Poll: You find a wallet.

[GreyWolf257]

I'd return it immediately.

Today, someone stole a wallet that was sitting on a desk in my ROTC room. Well, they left the wallet, but they jacked $19. We must have some really bad shipmates in my school... trully depressing and unofficer-like behavior.

 

[The Warden]

If it has the ID of the person in it, yes, but if it doesn't, finders keepers.

 

[Epifols]

I'd do the same thing I'd want done to my lost wallet, return intact.

 

[ygetoff]

I would try to give it back, but if there was no indication of ownership (no credit cards, ID of any kind), I would keep it. But keeping it also depends on where I found it; if I found it, say, on a bus, or in a school or office building, I would give it to the head person. If it was just on the street, then I would keep it.

 

[MelziGurl]

Generally I return what doesn't belong to me, but I made an exception one day. While I was still living at mum and dads, a guy that lived around the corner from me had somehow dropped his wallet just outside his house. As kids we were close friends, then the whole 'OMG! You're a girl and therefore we cannot be friends' thing happened, basically because my brother and his brother would also make fun of us. I always wanted to keep that close friendship but for the sake of his I dunno reputation as a boy he pushed me away, it pissed me off so much that when I found his wallet I took whatever money was in it (roughly $30) and threw his wallet into the front yard. Yeah, I'm a ***** to people that I think deserve it.

 

[Fbuh]

As a general rule, I return (almost) anything I find. If it's a wallet, I'll return it with everything to the owner's address. However, If I find a couple of dollars lying on the ground, it's mine.

 

[Riccan]

I'd return it mainly because it isn't mine, and karma can be a *****.

 

[Rancid0ffspring]

I'd return it mainly because it isn't mine, and karma can be a *****.

Straight up! I clicked this thread, this guys post was the first thing I saw, didnt even read the description!

Karma... just don't screw with it! Nuff said

 

[piez13]

Return it, money and all.

 

[Rancid0ffspring]

If the wallet has something in it that makes you able to identify the owner, I'll return it. If not, I think I'd take it for myself (unless there was, like, 50000 bucks in it. In that case I could just nick a few hundred and nobody would notice)

Who Carry 50,000 dollars in their wallet?

One rich mo' focka... sorry couldn't resist

 

[tsatoma]

I'm an evil human being so I would take everything. Would probably just toss or destroy the credit cards and ID; take the money and gift cards for myself. Maybe keep the wallet if it is nice.

 

[witheringsanity]

if it was only $40-50 bucks i would just return it with everything still in there. however, if it was some higher amount of money, say $300 or more, i'd have to do things a little differently

if over $300 or so:
1 - find the person it belonged to
2 - drive to their house with the money taken out
3 - scope the house. big house? rich neighborhood? sweet ride? 61" plasma tv?
4 - if it looks like they could afford to lose $300+, keep the money and give em the wallet back, just tell em it was already gone when i found it, or..
5 - if they look like they need the money, give it all back to them

i believe we make our own karma. if they are rich people, than i believe i was meant to find that $300 as good karma for something i did in the past.

 

[gigastrike]

If I saw a wallet I'd probably just leave it or, at most, turn it in to the lost-and-found.

 

[delet]

I would do exactly what I did several years ago in the same situation after finding some random kids wallet on the floor... Take it, run, become 2 dollars richer and forget about it till several years later while scavenging under my bed.

Edit: Not in your situation, in the situation of finding a wallet...

 

[Dommius]

I would return the wallet, saying there was no cash when I found it. Though in reality its now in my wallet.

 

[Tonimata]

There was no cash in it when I found it, I SWEAR!

 

[Jaythulhu]

If you take something from the wallet, you're a thief, simple fact. The contents are not yours, and taking something that does not belong to you is the legal definition of stealing.

Having lost my wallet a couple of times (and having it returned minus cash / credit cards), I'm of the opinion that if you take anything, you're a thieving c**t, and deserve to be hit by a bus.

 

[Dogstile]

So where is the option to pick it up, take the money and drop the wallet again after?

I'm not a nice person and i'm aware of this.