Would you hand it back?

Is1ldur

I've done it twice.
Walking through town, near Odessa, found a bag on the ground with phone, etc, inside. No address details as far as I could see. Called some of the numbers, managed to speak with a friend of the owners who was in a pub around the corner and returned same to her.

Found wallet with cards and annual travel pass in town one night. Address was on it so called to the house in Terneure the next day. Was no-one there so I just dropped it through the letterbox.

Voodu Child

If you hand a wallet full of money to the garda station or nearest shop then all that's gonna happen is the guard on duty or shop owner will take the cash out themselves before contacting the owner.

Explosions in the Sky

Definitely hand it back

tricky D

If it's owned by the same ungrateful, ignorant, rude, wanker, bastard, who's wallet I returned last time, I'll take the money, max the cards and then hand the stuff the dodgiest looking crimbo I can find. Anybody else gets all their stuff back intact, as previously done on a few occasions.

I wouldn't hand it in to the gardai but I would go to as much effort as possible to find the owner and get it back to them. It's horrible losing things and sure if we can make the world a teeny tiny bit better then it's worth it.

Scamaill

worth considering..

Interceptor

I've found and returned several wallets/purses down the years. One was a garda one with their ID inside (discreetly returned), one was a ladies wallet which she'd left on the roof of her car in LIDL while loading kids and then driven off (I found her by ringing a dry cleaners who's receipt was in the wallet and getting her number from their database). In all cases there was money in the wallets and in all cases the owners were happy to get them back.

At some point in your life you will depend on the kindness of strangers, you are very young/naive if you think otherwise - practice random acts of kindness and do to others as you would hope they'd do for you.

'cptr

Ziggy star dust

I found a wallet sitting on a table outside a cafe beside my job a while ago. Just picked it up and handed it in without looking to see what was in it. Glad i didn't look cos was told by staff later that day that there was €450 in it and if i had of seen that would have made it so much harder to hand it in.
Glad i did though cos i wouldn't have felt good about myself if i'd have kept it, but on the plus side the bloke who owned it left me €50 as a thank you

mccarte2

Feel good stories alert.....

On the way to college years ago I found a wallet on the ground. About €50 in it but no cards or anything you could use to identify the owner. It was outside a health centre / clinic place so I went in and handed it into them. Didn't take any of the money out. They said they'd hold it on the chance someone came looking for it. That night I went to the dogs in Shelbourne and won about €70-€80 doing small forecast bets. Out on the piss for the night and ended up in a casino, won another €150 or so. Was convinced it was karma.

Used to work at concerts during the summers in college. Again, found a wallet on the ground with everything intact including about €100 cash. Think it was at Oxegen so knew there was no chance of the guy finding it and the lost & found at those things is a joke. Rang his bank on the Monday and they rang him. He made contact with me and turned out his Dad was close by where I was living so met his Dad to give him the wallet. Handed it over when I met him and he took a look inside it and cursed at me for not taking the money! Handed me the €100 to say thanks as his son was expecting it to be gone anyway.