04-07-2003, 06:45 AM
Hail Striker,
It would depend on if I thought there were any chance of finding the owner or not. I've had two situations in the past. Once, when I was walking along a back roack, I found a $50 note on the grass. I was in the middle of nowhere, no one was anywhere to be seen, so I kept it. After all, there is no way anyone would ever be able to identify who it belonged to.
Another time, in a similar situation, I found money, cards, and all kinds of other things, all spread around a back road. Looked like someone had tipped the contents of their wallet everywhere. As I was able to identify who it all belonged to (good old Library Card, along with the Yellow Pages, helped there), I returned every last item to them. They think they must have left their wallet on top of the car as they strapped their kid in: car picks up pace, everything goes flying!
In your place? Wouldn't know. Probably would have left it as Isolde suggested. We don't have $1 notes any more either, so it's harder to picture. To your extreme though, if I found $1,000,000, then I would have handed it in: no question!
On an interesting point, they did a test on this in several places around the world. In Australia, they left 100 wallets in Melboure, each with $100 in them. About 30 wallets were taken to the Police, with the $100, and about 20 empty wallets were handed in. On the other hand, they did the exact same thing in Saudi Arabia: apparently after a week, they had to go back and get their own wallets, as no one dared to touch them. Makes you think about a lot of things on several different levels, eh?
It would depend on if I thought there were any chance of finding the owner or not. I've had two situations in the past. Once, when I was walking along a back roack, I found a $50 note on the grass. I was in the middle of nowhere, no one was anywhere to be seen, so I kept it. After all, there is no way anyone would ever be able to identify who it belonged to.
Another time, in a similar situation, I found money, cards, and all kinds of other things, all spread around a back road. Looked like someone had tipped the contents of their wallet everywhere. As I was able to identify who it all belonged to (good old Library Card, along with the Yellow Pages, helped there), I returned every last item to them. They think they must have left their wallet on top of the car as they strapped their kid in: car picks up pace, everything goes flying!
In your place? Wouldn't know. Probably would have left it as Isolde suggested. We don't have $1 notes any more either, so it's harder to picture. To your extreme though, if I found $1,000,000, then I would have handed it in: no question!
On an interesting point, they did a test on this in several places around the world. In Australia, they left 100 wallets in Melboure, each with $100 in them. About 30 wallets were taken to the Police, with the $100, and about 20 empty wallets were handed in. On the other hand, they did the exact same thing in Saudi Arabia: apparently after a week, they had to go back and get their own wallets, as no one dared to touch them. Makes you think about a lot of things on several different levels, eh?
May the wind pick up your heels and your sword strike true.