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Ok i was driving home from work and i make a right turn , as i was turning i see this brown thing on the floor which looked like a wallet but I wasnt certian so i make a U turn to check it out. ITS A WALLET !!!! I put my hazards on and grab it almost getting hit by a guy turning left. So i grab it toss it on the passenger seat and drive home quickly. I park the car and i'm sitting there holding the wallet... I pop it open and theres over $200 in it and im like woohoooo!!! Credit cards and all that stuff even his account info and balance of $15,380. Then i think to myself i cant take this guys money what if it were me ??? so being the nice guy that i am i call him up and tell him to meet me at the 7-11 mart close to were i live. i give him the wallet and i say "im not expecting anything so do what you want" so he gives me $80 Bucks :thumbs: Now i feel great and im $80 richer hehe. He was so happy i never seen anyone so happy in my life it felt good.

What would have you done?
Did i handle this well?
What are your thoughts?

I could have been bad and went on a shopping spree at best buy but i couldnt.
 
Congrats on doing the right thing.
 
You did the right thing.

Congratulations, most people would not have been as kind.
 
As a person who has lost some things, I am a believer in "I lost it, so I deserve to reap the consequences". I would have taken the money and left everything else in tact and given it back.
 
I'd have done the same if his phone number was in there.
If not then it'd be over to the police I guess.

Thankfully I've never lost my wallet/phone/anything worth any value to me.

Nice one on making $80 :)
 
I would've done the same. Good thing you did.
 
I would have took the $200 and put the wallet in one of those big blue mailboxes on the street. let someone else worry about it.

I respect what you did, but not everyone would have given you a dime.
 
Thats awesome of you to do that. I once lost my wallet with everything important in it, $170 in cash, debit card, social security card, etc... I was glad to find it at the library's lost and found with absolutely nothing missing. Glad to hear you even got a reward for it.

Having lost my wallet that one time, I don't think I'll ever keep anything I find and I will almost always try and see if I can get it back to the person it belonged to or return it to some type of lost and found.
 
I was hoping he'd give me all the cash considering i could have just taken it all and returned it with no money. Ohh well.
 
I would have given it back in that situation. I mean... I will take the wrong path on a lot of things, but I'm not actually going to steal money out of someones wallet. If I find money on the street, without a face attached to it, I won't mind taking it for myself, but in a wallet? I'm not that petty.

Plus I'd feel so good for doing the right thing and having the person thank me...
 
VirusType2 said:
I would have took the $200 and put the wallet in one of those big blue mailboxes on the street. let someone else worry about it.

I respect what you did, but not everyone would have given you a dime.
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Even if he hadn't gotten any money giving it back would be a good call.
 
sea said:
Somehow I think the prospect of making quick money is too attractive for a lot of people here. I have trouble even understanding how you could consider taking the money.
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Same. Hell I wouldn't expect a reward, just a thanks. It's just feels natural not to do something like that.
 
Even if he hadn't gotten any money giving it back would be a good call.
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like i said, I commend him for giving it back.

I think i'd rather have the money, and give the rest back.

I don't know which would feel better - spending the money, or feeling good about myself, but I know that I can't buy food with feeling good about myself.


Finders keepers, losers weepers. Learned that in 1st grade.

I've lost my wallet before, with $80 dollars in it, ironically. Nobody gave it back. Maybe it's Karma.
 
You take all your advice from childrens sayings?

If you can reach the owner, taking it is theft. Morally speaking that is, you may be covered legally.
 
Link said:
You take all your advice from childrens sayings?

If you can reach the owner, taking it is theft. Morally speaking that is, you may be covered legally.
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Actually, I don't think you're covered legally.

I might be wrong on this, but I think you are obligated to return it by law, even if the money has no indicator who it is to be returned to(on the street). I wouldn't care about the law in the latter... only if the wallet is involved, and even then, the law isn't what makes me return it.

Might only be true in the case of mislaid property though.
 
good for you. i once had a situation of stealing it or doing the right thing..

i got a sub from school, and completely walked right by the cashier without me or her even noticing and sat down and ate it...20 minutes later i reach in my pocket and feel the 20 i still had...i realized i didnt even pay her so i go back and tell her the combo # i got and paid...i felt pretty good about it actually :D
 
Alan00000 said:
Ok i was driving home from work and i make a right turn , as i was turning i see this brown thing on the floor which looked like a wallet but I wasnt certian so i make a U turn to check it out. ITS A WALLET !!!! I put my hazards on and grab it almost getting hit by a guy turning left. So i grab it toss it on the passenger seat and drive home quickly. I park the car and i'm sitting there holding the wallet... I pop it open and theres over $200 in it and im like woohoooo!!! Credit cards and all that stuff even his account info and balance of $15,380. Then i think to myself i cant take this guys money what if it were me ??? so being the nice guy that i am i call him up and tell him to meet me at the 7-11 mart close to were i live. i give him the wallet and i say "im not expecting anything so do what you want" so he gives me $80 Bucks :thumbs: Now i feel great and im $80 richer hehe. He was so happy i never seen anyone so happy in my life it felt good.

