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[Richie London]

m8 is working in a sheltered housing flat, woman who was found dead was in her 80's. while decorating the flat for the local authority he dropped the rad in the bedroom and found 4 envelopes. total contents is £2765
the flat has been empty for over 3 months so wont be missed.

would you keep it or hand it in???

[Lazydocker]

This is one of those tricky situations... I'd like to think I'd hand it in, as I have in the past when finding things in the street, but it's a lot of money and until I was in the same situation I don't know for certain. Might get a reward if he does though! :-/ :-/

[Richie London]

it could also get passed on to some member of her family who didnt give a toss about her, didnt even know she existed. were going golf soon so shall advise him whats best to do. for a small charge of course  

[Martin_1962]

No idea what I would do - if there were family - no question, if not - I think an RNLI charity box would get filled up.

[shyboy]

I'm not normally one to take a moral stance on other people's behaviour, but to keep this money would be no different from stealing it from under the person's nose, and I couldn't live with the shame of doing that.
Reasoning that it might go to someone undeserving is the worst possible excuse, because it puts you in exactly the same category as such people.
I only hope that that comment was not thought out too carefully.

[Martin_1962]

Family - hand it in, if no family and no one to inherit it - charity rather than let the government get their dirty hands on it

[Jim]

I would keep it,
I did the honest thing once when I found a purse in the middle of the road with credit cards, £200+ cash, Driving License etc tried to phone but the she was ex-dirctory so I drove 20 miles to the address which was in the middle of nowhere, had to ask for directions, so after one hour I finally got there, and as I drove up the long drive to get to the house which is in the middle of a large field in the countryside I could see the woman & her friend sitting in the front garden, as I parked next to the house the woman didn't even get of her chair to see who I was I walked over to her and asked if she was the person named on the driving license as the photo on it was a few years old she said "Yes" I explained that I had found it and that it had taken me just over an hour to find her house to return it and she took the purse of me and carried on drinking wine and talking to her friend

I wasn't looking for a big thank you for my trouble but a bit of gratitude would have helped

[Lazydocker]

That's just rude! I dropped my photocard licence in a supermarket a couple of years back. Got a nice letter from someone who picked it up and posted it to me. I wrote back to thank them as manners are free and it's not like stamps cost much!

[bob.dent]

I'm not a dishonest person, but if there was no family or rightful benefactor, I'd be inclined to keep it. If you handed it in you don't know where it would end up. :-/

[Elite Pete]

My wife was in London last year and was outside a posh hotel waiting with her friends when she saw an envelope on the pavement. She opened it and inside were a number of other envelopes which said, DJ, Cake, Catering, ect. My wife said there was thousands of pounds in there and I was obviously to pay for a wedding, so see went to the hotel reception and asked if there was a wedding going on and was told yes so she handed the money over and gave her details. I told her she was stupid, how does she know that money went any further. I said she should have handed it in to the nearest Police station.

Another little tale, A collegue of my wife's lost his mobile last week, so he called the number to see if anyone had it, to his suprise the phone was answered and he arranged to meet the person in his works reception. When he meet the person, it turned out to be a tramp and the tight arse gave him £2 for his bother only after the tramp asked. The phone had £30 worth of credit on it and then there was the cost of a new phone. Is it any wonder that people don't hand things in?

[dieseldean]

i would be really tempted to keep it if it was me but would hand it over as i'd feel guilty about it  :-/

[platty]

I am an honest person too - but who do you hand it in to?

Who is to say they aren't just going to pocket it anyway?

It might be wrong, but I wouldn't even trust the police to do the "right" thing with it - what ever that is?  

Best bet is to put it in your pocket and put somewhere safe for a few months - see if anyone asks for it.

[Elite Pete]

I am an honest person too - but who do you hand it in to?

Who is to say they aren't just going to pocket it anyway?

It might be wrong, but I wouldn't even trust the police to do the "right" thing with it - what ever that is?  

Best bet is to put it in your pocket and put somewhere safe for a few months - see if anyone asks for it.

When you hand it over to the Police, it is logged and you are given a receipt, if its not claimed within a certain amount of time it becomes yours.

[dieseldean]

i was given keys to a new(3yr old) truck to drive. i took out the overscreen lockers to fit my cb radio and found 2x expenses envelopes containing £8?.??p. i read the name on them and called the previous company that owned the truck.the transport manager told me that that driver had been sacked for pilfering diesel so i never felt guilty about keeping that. the bloke deserved to lose money for biting the hand that fed him.

[platty]

When you hand it over to the Police, it is logged and you are given a receipt, if its not claimed within a certain amount of time it becomes yours.

Well if that is the case I take back my comments - hand it in to the police!! Chances of someone coming for it are negligible by the sounds of it.  :-/