The other day I found a wallet on the bus. Not the first time either. Last one even had two fresh hundred dollar bills. The time before that a shine caught my eye, looked for the source, and there sitting on its lonesome was an unlocked ipad. Complete with a nice little **** collection (mad Asian muffage which ive never seen before and there were odd pics of all sorts of women’s feet). Knowing what it feels like losing a wallet I promptly handed both of these items to the grinning bus driver.

This time however the sum was far greater - almost $1500 dollars!

And yes, I handed it back……

For the most part iam a man of high moral fibre, broken only on odd chances, like the possibility of water boarding George Bush and Co. But now that I think about it I do have some mixed feelings. Yes, I did the right thing. But then iam torn by the fact that that could’ve been my new GPU and then some! Is this wrong? Am I a bad person? Perhaps I should’ve taken the cash and returned the rest, as a mate of mine suggested who iam never going to leave my wallet around again.

Anyone else have any stories of items they have stumbled upon? Did you return them in their completeness? Or take a little cut for yourself?

girl left her phone on the bus i handed it to the driver. unlike you though i have moral values.

its immoral to go through the phone before you hand it back, the same with the wallets tbh unless your looking for id to return it via mail etc. if i find wallet i tend to take it back to them or post it. handing to the driver could be a bad way if driver decides to keep etc.

No you're not a bad person, but the mixed feelings part is a worry. The thought of taking the cash shouldn't even enter your mind, and if it does it shouldn't stay there for more than a split second. Taking it would be a massive **** act. Unless it was a paper bag with a wad of hundreds, in which case I'd probably assume it's dirty money and take it.

I wouldn't have handed it in to the bus driver for fear that he might just pocket it, I would have taken it to an actual office and gotten some kind of receipt to show that such and such item had been handed in, containing such and such amount of money.

Was out in the car park of the Sofitel hotel when I worked there, having a cigga break, and down from the railing bordering the carpark, spotted a handbag that had been throw up onto this hard to reach ledge just above a walkway coming from the central train station. I went out of the hotel and down to the walkway, then parkoured up the ledge and grabbed it. Cash gone but still had purse complete with credit cards, bank cards, license, pack of tampons, lipstick and makeup mirror, all the **** you normally find in a handbag. It looked like a pricey number as well. After work I went down to the cop station on Adelaide St and handed it in. The cop treated me like a criminal. Looked at me funny with furrowed brows, then after a little interrogation, acted as if it was all a massive inconvenience for him. I thought "**** ****" and resolved to always just try to contact the person directly next time. The way I figure it, the cop would have taken his time filling the report, and by the time the woman tracked it down or they contacted her, she would've already had to cancel all of her cards and stuff at cost. Next time I'll try to get their contact info as quickly as possible and give them a call just to say that it's all good, the cards and everything are still there, and they can come down to pick it up at my workplace or whatever.

Well thank you for pointing out the obvious mr moral police, thats exactly why i went through it. Barring not being able to ID the owner (this looked more like a cheque book and didn’t have any id) i handed it over to the bus driver. I also called the bus depot and reported it since it was such a large sum. I bet you didn’t do that did you?

Sorry but I win the moral values war.

no cause i found a phone not a wallet. but 2nd sentence fail, pretty sure most of the population dont take a photo of their id but no my bad for calling you immoral for going through someones private photos on the phone that didnt belong to you.

I left my wallet on the bus once or twice on a Sunday afternoon just coming from a Friday+Saturday drinking session at my best friends house with all my food money inside for the rest of the week and no mother **** handed it in. All my cards and ID and **** all gone and my mum use to have to lend me some money but I never told her I was hung over and still stoned which is why I lost it. You could have had a huge party next weekend with that money everyone could have benefited from that persons loss or you could have steam gifted everyone on GA a copy of Darksiders 2.

i bought darksiders 2 i havent played one i feel like i should. Pity im going out wont be able to enjoy til later.

Well thank you mr thought police! it’s just a thought? can we not have these thoughts?! the appropriate act was still carried out. At the time I didn’t think of taking the money. It was only after the fact while browsing PC parts online that a moment of madness overcame me! Iam only human dam it!



I was trying to find something, some document, that may have contained the owners name and details. I was pressed for time and opening whatever was in front of me. Plus Mac OS’s throw off my equilibrium. Must you judge me entirely for the bad, what about the good?!

