Lost wallet

bmc58

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I wouldn’t want to steal it but wouldn’t want to bother leaving it into the Gardai either, so I’d probably just leave it there and let fate take its course.

You would walk past a wallet on the ground at 12.30 am !! Ha,ha.

weldoninhio

mr_fegelien wrote: »

Would you return it? Let's say your from a night out and it's 12PM at the bus stop. You're in a fairly secluded area with no cars passing by and no one on the street.

Would you give into temptation?

Honestly, I’d probably keep the money (if there was any in it) and return the wallet.

bmc58

BeerWolf wrote: »

I found a wallet outside a Garage/Post Office in the small car park, had €200+ in it... belonged to a pensioner who got their money for the week. What heartless **** would I be if I kept it? Of course I would return it -- I handed it over to the clerk at the post office. Told me later how incredibly grateful the elderly gent was.

Nice one.

bmc58

Ficheall wrote: »

Coming home at noon after a night out? Congrats, feegy!

Give him a break.He's still probably hung over.We all know he means 12 am ish.

weldoninhio

wijam wrote: »

Well, if you flip the question on it's head - if you lost your wallet, would you like it handed in

I'd hazard a guess and say almost everyone, if not everyone would say yes to that question, and if so, you really can't say no to the original question, unless of course, you are a thieving <inset expletive here>

Would I like it to be handed in? Yes

Would I expect it to be handed in? No.

riclad

I found a wallet near o,connell st in 2018 ,,it had owners name on it, 3 bank/ credit cards, 80 euro cash.
i left it in the bank and told em to pass it on to the owner as he is a bank account holder.

https://lost.ie/
you can look for lost items, here, wallets, phones etc/
Or just leave it in a garda station and they,ll contact the owner.
It depends on who finds it.
i know a taxi driver, people get into the car drunk after a night out ,they leave phones and wallets in the car .

bmc58

Rebel_Kn1ght wrote: »

Lost my wallet when I was around 20 with £200 in it. An empty wallet was handed to a relative of mine the next day. I was gutted. After that I thought there was no way I'd hand in a wallet but about 2 years ago I lost my wallet twice, both times with significant cash in it and both times it was returned to me with the cash. Faith restored.

You need someone to give you an allowance weekly.You cannot be trusted with large amounts of cash.

Fann Linn

Sad to say, but if I found a wallet with id etc I'd hand it into a bank or post office before I'd hand it into a garda barracks.

bmc58

Ger Roe wrote: »

Back in the last century, when I was a secondary school chizzler... I found an envelope on my way to school, in the car park. It was full of notes and I handed it in to the office (hoping that it wouldn't be claimed, or that there might be a reward).

A few hours later I was called to the headmaster's office. I thought I was in for a windfall, but he explained that it belonged to a single mother who was paying her son's annual 'voluntary contribution'. He said that there was no reward as they were a very poor family and money was hard to come by for them. He said that she was very grateful and wanted me to know that she could not have replaced the loss.

It made me think and I was glad I didn't just pocket the cash.... you never know the circumstances of others and I like to think that I at least had some extra credit in the karma bank.

Must have been a very posh school where a "voluntary contribution" consists of an envelope full of notes.Usually this "contribution" is between €50 to €100.

dubstarr

If i found a wallet i think the easiest thing to do is go through Social Media.

seamusk84

About a year back I was in departures at Dublin Airport (T1).

Anyway you know in the center of departures there between the small shops/bar and departure gates there is like a conveyer belt to bring folk to the bottom of the area. Well I was on the belt as my gate was at the bottom and I noticed a wallet on the ground of the belt too, reckon about €400 in cash and all the persons ID cards and bank cards.

I’d say a lot of people would have just taken the cash and left the wallet where it was and enjoyed their holiday! Obviously I immediately brought the wallet and all it’s contents to one of the desks at the gates and they announced the guys name out.

To say he was delighted to get it all back was an understatement! Imagine going on holidays and only realizing you lost your wallet with all your cash on the flight over!

bmc58

bmc58 wrote: »

You would walk past a wallet on the ground at 12.30 am !! Ha,ha.

Well I’m not going to steal it.

mr_fegelien

seamusk84 wrote: »

About a year back I was in departures at Dublin Airport (T1).

