You dropped your wallet at 100kmph on SH2

[Bald Eagle]

et and turn around immediately...its gone.

I miss NZ...the honest upright trust worthy people...being able tho leave the keys in the car over night in suburban Ak and it still be there in the morning...

Used to have an old holden like that

[slofox]

Coupla weekends ago I dropped my wallet out of the tail bag at the local Gull servo - unmanned version.

Realised what I had done about three hours later. Phoned bank and cancelled credit and eftpos cards.

Half an hour later I get a call from the local constabulary. Wallet was handed in by some nice lady.

They gave me a cellphone number for the finder - I duly rang and thanked her.

So there ARE honest people around still.

[EJK]

I miss NZ...the honest upright trust worthy people...being able tho leave the keys in the car over night in suburban Ak and it still be there in the morning...

Yep I can personally vouch that

[Parlane]

Coupla weekends ago I dropped my wallet out of the tail bag at the local Gull servo - unmanned version.

Realised what I had done about three hours later. Phoned bank and cancelled credit and eftpos cards.

Half an hour later I get a call from the local constabulary. Wallet was handed in by some nice lady.

They gave me a cellphone number for the finder - I duly rang and thanked her.

So there ARE honest people around still.

Did you give them anything? If someone returned my wallet and it had cash in it. I would give them $20 or so. Basically a thanks for not stealing my money.

Options were:
Keep wallet and i Get nothing.
Give me back wallet and I be nice and give the guy some of the money I wouldn't have now if they didn't return it.

I like to reward those who don't want the money.
(Knowing full well that they would probably say no anyway)

[slofox]

Did you give them anything? If someone returned my wallet and it had cash in it. I would give them $20 or so. Basically a thanks for not stealing my money.

Options were:
Keep wallet and i Get nothing.
Give me back wallet and I be nice and give the guy some of the money I wouldn't have now if they didn't return it.

I like to reward those who don't want the money.
(Knowing full well that they would probably say no anyway)

The lady concerned doesn't live locally and said that she doesn't want anything from me. But I have told her that next time she is in The Tron, to come and visit my store and I will give her a bottle of wine...

[sugilite:Me]

I found a wallet in the street in Masterton a few years ago. Had quite a bit of cash in it. I handed it in at the local cop shop. Rang them a few days later to see if it had been collected, it had. Not even a call or a card from the owner saying "thanks".

What an ungrateful CUNT.

If you hand money you found into the police and it is not claimed within 6 months, technically it's yours. Might be too late to ask them now!

[PrincessBandit]

I found a wallet ..... Not even a call or a card from the owner saying "thanks".

What an ungrateful CUNT.

It is nice when people acknowledge your honesty/kindness, but there may have been a good reason why you never heard from them. Maybe the contents weren't as intact after they'd been sitting at the station?

I miss NZ...the honest upright trust worthy people...being able tho leave the keys in the car over night in suburban Ak and it still be there in the morning...

Tee hee hee hee hee

Coupla weekends ago I dropped my wallet out of the tail bag at the local Gull servo - unmanned version.

Realised what I had done about three hours later. Phoned bank and cancelled credit and eftpos cards.

Half an hour later I get a call from the local constabulary. Wallet was handed in by some nice lady.

They gave me a cellphone number for the finder - I duly rang and thanked her.

So there ARE honest people around still.

Sure are, and while being rewarded for doing a good deed is nice I sometimes wonder if being honest/good citizen is taken too far occasionally with the expectation of reward for simply being honest. Good on you for wanting to offer her something by way of thanks, I applaud you sir slofox and would do the same in the same situation. But it's also nice when people kindly decline "reward" too - it shows that they have no ulterior motive for doing something which should be considered simply good form or um, well, I guess "honest".

[Parlane]

But it's also nice when people kindly decline "reward" too - it shows that they have no ulterior motive for doing something which should be considered simply good form or um, well, I guess "honest".

A non-monetary reward is often a better choice. Like slofox offering a bottle of wine

But you obviously never give anything to anyone who asks... That's actually called extortion lol.

[Gearup]

been awhile since you been here im pickin

Hell yeah!

[sleemanj]

I lost my cards including licence out of my pocket (I need a damn alarm on those zips to remind me to do them up) they all turned up except my licence courtesy of an observant bicyclist, about 1/2 an hour after I'd spent an hour going back and forth along the summit road (pre-earthquakes) looking for the damn things and was just about to start tearing the house apart in case I had put them somewhere and never actually taken them with me.

Gave them $20 from memory, least I could do for them saving me spending the next 3 hours searching the house.

One day some archaeologist digging somewhere on the summit road is going to turn up my old licence and I'll be a famous long lost link to the past, like that end scene in AI.

[sleemanj]

Who the hell carries that stuff these days?

In theory, I have some cash in my morotcycle jacket, when you leave your cards in your wallet, on your desk, not in your jacket, buying gas gets tricky.

In practice, I rob the cash to buy something and forget to resupply it.

[The Pastor]

I Left My Wallet In El Segundo

[JimO]

Who the hell carries that stuff these days?

fuck i always carry a grand of 'walking around money" in my wallet

[varminter]

fuck i always carry a grand of 'walking around money" in my wallet

I always carry half a million in cash in my jacket. Last time I fell over it took three people to lift me up again.

[Hailwood]

If you hand money you found into the police and it is not claimed within 6 months, technically it's yours. Might be too late to ask them now!

its 90 days and you have to indicate on the found property report that you wish to claim the property if it is unclaimed otherwise the property is disposed of. If its cash it goes to government slush fund (not Police). if its property then it is usually auctioned if of value with $$ going to governemnt again. if no value or broken, then it is usually destroyed.

If you claim the property after 90 days, you also are required to return it to the owner or reimburse them in the future if they ever do claim it as theirs....extremely rare!!!!