Ive lost sums of money never to have it returned and found sums of money

last thing i found was an iTouch that was fully working, unlocked and with 3G - going thru it to find out if i could get some contact details it became obvious it belonged to a band as the pictures and video was all of band type activities. Managed to piece together who the band was and contacted them thru their website.

They were an indie band that wasn't obviously flushed for money so they were very happy to get their iTouch back.

On the subject of if u find a wallet do u return it with or without money my fiancee left her wallet behind at a train station in Japan and when she went to the cops to see if it was handed in - it had been. But she had a few hundred dollars in it and the person who handed it in had taken one hundred for themselves but left all the rest of the money.

I guess it was the return fee?

Im a bit open minded about the finder taking a return fee. I mean they are doing a service and going out of their way to help you get your **** back. My fiancee was just glad to have the wallet back so she didn't have to go thru all the BS of replacing cards etc.

And if they don't take a cut of your money to return an item should you offer a reward if you collect it item from them directly?? Whats the etiquette there?

Well taking the ****, I mean Kantian perspective, your inner thoughts and motives are all that matter - the act itself is insignificant, or just a necessary product of what's going on inside. But this view is largely premised on christianity or a person's character or soul or whatever. A morality that is focused on actions would be more concerned with outcomes - who got happy, who got some sad? etc. Or a morality that focuses on how you are perceived (Machiavellian) is premised on power and power relations (eg if abbott was handing the wallet in, it'd have no moral value unless people noticed the deed).

For most of our thoughts on morality our primary guide is how an act makes us feel inwardly. It's a cultural thing, derived entirely from our judeo-christian backround.

Who carries 1500 in cash anyway?
I'd not take it but I'd think long and hard about it.

Just picking stuff up that some one has dropped is opportunistic thievery.

The fact that people pick stuff up and then worry about it means they are a criminals with a guilty conscience.

I would have kept the cash and thrown the wallet in the bin

Oh dear, ive got some pretty **** up **** in there too. Dam that Kant!

And lol i just found a laptop 2 min ago on the bus. No ****. What are the chances of that happening while i just posted this?

Surly after so many good deeds I deserve some type of reward!




Awesome stuff, made me all fuzzy inside. Brillant vid Chero.

ive turned wallets in before

best i've found so far is a phone at a sports club, found the owner within 30 mins.

as for cash, i always find abandoned dollar coins, i think i've collected over 400 bucks so far.

but you found vadge shots and didnt share. so no.

oh btw i found a wallet once had $300ish in it, i called the guy he came collected it. gave me $5 reward. Karma is a *****.

I dropped my wallet in a carpark once and someone handed it in. I actually went into the shop and someone had found it in the middle of the carpark. I've been robbed a fair few times, so it felt good to know that there was someone honest enough to hand it in. There was only about $20 in there anyway though.

I've found a kickass looking phone in the back of a taxi and handed it in. Could have quite easily pocketed it. I don't believe in karma. I just put myself in the person shoes who lost the thing and think about how happy I'll feel to get it back.

What if you were walking around at night on a weekend and you found a hot chick passed out in a park, would you hand her in to lost and found?

I'd wake her. Make sure shes alright, might get lucky out of it you never know. couple of fingers in the bum wakes them up usually lol. old man up the street was laying on his doorstep but it looked out of place i woke him up he got **** with me.

I wouldn't wake her up. She'd probably scream, then I'd get arrested and charged for rape. It's not my fault my pants went missing and someone spiked my drinking water with ****.

Wouldn't go near anyone lying asleep in a park. I'd be all Dionne Warwick up in there.

All I read was

We almost but not quite have good Samaritan laws in S A so until they are in place it is stiff bikkies.

Its a reflection on our litigious society that i will no longer pull a person from a burning car or help a person up from the rail road tracks.

Why should i be prosecuted for interfering with a corpse when i try my best to help?

oh you and your gay fantasy.

Ha this is a good time to chat,if any one is up for it ! i used to chat at this time of the morning with Kreese a drunk guy and an asio agent or so he said and a few other night owls .

Zaraq found the windex bottle and kept it.

As i sit on my rocky perch over looking the ocean i wait, maybe the merman will surface they often engage in interesting conversations.

On the horizon i see a boat! it toots forlornly as it slowly sinks beneath the waves.

that's the problem. can't help anyone without being prosecuted.