Anyway you know in the center of departures there between the small shops/bar and departure gates there is like a conveyer belt to bring folk to the bottom of the area. Well I was on the belt as my gate was at the bottom and I noticed a wallet on the ground of the belt too, reckon about €400 in cash and all the persons ID cards and bank cards.

I’d say a lot of people would have just taken the cash and left the wallet where it was and enjoyed their holiday! Obviously I immediately brought the wallet and all it’s contents to one of the desks at the gates and they announced the guys name out.

To say he was delighted to get it all back was an understatement! Imagine going on holidays and only realizing you lost your wallet with all your cash on the flight over!

I would never take cash from a lost wallet at an airport, supermarket etc.. not because of morality but because of a fear of geting caught. Even with a lot of money, there's too much risk due to CCTV cameras. Also have been cautioned once and don't want a criminal record under the theft and fraud act for a second offense.

Now a wallet in the OP scenario that's in a beach, park etc... well there's really no question about it.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

mr_fegelien wrote: »

I would never take cash from a lost wallet at an airport, supermarket etc.. not because of morality but because of a fear of geting caught. Even with a lot of money, there's too much risk due to CCTV cameras. Also have been cautioned once and don't want a criminal record under the theft and fraud act for a second offense.

Now a wallet in the OP scenario that's in a beach, park etc... well there's really no question about it.

Enough said.

mr_fegelien

Cesar Grumpy Ink wrote: »

Enough said.

Cesar Grumpy Ink, what did you really expect me to answer? I'm sure you knew my stance on this.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

mr_fegelien wrote: »

Srameen, what did you really expect me to answer? I'm sure you knew my stance on this.

You gave no stance in the OP, as usual, but what I'd expect is that you'd be honest and civic minded by handing the wallet in.

\out.

kirving

Best thing you can do is drop it into a brank of the bank, or even call the number of the back of the card.

The bank have the number of the card holder easily accessible on file, the Gards may not have this detail to hand, and would have to check some other register.



I left my wallet in the back of a Taxi in Manchester last year. It wasn't returned to me despite my business card with phone number being inside.

It was eventually found by a plumber who was working on the Taxi driver's house three months later. He found it, knew it didn't belong, and gave me a call.

Sent him a stamped addressed envelope and cash for a few pints and got it back with everything still there.

Grab All Association

What’s funny is it never happened to me before then happened twice in the one day and one hour period.

1. A wallet with no cash just bank cards.
2. One was a large purse the was very nearly squashed by a truck at a pedestrian near Lidl. Upon presenting it into the Garda station. 2 x iPhones and a small cash amount inside. She was very lucky. I’ve lost valuable things very recently that never were returned. Scumbag types found them and kept them. You wouldn’t wish that angry sickening type feeling you get on anyone.

Fr_Dougal

mr_fegelien wrote: »

Now a wallet in the OP scenario that's in a beach, park etc... well there's really no question about it.

So you have no problem stealing?

normanoffside

I once had a wad of cash fall out of my pocket going in to the Student's Union. It was about £400, my rent money.

When i copped it I went down to reception and it had all been handed in. I just had to identify it by the amount and what denomination notes it was in.

I would never take cash from a wallet. That's a scummy thing to do. Hand it in with all it's contents.

Always Tired

I returned a wallet once that I found on a wall out front of a house. Was about a week before Christmas, no cash in it, but bank cards that I thought the person might need as it would be hard to replace them in time for the holiday. It was possible that it had been found by someone else who left it on the wall, and maybe if there was cash they helped themselves but who knows

I turned it into Sligo gardai station and was treated woth suspicion, basically interrogated about whether or not there was cash in it. Because obviously someone who would go out of there way to return it would also be a thief. They made me give all my personal details as well.

So I would never do it again, thanks to that thick muppet of a guard.

Mam of 4

Have found wallets , purses and always handed them in ,.intact .
Lost my own four/five weeks back going into daughters house . No one saw it apparently , bank cards, license etc , everything in it , including around €150 .

What can't be replaced were the personal bits in it , and that's what saddens me the most .

Mam of 4

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Have found wallets , purses and always handed them in ,.intact .
Lost my own four/five weeks back going into daughters house . No one saw it apparently , bank cards, license etc , everything in it , including around €150 .

What can't be replaced were the personal bits in it , and that's what saddens me the most .

