Re: Returning lost cash : Thu Nov 28, 2013 4:41 pm  

EHW wrote:

how do you forget to take your money from a cash machine!?!?!

I've done it fortunately it was only a tenner, but as stated the machine took the money back and my account was refunded.

Re: Returning lost cash : Thu Nov 28, 2013 5:10 pm  

Blinkin' 'eck! And I though I was cynical!

Re: Returning lost cash : Thu Nov 28, 2013 5:42 pm  

Well I've just handed it over to the police and they're treating it as found property, but don't have any resources to try and trace the owner despite a receipt from the cash machine. I'm also going to contact Barclays to see if they can get in touch with him, be interesting to see if they bother.

Re: Returning lost cash : Thu Nov 28, 2013 5:47 pm  

rob_a wrote:

I've done it fortunately it was only a tenner, but as stated the machine took the money back and my account was refunded.

Guilty also m'lord.

Re: Returning lost cash : Thu Nov 28, 2013 6:05 pm  

I wouldn't hand it in to the police either. I think there was a case recently that somebody who handed money in that they had found would have had it returned to them but it went "awry" when he went back to claim it as his own after a period of time when it is legal to do so.

Better off in your pocket or maybe donate it to a charity or something? As far as I'm concerned its their mistake and you should do with it what you think ethical!

Re: Returning lost cash : Thu Nov 28, 2013 6:17 pm  

Ande wrote:

I wouldn't hand it in to the police either. I think there was a case recently that somebody who handed money in that they had found would have had it returned to them but it went "awry" when he went back to claim it as his own after a period of time when it is legal to do so.

Better off in your pocket or maybe donate it to a charity or something? As far as I'm concerned its their mistake and you should do with it what you think ethical!

What the police actually did was took down the details and told me to keep hold of it. They basically said it wasn't worth the paperwork of handing it in properly. Same principle if the guy comes to claim it though.
Cynical moi?

Re: Returning lost cash : Thu Nov 28, 2013 6:22 pm  

Being a non-wallet man, hate them, I once obliviously dropped a wad of £800 cash in my local boozers toilets after a good day on the gee-gees.
The next one in the gents obviously came acoss it and came to the bar and handed it in to my mate the landlord.
He wasn't even a local and I managed to fire a couple of large malts down him as a token of my thanks.
I've lost that much cash out of my pockets I dread to think.
Just as well I don't have any money anymore.

Re: Returning lost cash : Thu Nov 28, 2013 6:48 pm  

What are you going to spend it on Keith?

Re: Returning lost cash : Thu Nov 28, 2013 6:56 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

What are you going to spend it on Keith?

He's already spunked it on a losing favourite at Newbury this afty.

Re: Returning lost cash : Thu Nov 28, 2013 7:09 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

What are you going to spend it on Keith?

Thought I'd buy you a life, you seem to be in need of one.