What would have you done?
Did i handle this well?
What are your thoughts?

I could have been bad and went on a shopping spree at best buy but i couldnt.
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Oh, that guy? , He pays people to import children from different countries for pedofile rapists, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!
 
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Last fall, I found a gift card with $1500 on it (no name on it). I had free lunch and coffee for me and my friend for about 4 months.
 
Holy shit, a 1500 dollar gift card? geez.

What kind of rich **** buys a 1500 dollar gift card?
 
Dan said:
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Last fall, I found a gift card with $1500 on it (no name on it). I had free lunch and coffee for me and my friend for about 4 months.
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WTF? a $1500 gift card to Starbucks? :dozey: Whoever would spend money on a gift card like this deserved to get stoled upon.

I can think of better places I'd rather have a $1500 gift card made out to tbh.

EDIT> Hooray weee, whoopdee doo, I just realized I hit the 1,500 post mark and earned another stripe in Munro's evil "army of darkness".

I'm now a Poison Zombie. :)
 
I think $1500 in cash would be a much more impressive gift.
 
VirusType2 said:
like i said, I commend him for giving it back.

I think i'd rather have the money, and give the rest back.

I don't know which would feel better - spending the money, or feeling good about myself, but I know that I can't buy food with feeling good about myself.
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Lame. I hate when people are only concerned about their own happiness either by something tangible, or "feeling good". That should not be one's reasoning for doing the right thing, ever.
 
zombieturtle01 said:
Lame. I hate when people are only concerned about their own happiness either by something tangible, or "feeling good". That should not be one's reasoning for doing the right thing, ever.
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What do you think motivates humans to do anything? All emotions come back to happiness (chemicals in your brain). You can't logically justify any action without some fundamental basis or objective. And the ultimate purpose of every choice is happiness. Without happiness and pain there would be no motivation for any conscious action.

Even if you are concerned with making other people feel good, that is because you empathize with them, and you feel good making them feel good.
 
Without happiness and pain there would be no motivation for any conscious action.
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The Einsatzgruppen must've gotten a real kick out of those atrocities. :p
 
Dan said:
What do you think motivates humans to do anything? All emotions come back to happiness (chemicals in your brain). You can't logically justify any action without some fundamental basis or objective. And the ultimate purpose of every choice is happiness. Without happiness and pain there would be no motivation for any conscious action.

Even if you are concerned with making other people feel good, that is because you empathize with them, and you feel good making them feel good.
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I think that has a lot of holes in it. Say for example you and a friend were in some sort of serious relationship, you loved her, yadda yadda yadda, you break up, aw all sad. You guys are still close friends, but months later she seeing another guy, several months after that she is loving him.
You could go out of your way to make that guy's life miserable, but you know he makes your friend happy, and so you don't really have the right to ruin her happiness.

So you don't try and ruin it, but ultimately, it still makes you sad to see her happy with someone else.
 
Because you would also be sad to make her sad. You have empathy to see things from her perspective. So when you imagine her sad, you feel it as well. Notice how when people around you that you care about are doing really badly and suffering, you feel bad as well. That's empathy. You feel some of what they feel.

You try to explain to me the motivation any other way without using words like want or desire or referring to personal happiness. I cannot conceive of what other ultimate final basic motivation you can come up with.
 
I just hate the notion that people always do things for a reason, for some gain. I do shit all the damn time for no reason, society is a damn hive, no matter how unique we think humans are, we still do things for no other reason than because "it is right" in our mind. Giving some deep psychological reasoning for all of our actions can get annoying. I don't think we can get away from the fact that sometimes we're just drones with a notion of what and what not to do.
 
First thing - I haven't read the thread.

Second thing - You better have done the right thing or I'll be bitterly disappointed in you, OP.
 
Well if it's not a conscious decision reached by your mind, then it is an instinctive or subconscious reaction. Those are just evolved traits that ensure survivability.

If you don't consciously okay it, then you don't have to justify it with happiness. Happiness/unhappiness is just the chemical doggy treat that trains your conscious brain to do what is good for the individual and the species.

Why does the brain pursue happiness? It's probably built into it physiologically. Logically there is no motivation for preservation of self, or anything else. I have a feeling that that is the reason that there is a certain limit to evolved intelligence. Pure intelligence wouldn't bother keeping itself alive. Too much reasoning and I imagine that the conscious mind gets detached from reality and you get schizophrenia and other examples of what we would call craziness.
 
