I was helping my friends kids do a park clean up and one of them found a large wad of cash (less than $200). I told the one who found it that I need to check with the police before she can have it, just in case it belongs to someone in need.
But is that a thing? I didn’t want to say she could keep it right away because I want to set a good example. But it isn’t a ton of money so I assume the police would not be interested. So what do?
Just keep the dough. Finders keepers.
Bruh it’s $200. Just let her keep it lol. Not like it was $200K. The police won’t give a single fuck about $200. The cop would probably just pocket that anyway.
No clue where your downvote is from but there isn’t a single cop who wouldn’t pocked $200 lol. Don’t give it to the kid though, OP. Take the group out for ice cream or something and pay yourself for your time spent cleaning the park.
If I was that kid, the lesson I would learn from that is to not tell anyone in the future.
Children do not need $200, simple truth, especially not $200 that’s by all accounts not really theirs. It’s time for OP to give a white lie that they tracked down the original owner and buy Timmy & Co. some ice cream cones and call it a day
I’ve just accepted that Lemmy is full of absolute clowns who will downvote literally anything for no reason. I bet this comment gets downvoted too. I have accepted my fate.
You got one downvote on your original comment. Calm your tits. Fictional internet points mean nothing at all. ‘Oh no, a faceless stranger didn’t concur’.
Wise up.
I was replying to a comment that said they didn’t understand why someone would downvote my comment. I replied saying there are always people who downvote for no reason. I suppose you are one of those people. Thank you for proving my point. No need to be a dickhead about it.
Everything I said stands true. You’re still doubling down and whining that someone disagreed with what you said ‘for no reason’ as though your words are the be all and end all. Once again, wise up.
I agree with this. It’s cash. If I handed it in and the police called and told me they found the rightful owner I’m not sure I’d even believe them. Let the girl keep it!
That could be someone’s grocery or bail money.
Give the finder $100, and use the other $100 to buy pizza and soda for the crew.
Check if there’s a local Facebook page. I don’t use it myself but my daughter lost her phone recently and my wife had someone contact her before she even realised it was gone.
Your story needs a lot more context for anyone to provide reasonable advice on here.
If it’s a nice clean park in an affluent neighbourhood, chances are someone accidentally lost the money.
If it’s in a sketchy part of town with higher levels of crime nearby … chances are it was drug money that was tossed for one reason or another because something bad happened.
So the resulting answers will be different … if this all happened in a law abiding neighbourhood, then you should take your time and official avenues to figure out if someone lost their money. If it’s in an obviously rough place where drug dealing or other illegal activity is happening, then I would probably say to just keep the money and don’t talk about it too much. It’s not easy or advisable to return money to criminals or people engaging in criminal activity.
Lmao. If it was a poors money, just keep it, but if it was a Rich’s then find them and ask for more.
I’m assuming there was no ID or contact info with it, since you probably wouldn’t be asking if there was.
Hypothetically, if you were to give it to the police, how would the police know that who the rightful owner is? If I walk into a police station right now and say I lost $200, do you think they would hand over $200 to me? No, I have no way of proving thats my money, and they wouldn’t believe me for a second.
Keep it. Lord knows everyone could probably use an extra few hundred bucks these days…
Yeah, if it was just naked cash, no envelope, no wallet, no indication of who it belongs to?
If I lost money in that fashion, I know it is gone.
This is the answer. If the money was in a wallet, then find the person and return the wallet. If the money was by itself, give it back to the kid or take them out for pizza or something.
I can hold onto it for you
My ex and I once found nearly $500 in cash in a Lowe’s parking lot. What did we do? We put it in our pocket, and used it to help pay that month’s rent.
try having sex with it
Very simple: if you lost $200, what would you like the person who found it to do?
Whoa whoa whoa
Consider the feelings of others???Put it towards rent, shit’s insane these days
videogames and pizza
Buy something you like, and then enjoy it.
Share with friends, if pertinent, or you’re just a cool dude
Watch local social media to see if anyone reports losing money. If nothing, and you’re trying to set a moral example, donate it to charity.
Where I live you actually don’t go to the police. Anything left of on the street belongs to the municipality so you’d have to go to the municipalities office. That said, I’d think it’s quite hard to track down owners of cash… You can inform the appropriate body in your country that they can contact you if they find the owner. Then after some time (maybe documented somewhere?) you can keep it.