Maybe a lesson in that.

mr_fegelien

mr_fegelien wrote: »

I would never take cash from a lost wallet at an airport, supermarket etc.. not because of morality but because of a fear of geting caught. Even with a lot of money, there's too much risk due to CCTV cameras. Also have been cautioned once and don't want a criminal record under the theft and fraud act for a second offense.

Now a wallet in the OP scenario that's in a beach, park etc... well there's really no question about it.

So no morals, no sense of what is right, no empathy for the person who lost their wallet?
Just a fear of being caught. & if you believe there is no way to be found out, then you steal the wallet?
Is that actually what you are telling people here?
Have you no shame?

tuxy

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Maybe a lesson in that.

The lesson is some people are thieving scumbags.
Hardly a lesson since it's a known fact.

mr_fegelien

bubblypop wrote: »

So no morals, no sense of what is right, no empathy for the person who lost their wallet?
Just a fear of being caught. & if you believe there is no way to be found out, then you steal the wallet?
Is that actually what you are telling people here?
Have you no shame?

Why you so mad? People complain that laws are too weak and then when someone gets deterred by an action because of the law, policing, CCTV you complain?!

Fr_Dougal

mr_fegelien wrote: »

Why you so mad? People complain that laws are too weak and then when someone gets deterred by an action because of the law, policing, CCTV you complain?!

You have completely twisted and misinterpreted what that user posted. Completely.

IAMAMORON

I take all the cash out of it and then try to contact the owner. If I can get in touch by the time I am going to bed then the owner is in luck. Otherwise I will drop it into my local copshop in the morning, or in fact when I get a chance.

Always try to leave some sort of a phone number in your wallet. Or an address etc.

I am having your cash however, tough titties , you should be more careful with your shít in future. You're lucky to be getting it back at all.

tuxy

tuxy wrote: »

The lesson is some people are thieving scumbags.
Hardly a lesson since it's a known fact.

Or that why bother helping anyone when you won’t get the same back. Look after numero uno.

tuxy

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Or that why bother helping anyone when you won’t get the same back. Look after numero uno.

The attitude of some scumbags is what causes other people to think like that.
You can do things without expecting something in return, it's perfectly acceptable.

mr_fegelien

mr_fegelien wrote: »

Why you so mad? People complain that laws are too weak and then when someone gets deterred by an action because of the law, policing, CCTV you complain?!

You're just not a decent person, that is all.

normanoffside

IAMAMORON wrote: »

I am having your cash however, tough titties , you should be more careful with your shít in future. You're lucky to be getting it back at all.

You don't know the first thing about them. How can you deem them lucky?
Thieves often steal wallets/Purses, take the cash and leave the rest down. This makes you no different.

Maybe next time you see a wallet, leave it be and let someone with some decency find it.

IAMAMORON

normanoffside wrote: »

You don't know the first thing about them. How can you deem them lucky?
Thieves often steal wallets/Purses, take the cash and leave the rest down. This makes you no different.

Maybe next time you see a wallet, leave it be and let someone with some decency find it.

Sorry I don't care. If the owner was foolish enough and reckless enough to not look after their belongings....

I sincerely have no issue with it, quite genuinely I would look at it as being a stroke of luck, particularly if there was a nice few quid in it.

As I said I would help to get the wallet back to the owner, but I am having the cash, finders keepers etc.

retro:electro

I would 100% return it. I was paying at the machine in the hospital one day and found a €100 note on the ground. Admittedly, for a brief second you do feel the temptation, but then reality sets in and I thought of some old dear rooting through her bag for change who accidentally dropped it and was searching for it since. Similarly it could have belonged to some old baxtard. Either way it wasn’t mine to keep, so I handed it in to the desk inside. I had to give my name and number and the clerk told me if it wasn’t claimed after one year it was mine. I haven’t heard anything since so I can only hope it was returned to whoever lost it.
As my mother used to say, you’d have no luck spending it.

jippo nolan

I found a wallet many years ago behind a bench in the Phoenix park, it was bursting open with the contents inside,
I hid behind one of the trees to examine the contents.
When I opened it up, there was just a photograph of Quasimodo inside!

baldbear

I found €150 out side a shop last year. Went in and told the bzzy body shopkeeper I found some cash outside if she hears of anyone loosing €€.

First thoughts were yippe. Second thought was that could be a single mother,a pensioner, a fella out on the beer.

Went to the garda station and the gaurd wouldn't take the money! He took my number and a 3 days later rang me & said he heard nothing and basically to spend away.