I found a hundred quid in a cash machine last weekend, called after the guy and gave it back.
 
Alan00000 said:
Ok i was driving home from work and i make a right turn , as i was turning i see this brown thing on the floor which looked like a wallet but I wasnt certian so i make a U turn to check it out. ITS A WALLET !!!! I put my hazards on and grab it almost getting hit by a guy turning left. So i grab it toss it on the passenger seat and drive home quickly. I park the car and i'm sitting there holding the wallet... I pop it open and theres over $200 in it and im like woohoooo!!! Credit cards and all that stuff even his account info and balance of $15,380. Then i think to myself i cant take this guys money what if it were me ??? so being the nice guy that i am i call him up and tell him to meet me at the 7-11 mart close to were i live. i give him the wallet and i say "im not expecting anything so do what you want" so he gives me $80 Bucks :thumbs: Now i feel great and im $80 richer hehe. He was so happy i never seen anyone so happy in my life it felt good.

What would have you done?
Did i handle this well?
What are your thoughts?

I could have been bad and went on a shopping spree at best buy but i couldnt.
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Finaly a non-evil human!
 
Alan00000 said:
Ok i was driving home from work and i make a right turn , as i was turning i see this brown thing on the floor which looked like a wallet but I wasnt certian so i make a U turn to check it out. ITS A WALLET !!!! I put my hazards on and grab it almost getting hit by a guy turning left. So i grab it toss it on the passenger seat and drive home quickly. I park the car and i'm sitting there holding the wallet... I pop it open and theres over $200 in it and im like woohoooo!!! Credit cards and all that stuff even his account info and balance of $15,380. Then i think to myself i cant take this guys money what if it were me ??? so being the nice guy that i am i call him up and tell him to meet me at the 7-11 mart close to were i live. i give him the wallet and i say "im not expecting anything so do what you want" so he gives me $80 Bucks :thumbs: Now i feel great and im $80 richer hehe. He was so happy i never seen anyone so happy in my life it felt good.

What would have you done?
Did i handle this well?
What are your thoughts?

I could have been bad and went on a shopping spree at best buy but i couldnt.
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When I read the thread title I actually said "hehe, score!" to myself, but then I said "what are you saying, you'd hand it into the cops".


You did the right thing, and got $80 for your troubles as well.




plus you'd end up getting caught using those cards, and $200 doesn't go far these days.

Congratulations, most people would not have been as kind.
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Depends on where your from, in Japan stealing from lost wallets is just not done, in the UK I would assume most middle-class folk like me would hand it into the cops (I was made to hand in ?40 I found on a bus as a kid by my ma).

If I found just the money I'de think about keeping it, mainly because the chances of finding the rightful owner would be slim, unless I saw them drop it.


I just hate the notion that people always do things for a reason, for some gain. I do shit all the damn time for no reason, society is a damn hive, no matter how unique we think humans are, we still do things for no other reason than because "it is right" in our mind. Giving some deep psychological reasoning for all of our actions can get annoying. I don't think we can get away from the fact that sometimes we're just drones with a notion of what and what not to do.
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I concur, let alone stealing, I quite readily spend money on my friends, just because I can, I don't remember feeling any real buzz of happiness or empathy, I just do it because I am innately not greedy, if you can understand what I mean, its like....money just doesn't carry certain values to me it seems to with other people. I have ?15k in my bank account. Thats an okay sum, some folk would be quite excited and happy to have that, and I am glad I have a decent little amount for anything I might need, but overall it wouldn't be a big deal if I lost it. Money and objects are more a means to an end to me rather then something to desire within themselves, nor do I have any consuming desires that require large sums of money to invest into.

I'de rather have something I really enjoy using or has sentimental value then money.

So yeah, to some folk, me at least, there is no real empathic thing to it, just that money isn't that overriding a thing to cause me to deny it to someone who probably needs it. To me money is just a means to an end, often an irritating requirement TBH.
 
AKIRA said:
good for you. i once had a situation of stealing it or doing the right thing..

i got a sub from school, and completely walked right by the cashier without me or her even noticing and sat down and ate it...20 minutes later i reach in my pocket and feel the 20 i still had...i realized i didnt even pay her so i go back and tell her the combo # i got and paid...i felt pretty good about it actually :D
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Hah, around Sophomore year in High School, I discovered the art of manipulating the older cashiers.
Saying, Can I pay you back tomorrow?
Completely forgetting and go through the same line and she seems to have forgetten, so I ended up using that to my advantage.

The most I'd pay is for the one lunch which was $1.45 iirc and then just skip out on the extra(grab an extra plate and say I'll pay for it the next day.)

Ah, those were the days... mediocre lunches not really worth the money.
 
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