I TAKE WHAT I WANT

If you are dumb enough to drop an empty wallet which I have never even seen before, which is supposedly missing $1000 in $50s and I just happen to have $1000 in $50s in my pocket which some moron claims I shoved in there from the wallet I found, all I gota say about that is I never even touched the wallet that is in currently in my hand and you're being a racist now gedar fark ouda ma cundery brudda I aint do nudden, call dah parleec see if i care brah. Dis money I work for it in the country ya fwucken racist.

Vote-
Horrible try hard poet (1)
Stupid **** retard (2)
Both (3)

Theorderoth it has come to my attention that both you and the India rubber man both have a trait in common,you are also able to suck your own ****.

I'd have taken the money, tossed the wallet under the seat and lost not a second of sleep.

Hmmm... I'll vote 3. You're both.

You're both gullible idiots.

problem with that?

I would check the contents of the phone. what if it had pedo stuff on it. You could help put one behind bars and save some poor kid a lot of trauma. They shouldn't continue to suffer cause you want to have some sort of moral ego hit. Or what if he was a serial killer. And He had pics of all his vics on it? If you don't look he might assume you did and have not reported it yet because you are in shock or something. So then you will have a serial killer on your tail without even knowing it. I've found a few wallets and handed them back in. I usualy take it to their house. even if there is no money in it. They are very grateful. I remember once i was at the mall. And i was sitting down to have something to eat. When i finished i went into coles and some young kids about 15 yrs old or something, Came up and gave me my wallet that fell out of my pocket. It had a my full pay in it. Man i was grateful. I offered them a reward but they just laughed and said no thanks we see how much you earn. And we get more in pocket money. N I was an dat the ****? And we laughed and high fived each other. In the middle of our high five everything froze including us and names of people i have never heard of started to appear around us. This happens at least once a week.

so today i was waiting for the 940 its always late and some guy gets up to do something i dont know maby putsomething in the bin but i dident see what he was doing when he left he dident relise that he forgot his smokes this middle white trash looking woman gets up and picks up the pack and puts it in her pocket and sits back down. when the man comes back he looks around where he was sitting and around the stop the woman is watching him look but she dident give them back the bus we were lining up for the bus i asked him if he has lost his smokes he said yes then i said that the woman has them she gives them back in embarrassment that she had been caught she apologizes and gives them back then gets on the bus. while i was sitting enjoying my bus journey thinking is this what it is like to be a detective solving crimes or was she even in the wrong but i thought she was

What an amazing fake post

Only took to reading the word "bill" Seppo fake post.

I was in the valley once and I found a purse, I looked through it, and it had about 100 bucks in it, looked at this chicks ID and she was a minga, so I stole the cash and threw the purse back on the ground and walked away.

I gave her that money.

I found one of those book type wallets with a passport in it, ids, credit cards and all the other **** people usually have, noticed it belonged to an indian or some ****, stole around $5 out of it and threw it in a trash compactor.

I could have taken the money and thrown it on the ground, but it was funny knowing he would need to get his passport back without any kind of ID left.

I bought a sandwhich with that $5 and threw it away after 1 bite because it was stale.

so your saying karma is male because it cant make a sandwich?

GOLD

well its not really fair to say it wasn't a collaborative effort, after all we all played it straight faced thus making his left field antics the more stronger,

Iff the British send the troops into the Ecuador Embassy to extract Julian Assange does that construe a declaration of war?

He has been granted asylum and i guess it would be the same as if the British landed troops on Ecuador soil for real.

Not that the British would lose any sleep over that since they have had no respect for international boundaries in the past, why change the habit of a life time now and begin to respect the rule of law.

The extraction of Julian Assange from the embassy to Ecuador is beginning to sound like a job for Sam Fisher as the British have said they want Julian Assange just so they can get him to lick off the egg they have all over their face's.

Dr evil wanna be err i mean asslounge err i mean assange is a ****. I honestly hope they shoot that ****. He is just so **** annoying. He seems to be the type of person who would sit next to a holocaust survior and tell them they have no idea about suffering. Until they walked a mile in his shoes. The man is the biggest drama queen poser ***. What about that *** who let all the papers out doing life in jail. assface still probably thinks he is worse off than him. I hate the ***. I hope they kill him.