My first job was working as a cart guy / bagger at CeeBees (grocery store). I found a billfold in a cart. Upon opening it I found a little over $1400, a ton of CC's and other assorted stuff. No Drivers Licence. That was quite a bit of money. For 20 minutes I had that internal argument about it. Do I keep it? do I turn it in? In the end, my morals won out, and I turned it in. One of the reasons I turned it in was because an RV was parked in about that spot a few minutes earlier. I assumed it was someones vacation money, and if I lost $1400 on my vacation, it would, well, ruin not only my vacation, but my kids.
My boss called the cops, and within 2 hrs the owner came to retrieve it. I was called up to the service desk. I assumed I was about to get thanked. At that point, the owner (a 40ish year old lady) accused me of taking $1000 out of the billfold. The cops ended up getting called and I was questioned and asked to empty my pockets. My boss never really trusted me after that, even though I never took sh!t.
What did we learn from this? People are scum. If that happens again, they will not be asking where their $1400 went. They will be asking where the $40,000 charges on all their CC's came from.