Walking along the street, you notice a wallet.

[Zoltar]

It contains $5,000 in cash but no name or address. What would you do? Would you alter your decision if inside you found the name, address, and picture of either a wealthy-looking young man or a frail-looking old woman?

Most people say if they found a wallet full of cash on the street they would return the money; do you believe them? Most also think their own lost wallets would never be returned; do you feel similarly? How do you explain this contradiction? Would you help fund an experiment designed to find out whether people are actually honest to return cash-filled wallets?

 

[Viper GTS]

Reader's Digest did an experiment like this a few years back. They went to a bunch of different cities & dropped convincingly real wallets (eg photos, credit cards, etc.) & then watched them. I don't remember the results, though.

I would personally turn the wallet in to the nearest police station, & then claim it the minute the wait period expired.

Viper GTS

 

[Zapster]

Oh yes, I would RUN to the nearest police station, and give it to the policeman. (Last anyone will see of that)! But it will make me a much better person!

BTW - This topic has been done many times before.

 

[Viperoni]

I'd probably take some for my trouble and mail it back.

 

[Zoltar]

Well congrats Zapster with having that great knowledge of this being posted before.

I'll try to find them, but in the meantime, I'll fathom to guess they weren't so detailed.

 

[Wallydraigle]

If there was any way to tie it to a person, credit card, name and address, whatever, I would give it back to that person. I wouldn't give it to the cops because I don't trust cops. If there was no way to tell whose it was, finders keepers. I'm not just saying this, I've done it before.

 

[sharkeeper]

Happened to me before. $600 in cache. Everything else intact as well. Called the person up, told them and they came to pick it up. Offered me $50 for being honest as well.

I look at it like this. If MY wallet was lost I would hope the person that found it would do the same. Unfortunately, this world is pretty far away from that, but at least there's hope.

Cheers!

 

[ArkAoss]

hmm if i searched it and didn't find a name or address.. on the first search. i might keep it,
but most have some, form of id in it, even if it's just an old reciept from a store, or a deposit slip, a store card......

 

[Zoltar]

$600 in cache?

Wow, what was it doing in a wallet and not a computer?

 

[Deeko]

If there was a name in it, I'd return it. If not, I'd probably keep it.

 

[BoberFett]

I'd return it with everyting in it.

About a month ago I was at the Mall of America and stopped by a cash machine. I went to put my card it and when it wouldn't go in, I looked at the screen and noticed that it was asking if I wanted another transaction. It would have been simple for me to push "Yes" and clean the unfortunate chap out.

I pressed "No", took out the card, and threw it through the security gate in a nearby bank, hopefully so whoever opened the bank the next morning would take care of it.

I've been ripped off before, and I know the incredibly sinking feeling I get when something like that happens. If I can save someone from that, I will.

 

[DannyLove]

i would return the money. 5k is a lot and picturing in the position of me losing the money would make me cry, and knowing that it was returned, well u get the point. I believe in that whole weird mystery and universal saying of "what comes around goes around"

 

[cxim]

Having attained massive wisdom from the Feringi Board I would immediately scan the bills & using my color printer duplicate them. Then put the duped bill copies in the wallet & mail ( from a neighboring town ) it to the cops, being careful to remove any fingerprints from the wallet.

I would then run an add on fleabay & to sell additional copies of the duped bills.

Then I would post under an assumed Feringi name & pump my fleabay ad as a great deal.

 

[Doggiedog]

I had something like that happen to me in HS. I was going home when the guy in front of me dropped a wad (several thousand) of cash and went into a bank. I grabbed it and returned it to him. He was kind of stunned and just said thanks.

A few weeks later, I won $1,000 on WPLJ in NYC by naming the song of the day. Went out a week later and bought myself a Commodore 64 with all the trimmings.

Karma baby!

 

[John]

<< I'd probably take some for my trouble and mail it back. >>



Heh If there was NO information about an owner, I would keep it.

 

[prodigy]

I'd return it only if it had an address. If nothing, then I'll just keep the cash.

 

[fir3wir3]

$5000...what would I do...

well if there was an address or any info I would return it...since there's not...this is what I'd do....

order (22) 1.2GHz Tbirds... Test them for OC (they'll all do at least 1300...some will do 1400+) and resell them here on the board.

But then that might be a lot of hassle for only 700-800 dollars profit.

Honestly I'd pay off my bills...probably about 3500 dollars...the rest I'd add on to my system

get rid of this crappy addtronics case (I know its &quot;awesome&quot; but I hate it heh) upgrade ram, hard drives etc. heh

 

[Plantanthera]

Normally, I would call the person, and bring it back to them or mail it back.
But, $5000 is supisious enough for me to let the police deal with it, because the wallet could belong to a criminal.