I've also seen on crime call someone finding a wallet outside a SuperValu,pocketing it and then it been showed on their programme. That surprised me that they would show that.

Mam of 4

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Maybe a lesson in that.

Lesson learnt , not to have keepsakes in new purse .

I'd still hand in someone's lost belongings if I found them , without taking anything out of it .

Ger Roe

bmc58 wrote: »

Must have been a very posh school where a "voluntary contribution" consists of an envelope full of notes.Usually this "contribution" is between €50 to €100.

Seriously? that's the point you have taken from my story?

I don't know about 'very posh' schools, in my experience over many years €150 + is an average for a secondary school contribution. Even if it was €100 (for the sake of your argument), ten of ten euro notes would consist of an envelope full of notes.

What was your point anyway?

mr_fegelien

retro:electro wrote: »

As my mother used to say, you’d have no luck spending it.

Interesting quote, what did she mean?

Lily_Aldrin7

I would return it because both myself and my partner have lost our wallets and people returned them in the past

mr_fegelien

Can I ask where do people here frequent and find wallets that are displaced from their owners? I go out occasionally and have never stumbled across a lost wallet.

ldy4mxonucwsq6

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Sorry I don't care. If the owner was foolish enough and reckless enough to not look after their belongings....

I sincerely have no issue with it, quite genuinely I would look at it as being a stroke of luck, particularly if there was a nice few quid in it.

As I said I would help to get the wallet back to the owner, but I am having the cash, finders keepers etc.

You see, I would always think that maybe it belongs to someone who really needs that money more than me. It's not mine to keep, maybe thats all they had to live on for the week, maybe they need it for important stuff like food, medicine or for their kids.

I couldn't in good conscience spend money that wasn't mine to spend.

tuxy

bubblypop wrote: »

You're just not a decent person, that is all.

I'm convinced he was not brought up by humans.

Fr_Dougal

mr_fegelien wrote: »

Can I ask where do people here frequent and find wallets that are displaced from their owners? I go out occasionally and have never stumbled across a lost wallet.

Please don’t answer him.

Sounds like he wants to find some easy cash to keep.

And the saying ‘you’d have no luck spending it’ means that the bad luck you’d get from not handing back the cash would be worse that the joy you’d have spending it.

Life is about karma, be a cnut your entire life and life will be a cnut to you.

ldy4mxonucwsq6

mr_fegelien wrote: »

Interesting quote, what did she mean?

Basically means what goes around comes around, karma, it will bring you bad luck etc

riclad

i see a lost wallet about once every 14 months, i bring it to the garda station,
once i found one and txted the owner,and returned it,
as her student id was on it.
I emailed the college and got her phone no.

IAMAMORON

Tessa Melted Wool wrote: »

You see, I would always think that maybe it belongs to someone who really needs that money more than me. It's not mine to keep, maybe thats all they had to live on for the week, maybe they need it for important stuff like food, medicine or for their kids.

I couldn't in good conscience spend money that wasn't mine to spend.

I don't and I wouldn't make any assumptions about the cash either. For all you know it is a flash in the pan for the owner, don't ever take that risk, just spend it on yourself instead, it is only money.

I have a very clear conscience over this.

tuxy

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Please don’t answer him.

He's asking disingenuous idiotic questions and people are wasting time answering him.

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Life is about karma, be a cnut your entire life and life will be a cnut to you.

I don't even believe n karma but strangers have been kind to me in the past so why wouldn't I do the same.

IAMAMORON

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Please don’t answer him.

Sounds like he wants to find some easy cash to keep.

And the saying ‘you’d have no luck spending it’ means that the bad luck you’d get from not handing back the cash would be worse that the joy you’d have spending it.

Life is about karma, be a cnut your entire life and life will be a cnut to you.

Physically impossible to verify and basically hogwash.

Bad things happen to good people all the time.

Karma is a lovely concept, but it is simply not possibly true.

What does a child who develops mortal cancer do about Karma? Explain that one to me please?

normanoffside

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Physically impossible to verify and basically hogwash.

Bad things happen to good people all the time.

Karma is a lovely concept, but it is simply not possibly true.

What does a child who develops mortal cancer do about Karma? Explain that one to me please?

You make the world a slightly better place by returning the wallet and money and that's all you can do.
Steal the money and you do the opposite.