside of it. It had ID, debit and credit cards inside of it as well. I turned it in. I came back an hour later to check on the status out of curiosity and the wallet had been claimed. This was by far the most I had found before. Prior to this, $100 was the most I had found (as loose cash in a casino parking structure).

 

What ya shoulda done was ask: did you lose any money? When they said "yes," you shoulda said: ok, tell me the denomination of the bill and the serial number for verification purposes.

If they can't prove it was theirs, keep it!

 

The lady reached in her pocket and very quickly said she was missing a one hundred dollar bill. If she was just throwing out a guess then she was darn lucky. I have no doubt it was her $100.

Did she need the money? She was driving a Lexus and looked well off. Bottom line is that she lost it, and I got back to her. That was the right thing to do (as much as I would have loved to add that to my coin budget)

 

When we bought our house, it had a big pile of junk in the front yard and some weird odds and ends in the crawlspace. The inside had been cleared out, but there were still spectacularly ugly window treatments in the master BR. Taking those down was one of our first priorities when we moved in. When we took down one of them, a pair of twenties fell out of it.

We looked really carefully through everything else after that. No luck, except I believe there was one silver quarter sitting in one of the medicine cabinets. As I recall, my wife put it in a shadowbox display in our bedroom, and it was stolen in a 2008 burglary. (This was before I got back into the hobby, and they didn't find my childhood collection, thank goodness.)

 

Meow found a $100 chip on the floor of a casino in Las Vegas a few years back. And $20 bill in the dirt at work 25 years ago.

 

It's easy to return money when you find a wallet or purse with identification. Guilt free pocket money when a few bucks are found floating along from the breeze.

I found a large sum of money once.
I took my father's advice when it came to finding anything of great value. To only advertise that I found something of great value. Provide only my first name and a phone number to a person in a position of authority. This includes the police. If the person to whom it belonged could describe the item or items then I would be satisfied that it truly belonged to them. If no one comes forward then it belongs to you.

 

Years ago, I had a bunch of camping equipment disappear. My sister was at a party held by the brother of a friend and saw my stuff. She called and I went there, verified it was mine and called the police. There were a lot of other things stolen laying around. I pulled open some of his dresser drawers and found several billfolds. Only one had any ID. It belonged to a young lady across town, so I made the trip to give it back knowing how I would feel if my billfold and ID had disappeared. When I got there, she opened the door, took it out of my hand, and shut the door in my face. I still felt good about taking the hour and a half out of my time and spending the gas to get there. Although a simple "Thank You" would have been nice.

Another time after arriving home from my bank, which happened to be across town again, I counted my money. Yah, I know, a guy should do that at the bank or at least watch the teller. I recounted it 6 times and always came up with two extra hundred dollar bills. So I drove all the way back across town and asked the teller if she was short. She was. It wasn't my money, and I'm sure it would have hurt for her to discover she was $200 short at the end of the day.

 

I know that "thank you" would of been nice but when you do something like this you do it because YOU feel is the right thing to do. I had a similar thing at the bank too, I was getting some CWR and also I got a box of BWR pennies. The teller didn't charge me the $25 for the box. I only realized when I got home and of course I went back and gave the the money.

 

It always amazes me that “Most” times when people find something, anything that was lost or misplaced by an individual, that the finder “Believes” in being honest and to do the right thing in order to return said property. “However”, as sincere as people may be, after finding or coming into possession of “Found” Property, they most times inadvertently may advertise (Via) newspapers, bulletin boards etc. having found lost property. Then many times the finder request that those who come forth to recover said property first describe the property lost. So, while attempting to be a good citizen and return property to rightful owner(s), finders are actually breaking the law.
It once was perfectly okay to keep and or do whatever one wished after finding any lost property, the U. S. called it (Common Law Statute)! But these days it’s basically theft to keep found property no matter the circumstances of how it was obtained. Found property, money, wallets, purses, cell phones, coolers, firearms, etc. They and everything else found should be turned over to a City, County, Federal or Government legal system, ie: Law Enforcment. Each State has its ruling on how, when or (If) found property shall be returned or not to finder?
So i must agree, IMO, when finding other people’s property, the “Only” honest and noble thing to do is obviously turn it into Law Enforcement and let them perform their duties with retuning property to rightful owners. Then and only then if said property happens to be returned to you it would be (Legal) to keep it! I have absolutely no doubt that every single individual here on C T is a honest and caring individual and only wishes to always do the correct and legal proper thing. Let’s pray that “others” may follow our examples!!!

 

depending on what it is YES RETURN …BUT cold cash found finders keeper..loser weepers..

 

So trusting a LEO is your answer to finding unidentified lost property? I'm sorry, but not an ice cubes chance in hell.

I'll certainly return lost property that is clearly identifiable. If there is no ID, cash goes into the pocket and personal property would be brought to the attention of a business/parking lot owner, without disclosing what the found item is nor relinquishing the item to them.

 

The way you put it...it will also be unlawful to take that lost property and take it to the law enforcement. The time that is in your possession makes you a criminal lol. Conclusion: Call 911 and tell them to pick it. Lol

 

To each their own, we all must live with our consciousness on what we feel is the rightful thing to do in each and every situation. When we are standing before our Savior we shall again be judged on right and wrongs done. For me I must say, there is absolutely no ice cube chance in H—- any amount of cash or other property found, kept in my possession until giving it to proper authorities, is worth considering keeping that would alter my final judgement that we (All) shall receive one day!
There is no such free pass or get off the hook as saying or thinking, Depends on what is found, how it’s found, where it’s found? I guess this would definitely be a situation of “Pay now or pay later”!
So yes I agree, I would say that Cold Cash Found May start out as “Finders Keepers”, but doing it that way will definitely result in the finder being the “Loser Weeper” when all is said and done!